User Guide
GAME mANUAL
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population. The number of men in your Legion will increase over time, not
immediately; and it will take a while for them to be assigned to your Cohort.
Adjust these two items as you wish, then right-click to exit the screen.
Next, select the third man from right. This is your Administrative Advisor;he
rates your performance by four criteria: peace, culture, prosperity and empire.
The pillars he displays will grow as your province progresses, and recede if it suf-
fers. Click at the base of each pillar for basic advice on how to improve each rat-
ing.
Things to Watch Out For
· At some point, your city will expand beyond the reach of its forum; see the
administration map to check on this. Building prefectures, more fora (plural
of forum), or demolishing your current forum and building a larger one,
might be in order.
· At the Provincial level, you should consider erecting Great Walls to block
invading armies, or building more forts to split your Legion into more
Cohorts.
· A good way of helping the province is to connect the capital city to those
small towns on the outskirts. This helps develop the towns with goods trad-
ed from your businesses and boosts those businesses, too.
· Use the different maps on the Maps panel; they will give you a variety of
helpful information on your city.
· Be sure to have enough money at the end of each year to cover costs, and to
pay the annual tribute. Remember, miss three tributes in a row and the game
ends with your potential execution.
· Watch the Advisors at the Forum carefully. Always make sure there are
always enough plebs to cover your expanding city. The Financial Advisor and
Treasurer can help you watch where the money is going and coming from;
one with graphs, and the other with hard data from the previous year.
The Industrial Advisor will rate the industrial output for the entire city, and
measure the prospects for expansion. Finally, check with the Political
Advisor to see how well youre really doing!
so you may need to build more housing nearby. Also, workshops need to have
markets nearby, or accessible by roads, for them to prosper. You should plan for
this when building them.
Markets are the last step. As mentioned before, they should be either close to
the workshops, or near roads that lead to workshops. Also, keep in mind that a
nearby market provides a boost for housing.
As the game progresses, keep an eye on the loading area in front of your busi-
ness workshops; if the business prospers, canisters of goods should pile up in this
loading area to show you that things are going well.
Visiting the Forum Again
Having created and expanded your city, now would be a good time to check out
the administrative side of things at the Forum. Return to the main City level
toolbar, and click on the icon with an arrow pointing to a letter F. The forum
screen will appear again, with its seven advisors ready to take your commands.
Your first stop should be with the Tribune of the Plebs. Plebians (or plebs)
are the lower-class workforce of Roman times. Left-click on the Tribune, placed
at the far-right of the screen. A new screen will appear; the amount of pleb
groups you have and the amount you spend annually on the entire pleb labor
force are displayed at the top of the screen. The bottom of the screen contains
five sets of numbers and buttons, referring to the numbers of plebs assigned to
each of the five duties. Construction work is handled automatically by the
Tribune, so ignore it; road and building maintenance, fire prevention and army
duty are controlled by you. The numbers in parentheses are the amounts of pleb
groups needed to cover each task in the city as it stands now. The numbers next
to them are the numbers of groups currently assigned to the tasks. Use the
arrows to alter the numbers assigned to each group; if you run out of plebs, raise
your welfare expenditure, and return to the forum later; new plebs take a while to
become available. (Note: Army duty works differently from the other tasks, and is
explained in the manual see the chapter called The Forum.) Right-click to
exit this screen, or any of the advisors screens.
Remember that Cohort you left patrolling the Provincial level? If you want to
make it stronger, left-click on the second advisor from the left to access the
Military Advisors screen. Here, you can use the two pairs of arrows at the bot-
tom of the screen to increase two things: money spent on Army Wages will
attract more well-trained, Regular soldiers to your Legion; increasing the
Conscription rate will draw more competent, Irregular soldiers from the citys