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Gustavia's
Gazette
Peloponnesian War
In Which Your Reporter Discovers Auto-Defend
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this adventure we start on a big map of Sparta. Your immigrants
and land traders arrive from the North on the larger land mass.
There is a river and an Island, but I only built on the larger side.
Sparta- 1st episode gets you feeding and fleecing
your population in Homesteads. Boar hunting is a quick way to get
them fed, and you can start some limited wheat farming. Buy or beg
a bit of fleece from Corinth, but if you are careful with your money
it will make the next one easier. I chose to meet the basic requirements
and not start any extensive trade or industry in this episode.
Sparta- 2nd episode. You can make a fast effort
to throw up Ares Sanctuary so you will have his warriors and help
for the invasions from Olympia. Get your Palace up early if you
didn't in the last episode so you can call those Rock Throwers out
to help. I was importing expense bronze to make sculptures to sell
and didn't have enough money to pay the bribe when I used Auto-defend
in desperation. It worked so well for me, I used it during the rest
of the Adventure and saved myself all that money I had been paying
out on Bribes. And you still get the nice monument for winning.
If you are going to use Auto-defend, it has to be
turned on before you get the one-month invasion warning notice.
… And my generals did a fine job of defending the city. When you
get a break from defending the city, send the Ares warriors off
to conquer Olympia. Corinth was willing to go with me, as I had
been nice to them.
Sparta- 3rd episode. This time you need to
set aside some goods for the future colony and build another Sanctuary.
I chose Artemis because of the Mythical Warriors that are available.
As it is a War Adventure, I figured they would come in handy. If
your wheat production is excessive, then Thermopopylai is amenable
to giving your bronze in exchange of gifts of wheat. You will get
some requests for military assistance during this episode, and I
tried to help as I thought I would need my allies to return the
favor later. Ah, but the Greek World is fickle and today's friends
are often enemies tomorrow.
The olive tribute from Olympia allows you to produce
your own oil. Get your Elite block set up if you didn't in the previous
episode and start making armor for hoplites. Sardi is the threat
this time around, and you will be attacked by sea a couple of times.
Again, I used the auto-defend feature and just had a front row seat
while my generals defeated those fancy dressed Persians.
I wanted to stay in Sparta to make some money for
colony building, so I sent my Mythical warriors off to conquer Sardi
and get that annoyance out of the way. Dionysus wasn't much of a
problem, either Ares or Artemis ran him off before he could seduce
my citizens with his wine-song. I did have both Sanctuaries near
his entrance point, so it was easy for them to intercept him.
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