You're also told you have to beat him by earning Victory Points, which are gained by doing things like conquering camps, building your population, recruiting the most soldiers, etc. You're asked to defeat a formidable enemy by building a bigger army than his. The Settlers 7 single player campaign does a fair job of teaching you all these things and then halfway through, hits you with a difficulty spike that more or less brings the learning process-and the fun-to a screeching halt. All the while, you also have to make sure your subjects have a place to live, enough tools to work with and enough food to eat. If things are working right, next you learn to defend people and property by recruiting soldiers and building fortifications. You then collect said resources, like food and raw materials (stone, wood, valuable metals) and use them to build structures, grow your economy and support your growing civilian population.
As in most RTS games, if you want to win a battle or build an empire you have to first determine the best use of your resources. The game's cartoonish art and light-hearted script suggest the game is accessible to everyone but the truth is, many people will be excluded by its Everest-like learning curve. It's then you realize that The Settlers 7 is a game about disconnects the disconnect between box art (dreary and serious) and game art (colorful and humorous), and that between graphics and gameplay. Things roll along well enough until about midway through and then the problems start. Being somewhat new to the war business, Zoe leans on a friend of her father's-gray-haired, tubby Sir Bors who provides her (and you) with mission objectives that demonstrate the game's systems a manageable few at a time.
The Settlers 7's campaign follows the exploits of the brave Princess Zoe as she fights off Lord Wolvering, would-be usurper of the kingdom of Tandarin. RTS games are notorious for having steep learning curves and most of them approach the issue of teaching their mechanics via a single-player campaign mode.
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