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1997 saw a new turn-based strategy game "Imperialism": seven Great Powers and sixteen Minor Nations start after the Battle of Waterloo.
Rule the world without firing a shot - if your diplomacy is good enough (helped by intelligent production and trading with subsidies and bribes).

Soon came Imperialism 2: six Great Powers in 1502, with most of the Minor Nations in the "undiscovered" New World, with untold luxuries and riches. The "First Nations" get stronger in time, if they survive.

Then Trade Empires, neatly combining popular elements of Civilization, Caesar III, Knights II, and Railroad Tycoon!

Over a decade later, the games are still being played and discussed and modded.

This wiki helps players of those games and the developers of the next (free) versions. You can edit it - jump in and help!

This Imperialism Wiki

is a collaborative guide and knowledge base that anyone can edit
catering for everything related to the Imperialism strategy game
and later games,
developed by Frog City Software and published by Strategic Simulations

Some very useful pages

Imperialism - outline of the game, and places whence you can get it
Technology (Imp1) - with links to detailed articles
Imperialism 2 - adapted from the Wikipedia article but with up-to-date links to numerous separate pages on this wiki
Technology (Imp2) - listing not just the prerequisites and effects but also which higher techs each tech is required for and how much you pay for research
Resources in Trade Empires - details for only a few of the 19 possible episodes: dive in and help finish it!!
Category:Help - mostly about wikis initially, but you can add any page to that category
Forum:Watercooler - discuss the way the wiki should develop
Help desk - ask away!

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This page may contain details about a particular map and/or someone else's tips.
If you want to tackle the game unaided, click "Back" or a link to take you away from this page !

"Recovery of France 1820" - a scenario for Imperialism

Play FranceEdit

Playing France is graded "Hard" but may be Nigh-On Impossible if Great Britain attacks early; so build an army fast as a deterrent! See http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/149120-Imperialism-Recovery-of-France-Scenario

Play Ottoman EmpireEdit

This is from Imperialist forum ("All work on this forum is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. unless otherwise stated"):

Ottoman strategy 1820 scenario Edit

Jan 31 2012, 10:49 PM, Eqqman (member #286) writes:

Hello-

I just thought I'd start a new thread to discuss the Ottoman Empire in the 1820 scenario. My starting point comes from a thread discussing France in the same scenario, but I don't want that thread to diverge too much from a discussion on France.

The main issue that comes up for the Ottomans (and indeed, just about every nation) is how to stop GB from getting a Council of Governors (CoG) win in 1835 before you even have time to do anything. As Russia, Austria, or Prussia, I usually solve this problem by joining in on the attack on France once it invariably gets started by GB. So I'm usually the #2 nominee in the 1835 CoG vote and there are at least enough dissenting votes to stop GB from winning.

The tip offered was to build an extra Frigate turn 1 and head off to seize the 4 northern provinces of Britain Read more ...

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Imperialism 2
edited by Robin Patterson

Edited the section: Downloads

Summary: $2 from GOG
Talk:Savegame editor (Imp1)
new comment by A FANDOM user

Comment: So I am using this tool but when I go to purchase ships, the game explodes in on itself like a dying star. Any thoughts?
Talk:Colonization of the World 1820
new comment by Denysburimov

Comment: Hey, guys, if someone read this, mail me this map!)) And you get plenty of pluses in your karma!))
Technology (Imp1)
edited by A FANDOM user

Summary: science data at the end of the game
Technology (Imp1)
edited by A FANDOM user

Summary: year of large artilery
User talk:193.25.32.138
created by Robin Patterson

Summary: {{welcIP
Technology (Imp1)
edited by A FANDOM user

Edited the section: List in approximate order of availability
Talk:Map key (Imp2)
new comment by A FANDOM user

Comment: hello. Is there any way to extend size of map in IMP2? I would like to make Europe with Holy Roman Empire, Poland, Hungary and Ottoman but I need...
Talk:Gameplay (Imp1)
new comment by Robin Patterson

Comment: I take no credit for promoting the Netherlands though that map above was from one of my games - using the Scenario (Imp1) Resurrection of Holland...

Netherlands (Imp1)
created by Robin Patterson

New page:	Wikipedia has a page called: Netherlands The Netherlands is a minor nation in most games of Imperialism and Imperialism 2 but comes into its...
Summary:	introductory stub
Added categories:	Article stubs, Nations

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Updated downloads etc from dminoz
February 2, 2019 by Robin Patterson

The indefatigable dminoz has given imp-gamers another great resource. See his page http://adistantmirror.com.au/imperialism-downloads and admire!
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imperialism strategy guide
November 2, 2014 by Pwrgamer

Hi, I will in this guide cover strategy how to win . As there are many interdependencies between various issues I will start with strategies from beating intro difficulty and eventually progress to beating NOI most of time.

Here I will cover tactical combat. It gives such advantage to human that kn…

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Imp 2 Map Gen Keys: In Summary
June 4, 2013 by Enojado271

Executive Summary:

This is an explanation of what I discovered as chronicled in User_blog:Enojado271/Imp_2_Map_Gen_Keys:_Over-Explained.

Every map key has two parts, a value and a length. Every key with the same value and length produces the same map.

The length is simply the number of characters in t…
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