The Imperialism Wiki is a collaborative guide and knowledge base that anyone can edit catering for everything related to Frog City Software's Imperialism strategy game and later games

• Imperialism - outline of the game, and places whence you can get it
• Technology (Imp1) - with links to detailed articles
• Imperialism 2 - almost entirely based on the Wikipedia article at present but with up-to-date links to numerous separate pages on this wiki
• Technology (Imp2) - listing not just the prerequisites and effects but also which higher techs each tech is required for and how much you pay for research
• Resources in Trade Empires - details for only a few of the 19 possible episodes: dive in and help finish it!!
• Category:Help - mostly about wikis initially, but you can add any page to that category
• Forum:Watercooler - discuss the way the wiki should develop
• Help desk - ask away!

Expansion is critical to winning a game of Imperialism:

• Population
• Transport capacity (freight cars)
• Processing capacity (mills and factories) and the skills of workers
• Merchant marine
• Army and Navy

Population is expanded through the Capitol, by offering to start country people off in the city with canned food, clothing, and furniture, all of which need to be bought (needing merchant marine capacity) or manufactured.

As long as they remain residents (not having been sent into the army or retrained as specialist civilians), your people need raw food every turn (every four of them needing two grain, one fruit, and one meat); that cannot be bought but must be brought into the city in freight cars. An expensive alternative, if one class of food runs out, is canned food, but a can feeds only one worker though it is the result of putting together food that would have sustained two workers. When canned food runs out, workers can stay alive on an unbalanced diet but ... Read more ...

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