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Wow, talk about a military mission! *Citizen 1:* "Oh look, the Nubians are attacking." *Citizen 2:* "Is it boats or ground troops?" *Citizen 1:* "Ground troops, it seems." *Citizen 2:* "Oh, so it's tuesday today. Their navy attacks on fridays." **Later** *New citizen:* "Uuuum, so I heard that you don't keep track of the months here based on the harvest cycle or the moon phases or the passing of days?" *Citizen 2:* "Indeed we don't. We have a more reliable method, as sure as the ground beneath our feet, seeing as how the inundation can be unpredictable, the night sky can be cloudy, and people can lose track of days." *New citizen:* "Soooo... What is this method then?" *Citizen 2:* "Whenever we get attacked by other egyptians again, we know for sure that exactly a month has passed. They attack with navy every pairless month and with ground troops on paired months. Simple."
Ya 🙈 In Thinis, the attacks on Very Hard are RIDICULOUSLY difficult. On Very Hard I've managed to survive till year 2005 BC, then the Egyptians sent like 8 ships and 4 forts of army at the same time. I only had my few godly veterans, namely 1 fort of infantry and 2 forts of archers and 6 towers in the old town. I've derouted two of their legions toward my towers, but the rest of his army entered my main town and destroyed everything. Game over, sadly 🤗
I am playing this mission for the first time and got railed by the Egyptian and Nubian forces on my play through yesterday. After consulting this vid and Pharaoh Heaven’s tips on this level, I am going to restart the whole level tonight with a different approach. Haven’t had to restart a level so far in the campaign! This one is a real bear
Sleelan thinking about the poetic implications of this. In this mission, you are basically chosen to rescue a city that one of your ancestors built. Once your family was in Thinis to form the initial glory of Egypt, and now you are restoring it to its former glory on the same ground.
The player's dynasty remains loyal to the Upper Kingdom, first the Thinite Confederecy and now in the Middle Kingdom you choose to remain loyal to the Thinite nobles (which you are also part of).
Thanks so much for this. I really like your delivery style and pace. Interesting to know there’s 100-200 playing Pharaoh at any time on Steam. Really helpful things I gleaned from your video: Read the level info at the beginning to get a taste of what the level will through up. - Press R for statue change - You don’t need to connect paths for people to move through - Use roadblocks - Check carefully what industry to start by checking trade first - Storage Yard, you can alter how much to fill up the storage yard??? - You’re kingdom rating will go down if you get into debt! - More population the more shrines and temples needed. - Military, you can change which side they face by clicking the button at the bottom. - Make sure to refuse the money requests, otherwise you’re kingdom rating will fall. - If you click on map view, you can see where attacking armies are as well as your own (if relieving another city).
Kingdom rating will fall whenever fulfilling money requests? Or just for a specific one in this mission, presumably because it’s an enemy of the kingdom?
I have to say that you are truly a master of military in Pharaoh, especially at Very Hard. You are probably the only person on UA-cam who can say that they've played this mission on VH without failing. :) These huge battles are a sign of what kind of battles you will face in all the remaining campaign missions of the Middle and New Kingdoms. The trading issue is also key, as most of these early Middle Kingdom missions have very limited trade routes, so making large stacks of cash is not usually the point (and on VH, is very difficult anyway). They improve a little bit towards the latter part (once you become the Pharaoh), but trade quotas are reduced. New Kingdom (which is quite some time off) has much worse trading problems, but that's a problem you don't need to worry about yet. ;) The only thing you need to remember is that on Warships, they have a fatigue level: the reason your ships would not move is because they were "Exhausted", and the game prevents them moving for a short time (trying to paddle a ship that quickly is bound to tire them out). I would have built the maximum complement of warships though. It's always a good idea and never goes wrong in any military mission to have the maximum number. As for the difficulty level thing: there is a bug where the game does not register difficulty changes if you change it in the mission briefing box. So the game started the mission as though it was Hard, even though you played on Very Hard. You should not see this bug in any future mission though. Great to see a return to Pharaoh! These missions will very much help in honing military skills, not just for Pharaoh, but also for Emperor (in terms of the land attacks). :D
Hey thanks! Yeah I wanted to get more warships but I kept running out of money haha. That makes sense about ship exhaustion too. I went back to check difficulty stuff, I think it glitched and I started with more money than I should've? On Hard I think it starts with 13K but on Very Hard it's supposed to be 6K? I somehow started with 10K? I'm not sure how to confirm that I was actually playing on Very Hard.
