Contest 115: The Deception

Welcome to the contest pages for Contest 115: The Deception. This is a Caesar 3 Economic/Miliatary contest, and should only be played with Caesar 3 V1.0.1.0. Use the links below to download the starting positions:

This contest is a prelude, an introduction for the latest version using Caesar 4 which will be presented in a few weeks. To get an idea of what you will be up against, we are presenting the original Deception, which was presented on The French Forum.

The Deception (Normal Difficulty)
file is in .zip format

Macintosh players, for whom the procedure of installing contest files is a little more complicated, can find detailed instructions here. If you have any problems, please ask in the Forum.

Please take note that the CBC rules no longer allow free roads and material changes either. A player may only play in a single difficulty.

Story

You have been summoned to the war room of General Mortus Maximus, Commander in Chief of the Roman military. You have never really liked or trusted him, after he manipulated and betrayed so many people to reach his present position. You wonder what he could want. More and more it seems like Mortus Maximus, and not Caesar, is running Roma these days. Perhaps he will be outlining a final solution to the recent holy wars, whereby each religious faith refuses to allow the building of places of worship shared with other faiths. Of course it was Mortus who had started the holy wars with his propaganda.

“Ah Governor” begins Mortus, pouring you a glass of wine. “The Emperor and I have agreed that we need to stockpile an unprecedented arsenal of weapons. For security reasons I cannot divulge what the purpose of this arsenal will be at this stage, only that we want to fill several large buildings here in Roma with weapons.”

“I have identified the perfect site to produce these weapons. In the desert sands in the north of Africa exists an oasis, complete with large tracts of farmland, a lake alive with fish, good access to other resources, and with the richest iron ore deposits in the known world. The land trade routes are good as well, but unfortunately sea traders cannot reach the area.”

“Your mission, should you accept it, is to send back to Roma all the weapons you can produce over the next eight years. Expect the requests to be frequent and large.”

“I must discourage you against the sale of weapons to the traders. These might fall into the wrong hands, and may even be used against your city. Caesar wants them all to be sent back home.”

All this time Caesar himself, a man of great age and wisdom, has been seated beside Maximus. For a mighty emperor he looks rather frail.

“Governor, my friend”, the Emperor says. “We have worked together these past 30 years and you know you can count me among your most trusted friends. That is why I am entrusting you with this critical mission. I will see to it that all the goods you need to trade change hands at prices favourable to you. You don’t need to worry about such matters as culture and prosperity in this city. Nor do you need to worry about me making other requests of you apart from the weapons, even though as you well know the empire is desperately short of most raw materials. I can get those elsewhere. You have my solemn word that I will not make any other requests. Such is the importance of producing and despatching large numbers of weapons, that is all you need worry about, apart from keeping your city financially healthy.”

As Caesar spoke, you noticed the slightest hint of a wry smile on the face of Maximus. This man really does make your skin crawl. “Good luck, Governor”, Maximus said. “And by the way, it is possible that you might meet with some slight military resistance in your city. Others may covet this area’s assets as well, and you know how stored weapons have a way of attracting the wrong sort of interest. Don’t lose any sleep worrying about defence. The enemies in this area are pitifully weak. Your prefects may even be able to handle them. You certainly won’t need the full range of military facilities in this city.”

You decide to accept the mission as a personal favour to Caesar, your old and trusted friend, even though you have the feeling that you haven’t been told everything you need to know....

Rules

Completion Criteria:
Normal Difficulty

Save game in Dec 7 and not before (8 years mission duration)

No gifts to Caesar

City not in debt at completion

Winning Criteria:
Winning Criterion 1- Number of imperial requests fulfilled (highest wins), as shown in message log and requests screen. Although some requests are larger than others, all are of equal value towards this winning criterion.

Winning Criterion 2- Number of weapons in city warehouses at time of save (as reported by Trade Advisor)- to be used only if WC1 produces a tie.

Designer's Notes

• Each fulfilled request results in a small favour increase. The request window holds only 5 requests, so in some cases earlier requests will have to be fulfilled before later ones can be.
  
  

• Please ensure sufficient time remains after the final save to check your score. Please also save your game each December and retain these saves. They may be requested during judging.
  

• Normal forum rules apply. Free aqueducts, roads, etc are allowed. Multiple barracks and hippodromes are allowed. Producing finished products from inappropriate raw materials not allowed. Alterations to C3_model.txt not allowed. Changes to game file made outside the game not allowed.

• Entries made when this contest ran previously are not valid this, since it now is a NORMAL difficulty contest.
  
  

The Deception is a C3 Military/economic contest designed by Goonsquad.

This contest will close at 11PM EST (US), on Sunday, September 30th. Please note the date!!!!

This contest has ended.

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