Game Guide

Your residents have needs that are grouped into categories such as Food, Fashion or Public Services.

It is up to you to decide which needs you provide. For early residents, one need covers an entire category.

Once each category has been provided for, you can upgrade residences to the next tier.

Many production buildings affect the attributes of nearby buildings while they are actively producing.

Review the attribute effect of any public building at the top of its panel.

Choose carefully when placing buildings close to each other to max out benefit / mitigate risk.

Each Need that you fulfill per residence increases different attributes.
The most important ones are Income and Population.

Attributes can benefit your city. E.g. increasing your population will increase your workforce. Income will increase your wealth over time.

As the city grows, the demand for goods grows with it.

Check regularly if your residents' needs are fulfilled to mitigate economic impact.

Production Buildings require a road connection in order to receive and distribute goods.

Newly-produced Goods are delivered to the next Warehouse or Trading Post, or Production Building that can process them.

All Warehouses and Trading Posts on an island share the same storage. Goods in one Warehouse are available in all other Warehouses.

You can upgrade residences to follow the roman cultural template or instead allow local culture to develop. Each culture has its own unique needs.

You can mix different cultures in your city or focus entirely on the one you prefer.

Different characters might react to you differently depending on how much you Romanise a province.

Only the locals, the Kumatics, can build Nile boats. Unlike sailing ships, they are not impeded by the river's currents.

Some buildings can only be built in the marshes. Marshes are limited in space.

A few buildings, like the warehouse, can be built on solid ground or in the marshes.

Wooden roads can only connect to marsh buildings at specific points. The orientation of the buildings is important.

Most buildings cannot be built in the marshes.

You have the possibility to drain marshes and reclaim land that can be used to expand your city.

Drainage Channels need to be connected to a Sluice Gate (slot building) to drain water from the marshes.

Recruitment buildings allow you to recruit military units. Each unit class has unique strengths and weaknesses.

Encamp units to heal hitpoints and decrease maintenance cost.

Protect your villa. Walls and towers will keep most invaders at bay, though they can be destroyed by siege weapons such as onagers.

To distribute water you need an Aqueduct Source in a mountain slot, the aqueduct itself and also an Aqueduct Cistern that will distribute the water to its vicinity.

The water can only be distributed downhill. Choose a mountain slot high enough to transport the water to the lower part of the island.

Water is a limited resource. All buildings around a cistern benefiting from the aqueduct will consume water. Check the aqueduct menu where you can manage water consumption.

Provide Needs to your population that contribute to Income. The Income Attribute is the main way to gain Denarii.

Each residence contributes, so building more residences will increase your income.

Most buildings have maintenance costs which are a constant expense. You can pause buildings to reduce expenses. Ships and Troops have also maintenance costs.

In your Trading Post you can define which goods to sell to passing ships. This provides a good source of passive income and uses up goods you've over-produced.

The island will switch owners once the Villa is attacked and destroyed.

A frontal assault might not be the best approach. Find ways to flank other troops and to use troops that have an advantage over other type of troops.

Use Siege units to destroy defences from a distance.

Most buildings require Workforce to function. Different Workforce types may be needed depending on the building.

Workforce is derived from Population. The Resident Tiers define which workforce type you have available. So if you need Plebeian Workforce, grow your Plebeian Population.

To increase a Population Tier, build and upgrade residence of this tier and provide Needs that increase the Population Attribute.

High Prestige or Splendour attracts Honoured Guests. Select their ship or receive them automatically once the timer runs out.

With increasing Island Prestige, the rarity of specialists that you can receive increases, all the way up to the legendary rank.

Heroic specialists require Splendour. Monuments with higher Splendour tiers increase the chance of attracting them.

The Amphitheatre offers great benefits to all buildings within range.

Every event you host increases Amphitheatre Splendour, increasing the monument's attributes.

Splendour decreases over time if the Amphitheatre isn't in use. Keep hosting games to retain benefits.

Provide sufficient Needs for each category: you may upgrade a residence once the bar in its panel turns green. Turns golden once you provide surplus Needs.

