a question

[moondog]

Hey all: I just found a copy of civ 2 at walmat and i had to bye it. I installed it and am playing now.
I've played alpha centauri and it's sequill, and I've played ctp1/ll,and I've even tried to play imperium glacticum l/ll. Though the latter was so buggy I could never finish the game.
Anyway i digress, I have a question for any one who can or want's to answer me.
How do you make roads? the game mentions something about engineers when I got the ability to build bridges and construction.Then when I tried to build a road,it said that only engineers and something else could build them. (I don't remember what the other thing was)
So could somebody please help me?
Thanks
moondog

[Wiglaf]

How do you make roads? the game mentions something about engineers when I got the ability to build bridges and construction.Then when I tried to build a road,it said that only engineers and something else could build them.

Settles and engineers can build roads, only engineers can build railroads. To place roads, IIRC tap the R key in the unit's current spot. Or automate the settler, he'll make roads, irrigation, etc for you automatically, although he's sometimes quite dumb.

Hope that helped.

[Paul]

Settlers and engineers can build roads and railroads. But you must have discovered bridge building if you want to build a road on a river square.

[moondog]

thanks for the reply guys but i finally figured it out, However SMACed you said something that i dident know about and that is automating them?
how do you do that?

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

On the dropdown menu "Orders", choose 'automate settler' when the settler unit is active. I believe the shortcut is 'k'

Be warned... they get all stoooooopid when automated. Notwithstanding the illegal irrigation benefits.

STYOM

[Craftsman]

Indeed. Sometimes, ehh, frequently, they stop working and you have to disable the automation and move the engineer/settler to another place.

[Rasputin]

Auto

can be good if you have lots of pollution , they tend to that very quickly without you worrying about it, i usually put 10 or so settles to work on 'K' in end game in case any pollution comes up ...