Miletus Walkthrough

by Cherub Marty Party

Career level: Quaestor (salary 12 Dn)

Starting City Funds: 7000 Dn

Highest housing level: Grand Villa

Overview

This is the 3rd peaceful mission. Finally, city defenses will factor into the equation. Being the first desert level, it also brings a new set of problems into your city building strategies.

Targets

Trade Partners

Corinthus (sea route)

• sells 15 clay [per year]
• sells 15 pottery
• buys 15 weapons
• buys 25 fruit

Athenae (sea route)

• sells 25 wheat
• sells 15 wine
• sells 15 marble
• buys 15 fish
• buys 15 oil

Important Events

Disasters

Occasionally your city’s water supply will be contaminated, reducing the city’s overall health level.

Hints & Tips

This level introduces you to some of the more advanced problems in the game, and provides new challenges for you as a governor.

Here are some tips on how to deal with the new challenges:

• Fires – desert cities have a greatly increased fire risk, so you should build more prefects than usual, and spend even more time checking the fire risk overlay.
• Water – fountains in the desert only service a range of 3 tiles, instead of 4 (for central and northern cities). Therefore, if you’ve fashioned your earlier cities using 9×9 city blocks, you should change to 7×7 blocks, for the desert.
• Population – this level calls for double the population of the previous levels. As a result you will need to build more of everything, and that makes it more difficult to keep an eye on every little detail. Therefore, make sure you build all parts of your city such that they can look after themselves for extended periods of time. If they can’t look after themselves, you will be permanently fighting fire all over the city!
• Invasions – Greek soldiers will invade you from two points of the map. If you preempt the invasion points and surround them with walls and towers, you will never need to build any forts. However, you are free to make city defense more “interesting” by building walls and towers around the city if you wish, plus a few forts. The invading force is always the same approximate size (between half dozen to a dozen troops).
• Choices – Miletus has plenty of open spaces, and the choice between coastline (fishing) or farmland (fruit) as your population center, is not a very straightforward one. I’d recommend building around the larger farmland, because your farms, docks and houses must all be together, for the purposes of exporting oil and importing clay. The farmland can support 18 farms, and you should use 2 or 3 of those for olive farms.
• Fishing – build a ship bridge from the coast (near the farms) to the first large island. Use this island to build more wharves. That should give you enough fish (along with the 15 fruit farms) to feed all of your people.
• Exports – you have enough problems producing food for your people without trying to export it as well, so just stick to exporting oil and weapons.
• Imports – the only thing you’ll want to import is clay. Don’t import the others unless you have too much money.
• Prosperity – although the prosperity target is not overly high, you still won’t meet it just by accident while concentrating on building tents! Right click on the houses and give them the goods and services to allow them to evolve to a level between small insulae and grand insulae.