During the battle, Caesar's messenger interrupted with a military request, to be fulfilled within 1 year and 3 months. In April the Greeks came: one company of horsemen, easily dispatched by my infantry with 7 losses. I had enough goods being distributed, had enough unemployed equites to staff some more culture buildings, so I built a few patricians to improve my prosperity rating and to get some extra money in through taxes. Since I had nearly two full cohorts of light infantry I didn't worry. The Greeks are coming! In January I got the notice that raiders from Elis were on their way to my city. I need wool to make armour, so I built a sheep farm. Near the end of the year I opened the trade route to Latium to sell even more marble, and placed a second light infantry fort: what else could I do with those weapons? I also wanted to expand my military later on with some cavalry, and they need armour. A furniture factory was built to evolve the small domus to medium domus, providing enough labour to staff some more culture buildings.
My food supplies were running a bit low, so I added another four farms those soldiers also eat a lot, and we don't want to run out of food: without food, soldiers are easily demoralized and will desert. The weapons industry was producing enough weapons for a whole cohort, so I built a light infantry fort to get some defence up and running. I also added a third camp to maximize my exports. The two marble camps were producing more marble than Macedonia could buy, so I opened another trade route to sell marble: I picked Sardinia. I also started to produce weapons: you can't be too early with that. Halfway the first year I also set up a pottery industry for the equites, who were getting a bit disgruntled that they didn't have any basic goods. I first opened the land route to Macedonia: they buy 20 marble and opening the route was only 250 denarii. The plebs were put to work on four farms (2 grain, 2 vegetable), a small start for a weapons industry (2 iron, 2 timber), and marble for export (2 camps). I started off with 12 insulae and two domus. The briefing said that the iron mines (top) and the marble quarries (left) would be under threat from raids, so I hope the city will be safe on the lower right part of the map. I finally decided to build the main city on the right of the forest. The center of the map, the place where you would like to build your city, is covered in trees, necessary for timber production. The prosperity rating goal calls for a few patricians, which means lots of taxes. That is indeed a good piece of advice: you can sell over a hundred marble per year, at 50 denarii a block, so that should provide a good source of income for the first few years. Posted on 02/15/07 05:06 PM File DetailsĬaesar recommends selling marble in his briefings.
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