GamerZakh You can see what difficulty the game is set to by going to Options -> Difficulty while in a mission. Unfortunately, for the purposes of scores and starting funds, the game will only register the difficulty that is specified when the mission briefing is loaded, so even if you change that difficulty with the buttons, it only registers what it was originally set to, hence why you started with more funds, but changing the difficulty while in a mission means you'll still get the experience of playing at that level. As long as you keep on Very Hard, every mission from this point will start and be scored under Very Hard. I think in this instance, it was a god send that you started with more funds, or I think you would have struggled extremely to get to those early invasions.
Okay I just double checked, it was on Very Hard, but it's still strange that it started me with 10K when Hard starts with 13K. Must be some math problem in the code somewhere haha.
GamerZakh Ya, there are tons of bugs regarding the starting funds with Pharaoh, it was never fixed either. You could restart the mission (using the replay mission function) over and over and get wildly different starting funds. It's a good thing they completely fixed that bug for Zeus/Emperor (never seen the issue happen there), but it's quite a nuisance here in Pharaoh (although you shouldn't experience it again :))
To solve the bug, just reload the old save. I always save the game at very start to avoid this problem...strange. However great work Zack, towers could help you to solve some military matters
Fantastic episode! There is SO much knowledge in the comment section for this series. Eventhough I only played Caesar 3 extensively, if you are up for some intesive micro for a slight advantage, you can exploit kiting BEFORE you engage with your infantry, instead of just using it as a last resort, getting some free rounds on the enemy troops by moving your archers aggressively ahead of the infantry.
Cutscene really makes clear Egypt's golden age is over. 22:22 Defensive formations. 31:31 Naval combat. 41:00 That guy in the marshes just drowned. 49:00 Amphibious expeditionary force.
ArdZolox Also, learn proper english before spouting broken xenophobe bullshit on it. I can't be bothered to come down to your neanderthal level of language command
I'm so fucking glad I found these OMG. I played this game and also the Greek themed one when I was a kid back when they came out. I thought everyone just kinda forgot about them.
I'm currently replaying the game and I'm so stuck on this mission... I used to skip the heavy military missions when I was a kid and honestly today I still really hate them x'D I finally decided to skip this one too with shame and sadness, and looking at your gameplay even for the best players it's really a freaking high tension mission I don't have any regrets skipping it hahaha. Even years after, thanks a lot for your playthrough of Pharaoh. :)
Yeah some of these missions the military is just insane. In Cleopatra is gets even worse. Honestly, all military missions feel best on Normal difficulty. Hard and Very Hard can just get too extreme.
@@GamerZakh tbh I struggled on normal haha. But I'm bad at military in general, whatever the game is. I'll try this mission again following your tactics and see if I can get better. Thanks! :)
To save some time experimenting with how many clays and potteries you need here, you can just calculate: 1 pottery produces 400 units/year, 2 clays supply 3 potteries; so for 8000/year one needs 20 potteries and 14 clays ;)
Just finished this mission on very hard and I have to say that this was by far the hardest mission I played so far (Finished the Dynasties before this one). The military was just crazy, micro managing archers to kite, while trying to stay in positive money to not drop kingdom rating, while in desperate need for copper. It was a terribly hard one.
Took me a while to find this mission, but here it is! The harderst mission on Pharaoh by far, imo. I had to cheat my ass off when I was a kid playing this! :D Let's see how you do!
A bit of info on ship combat: first repair them after combat (button before return to warf), second: check for their restiveness land combat: Using the infantry as tanks is better than just using your archers as fodder because they deal less damage on melee fights in terms of combat strength, economically yes not so much. You can also rotate the unit positioning using R and change the formation using T
When the Egyptians attacked I met them by the flood plains and held the line on dry land. Then the flood came and drowned the whole army. Kind of reminded me of the Ten Commandments movie.
