Caesar 3 - Mission 11a Massilia »13 PALACES!« Peaceful Final Ending

[@GamerZakh]

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[@uk1988tb303]

Ceasar III one of the greatest games ever made

[@soughnymaugh]

Finishing this game was one of the greatest moments of my gaming life. It only took 15 years.

[@GamerZakh]

+krankenshaft I think it took everyone 15 years, haha!

[@felipegracetto5631]

+krankenshaft for me took 6 years

[@Thumper770]

+krankenshaft It only took me a week. LOL

[@soughnymaugh]

^ You should join Mensa

[@D2FFDK]

+krankenshaft I still can't finish it :'D

I won all the missions in this game thank to your videos, Zakh. Then, I decide to replay for several times and try to maximize the luxury palaces on every maps (of course the maps available for LPs). Amazingly, the mission that I won with the most stable LPs built was the dessert maps (Caesarea and Damascus) of 20 luxury palaces per each (and only 06 LPs for Semizegetusa due to its unblessed terrain). For building luxury palaces in Massilia mission, my trick was that I built the LPs one by one gradually. I utilized all the farms set up on the map and the wheat imported. My cart men had to push the wheat cargo from the remote island to the central granaries (with several warehouses set as getting goods), while the poor Phelps nearby only ate fish. My maximum stable luxury palaces were 21. (At first, I squeezed 25 luxury palaces, but they were only stable within 12 months and then soon devolved due to lack of wheat). Great Videos and Great Narration, Zakh!

[@uguritr]

Sick of housing instability, I gave up playing this amazing game many years ago. The "Gate" and some other hints puts me in the game again. You are doing a good job. Developers of this game have to be grateful to you, no advertising can make better than your videos....

[@thordenwalter7464]

Always hab issues with my districts. Putting a gatehouse and use the getting option is such a relief

[@robertocarloscaruso6840]

Today i beat massilia with top 100 culture, prosperity, peace and favor. Your videos helped me a lot. First time i played this i was 15. Now i'm 37. Quite a journey. Now i will replay it just to improve. 😅

[@evangoldman6490]

Hey GamerZak! I just wanted to say thank you. I was really struggling with this game until I found your videos and more or less became an expert overnight - thanks to you! You'll be glad to know that on this last map - Massilia - I built and maintained SIXTEEN luxury palaces! Couldn't have done it without you. Thanks!

[@GamerZakh]

Haha glad to hear! =D Always nice to hear C3 success stories!

[@GamerZakh]

Most of the tricks I use I discovered by accident or random eureka moments, but people like counting (you'll see in the comments) gave a lot of insight into how the game actually works, like which river to build a dock on based on seeing the floating things lol. Glad you enjoyed the vids and grats on finishing the game!

[@Thumper770]

Another trick I found was that timber yards need to be placed by a forest but, once it's placed, you can demolish the trees and the timber yard will still work.

[@hematogen50g]

If you make wine having an order to import it will give you two types of wine. For ex. wine is imported by sea and you don`t have a dock or not a single warehouse can accept wine - does not matter people still think they have two types.

[@Bigi444444]

What an addictive game.Brings me lovely memories.

[@Robcobes]

the quality of your videos is amazing. I like that you explain the plans for building the city, then skip the boring part, and then show the result. I also like your way of editing and your enthousiastic narratic. I've been looking for Caesar 3 videos on youtube for a while and you've really spoiled me with these. You should be really proud of yourself and keep up the good work. I can't wait for mission 11b.

[@1212JediMaster]

You sir are actually a god! your videos have me bathed in nostalgia and ive actually started playing the game again... your flower layout is beautiful... never could get my city so stabilized!!!

[@CST1992]

You've been crowned Caesar, officially. Sadly, you had to wait 600 years to do it.

[@GamerZakh]

Haha it was quite a journey.

[@hematogen50g]

That is strange because you got promoted to rank of caesar on previous mission. Also you get caesar`s salary and already have a rank of caesar while building Massilia

[@cpluk6]

Thank you very much GamerZakh. I just won mission 9 and I could never win it without your videos. You videos is incredibly fun to watch and I watched each of them at least twice!

[@Marciofur]

Oh God, i feel an amateur. Actually i'm playing again this game and is quite fun. I don't control the speed of the game, but i'm quite messy with my buildings. I got the military campaing because the porsperity rating is a real pain in the ass, but after watching the whole video (yeah, i did it), i discovered many things that i was messing up. Thanks for the video!

