Argos is one of scenarios that you can either choose to spend a few years on or finish it quickly. So, I chose to finish it quickly, here's how I did it.
Here are the ratings you need to achieve:
- Culture 30 - A working Theater and a school will do.
- Security 45 - A city without wall will get 50.
- Prosperity 30 - A few large villa can take care of it.
- Favor 45 - A large gift for Rome will be enough.
- Population 1500 - A medium sized city.
Well, with the Prosperity Calculator , I figured that 8 large insula, 5 medium domus, and 4 large villa will give me 33.2 properity and 1620 population.
For large insula, two basic goods are needed. There are three choices. I chose olive oil and pottery over clothing, because it takes sheep a little while to grow wool. For medium domus, I chose furniture, because timber is very abundent in the city. With all of these in mind, I started planning my city to the right of the forest. I started out with 2 grain, 2 vegitable, and 2 meat farms. Then, provided the population with 2 pottery factories. As soon as extra work force was availabe, I added the 2 olive oil refineries. Then, I started on furniture to upgrade domus. With 5 small domus, I had just enough for water, bathhouse, clinic, tax officer, and shines for all gods. As soon as more equites moved in, I added theater. This allowed small villa to upgrade to large villa. Meanwhile more equites moved in, a school was added to achieve the culture rating. With a large gift for Rome, my favor rating was also high enough. All I needed to do was to wait for large villa. And VOILA!!! The success screen came up. ^^ (PS. there is a picture of the housing block of the final city in the zip file.)
It took a total of 1 year and 11 months. An earthquake hit me in just 8 months and with 2 engineer posts, 4 insula and 1 domus were destroyed. This delayed me for two to three months. I think I was just unlucky to get hit by an earthquake.
Events
10 BC
Sept: Earthquake... (I don't know if this is a regular event or not)
9 BC
Feb: Wage change.
Nov: Invation from Elis. 2500Dn to buy it off.