To anyone who failed to finish this map: if you did not send warships or troops to help Menefer's siege, you will lose the trade route to get papyrus, therefore could not win the mission and you have to replay.
I just finished playing this mission (on very easy, I'm not that good and still learning) and it reminded me how frustrating and opposite of fun the combat in Pharaoh is. 56:37 -- so clunky, unresponsive, and unsatisfying!
Yes, the Egyptians did indeed attack from the north and the NUbians from the south, which makes sense considering that the west and east were mostly blocked off and the road was incredibly linear. It turned out the trick was figuring out if there was a Navy or not, but generally naval battles seem quite easy despite the clunkety clunk of the troops. I guess just building forts right in the middle area would cover enough. The sad part is that the part of the city with the towers was completely useless.
You went insanely overkill on the pottery and clay pits there. One Potter produces roughly 550 units of pottery every year, and one clay pit produces just under 1000 clay a year. The reason you weren't selling enough pottery was because your industries and storage yards didn't have enough workers.
How come you didn't build walls and towers near the invasion areas? The javelins that the towers throw do tons of damage, and it also helps if you're kiting some infantry around with archers. Also, people don't immigrate when there's an invasion in progress.
Walls and Towers cost a ridiculous amount of cash to erect at Very Hard (just the tower on its own costs 525). The total cost of just one 2x2 wall and a tower on top of it is 733 debens, which is many times more the price of just importing copper and using your own troops. Not worth the expense when you are fighting troops that are near equal or stronger than your own, walls are only useful against average strength troops such as Nubians/Kushites etc.
Yeah, as Sajuuk said, it was way too expensive. At the end of the map when I won I still only had 1000+ in the bank (not counting the absolute end of 2700, which I would've spent on more warships first anyway). Not even enough to properly set up 2 towers, let alone a gate and walls. Plus, you don't know where the invasion areas are and the sand dunes meant I couldn't build properly. They could suddenly attack from the southwest, so it's important to have mobile troops. Ah I also know immigration is affected by invasions but I was talking about a literal message of 'slums prevent immigration' that popped up.
Well... It’s April 1977 BC, all ratings are as needed, population must be 4500 but is currently on 9682, fought countless wars, fortified my city with walls and countless towers so there’s no need to send troops (only postition war ships near riverbanks stuffed with towers) but I can’t seem to import any more papyrus and so I can’t complete the mission (need 10 common residences). Not in the mood to begin all over again...
When I have lots of Db and a grand landscape unfit to build housing I write something down simply by building roads, put gardens around it an plaza the roads, it comes out nice and readable on your overview map. I just wrote “F*** THIS SH*T” in honor of the pharaoh not sending me a that hard needed or a new trade route for papyrus. (While writing this down I’ve heard Zakh’s laughter in this video, not helping me bro, but I get the point)....
Storage facilities have special orders, specifically Accepting, Getting, and Not Accepting. When you set it to Getting, that building will send out a walker to another same building that is set to Accepting to Get that resource and bring it back. They cannot Get from buildings also set to Getting, only Accepting. Storage Yard people can go off road too.
On Very Hard Thinis starts with 6019 Db. You started with 10000 Db, rendering your performance irrelevant as 4000 Db at the very beginning make a huge difference.
Oh well I set it to Very Hard as you can see, so must be a bug with the game. Not much I can do about it 7 years later, but I beat the rest of the game and Cleopatra on Very Hard, plus I beat Emperor and Zeus too, so it's not like I couldn't just beat this if I wanted to today. I can't go back to my skill level of 2016.
You can't upgrade statues, I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean change the look of them? It's just the look for decoration. They change design if you press 'R'.
After many tries, I finally reach the point where I completed all rating requirements & population except kingdom rating. My kingdom rating keep falling down for no reason. Send gift, boost kr temporarily but never reach 90,then fall again suddenly.
Kingdom rating drops every year no matter what. You can give gifts from your personal savings, but remember if you send more than 1 gift every 12 months the effect is less. What you do is send a big gift once every 12 months, that will raise your kingdom rating by 10. Do that every year and you'll be able to reach 100 kingdom rating.