[@GamerZakh]

Haha thanks man! I put a lot of work into this series and it took me a year to finish, so I'm real happy you enjoyed them =D

[@scootsmcgoots]

I'm playing this game right now, got it paused to check this video out. Just started, can't wait to watch. Love the narration already. :p

[@Vietcongster]

Tip for the palace-builders: in the ring-design palace block, it is possible to fit 9 stable Luxury Palaces. Shifting the Triumphal Arch to the back of one palace, moving some things around and fiddling a bit with the 2-tile distance to road. Tested in Valentia mission.

[@GamerZakh]

You can buy it from gog.com so its compatible with modern operating systems. Link in the description =)

[@jaredong]

man finally finished the game with ideas borrowed from zakh :):) i bought wheat, had wheatfarms, and supplement with fish on every single square possible. sold furniture and some pottery. didnt sell oil, only made and used. only could do 8 palaces, though hit 100 prosperity. so much instability, but zakh's flower design with alot of warehouses/granaries in the middle kept things good

[@fonsia]

Thanks so much for these videos! I've had this game for years and never got even halfway through it. Now I have actual strategy! Plus, your narration is great!

[@matt12721]

@17:19-17:36 that javelineer was legendary. Took out two sheep then face checked the entire local uprising himself. Mars was for sure on his side.

[@luayloulou3228]

yes, and that wondered me. I played that game 10 year ago the first time, and again a couple of years later. But now, you showed me a new way to play it, and it's like dicovering a new game for. Thank you!!! I hope you Pharao vide are as good ad Caesar!!

[@GamerZakh]

Thank you so much for your comment =) I'm glad I could help you out so much and it's awesome that you finished the game! Congrats!

[@superdave2391]

Great videos.......Love them....Really helpful....I had never built palaces till I saw you do it....Didnt even know they existed. I made it through on all the dangerous missions a few years ago. This go round I went peaceful missions which are MUCH harder. Thank you for your efforts.

[@juantxu9779]

Epic. Glorious gameplay. Congratulations Zakh!

[@newygreek]

Congratulations! 13 Luxury Palaces is an amazing achievement buddy! Well done! Looking forward to the final military mission!

[@Lordrios88]

Thank you for all your videos. They really help us a lot, and i´ve learned a lot about some mechanics of the game. Here are some advices to help the people. I just read it in an official caesar 3 guide and I thought it could be useful. I think amphitheaters don´t increase the culture parameter. Just the theaters and all the education buildings. The prosperity can be increased, not only taking into account the housing quality, but other factors like the unemployment (a high unemployment reduces it), the ratio between the money you earn and you spend (not included the money you spend in construction), having or not a hippodrome, the wages (if you pay higher wages than Rome or not and some other. Of course the most important one is the housing quality but the other can reduce your prosperity a lot if you aren´t careful. Again, great work with all the videos GamerZakh :)

[@thegloriouspyrocheems2277]

1:02:56 Cesar wants wood hahahaahhaha

[@mellowslice4527]

Ty Zach! Ive been playing in Caesar 3 when i was a kid, it is a great game! Youve done great job showing gameplay to us, and iam very greatfull. Keep up the good work :)

[@LordPecka]

Hail GamerZakh, Hail our God! :D. Congratulations, I am really happy to see finale of series that got me to your's channel! Great series, great video!

[@Zamolxes77]

