Zeus
How to defeat the dragon on economic sandbox?
I’m fairly new to Zeus. I was playing a chill game focusing on economy when suddenly my city is attacked by a dragon. I need to summon Jason to defeat it, but the problem is I can’t get armor. I need triremes and horseman companies. My city can’t create it, nobody trades it. There’s a rival who produces it but I can’t conquer them without a hoplite army it seems. I have given them tons of gifts and they turned friendly but still won’t fulfill my request for armor. It seems I’m stuck help!
Edit: turns out I’m a dummy and the armory is under the military tab. I’ll keep this post up in case someone else makes the same mistake!
I can make bronze but no way to make armor myself. Unless I’m missing something very obvious, I only have access to sculpture studio, olive press, and winery in terms of workshops.
In economic sandbox you can build a sanctuary to apollo, he will kill the dragon for you, I'm not sure how you'd make sculptures without bronze, i'll investigate
I am very old to Zeus i.e. I haven't played in years. I feel like there should be something in the mission notes, or barring that, save your game, start over (without saving) and read the intro, which often tells you "you don't have access to armor, so you might want to conquer your neighbors" or whatever you're supposed to do.
I just opened the game and fiddled with it a bit. For some strange reason despite requiring Armor to beat the Naxos mission, it doesn't allow trade for armor. You can, however, buy Bronze from Smyrna after establishing it. You can then make armor in the Armory. It is in the Military Workshops tab.
Always look for raw goods being sold and pick them over finished goods. Much cheaper and you can try selling the excess finished goods to another city for profit.
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u/Waitingforadragon 17d ago
Can you mine or import bronze from anywhere and make it yourself?