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[Maxor127]

You don't count the individual men in your unit. That's just a cosmetic representation of your unit strength. You usually start with a warrior unit and a settler unit. You use the settler unit to build a city, otherwise you're going to lose the game fast. And then with the city, you build buildings, wonders, or more units. Settlers can build new cities, workers can improve the area around cities, scouts are good for exploring, warriors and soon archers are your first military units.

The game will pretty much tell you exactly what you need to do on the right side of the screen. Alerts will appear telling you what's going on around the world. A button over the map will direct you to things you need to do, like select what to build in your city, choose a technology to research, or units that need orders. You just keep clicking that button and doing whatever it wants you to do until it finally ends the turn.