Caesar 3 - Lugdunum

             Thought and hints from Bev Truter

Re Lugdunum in C3, I also struggled and struggled with that mission
- mainly because it took me over an HOUR to figure out I could
build roads up and over the 'steps' leading up and down from the
raised bits of land...doh!! Before then, I had no way of accessing
nine- tenths of the map, talk about thick as a plank. I assume when
you mentioned having problems with the Lugdunum mission you meant
the wolves, as that was my next problem - the 2 roaming packs of
wolves, that leap across any bridge you build to connect to the
natives' chunk of land, and proceed to relentlessly chomp their way
through all your hapless citizens.

I eventually started a game where I built a bridge across to that
last chunk of land, then just sat and waited patiently (about 10
minutes) for the nearest pack to cross, and when they did, they
headed for a western corner of that island, and sat panting for a
while. Aha! If you immediately hit PAUSE, then slow the game speed
to snail's pace, you can build a wall diagonally across that corner
of the island, thus keeping them penned in that section, with
hardly any interference to your roads and bridges. But you have to
be quick, because once they move off from there they never seem to
rest in such a good place suitable for fencing off again.

However, I never figured out what to do with the 2nd pack of
wolves, who kept their distance for a while, as shortly after my
initial successful walling-in of the wolves I played very stupidly,
got deep into debt, then gave up AND FORGOT TO SAVE before quitting
and exiting.  Bugger. On a 2nd and 3rd attempt on Lugdunum, the
silly wolves never seemed to sit still long enough in a suitable
place for the walling-in tactic to work, and I'd proceed happily
with building my little city and sending in my missionaries only to
suddenly notice dozens of poor helpless citizens dying horribly
from wolf-attacks. I planned on starting for the 4th time from
scratch, walling-in the first lot of wolves, then using soldiers to
kill the 2nd lot, but somehow never got around to playing Caesar 3
for a while - too many other distractions, games-wise!
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