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Shadow Empire: Community Tutorials, Guides and Videos. - 12/22/2020 12:26:04 AM

Edmon

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Greetings all,

Introduction
If you need some help with Shadow Empire you have come to the right place. Since the release on steam, there have been a lot of contributions to the community to help you get playing Shadow Empire successfully. Plus, there have always been some solid guides from contributors such as Das Tactic.

In order to help you find the guide that is right for you, this thread has been designed so can find everything you need to know here in one place. Feel free to also suggest additions to this post, in the comments below.

Tutorial Playlists:
You can find a great series with various tips and tricks from Das Tactic here, featuring lots of detail on exact mechanics:
Das Tactics Tip's and Tricks

My own guides are about stripping the detail out as much as possible and just covering what you need to be thinking about to get started and involved. You can find those here:
Edmon's Ruthlessly Simplified Tutorials

Saros has his own tutorials you can find here, his main focus is multiplayer, so he offers his unique perspective on that in his tutorials:
Saro's Shadow Empire Tutorials

Current Let's Plays:
Once again Das has a current Let's Play which you can find here:
Aircraft version Let's Play from Das Tactic

There is another Let's Play you might enjoy from Kalalification:
Kal's Let's Play of Shadow Empire with an Earthlike Planet

That is it for now!

Have something to submit? Drop it below, I will add it here when I get a moment.

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RE: Shadow Empire: Community Tutorials, Guides and Videos. - 12/22/2020 10:41:05 AM

elmo3

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WadeStar has a series. The first three videos are an intro for new players and then he starts over when he realizes he forgot to turn on aircraft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXwlCRtEzwU&list=PLeN2w4mIzUWVyxFaw1Ij1SswwcOSe5XCf

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RE: Shadow Empire: Community Tutorials, Guides and Videos. - 12/23/2020 1:00:35 PM

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DasTactic just started a new Twitch stream that he has ported to Youtube. Very good for beginners as he explains a lot. He goes off topic from time to time, but it wouldn't be Das if he didnt!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIcVR71k2hI

Edit - Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oXfofHMD-M

Edit - Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiSqfbPWFTM

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RE: Shadow Empire: Community Tutorials, Guides and Videos. - 12/30/2020 9:41:27 PM

Maerchen

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I just plonk down the guides that have been written on steam forum:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1154840/guides/

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RE: Shadow Empire: Community Tutorials, Guides and Videos. - 5/23/2021 7:26:43 PM

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I made a guide for the User Interface.

Because the manual is not explaining mouseover detail informations, I am willing to do that.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2326245400

Current status ~ 30% done, because I want to include community requests.

Feel free to comment!

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RE: Shadow Empire: Community Tutorials, Guides and Videos. - 9/6/2021 2:29:24 PM

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I have a couple of campaigns in Spanish:

Current letsplay:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2tle7ZUx29Z-zSvyrRmkl4MZ7PGD5xsB

first letsplay post steam launch:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2tle7ZUx29bcru6596ICsgEGmX0nVHWL

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RE: Shadow Empire: Community Tutorials, Guides and Videos. - 1/7/2022 1:53:53 AM

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Any guides with how not to run out of workers, food, and money?!

I'm loving (hating) the game now, after a half-dozen serious days of playing. About 25 hours thus far.

I thought my problem was upgrading Brigades to Corps; but my last game I didn't and still went bankrupt, lost my food production, and suffered other humiliating setbacks.

Any suggestions?

thanks

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RE: Shadow Empire: Community Tutorials, Guides and Videos. - 2/19/2022 4:13:50 PM

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I find 'Grognerd's Guide to Human Resources Administration' to be very helpful, I frequently consult it during play.

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RE: Shadow Empire: Community Tutorials, Guides and Videos. - 2/19/2022 4:47:23 PM

nscrutable

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It's hard to give generic advice on succeeding in any situation. Your labor, national budget, and available food are all determined by complex systems. Consulting the manual and your own national reports should help you in figuring out what's going on. I can provide some simple ideas though.

Food is probably the easiest: Don't let your population and active military outstrip your food production. Higher level assets produce more efficiently, so favor an upgrade over a new construction.

Don't have enough workers to work the farms? Is worker happiness high? You can play cards about that. Do you have enough population? A good way to increase population is by cultivating the private economy and play cards to increase quality of life so that free folk join your settlement. Or, of course, you could try increasing their salary. Maybe you could just make do with fewer workers instead, though.

If you have superfluous buildings or unnecessary military units, slowdown/mothball and disband those so you have budget. Alternatively, look for some cards that provide cash injections and get them into your deck, raise taxes, or sell rare minerals high. Taxes are based on the value of your private economy, so not nationalizing facilities or playing cards that support your private economy can help your private economy help you. Remember to check if your personnel are stealing from you, too!

Maybe your city-state just isn't well-positioned right now. You could try to soak the losses for a while in order to (diplomatically or militarily) annex a minor faction.

I hope these ideas help you manage your economy more effectively!

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