Money is flowing in, messages about all kinds of price changes arrive, and I built extra furniture industry near the entrance of the RtR. The lovely smell of sardines penetrates every street and every house. Time to add barbers and libraries to bring the housing up to large insulae. I build forums, and raise taxes from 0 to 7%. One of the north-western forts needs to be relocated. New housing brings the number of 8x8 blocks up to 8, and my population passes the 5000. Several trade routes are increased, most notably pottery, of which I can now export 40 a year. They run into two carefully positioned legions and suffer the consequences. I dispatch the request before turning my attention to the invasion: this time it is from the WSW, 9 guys. In July, a new small bunch of Etruscans arrive, and again at the same moment a request for 10 furniture. I start a new housing block along the coast, slowly working to the North. Towards the end of the year I can add this fourth fort. With so many valuable buildings in the west, I build my third fort there, and I'm ready to build the fourth in the west too. This year wine industry has top priority, I decide to build this on the high plateau, which takes some careful considering where to build its housing. In December I can sent Caesar the furniture for his new palace. Because unemployment is down to 100 workers, I start a new building block at the same time as a furniture block. About time we start bothering about Caesars request. The oil industry is in full swing, and so is the pottery. With one javelin legion on the edge of the plateau, and the other at the end of a narrow corridor, one can only feel pity for the brave Etruscan soldiers. As could be expected from the intro, the enemies are Etruscans: 5 guys from the WNW. The long awaited invasion arrives in November.
I start some oil industry on the northern tip of the plateau, wrong bet, as Caesar requests 10 furniture in August. More claypits and pottery workshops require more workers, and only by adding a granary and a market and raising my housing to small casa I manage to get into a comfortable position: I export both fish and pottery, and the full quantity of the latter.
With a shock I realise that the second cross has already appeared on the empire map, so I hastily built two forts of javelins slightly away from the coast. This keeps me short of workers until I put down as second housing block along the coast. Carthago with its pottery import to me looks like the obvious trade route. The town takes of slowly, as immigrants take a long time to settle here.
It has a peace of straight shore, along which I put down a dock, 2 fish wharves & 2 claypits. II start a 8x8 housing block in the SW, near the exit of the RtR.
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