#Eldervale
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This is my forth gameplay of foundation and my first challenge playthrough
Map Code: 51BdMzGHGF0xX
Challenge Difficulty
Territories: 28 (1370gold/month)
Population: ~675 serfs (75%+ happiness)
Compatans: 4 Knights - 20 Soldiers - 16 Militia (updating really slowly slowly...)
Monastics: 20 (just started the Monastery - hoping to fix the budget)
Income: some trade, tavern and taxes.
An island center with manor, castle , basic labor and houses.
QuickTip for newplayers island starters: Firstly, rush to build a bridge!!! I learned the hardway...
The 4 surrounding sourcing villages
Some other places and the monastery i completed
No fortification yet. Job done with watchposts and towers. In the future i will build them walls!
Budget is really hard in challenge mode so i go really slow with lots of planning and thinking (it is month 347 in-game) and lots of tries , fixing and tinkering.
There is nothing excess. Everything is "quick-measured" and on the limit... going up and down.
i have insufficient inhouse production of all tier 1 stuff and then some bread, cheese and goods which i fulfil the sortages with trade.
For income i sell some gold ore, marble, one-two gems, tools, weapons... whatever is enough (leftovers...)
lastly ive build the monastery which requiered 1400 stone and 2200 polished stone among others. And before that i build the castle. So i bought alot of polished (and not) stone.
Now i try to find out why some serfs leave from everywhere around
Happiness is 75-90%
i ll try to build another farm village maybe
yeap another extra village starting
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Combatans passby, going to fetch some stuff to make gold...
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Some stats of my city:
jade smelt
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Upgraded monastery - added abbatial church, wine production and vegetable farms - increased monastics to 100.
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also fortified the central island...
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Completed that extra bread production village. Added a secont floor to monastic dorms increasing compacity to 196. Added a bow and sword company increasing the total combatans to 60 (6 companies) so i can do 2 hi level missions at once.
