The mobile phone version, you may be surprised to learn. I couldn’t find anything about it online, beyond announcements that it was being developed, so I took a chance. Started it up on the bus about ten minutes before my stop.

No option to start as the English, so I took the Romans. A small map, easiest difficulty, 3 civilizations.

Took a while to get used to the interface, but I’d soon built Rome (no option to rename it) and had some settlers irrigating and building roads. (They seem to do the jobs of workers here.) I seemed to be on a small island, so I was trying to work out how to build boats, but couldn’t remember what technologies I needed. Map-making didn’t help.

As I neared my bus stop a blue unit appeared in the bottom corner of my island and I then realised that there was one square I hadn’t looked at that could be land. Oops. I had a militia unit and a cavalry fortified inside my city and so decided I should get the cavalry out to go meet this new civilization that were trespassing on my turf. Except I couldn’t work out how to activate the cavalry and while I was frowning at the screen it was time to get off the bus.

Hmm.

I’ll have to see if the help, er, helps tomorrow.