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Lerna,the wineries' heaven
Lerna as the second colony of the Hercules' Labour adventure maybe the most profitable colony I've ever played:In less than 4 years(the quickest possible time,before Hercules have Hydra slain),it generated 36K drachmas for my coffer(from 10k to 46K),from then on,I would not worry about money any more.Things would be completely different if youo choose it as the first or the last colony(you cannot sell wine in both situations).
Wine,lots of wine:two centaur cities buying 60 wine each year,that's 9600 drachmas,and there are another 24 oll can be sold to the parent city.So the whole things were about how to setup a good productin area.Here I developed my standard grape/olive indutry layout(you can download my Calydon to have a loolk).The key of maximizing production was to ensure that all lodges can deliver their grapes to the stroehouse before the olive harvest(there are two months' gap between the two harvests).I think I 've found the best solution.
The whole production area was made up of 5 lodges,4 storehouse,14(added to 15 in the last year,to sell I could before leaving) wineries and 6 olive presses.They can produce about 80 wine and 36 oil every year.
The other thing worth mentioning for this city is the rapid population growth rate:in about 4 months,all houses was at fleece level,this was done by buiding a trade post to Lemnos at the very beginning(after severl grower's lodges) and importing urchin.
The only mistake I made was planting grapes in the few months of the first year:I arrived at the city in July,there were only two months remained for the growing season,and that's too short.If it was in June,then the investment was worthwhile.I should plant olives instead.
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