GamerZakh Oh I just randomly saw this specific one in my suggested area after paroosing your Civ VI videos, now I'm working my way through the entire playlist.
The widescreen fix linked in the description is for Pharaoh with the Cleopatra expansion. Where did you get your copy of the game? Do you have Cleopatra installed? If you buy the GOG.com version it's complete. Otherwise there is a widescreen fix for just Pharaoh but it's not as good. You don't need to change to 16-bit or anything, the GOG.com version I use works perfectly as is on Windows 7 and Windows 10.
Still can't make it work because I can't select my screen resolution in the fixer :( Btw, any chance you'll do the Zeus and Poseidon series after this? :)
***** Hmm, you could ask Crudelios on the thread linked or show some screenshots of your problem. I'm not sure exactly what issue you're facing. And I plan to play Zeus once Pharaoh ends yeah.
I dont understand why you have 10 000db at very hard, i started with 6000 deben which is quite low, because initial attack is heavy... i did it on hard quite easily, but never on very hard :-(
Yeah it was confusing on this one. I didn't realise there was a bug when playing. I'm not sure if I actually played on Hard or if it was just the starting money that was wrong. All my other missions after this I make sure it's very hard though.
1 house gives the industries access to the entire worker pool, which comes from your total population. When you put down an industry buildings, it sends out a white walker. That guy needs to pass at least 1 house before the building gets employment.
I hope you didn't finish the game without knowing archers are useless and it's better to improve the houses as much as the mission let's you, because better houses pay a lot of taxes and store a lot of population; importing papyrus, linen, even luxury goods is totally worth it.
It’s actually not the first map that the statues are different. They’ve always been different. You just literally have never pressed R to rotate or switch them. Also you have been able to rotate the map for years now. It would’ve helped if you read the in-game help, but here I am necro-ing this comments section. I must say, while enjoyable, your play through has been incredibly frustrating.
You'll be happy to know it's been years since this video so I've discovered plenty since. Many enjoy seeing the learning process and the vast majority of people playing games like these aren't going to read through the in-game help. How do you even do that to discover rotating statues? Just open it up and read through everything for hours? Nothing really prompts you to look up statues in the help.
I didn't build so much infantry here because copper was taking a toll on my money. Archers are free. I also did the math on effective walls and towers. It would've cost an extra 8,000 to 10,000 to build just minimum defences. Don't have the money to do things like that haha!
I think walls at the entry points aren't that expensive. I know it won't defeat the enemy but extra firepower and also time for fielding your guys will sure help. Anyways, I love your game play. I sit and watch and really enjoy your vids Zakh! I just want to see your fortification design once. :D Be well!
Haha, that's just the cost of walls, gate, and 2 towers at both entry points. It's really expensive =S And thanks! If I ever get a map with a lot of money and military I'll build more defences.
Yeah Pharaoh has balance issues throughout. Some missions are just way hard, 1 is even impossible to win normally without massive cheese of some form if you're on Very Hard difficulty. The game is really balanced for Normal difficulty.
@@GamerZakh I believe I was playing this on hard recently but I will restart it on easy.... I don't want to struggle with the game I just want to chill and build Egypt. I got so frustrated when I got attacked every five minutes 😅
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Wow, talk about a military mission!
*Citizen 1:* "Oh look, the Nubians are attacking."
*Citizen 2:* "Is it boats or ground troops?"
*Citizen 1:* "Ground troops, it seems."
*Citizen 2:* "Oh, so it's tuesday today. Their navy attacks on fridays."
**Later**
*New citizen:* "Uuuum, so I heard that you don't keep track of the months here based on the harvest cycle or the moon phases or the passing of days?"
*Citizen 2:* "Indeed we don't. We have a more reliable method, as sure as the ground beneath our feet, seeing as how the inundation can be unpredictable, the night sky can be cloudy, and people can lose track of days."
*New citizen:* "Soooo... What is this method then?"
*Citizen 2:* "Whenever we get attacked by other egyptians again, we know for sure that exactly a month has passed. They attack with navy every pairless month and with ground troops on paired months. Simple."
