Career level: Consul (salary 60 Dn)
Starting City Funds: 6709 Dn
Highest housing level (before opening
Volubilis trade route): Grand Villa
Highest housing level (after opening Volubilis
trade route): Luxury Palace
Overview
This is the 7th peaceful mission. Not only must you
rebuild a city left by a fired governor, but you must also learn to deal with MUCH bigger
invasions, handle many surprises, and achieve slightly better results than you did in
Tarsus and Valentia, only with a much smaller budget!
Targets
| Population |
7000 |
| Culture |
60 |
| Prosperity |
70 |
| Peace |
60 |
| Favor |
90 |
Trade Partners
| Tingis (land
route) |
sells 40 pottery [per year] |
|
buys 25 fruit |
|
buys 25 oil |
| Carthago Nova (sea route) |
sells 40 wine |
|
buys 15 furniture |
| Valentia (sea route) |
sells 40 oil |
|
sells 15 marble |
|
buys 25 iron |
| Volubilis (land route) |
sells 15 wine |
|
sells 15 furniture |
|
sells 40 pottery |
|
buys 25 weapons |
Important Events
| Dec 10 BC |
The level begins |
| Jan 9 BC |
Local uprising - 9 Numidian warriors from
southwest |
| May 8 BC |
Emperor requests 10 oil |
| Aug 7 BC |
Numidian invasion from northeast (4 warriors +
6 javelin throwers) |
| May 6 BC |
Emperor requests 10 oil |
| Aug 6 BC |
Numidian invasion from south-south-west (4
warriors + 6 javelin throwers) |
| May 5 BC |
Valentia now buys 40 iron per year |
| May 4 BC |
Emperor requests 30 oil |
| Aug 3 BC |
Wine price increased by 35 Dn |
| Sep 2 BC |
Numidian invasion from northeast (10 warriors
+ 14 javelin throwers) |
| Apr 1 BC |
Pottery price increased by 40 Dn |
| Jun 1 BC |
Numidian invasion from south-south-west (7
warriors + 9 javelin throwers) |
| Jun 2 AD |
Emperor requests 30 oil |
| Oct 2 AD |
Numidian invasion from south-south-west (10
warriors + 14 javelin throwers) |
| Jan 2 AD |
New trade route to Volubilis is available |
| Mar 3 AD |
Weapons price decreased by 55 Dn |
| Aug 3 AD |
Emperor requests army to save distant city
(Leptis Magna) |
| Oct 3 AD |
Valentia now sells 25 marble |
| May 5 AD |
Volubilis now buys 15 weapons per year (down
from 25) |
Disasters
Occasional sand storms stop land
traders from reaching your city.
Iron mines occasionally collapse.
Hints & Tips
Several interesting challenges await
you on this level. Here are some tips on dealing with them:
Pause the game to look around. You start out
with a city that will soon burn to the ground if you do nothing about it. Some houses are
already on fire. Delete the buildings next to them, to give yourself a fire barrier (so
the fire can't spread).
Turn on the fire risk overlay, and delete the
houses that are going to catch fire at any moment. If you don't want to get rid of the
houses entirely, undo the deletes. This kicks the residents out, but leaves the house
intact. The fire risk is neutralised until someone else moves into the house.
Now look around the road network, and build
half a dozen or so prefects at strategic locations. Tell your labor advisor to set
prefects as the no. 2 priority. Religion should always be no. 1 of course.
Build a temple to Mars, and two to Neptune.
Delete all facilities that are not needed,
such as entertainment and education, markets, granary, fruit farms, and forum.
There's a group of zebras in the southeast
edge. This is where you will be attacked from VERY SHORTLY. You have insufficient time to
build up soldiers or towers right there to repel them, so just build some walls to slow
them down (at least 4 to 5 layers thick), and give your barracks enough time to train some
tower guards for your city walls. These barbarians will make a beeline for your city. Note
the direction of their attack, and bulk up the walls in that direction with towers. Remove
towers from other parts, but fill the left over gaps with walls.
After the towers take care of the
barbarians, spend the next few years building your city away from the starting position,
but build slowly. Your export earnings on this level are far below Tarsus and Valentia, so
exercise some patience.
Reserve the space between the coast and the
central farmland, for your palace block. Build your plebian houses around the other couple
of oasis.
When the invasions come, you will have a
real fight on your hands. Towers alone are no longer sufficient to defeat the invaders.
Prepare your troops for battle.
When Caesar requests an army, send at least
4 of your 6 legions, and you will win a Triumphal Arch.
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