Newbie - General Concepts

[Gargoyle]

Gandalf Parker said:
Keep an eye out for natives such as amazons or raptors which you can recruit from that province. Especially any with 3 in a magic type. Those can usually create items which can boost that magic to 4 which has another item appear which can boost them to 5 etc etc.

Also be sure to search for magic sites in your nearby provinces since many of them will allow you to recruit new types of units and often they are magical.

What race are you playing?

With what I've learned I decided to start fresh. I'm now Machaka with the Egyptian looking Sun god (I called him Ra). I also upped the Independent strenght to 7. I like that, it s tougher to get started but is just as tough on the other AI pretenders.

I understand all the strategic stuff, and the tactical stuff, its just the huge amount of Magic items and spell that I'm just scratching the surface on. In games like this I usually don't worry about it until it matters, then I learn it.

[Zooko]

I knew I was forgetting something in my list! As Galdalf Parker said, you can recruit wizards from some provinces.