12:00 You want to plop down javelineer forts, asap, all 6 of them. They do not require weapons to assemble, like the centurions. Once you have all javelin forts down, you can think about importing weapons to establish 1, maybe 2 cohorts. 20:00 Two markets are not enough for that amount of people, regardless in what position you put them. For starters, you should have put the markets at the end of the roads, together with your culture buildings, that way when market lady goes to buy new stuff, she passes the houses on the way back to market, distributing goods. A good rule of thumb is 1000 people need 1 market. Also, if you plan to build palaces, especially with so little resources, is pointless to evolve your pleb blocks beyond small casa. That way, everything from pottery and up can be saved for the palaces, which don't eat much, or exported. I'm guessing is your first gameplay, a lot of things can be optimized. I'm not an expert player by any stretch of imagination but 1 thing to keep in mind is to try to shorten your supply routes as much as possible. In your case, pottery gets produced in the corner, than pushed around all the way across the map to the warehouses. Same for olive oil and furniture. Don't forget the caravans can actually walk across the map to a designated warehouse, you don't have to get the resources to them, let the donkeys do the walking not your cart pushers. Also for efficient fish gathering, is much better if you use the granary pushers, each granary gets 3, a fishing wharf has only 1. So, you make a granary in the middle of the islands with wharfs, or right up against them, set it to accept. When wharf gets full, pusher delivers the fish to closest granary, goes back and boat gets sent out immediately. If the pusher has to truck around the map looking for a empty granary, well your fishers sit at the dock smoking weed and whatnot instead of catching fish. You build a second set of granaries next to the gatehouse and set them to get food. Try to dedicate the granaries, 1 for 1 type of food, unless you fine tweak your production and delivery: each citizen in a grand insula needs an exact amount of food and goods.

[@tabacohabano]

great gameplay! and great commentary! good work, it was very nice to watch you playing and narrating the game!

[@SoyCrxzadoo]

Congratulations!! :D it's the first time i see the ending of this game and i enjoy it. im proud of you. this game is too one of the best for me played on my childhood. i have not finish it but now i know how is it :)

[@Ponidesu]

Congrats on your longest Caesar III video yet! I'll be sure to watch it soon. I'm also really anticipating the final military scenario.

[@GamerZakh]

Aww thanks so much! I put a lot of effort into my C3 series and you can probably tell that I grew with it too (compare this to episode 1 lol). Glad you enjoyed it! I'll also get the next episode out latest by this month =)

[@LZentertainments]

Haha, I don't think I'm actually ever gonna make it through this game. But congratulations on making it... My childhood game aswell, and you actually beat it. Wow :)

[@joseignacioleongarcia]

Amazing, I´ve seen the whole video, congratulations. I never have that number of luxury palaces. Great job, thanks for uploading.

[@GamerZakh]

90-100 will need villas and palaces I'm pretty sure. 9x9 is a good block to master, but more complicated designs will bring you much further. Though I have seen 9x9 blocks where each corner has a palace by having an outside road with a different supply chain.

[@Simplegamemer]

everybody seems to have the same effect after watching your videos. I end up installing again Caesar III last week and currently I'm in Tarsus now :) after finishing peaceful missions I might try the other dangerous missions which is I never played yet seriously really. I might have a chance now after seeing your videos. great job man :)

[@MusicSuperspace]

thanks for putting up this video man.. i absolutely love these games and this series glad to be playing them again,

[@GamerZakh]

Glad I could help! =D Thanks for sticking around and watching them, haha!

[@GamerZakh]

Thanks! Haha yes after I uploaded the video and watched it I was thinking I needed a gate somewhere. I did a better design on Lindum when you get round to watching that.

[@GamerZakh]

Nope you don't. You also don't need roads between warehouses set to getting.

[@philipaldred8417]

It's interesting that you put Ceres temples near the houses and all the others away, to save space. I never realised it was an option to do that, that's opened my eyes

[@Peurtous]

Really enjoyed this playthrough so far, thanks Zakh!

[@GamerZakh]

Thanks! You'll see it one more time when I complete the military final, but I'm very satisfied with this ending already haha.

[@francovalenciano]

Yeah, i had a doubt and i looked for the rules book that i have somewhere in my library . The facilities that affect your culture rating are schools. libraries, academies, theatres and temples. By the way, building other kind just makes your achievement even harder and better. Congrats

[@Cloderick]

Man,I can't wait to meet this Steve Capitulator

[@RllXeron]

After 15 years I finnaly understood how Geeting Goods is working.... I can revisit this last mission and end this game O.o Thanks

[@GamerZakh]

Glad I could help and good luck completing the last mission!

