Same problem if you can’t keep enough female captives for your farms and brothels, or even workmen at your lumber camps.
You cannot assign captives to specific jobs, so a little thing like having no hauler for your tavern means it never gets grog, meaning none of your pirates can drink, meaning you’re about to have a mutiny on your hands. Once you are charged with maintaining the happiness of your pirates and complacency of your captives, you discover just how little control you have over them and how fragile it is. The moment you hit the fourth mission, however, the whole thing comes apart. Much of your production will be in rations and weapons for your ships, which you order out on plundering or kidnapping missions to score gold, captives, and resources on a strategic map.Īll of this makes a pretty good setup for a management game, and indeed the first few missions of the robust campaign roll along with promise. Every building has its own hauler in addition to the usual workers, and some have overseers which are usually unoccupied pirates. There’s a greater emphasis on supply chains as well, with individual units of corn going from farm to brewery, being brewed into grog, then going from brewery to tavern. Almost all buildings are locked to roads and cost no money to build, instead requiring lumber chopped from camps and milled into planks. Mechanically, the game is even more distant from its predecessor.
It’s an interesting dynamic that mostly works, though a few of your tools for maintaining the nebulous Order and Anarchy figures are things like skull topiaries and cartoonish piles of bones, belonging more in Rollercoaster Tycoon than this title. You’ll need to shower your sea dogs with booze, wenches, and cards to keep them satisfied, whereas captives must be kept fearful and complacent to minimize the risk of escape. Pirates man your ships and keep your island safe, while captives provide all the labor and services pirates need to stay happy. As mentioned, you have two separate populations to manage, pirates and captives. There are more than a few notable changes from the original Tropico in this installment. And so it was that I came to Tropico 2 with high hopes, and left with them dashed against the rocks. It’s a novel concept, and I can’t be the only gamer who’s dreamed of building their own Tortuga, rife with brawling and wenching. The only one to break from the banana republic formula, Pirate Cove has you as a pirate king, ruling over an island of buccaneers and captive laborers. It comes as no surprise that Tropico 2 is the black sheep of the series. Store page (Tropico Reloaded) / View this review on Steam
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