r/Settlers

I used to play this game as a kid 20 or so years ago, and now I found it again and fell in love. Watching those little guys walking around, carrying and crafting stuff and going to war is just awesome.

Unfortunately there is one thing I don't understand about this game:

How does population work in Settlers 3?

I know that you build residences and they spawn an amount of settlers. Does anyone know how many each of them spawns? I couldn't find that information anywhere.

What happens when I demolish a residence? Do the settlers that came from it die? If not, can I just build a new one in the same place to get more settlers? What about settlers with assigned to tasks? Will my woodcutters die if I loose/demolish a residence?

I will greatly appreciate any and all information about this topic.

The CPU has a full stockpile of weapons at the barracks, but never recruits any new troops. I noticed this in the campaigns Asia I Misson 7 and 8 and Egypt I Mission 2

Some maps I would like to nominate:

Original Egypt 6 - You can possibly be attacked by L3 soldiers at 30 minutes

Original Egypt 8 - One of my favourite missions, but it takes lots of time and some ship practice to set up your trade routes, like in Egypt 4. And the roman can cast that conversion spell soooo often…

MissionCD Roman 5 - Possibly the least build-friendly landscape ever, resources are scarce or (not sure anymore) far out and attacks are made sooner than you might expect. A tightrope walk, depending on a few extra soldiers you hopefully have in time.

MissionCD Asian 5 - Attacking the southern island is a pain in the boots, you need to do the temple trick to gain mana for your first soldier upgrade, and using the suggested cannons is way less practical than you might assume.

MissionCD Asian 6 - No mana at the start, and the blue roman will wipe you out if you don’t rush your eco or screw up your attack on the yellow roman. At least your territory will be so gigantic that his priests will never arrive in time…

MissionCD Egypt 8 - After you united your settlements it becomes easier, but getting the ball rolling in your two bases that lack resources, settlers and tools can be tricky to figure out.

Amazons 9 - Pray that your thieves get those stones without getting slaughtered. If you suffer significant setbacks, its probably easier to reload.

Three Gods 3 - If you survive the first 20 minutes you should be fine, but it feels like a coinflip to do so.

Three Gods 6 - Rush a base and then micro your soldiers through a rain of arrows to the towers that guard the Gong factories while hopefully not losing too many units. And all this in 75 minutes.

Three Gods 11 - I only recently managed to beat this mission on normal difficulty without abusing an error in the map. Stealing the egyptian coal on this gigantic map with long walk paths and the AI inevitably sending soldiers towards your thieves is not fun - and so are their attacks.