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Gustavia's
Gazette
Perseus and Medusa
In Which Heroes and Sanctuaries Abound
And You Meet Some New Monsters
 Our
adventure begins in Argos. It is a rather large map with
a raised area in the middle, the river along the south side and
some marble sources tucked up in the Northwest corner. The immigrants
enter from the Southwest. There are two large meadow areas.
Argos- 1st episode sets some small goals and
gets you started on fleece production. You can fish, and because
I am always so paranoid about food in the Greek World, I had some
extra stored up before I met my goals.
Argos- 2nd episode requires you to further
expand your economy by mining marble and starting an oil industry.
I used a bit of the sheep meadow for the olive oil industry and
set the marble up near the source and the exit point of the map.
All the trade is land based, which is rather fortunate since Poseidon
has decided he doesn't like you very much. Those extra fish will
come in handy. I had enough workers, so I built my Palace and started
taxing the citizens. Even though Sanctuaries to Hermes and Zeus
are available in this episode, I didn't get around to starting either
one. Once you meet your goals, you can set off to establish a colony.
Might be a good idea to put off leaving until you have a bit of
money. Colony making can be quite expensive...and challenging.
You have two choices, and which ever one you pick
now, you will do the other one later.
Calydon as the first colony. I would suggest the first thing
you do is save your game as Calydon-org. It is one of those episodes
where about halfway through, you will say, geeezz…. this is all
wrong. I should have done this or that or even that other thing.
You can grow grapes and sell lots and lots of wine. Timber yards
are available. You can feed your folks with boar meat and cheese.
Elite housing is available, one of the cities will sell you armor
if you want to go that way. It is a nice map, immigrants coming
from the south and two elevated meadows. So what could be the challenge
to this?
You get visited by the Most Terrible Awful Calydonian Boar, trade
income is an on-off situation and you get invaded by Ethiopia regularly.
At least that is what happened to me.
Here is how I played it, and it is only one strategy. Being a coward
and hating the fighting part, I knew I had to have some money set
aside for the bribes. I got my block up and asked the parent city
for enough fleece and oil to get them going. If you put off building
the required Sanctuary to Hermes till after you have called the
Hero to dispatch the Boar, you can sell a lot of wine while the
Sanctuary is building and come out with a fair bit of change to
take back to the colony. I even begged for the statues I needed,
but you could pay for them. If you like the fighting, and want to
do the Elite housing, then you might want to stick around and build
Dionysus's and or Athena's Sanctuaries. Up to you.
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