Every additional fulfilled need unlocks bonus Attributes for its respective Need Category.

Bonus attributes depend on their Need Category and on how many Needs per category you oversupply. Review info tips to learn more.

Obsidian is a byproduct of pits and quarries. Research "Obsidian Gathering" to obtain it.

Latium's obsidian deposits are finite and replenish after each volcanic eruption.

Use obsidian to hire Caecilia's unique resource specialists, or to produce new researchable needs.

Volcanic rockfall occurs across the province and can damage buildings. You can pick up rockfall to gain obsidian.

Mines cannot operate during earthquakes. Active effects of any volcano phase can be found at the top of your screen.

Each eruption you survive increases the output of obsidian in pits and quarries in Latium.

Falling ash darkens the sky, impacting the productivity of farms and fisheries in Latium.

Latium's obsidian deposits are finite and replenish after each eruption.

Once a deposit is replenished, pits and quarries can resume the production of obsidian.

Volcanic winter has ended and its negative effects no longer apply. The volcano is at rest, though it may stir again someday...

All farms in Latium benefit from the fertile ash. Their productivity has increased!

Pits and quarries yield increased amounts of obsidian as a byproduct, obtained over various production cycles.

After three eruptions, Volcanic Soil reaches Level 3. Using research, you can unlock higher levels, up to a total of 5.

For each level of volcanic soil, your Latium farms receive +10% productivity. All obsidian deposits provide increased yields.

Effects related to Volcanic Soil Levels are permanent, unless you turn off the Volcano Game Setup. This will cause the levels to decrease over time.

Races increase Splendour. Your charioteer's performance influences the total gain.

Splendour ranks boost the attributes provided by the Hippodrome.

Splendour decreases over time if no races take place. You can automate the scheduling of races.

Preparing an amateur, quadriga or imperial race requires specific goods. Optional goods add Splendour to the winning pool.

Select a specialist to race: Their skill is represented by charioteer stats. These do not influence rarity or effects.

Every race your specialist participates in improves their charioteer stats, up to a personal maximum.

Each charioteer has four stats: Speed, Stamina, Reliability and Sprint. These are revealed after a charioteer's first race.

Stamina becomes relevant as the number of laps increases. Reliability prevents fluctuations in performance.

Sprint grants charioteers a temporary speed boost. Use the button in the Hippodrome panel to activate Sprint.

Green, irrigated farmland supports farms, wood and charcoal production.

The floodplains provide local building materials and allow for the trapping of wild animals.

The arid desert is best suited to construction. Once you unlock irrigation, you can transform the desert into farmland.

Aqueduct cisterns and channels can create new farmland. Place an aqueduct or water basin next to the river.

Aqueducts require Romanized population. Connected cisterns create circular irrigated zones.

Water Channels stem from your Aegyptian population. They create rectangular irrigated zones.

Life in the delta is defined by the river and its inundations: there is a bountiful harvest season and a less fruitful flood season.

Complete research to place farms in the floodplains. You can always place them on irrigated farmland.

The productivity of floodplain farms increases during harvest season and decreases during flood season. Stockpile these goods during harvest season!

Due to inundations, you may have an abundance of produce during harvest season, and shortages during flood season.

Granaries provide extra storage for agricultural produce. They can help mitigate fluctuations in supply.

Once agricultural produce exceeds the storage of a granary or depot, it attracts rats, lowering the Health of your entire city.

The pyramids are located next to Naukratis. Deliver the required goods to Heron's pyramid dock in time, or set up Trade Routes.

All governors contribute to the restoration of the pyramids. The higher your contribution, the better your reward.

Once restored, the pyramids fulfil a Public Service need for Chanters and Gymnasiarchs, regardless of who finished the task.

Settling Aegyptus is the privilege of trusted governors: Land here is divided into nomes, defined by the arms of the river.

The river's current is strong, slowing down sailing ships. The locals (Kumatics) can build Nile boats that travel the river swiftly.

Sailing ships are well-suited to export goods to other provinces. Add oars to minimize the impact of the river currents.