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Crisis of the Third Century
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oniricul  [developer] 10 May, 2020 @ 2:51pm
Player 2 Hints & Victory Conditions
Player 2: Aurelian's Empire (Italians)
Important Heroes: Emperor Aurelian, Diocletian, Probus
- At the start of the game, you will have to protect Hispania or Egypt with your army in Italy, it will be impossible for you to defend both of the provinces, bring Aurelian and his army into the city of either Egypt or Hispania after 4 minutes to make them your vassals.
- Upon vassalising Hispania and/or Egypt, they will be force allied to you and will win when you complete all of your victory conditions.
- If Hispania/Egypt are your vassals, bring your Emperor: Aurelian/Diocletian/Probus into their capital to raise a legion there every 10 minutes.
- Vassalise Egypt to get 500f every 10 minutes and give them the city of Cyrene.
- Vassalise Hispania to get 500g every 10 minutes and give them the city of Carthage.
- If neither Egypt nor Hispania is your vassal, you will receive 1000 food and 750 gold every 5 minutes.
- You can get Auxiliary Camps, which are spread around the map, by placing an Outpost next to them, you will get one auxiliary every 1 minute, up to 15 Auxiliaries of that type.
- The Dacian Colony and Leptis Magna, 2 Trade Workshops, will provide you with food every 5 minutes, while the Sicilian Trade Node will provide you with 200 gold every 5 minutes.
- You can buy German Mercenaries from the Alemanni [P8] and the Gothi [P7] at your Mercenary Camp by placing your Emperor on the rock area with a flag, check the tent name for the price of the units.
- You can recruit Praetorian Guards from the unit shop in the western corner of the map.
- Crisis of the Third Century: Widespread insurrection and disloyalty reduces your tax income from cities by 20%.
- If Rome is seized by a rival empire, it can be recaptured by bringing 25 military units inside the city whilst there are less than 10 Gallic and Palmyrene units.
- Recover the corpse of the deceased Emperor Valerian (P6 Relic Cart) from the Sassanid Empire and transport it to Rome so that he may be interred with dignity, you shall receive 5000 gold, and the morale of your army will improve [+50 HP to all alive military units].
- Negotiate a temporary alliance with the Sassanid Empire (P6) by meeting Aurelian with Shapur at the 2x2 torched area north east of Ancyra. You will receive some troops and a 10 minute force peace with P6. If P4 has already completed this quest, you will not be able to.
- If the Gothi [P7] or Alemanni [P8] bring their leader to Rome to meet with your current Emperor, you will get a forced peace for 30 minutes.
- If Aurelian is dead, you may proclaim Diocletian as the new emperor by bringing him to Rome. While Diocletian is Emperor he can choose a reform every 20 minutes.
- If Aurelian is dead, you may proclaim Probus as the new emperor by bringing him to Rome. While Probus is emperor, all military units will receive +20hp /10min (disabled if Diocletian becomes emperor).
* If Aurelian is Emperor you will receive an Imperial Germanic Bodyguard [Max 10] over time as long as he remains in Rome.
* If Aurelian is Emperor, create 10 Knights to receive the Cavalier upgrade.
* If Probus is Emperor, conquer the city of Palmyra and bring him there to receive 750f 500g and +15hp on all existing military units.
* If Diocletian in Emperor, sack Jerusalem and bring Diocletian to its ruins to plunder the city's Jewish temples.
* If Diocletian is Emperor, each 20 minutes you can choose a new reform:
Military Reform: Research Plate Mail Armour.
Agrary Reform: Research Crop Rotation.
Coinage Reform: Receive 500g every 15 minutes.
Bureaucracy Reform: Villager limit +5.
Military + Coinage: Legionary cost reduced by 10 food.
Agrary + Bureaucracy: Fixes Third Century Debuff, cities will grant 500f 500w 250g.


Victory Conditions

Player 2 - Aurelian's Empire - Italians

- Have Aurelian/Diocletian/Probus as Emperors and Alive.
- Kill Zenobia.
- Kill Postumus/Victorinus/Tetricus, whichever is the current Gallic Emperor.
- Conquer Lugdunum [P3's Capital], Palmyra [P4's Capital].
- Keep Rome.
Last edited by oniricul; 24 Jun, 2020 @ 1:17pm