Mission 1: Nova Fora (Part 1)

Mission 1: Nova Fora (part 1)

Facts

Map size:medium

Islands:large sized, short distances

Competitors:none

Tribes: four

Startup capital:20.000 gold pieces

Startup equipment:small merchant ship

building material

scout

Welcome in the campaign! Prove your building and military skills to your mentor Baron von Breitenstein. Your first task will be the erection of a city with at least 250 settlers (development level 2) on the large northern island. The best place for your harbor will be the south coast, and the land between the two mountain chains will serve for construction. Your settlement will need a tavern and a chapel to reach the required size. For the beginning, enough goods will be supplied by 2 sheep farms plus weaving hut, 6 small farms (3 with potatoes, 3 without), 1 hunter with a tannery as well as several foresters.

Your city being grown, von Breitenstein will charge you with the search for his niece. Katharina is to be found on the next island south of you, appearing as a green dot on the map. Load the girl into your ship and unload her well-protected at your village.

The local Mongols at the neighbor island will be your friends if you supply them with 20 t of salt. For this you extend your city to the northern mountains where you erect salt, stone and ore mines. Since the mines are rather expensive, you should disable their production and that one of the corresponding workshops for some time as soon as you have stocked enough goods, especially that one of the salt mine. In order to cover increasing costs your population has to grow as well. Having stocked 20 t of salt, you ship them to the Mongol island. A scout will be useful there as the natives can be reached only on foot.

Finally you have to compose an expedition team comprising a scout, 4 infantrymen and 4 archers which have to be loaded into ships together with 100 t of tools and 50 t each of food and wood. The soldiers have to be explored first in the school, followed by the erection of a weapon smith and an armourer. To save money, demolish each of them when their task has been accomplished. Your troops will be transported by 2 small frigates which you build in the shipyard.

Sail your fleet to the western corner of the map. You will be brought directly into the second part of the mission, taking with you all your ships and cargo. That’s why you should have loaded it with everything and any soldiers you can afford.

Screenshots legends :

Large screenshot:

Wine, hop, medicinal plants, tobacco, cotton, spice, sugar cane, silk, indigo, ore, salt, gold

Mongols: Oundo, Indians: Houmas, Africans: Kolwa, Aztecs: Cuahta

Small screenshots:

1 Erect a new settlement on the indicated island.

2 Your ship rescues Niece Katharina from the natives’ island.

4A The northern mountain keeps plenty of resources. Build here mines and workshop.

4B The necessary soldiers are already waiting at the coast, ready to be loaded.

p.10: The mission has two parts. You take all ships and their cargo with you to the next map.