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Gustavia's
Gazette
Well, this is
one exciting Adventure.
It is kinda
like a card game, you never know what cards you will be dealt and
someone keeps raising the stakes.
 Cleitos-1st
episode
Hard times have
fallen on Atlantis. Food and goods are difficult to come by and
its people struggle to survive. And so will you, my friend.
You are to found
a great city called Cleitos. It is a huge map with the sea open
to the north, a small island that can be bridged, a delta of islands
and swamps, and a river that splits the land masses. The river offers
no outlet to the sea. On the south side are some elevated areas,
a black marble quarry and an orchard.
I began my
city on the northern side and took advantage of the cove and areas
to build trading docks and some urchin gatherers. Choose carefully,
there arent enough places. You only have 4000 drachmae on Hero level
to start with, it will not go very far. You Atlantean friends might
help, but dont rely on them too much - they have problems of their
own.
You can produce
urchins and oranges, so you shouldnt be hungry. Other goods Cleitos
can produce are wood and black marble, but no one wants those goods.
You will have to buy, beg, borrow or steal fleece and oil. You could
produce sculpture or armor, but bronze is explensive. Ahh.. wineries.
Now, where to get some cheap grapes? I started with producing wine,
surely someone will want it sooner or later and decided to worry
about the oil later. Wouldnt hurt to set one woodcutter to work,
they produce a lot and surely you will need it for the frigates
if you can figure out how to get the armor.
The first round
of tributes come too quick, but be prepared for the next year. Perhaps
Memphis would give you some wheat to get a decent population going.
Try to import just enough bronze to make the required 9 armor for
the 3 frigates. Dont forget you will have to have a palace to commission
the ships, and even if you send the workers home, it still takes
100 ill-clad workers to build the ships. I think I bought fleece
at 2 units a time, it is so expensive.
Mestonia begins
relations with the world and will buy the wine. So will Carthage,
which I had overlooked. Dock space is so limited, I put my wine
and future oil industry (hoping I could have one) together and hoped
for the best.
After a few
years, you should have the frigates and be able to stay alive financially.
Gades shows up and will buy the black marble across the river. They
will also buy wine, but it is hard to make much off only 12 bunches
of grapes a year. Dont neglect your food, plant oranges when you
get a chance.
Folks in Residences
are required to complete this. They dont have to have armor or wine,
but plenty of Science. Remember, this is to be a grand city, so
plan ahead for a big Elite area. Later you will need horses and
chariots and you dont want to be doing urban renewal later on. Place
your science buildings before you place the Elites, they wont move
in without them. You might be able to beg a bit of oil, but be sure
you can buy the next go-round. Nothing worse than devolving houses.
I didnt build
any of the monuments, and no scary monsters came out of the swamps.
My, my. We
can press oil now, how nice. Of course, now that we can, the price
has fallen. And we can make chariots and do horses for our newly
built Elite neighborhood.
Cleitos-2nd
Episode
Atlantis is
able to trade and will buy oil if we can find the olives. Syracuse
sells olives, and Memphis decides it will too. Get busy with some
income producing industries. You can use your frigates to regulate
employment, if you dont want to use them to raid or attack Carthage
early and get it over with.
Fleece gets
hard to come by. Finally Lixus will sell you some, hope you didnt
run out. And best news, they will also buy your oil. Saqqara announces
it will sell bronze, too, if you can afford it. If so, make some
armor and start distributing it to the Elites. The armor vendor
always looks busy, but he takes forever to get around to all the
houses.
There is a
little pyramid to build. It needs white marble, black marble and
this new stuff, orchalic, which you have to get from Atlantis. They
might give you some. I asked and paid them back with wood, which
they werent thrilled about, but it worked. Dont run the road over
that little pad at the pyramid, just run the road in front of it.
Seems to work better that way.
When you have
the housing goals, and a few supplies stocked up, start hitting
Carthage. Shouldnt take too long. If you rely on a vassal or ally
to help, they will stay mad a lot longer than in Zeus. Takes two
or three gifts to get them back on your side.
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