Consul - Damascus
This is a pretty tough level to win – not because of the
invasions (the Egyptians aren’t really too hard), but because of the prosperity
needed to get through.
|
Objectives |
Population
6000, Culture 55, Prosperity 55, Peace 50, Favour 40 |
|
Caesar
Requests |
53AD – 10
Weapons in 36 Months
56AD – 10 Weapons in 24 Months
59AD – 10 Wine in 36 Months
62AD – 10 Wine in 24 Months
65AD – 15 Weapons in 24 Months
68AD – 15 Wine in 24 Months
73AD – 15 Wine in 24 Months
78AD – 15 Weapons in 24 Months |
|
Invasions
|
54AD
– 8 Egyptians and 2 Camels from NE
55AD – 12 Egyptians and 4 Camels
from SE
57AD – 32 Natives from NE
59AD – c.45 Egyptians and 10
Camels from SE
61AD – c.50 Natives from SE
64AD – c.60 Egyptians and 14
Camels from SE
67AD – c.50 Natives from ESE
70AD – c.30 Natives from NE
70AD – c.30 Natives from ESE
75AD – c.50 Natives from SE
80AD – Egyptians and Camels from
SE |
|
Initial
Funds: |
6000dn
|
|
First
Loan: |
3000dn |
|
Price Changes: |
62AD – Clay
up 15dn
62AD – Pottery up 40dn
68AD – Wheat up 8dn |
|
Storms: |
No |
|
Landslides: |
No |
Another desert level, so take the necessary precautions. Also, make sure that
you build plenty of doctors and hospitals, since there are rats in the water supply and
the health of your citizens suffers as a result. Also, your iron mines cave in
periodically, something which you can’t do anything about – you just have to
accept it, work around it, and re-build them when they fall down.
The prosperity is tough here – you need to import pottery and clay,
something which is really sapping on the resources front. Therefore, be ready to use lots
of your personal funds accrued in Lutetia to prop your regime in Damascus up. You simply
have to get some of your housing up to villa or palace status if you want to get the
prosperity rating needed to move on. Try to spread pottery and furniture production
throughout the city or you’ll find that some of your housing simply doesn’t want
to upgrade (that’s what happened to me).
The native attacks are difficult to deal with here, because you need your
armies over the other side of the city to defeat the Egyptians, and the natives move very
quickly and en masse – it’s not unusual to see a couple breaking through a very
thick defensive line of legionaries, javelins and cavalry. In Damascus, that’s
something you just have to learn to live with, however annoying it may be to see a couple
of locals bashing your city in from time to time.
You shouldn’t need to expand beyond the farming area in the NW –
that’s by far the safest area, and easier to defend than anywhere else. You can
always import wheat if your people start starving. As before, grow a range of foodstuffs
so that your housing can evolve.
My saved game of Damascus isn’t really much cop, but if you want it
anyway, then click
here. However, if you have a better saved game for this level, then I’d be very
interested to see it, so send it to me. When
you've beaten Damascus, you'll find yourself propping Caesar's regime up in the Balkans,
in Sarmizegetusa.
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