[@gr8sparty]

I played it 10 years ago and quit cos of the difficulty... came across these precious videos of gamerzakh and guess what.. finished it in almost a month... wheat thing was an eye opener.. but @GamerZakh, in the farmlands here, I felt you had too many fruit farms. Granaries of wheat are empty and fruits almost full, meaning consumption rates of wheat are higher for romans, maybe you could have substituted some fruit farms with wheat... a comment and appreciation which came 4 years later... lol

[@GamerZakh]

Thanks! I'm glad I could help and that you enjoyed them so much =D

[@damien2103]

Congratulations GamerZakh. After watching your video I took your challenge to build as many as possible stable Palaces and goes up to 16 ! (14 Luxury + 2 Great on Lutetia - Mission 8) ;-p

[@Simplegamemer]

just finished the peaceful mission with Masillia having perfect 100 ratings with 7 large palaces :) I am able to do so thanks to your videos :)

[@GamerZakh]

The trick is to get a good set of layout designs and to focus on making as much money as possible from the start of a mission. That, and actually discovering all the tricks the game won't tell you about -- natives have infinite trade potential; warehouses set to 'getting' don't need roads connecting them; gatehouses used to control walker pathing; destination walker technique.

[@mezeke2]

I love these series, massive thanks for the hard work you put into this! :)

[@richbeast1]

subbed!!! there was one mission i could never get passed as a kid...the one where an earthquake occurred right down the middle of my farmland lol kinda screwed me over..i'll find that mission hopefully on your playlist. great video btw cant wait for 11b!!!

[@manuelnino7613]

You're the best, I subscribed and saw all of your videos. Great job mate!

[@Ben9023]

Man, I loved this game as a kid. I think it might be time to go back to it! And hopefully get past the fourth or fifth mission, too...

[@GamerZakh]

Ah thanks for the clarification =D I'm so not as technical as you lol, but your comments really help make clear anything in my video.

[@tuliocarracho8529]

Ha! Finally I did it all, and once you give that many hints to us, mere mortals, I was able to win this map with 11 luxury palaces. I tried 12, but one of them I couldn't evolve fully, merely a space thing. From who you got that hint of separating the entertainment, like a theater on one side and an actor's colony on the other? Without that I think it is pretty much impossible to win missions with this kind of requirement levels...congratulations for the playthrough once again!

[@GamerZakh]

People don't move in if happiness is low - high unemployment; high taxes; lots of crime; no food in storage. People leave again if happiness is low, but generally because of high unemployment. I can't give you much more advice than what's already in the video lol.

[@Crayfish]

Thank you Zakh! Always wanted to see the end of this damned game :P You gained a sub btw

[@asadd2]

I just finished caesar 3 myself (after not being able to beat it 10 years ago and returning now with the power of adulthood :D) and it's interesting to see how different playstyles can be in this game

[@SpongeNobSquareThong]

aw man used to love this game as a kid, the only pc game i had back then!

[@GamerZakh]

Ah right, raising taxes! I forgot how much that would've helped lol. Thanks.

[@GamerZakh]

Yup, I did that one. It's pretty early on I think... yeah 4a Tarraco. Oh, and welcome to the channel!

[@GamerZakh]

Yup. You can see me do this in every mission. You don't need to connect all your areas with roads.

[@GamerZakh]

Haha I'm not that bored with it really. I'm trying new builds and designs on each map. 11b should be out sometime in Feb. Maybe mid Feb? I have to complete it! C3 is my most popular show and I think I have one of the best playthroughs of the game on KZbin =D

[@blitzprog]

There are even more tricks, such as statues offering the same boost to everything in range (so you don't need those to be excessively close at all, as long as they reach the building you want to be desirable by one tile, it'll get the full boost. Large statues are the best for this. And for defending, There's the infamous javelin+aqueduct trick, using aqueducts as wall and let javelins shoot from behind.

[@BlueRyanDisc]

i've been waiting for this episode. ty zakh and gg.

[@GamerZakh]

Industries only need to pass by 1 or 2 tents and they can access the entire worker pool.

[@Jurka86y]

I`ll wait that for sure :)) awesome mission and strategy you have showed in it. You are best games in C3 ;)

[@Nikos1987K]

Great videos! I also recently started playing this game again but this time, with all these "tricks", it just makes more sense. I'm currently playing only the war missions but I also check out your peacefull ones for useful tips. About this video: I believe that the easiest way to prevent the market lady from messing your U design would be to cut the middle road in half by aligning the gate vertically. This way everyone would go through except prefectures, engineers, doctors and market ladies...

[@GamerZakh]

There are 2 types of wine but they are listed as the same. The maximum level of palace requires 2 types of wine, which means you make your own and import, or imports from 2 different places. Yeah it's a weird mechanic but it's in there haha.

[@polmed]

Took me 10 something years, but finally finished it!!! Now on to the other bloody half of the game!!

