  North Dashur
Up to the task of building the first true pyramid? Pharaoh thinks so, and
you'd better prove him right. Welcome to North Dashur.
Requirements:
Events:
None while I was there
Hints:
Pharaoh doesn't want you to
get bored whilst you're building his pyramid, so he'll ask you for grain (and lots of it),
straw, barley, limestone and troops. In return, he'll send you plain stone and
copper. In fact, if you fulfil all his demands promptly, you probably won't have to
import much plain stone.
You will need to get a small
military force up and running, but it doesn't need to be overly substantial - 1 infantry
company and 2 archer companies were more than adequate to see me through. You'll be
attacked by the Libyans (whose attacks you are warned about 2 years in advance, and who
will usually enter your city in the north-west, just to the right of the rocks) and the
local Bedouins (2 month warning, and they tend to attack from the west, south of the
rocks, between them and the sand dunes). There is a distant battle in about 2540BC -
I sent 1 infantry and 1 archer company, and they returned without casualties. They
weren't academy-trained, but had built up battle experience as a result of having defended
the city from Libyan and Bedouin attacks.
On the domestic front, you
should get some barley farms installed as soon as possible, as beer and barley will
provide your main sources of income. Any excess grain can be sold too, along with
gifts of copper (by the time they arrived, my infantry company was up to full strength, so
I didn't need any more weapons).
MRed94 has done an Excel
Spreadsheet detailing all the requests, gifts and such like you'll face here. To
pick it up (it's in Excel 5.0 format), click here.
Dragon2 has the following
hints (the relevant thread is here):
I
finally finished the pyramid and the city.
Difficulty: Hard
Culture: 40
Prosperity: 43
Kingdom: 100
Funds: 15622
Population: 5593
Score: 4134
Time: 585 months (almost 49 years)
Two
saved versions are in www.tiac.net/users/bamberg/pharaoh/dahshur/NorthDahshur.zip
One
will finish as soon as you visit the Monument Overseer to dispatch the last bit of
pottery. The other is from a period late in the building of the pyramid when I had the
city running smoothly.
The
most important aspect of running this city is to get as much plain stone from Meidum as
possible. This means that you have to forget about importing reeds for a long while. Then
ships will bring 8 stone and 4 clay most of the time. Early in the construction of the
pyramid it might even pay to do without clay so that ships can bring in 12 blocks of
stone. Beer, limestone and linen make good exports.
My
army, once trained, could kill all invaders in a few seconds.
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