Caesar III Custom Map - Pompey In Africa

I continue to scratch the Caesar III itch with a map from the year 2000 by Gordon Farrell. Short and highly military in focus, this map is a far cry from the usual cities I put together. It can be downloaded here:
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[@MookChivalry]

Full campaign where each mission has to be not only completed, but turned into an eternal city? 🤔

[@darkguild69]

Looking forward to seeing you try that new map. Challenging makes for interesting content.

[@awordabout...3061]

It is ALWAYS a good time for toga boy!

[@Kevin_the_Caveman]

This starting position looks so claustrophobic

[@th33njoyer65]

love this game

[@BenHyle]

Hey Jake! Did you know that Workers and Resoruces: Soviet Republic left Early Access (finally)? Also, sorry for talking about a different game than what you did here. I do really enjoy your Caesar III content.

[@DDRJake]

I've got my hands on it and plan on streaming it soon.

[@Harrs2]

Can't believe Jake deleted his forts after the first attack, I was screaming at my computer 'nooooo please keep one at least!'

[@DDRJake]

I thought there was no way we'd have another attack on Sicily.

[@bejandavid1304]

Love these games

[@DDRJake]

Patrician choice.

[@krullet3560]

2:04 wallpaper engine on steam is a very popular way to animate the desktop and I would really love to have an Eternal City looping in the background forever. Sadly there are no Caesar 3 backgrounds at the moment

[@TheKeyser94]

If you like micromanagement nightmare maybe you should try Work and Resources Soviet Republic, and I trough that the Anno games were complicated.

[@abdueltio8512]

Caesar 3 is also a game I always get back to when the cravings come. I also played this game when I was young. We always had a generation or two older computers in the family so I am familiar with older games. You are the only KZbinr I watch for this game and it is the first time i learned from you the concept of having closed off loops for specific districts instead of fully connected city by roads. I personally find the manner how everyone on KZbin plays the game not so good. I understand the need of it in difficult maps but it just doesn't look good and it doesn't give a real city feel. On my style of gameplay I also get luxury palaces but I also get a whole gradient of houses and villas. It just looks a lot more natural. Maybe you can play like this on a campaign. It would look a lot nicer and it would add a bit of challenge. So the rule of fully connected city no detached districts rule.

[@TheKeyser94]

Funny, I feel the same for Operation Genesis or the first Jurassic World Evolution game, that is full of mods, and I haven't uninstall it yet, maybe I am masochist, waiting for all go out of control, that happen a few times, when my dinosaurs began to die in mass or a sickness began to spread around the park, a massive storm hit my park or I have to use my rangers to reboot the feeders, there even have been a few anomalies, where the dinosaurs behaved beyond their parameters.

[@DDRJake]

Ah, Operation Genesis, what a game.

[@abdueltio8512]

@@DDRJake what do you think of my suggestion jake?

[@DDRJake]

I like interconnected cities and use them where I can, but patrician goods spilling out to plebs or priority foods ending up in the wrong districts can be a real pain when doing a city build live on stream, especially on these challenging custom maps. It would be simple enough to do for a run of the main campaign though, and I have been looking for a reason to do the military maps in a single go.

[@abdueltio8512]

@@DDRJake thank you for answering, maybe you can add a couple other limitations like you always do with other games

[@briannaherrington949]

If Jake played Augustus, I would recommend the Reconquered Campaign by Marek and others

[@mikeharry1799]

Visum ad Occiditis was edited: "**EDIT** After pleading and begging with tears in his eyes from the Imperator, I've relented and made some small changes to decrease difficulty: - Plazas allowed - slight decrease in goals - 12K start - misc old save file is still there if youre a real Caesar Meastro up for a real challenge ;]"

[@DDRJake]

I can't back down now, huh.

[@mikeharry1799]

@@DDRJake btw did you ever do the 5:30h challenge on the military campaign? just rewatched the peaceful one yesterday...

[@DDRJake]

I did not, I would like to try a different run for the military maps though, considering that the citied in the 5h30 run ended up looking very uninspired.

[@9hannes9]

Uura

[@awordabout...3061]

What would happen if: A - you deleted the bridge with enemy troops on it? B - you deleted the bridge and just let the enemy chill out in Africa?

[@DDRJake]

A - you cannot delete bridges with troops on it. I believe you can Undo bridges with people on them if you time it right, in which case they will still be able to finish crossing the bridge. B - Enemies will chill out indefinitely until there is fighting. This sounds good, but enemies on the map block immigration, so city expansion becomes almost impossible.

[@Sp4mMe]

Normally the mechanic makes sense, but on a map like this it'd actually be kinda interesting if you had Samnites present *on the island* and had to build up your military, then "invade". Then do the same with Africa, and lastly defend for a while. Unfortunately, "no immigrants" prevents setting up something like that.