[@GamerZakh]

Congrats! I know that feeling haha!

[@GamerZakh]

I don't need them near my people. Having more than 1 type of temple for the housing also allows them to evolve beyond what I want. Just need to keep the gods happy.

[@GamerZakh]

There's a few others that have finished the game, but I think I'm the only one that cuts it to 1 video per mission. I was hoping HomerSPC would finish the game but he seems to have given up.

[@paulchapman8023]

It’s an interesting choice to import weapons and train legionaries on this map, since three each of academy-trained mounted and javelin auxiliaries are sufficient to repel every invasion. (I’m not even sure that they need to be trained, but I’m too lazy to find out.)

[@countingtls]

The max prosperity of all pleb/commoner housings is 80. And it is possible to reach 100 prosperity with 9x9, but it's not quite efficient for villas and palaces.

[@mmachine101]

thanks for the guides, they're really fun and enjoyable. i've been playing this game again after a lifetime and I'm much better than before, this is not a child's game. but man, the last 2 missions for each side are hard as doo doo. i dont think i have the will to face up the quest, i'll consider it be done by watching your guides :)

[@GamerZakh]

I'm glad you're enjoying them! If you want an extra challenge, my 2nd Caesar 3 series I do really dumb challenges every map haha. The final military mission I do a heretic city challenge where I have the gods cursing me non-stop.

[@mmachine101]

@@GamerZakh i'll check it out : )

[@asadd2]

caesar 3, the only city builder I ever loved and played BUT IT WAS SO HARD, JEEZ

[@asadd2]

there there, past-asadd2, you'll beat it soon

[@sindirahmi7450]

still doing lugdunum and this video is very encouraging. thanks for share!

[@GamerZakh]

Yes that does seem to be a good tactic. Extra cash from selling weapons is definitely a huge boost. 6 legions of javelins are also quite powerful haha.

[@Doremi777]

You are a god to me too!

[@jurismasinskis2834]

Juat finished last mission in Lindum dificulty hard! next target Massalia!, however it took me all day.

[@AmbarishKubair]

Trust my words like me many more are waiting for the 11b military mission (Lindum) of Caesar 3. I suffered and struggled a lot in that mission. And hence I consider it by far to be is the hardest military mission in Caesar 3.

[@GamerZakh]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it =)

[@RuSosan]

Yeah, that Caesar always asking for more and more wood from Zakh... Makes me giggle way more than it should, every single time. Well imagine a game like this set in post-apocalypse (Fallout-type) and the ruler would request dispatches of "junk"... Hehehee... xD

[@GamerZakh]

Hahaha! Well after so many hours of non-stop messing with the city there isn't much else for me to say XD

[@bboymonk3y]

damn you a pro

[@hellbaron]

commas - they matter

[@countingtls]

TrueBluesProductions If you mean building markets at the opposite end of the linear block, it will not work here. Market ladies wouldn't become destination walker that way (need "real" forced walker technique to achieve that). GamerZakh actually did correctly to place markets near the distribution facilities (granaries, warehouses), so they can get constant supply. He just underestimated random walker travel length and didn't quite get their travel pattern.

[@GamerZakh]

I know! I always forget! Ugh -_- I will write it down so I build it in 11b!

[@GamerZakh]

Haha cool tricks, I might try them out. Glad you enjoyed the vids too =D

[@smartgui400]

if i remember correctly, you can build governor buildings like villas and palaces.... you should try to make a palace district having your home in the center :))

[@OptLab]

After finishing the game I realize I can give myself money lol. I thought giving to city was just making people happier just like the Caesar favor

[@dugarii007]

At the end new and old Caesars faces are the same lol

[@shivanSpS]

I think the idea is to not use Legions on Peacefull cities so you dont have to worry about weapons, except for selling them, if you check your videos, most of the time on peacefull cities, the Javelins kill everything and the Legions just do a field trip, so unless you piss off the emperor you are supposed do a Javelins/Mounted and only use Legions on military ones.

[@Abensberg]

wow... never seen the ending of this game :)

[@blitzprog]

your taxes are 7%, once you start getting palaces and still have your population in a very good mood, keep increasing. I've reached 20% taxes on several maps this way and nobody ever seemed to mind :D

[@paulreissmann7427]

1:02:54 "Caesar wants wood." I lost it right there