Westward Game Tips & Hints:

• Trading Posts are very useful. They are very handy on maps with few resourcs and you can buy food during a time of drought or famine.
• Try not to go just go for gunslingers or deputies. A mix of the two is more effective
• Make sure you explore as much of the map as possible. You never know what you'll find that could be useful
• If you have more advanced buildings in your town they will bring gold into your town
• Each Farm can support about 10 people.
• Trading Posts are especially useful on maps with few resources.
• A mix of Gunslingers and Deputies is more effective than one or the other alone.
• Ranches use Wood and Water, but each Citizen working there produces more Food than a Citizen at a Farm.
• When a character is selected, if you hold down the Shift key and then left-click on the map, the character will move to that location.
• Focusing all your lawmen on a single Bandit at a time wins battles quickly.
• Exploring as much of the map as possible is always a good idea.
• Many advanced buildings bring Gold into your town.
• Pressing the "TAB" key will cycle through all the units that you control
• Combat units will not fight while moving.
• Your combat units will automatically begin firing at bandits when in range.
• Bandits will only follow you so far until they give up.
• If a bandit is attacking one of your combat units and another of your combat units is in range they will automatically start attacking the bandit.
• Trading posts are great for buying much needed food during a drought or famine.
• Many buildings drop wood, food, or gold when destroyed.
• You can scroll the view using the arrow keys.
• Click and drag the left mouse button to lasso-select a group of characters.
• Only Citizens can take jobs at your buildings.
• You need at least one Ranch before you can build a Sheriff's Office.
• A Settler or Citizen has to walk to a construction site to build most buildings.
• A Plague can wipe out your entire Food supply, but does not affect production.
• Drought will slow the rate at which your town gathers Water.
• Famine dramatically slows the rate at which Food is harvested.
• Unlike Lumber Camps, Lumber Mills can gather Wood from any forested area.
• Sheriffs and Deputies can throw Drunks in jail to sober them up.
• Drunks will reform if they are taken to a Church.
• Water Towers are more expensive than Wells, but hold a lot more Water.
• You don't need to provide Food, Water or housing for Gunslingers.
• Lasso-selecting a character will usually stop them in their tracks.