

Before the battle, you may be given the option to decrease the difficulty of the battle if you have particular affinities or are willing to spend some resources. +100 Relations with Free Cities and Rulers.Īn Ancient Wonder is a location that has to be manually explored by a single army led by a Hero, triggering a battle with a unique map layout. 2 turns to found, absorb or migrate cities Magic Materials can be traded with Free Cities and other Rulers. Multiples of the same Magic Material do not stack their global bonuses. Owning all three Magic Materials of a type will give an additional global bonus. Furthermore, owning a Magic Material also gives a global bonus. Magic Materials give resources when annexed and enable the Conduit and Research Post improvements in their province. They also enable additional types of improvements in their province. Excavating a province may reveal a pickup (?%) or a monster army (15%). Some provinces are Diggable, meaning that they can be excavated by armies if the empire has the Excavation empire skill or by the Earth Shatter spell. The underground is made up of multiple sections separated by impassable bedrock provinces. Cities cannot annex provinces through an Underground Passage. The view between Underground and Surface can be changed by the arrows button on top of the minimap.Īrmies may travel between the surface and the underground using Underground Passages. The Underground is a second layer of the map.
