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[The Fifth Horseman]

That's what she thought. We explained everything to her in the Chatbox.

If you have sound but there is still no music in the game you probably chose the wrong midi soundcard in the setup.exe.
under win xp "General Midi (Roland MPU-401 interface or 100% compatible)" worked for me and will hopefully for you

Im playing level 4 currently and now have couple of ships .. maybe 8 or 9. they are doing well so far although they sometimes do empty shippings ^^

beer is not necessary to get soldiers. just adjust the setting at the top of the MILITARY MENU. if you push it up more settlers are used to recruit new soldiers. i always found this setting useless, because you always have enough unemployed settlers in the base or in storage houses. so turning this setting to max doesnt really harm anything.

[_r.u.s.s.]

Originally Posted by eramis

If you have sound but there is still no music in the game you probably chose the wrong midi soundcard in the setup.exe.
under win xp "General Midi (Roland MPU-401 interface or 100% compatible)" worked for me and will hopefully for you

man, you're missing on fabulous tunes if you don't run under dosbox (or VDM sound) but just play with the actual Roland MPU under pure windows. that chip just doesn' sound right and it's not how it was meant to be. plus you don't get any sounds

the ones that sound like they were meant to be are Creative Labs Sound Blaster or Ad Lib

so definitely, give VDMsound or DOSBox a shot

[genestarwind]

Loved this game, thoroughly addicted though i always got stuck around the wastelands level fighting the sons of nippon. Quick bit of advice in the install folder there is a notepad entry full of 0's called mission.cfg or mission.dat if you open it in notepad and replace all the 0's with 1's you can select any level to play {}

Originally Posted by _r.u.s.s.

man, you're missing on fabulous tunes if you don't run under dosbox (or VDM sound)

i got sound under windows using soundblaster 100% comp.

i never thought it would make so much difference. i had dosbox already installed and tried s2 now. sounds and music sound really better... thx man!

[BiffaloBuff]

As far as I can tell, there are 9 stages to the World Campaign. The first is Europe. After completing this mission successfully, Greenland, Africa and North Asia open up as options. After completing either of these, other areas of the map become available for conquest.

As in the Roman Campaign, it's you vs. everyone else combined. Note, however, that the winning criterion is neither controlling 3/4 of the occupied area nor total annihilation. You must obliterate everyone else's headquarters.

Europe: If you finish this mission successfully on your first attempt, that's pretty impressive. I was slaughtered twice before achieving success after learning the geography and one crucial area in particular. If you can get this far and survive the initial wave of attacks, you're home free, although it will take quite some time.

Africa: The landscape is a bit unusual here, especially in the early going, so you'll have to adapt. The assignment is pretty easy, although again fairly lengthy. You'll cover nearly the whole continent, and if you click on the map, you'll see it's shaped like Africa. I hadn't noticed this with Europe, but had the saved game, and it seemed to also resemble the continent. I suspect the internal geography is fairly accurate too, although I don't know enough to say for sure.

Greenland: This one is reminiscent of the Thor's Island mission. You'll have to work for it, but it goes much more quickly than the previous two.

North Asia: If you want to torture yourself, try this assignment. It's positively brutal. Two of three opponents have all the resources: gold and coal for quality, coal and iron for numbers. And more and more I get the feeling that battles are rigged in the game. It certainly seems as though I lose 3/4 of the general vs. general battles when both are healthy (and yes, I have a functioning brewery, for what that's worth). Finally I realized I'd overlooked a third source of gold, some distance from home base. But coal, normally in abundance on most maps, is fairly scarce here! After a huge amount of time, I wore 'em down and won a war of attrition on my first attempt on this mission.

North America: Here's the continent with which most of us have the greatest familiarity, so I was looking forward to exploring it all. Sadly, the arrangement precludes this, unless you want to play for fun. Still, I was able to see the Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, some of the Mississippi River and mountains out east. The assignment is not a cakewalk, but isn't terribly hard either. It goes more quickly than most of the others.

That's all for now! There are missions for South Asia, South America, Japan and Australia as well, but I haven't gotten to them yet.

Bill

[Goulash51]

Hope this is not off topic, but I am a longtime fan of Settlers II and to be honest I love playing it. However, I have recently found Widelands - http://wl.widelands.org/ - which is basically a clone of settlers II except under current development and open source. For any of you guys on Linux (like myself) it negates the need for any emulation (dosbox) which is a bonus. Especially for people like me who enjoy a game on their laptop, but don't like DosBox chewing up the battery and spitting it out.

Anyways, you guys probably already knew about widelands, but I didn't have time to read 36 pages of thread to check fo re-posting faux-pa's

Does anyone know how i can get a gamepad to work with this?
With settlers 1 on dosbox it works automatically as joystick, but 2 demands a mouse. I tried the JoyToKey program, but it just sends the input to the primary mouse.

[Szilvio]

I am afraid, you'll need a mouse, as gamepad options are not programmed into S2. Emulating Gamepad as a mouse it rarely happens...

I just downloaded the gold edition from this site, but when i try and run the game from the file 'S2', it says it cannot run the program as it cannot access COM2. Does anyone know what this means and how i can bypass it ? It gives me two options with that msg, either to close or ignore - ignore will run the game, but the coulours are messed up

Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated as tis was one of my fav games when i was growing up