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Getting started
Your first frontier
Grow a country that can survive its own victories.
Start with two cities. Train a mixed force, keep enough civilians working, and watch morale before committing everyone to war. Found cities on marked sites, reserve construction plots for what you need, and research across the whole country. Ordinary attacks capture cities intact. Unrest can take them away again.
Reference people: Military. Starting era: Napoleonic. Compare all peoples and eras. Interactive attack previews and films are available in the in-game encyclopedia.