It’s things you can only marginally influence, but yet they have tremendous impact on your chances of victory: Central Africa There’s two main challenges whilst making this achievement. With your 3 riflemen from the start you’ll need about 2 Gatling guns and a rifled cannon to take out the Zulu. Once you have boosted Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, build some units. Move ALL Ships of the Line down to Cape Town! The one from Gibraltar needs a while, but you’ll need all three! Use the riflemen for early scouting and build 1-2 explorers between the aforementioned buildings. Control city growth here – you need to expand a lot and don’t want population in these cities to eat up your happiness. Then head for happiness buildings, banks and stock exchanges. Once you have established the most profitable trade routes, usually with Algiers (Morocco), build amphitheaters. Speaking of it: In Freetown buy the Iron and Gold tile before France gets it! Promise him to never buy land near him again (you won’t do it anyway). Gibraltar) build cargo ships and optimize for gold.

You’ll never build a single military unit there.

Once you have Heroic Epic sell the barracks in Western Africa. In the capital I usually build a stable (because there’s 3 pastries around Cape Town) and Ironworks, followed by Heroic Epic. The most important thing right from the start is getting your economy off the ground. The British Start – First Steps Southern Cities Anyway you can consider this post a strategy guide for beating the Scramble for Africa scenario playing as England on Deity or just get some hints for making the Rhodes Colossus Steam Achievement on a lower difficulty. For playing on Deity you should read the general notes on scenario setting in the Ottoman Carpentry Steam Achievement Guide. This Steam Achievement is pretty challenging on Deity difficulty, but please note that it does not require Deity difficulty! If you’re new to this scenario or want to increase the likelihood of making the achievement you might not want to play this on Deity. Now while he wanted to establish a telegraph line, we need to build a railroad through the entire continent. To picture this historical reference, see the befitting cartoon published in the Punch magazine. The Rhodes Colossus Steam Achievement Source: įirst of all: Why is this Steam Achievement called “The Rhodes Colossus”? It’s named after British Colonialist Cecil Rhodes, who wanted to establish an electrical telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo in 1892.

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