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Hahahaha trueee 😂😂 I got a second atack once while still fighting the first lol
Ya 🙈 In Thinis, the attacks on Very Hard are RIDICULOUSLY difficult. On Very Hard I've managed to survive till year 2005 BC, then the Egyptians sent like 8 ships and 4 forts of army at the same time. I only had my few godly veterans, namely 1 fort of infantry and 2 forts of archers and 6 towers in the old town. I've derouted two of their legions toward my towers, but the rest of his army entered my main town and destroyed everything. Game over, sadly 🤗
The cutscenes are impressive as hell for their age.
I am playing this mission for the first time and got railed by the Egyptian and Nubian forces on my play through yesterday. After consulting this vid and Pharaoh Heaven’s tips on this level, I am going to restart the whole level tonight with a different approach. Haven’t had to restart a level so far in the campaign! This one is a real bear
The fact that you re-visit your city from the very second mission in the entire campaign always felt amazing to me.
Yeah it's cool. They do it a bit more in Emperor too.
Sleelan thinking about the poetic implications of this.
In this mission, you are basically chosen to rescue a city that one of your ancestors built. Once your family was in Thinis to form the initial glory of Egypt, and now you are restoring it to its former glory on the same ground.
The player's dynasty remains loyal to the Upper Kingdom, first the Thinite Confederecy and now in the Middle Kingdom you choose to remain loyal to the Thinite nobles (which you are also part of).
Thanks so much for this. I really like your delivery style and pace. Interesting to know there’s 100-200 playing Pharaoh at any time on Steam.
Really helpful things I gleaned from your video:
Read the level info at the beginning to get a taste of what the level will through up.
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Press R for statue change
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You don’t need to connect paths for people to move through
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Use roadblocks
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Check carefully what industry to start by checking trade first
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Storage Yard, you can alter how much to fill up the storage yard???
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You’re kingdom rating will go down if you get into debt!
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More population the more shrines and temples needed.
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Military, you can change which side they face by clicking the button at the bottom.
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Make sure to refuse the money requests, otherwise you’re kingdom rating will fall.
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If you click on map view, you can see where attacking armies are as well as your own (if relieving another city).
Kingdom rating will fall whenever fulfilling money requests? Or just for a specific one in this mission, presumably because it’s an enemy of the kingdom?
I have to say that you are truly a master of military in Pharaoh, especially at Very Hard. You are probably the only person on UA-cam who can say that they've played this mission on VH without failing. :)
These huge battles are a sign of what kind of battles you will face in all the remaining campaign missions of the Middle and New Kingdoms. The trading issue is also key, as most of these early Middle Kingdom missions have very limited trade routes, so making large stacks of cash is not usually the point (and on VH, is very difficult anyway). They improve a little bit towards the latter part (once you become the Pharaoh), but trade quotas are reduced. New Kingdom (which is quite some time off) has much worse trading problems, but that's a problem you don't need to worry about yet. ;)
The only thing you need to remember is that on Warships, they have a fatigue level: the reason your ships would not move is because they were "Exhausted", and the game prevents them moving for a short time (trying to paddle a ship that quickly is bound to tire them out). I would have built the maximum complement of warships though. It's always a good idea and never goes wrong in any military mission to have the maximum number.
As for the difficulty level thing: there is a bug where the game does not register difficulty changes if you change it in the mission briefing box. So the game started the mission as though it was Hard, even though you played on Very Hard. You should not see this bug in any future mission though.
Great to see a return to Pharaoh! These missions will very much help in honing military skills, not just for Pharaoh, but also for Emperor (in terms of the land attacks). :D
Hey thanks! Yeah I wanted to get more warships but I kept running out of money haha. That makes sense about ship exhaustion too. I went back to check difficulty stuff, I think it glitched and I started with more money than I should've? On Hard I think it starts with 13K but on Very Hard it's supposed to be 6K? I somehow started with 10K? I'm not sure how to confirm that I was actually playing on Very Hard.
GamerZakh You can see what difficulty the game is set to by going to Options -> Difficulty while in a mission. Unfortunately, for the purposes of scores and starting funds, the game will only register the difficulty that is specified when the mission briefing is loaded, so even if you change that difficulty with the buttons, it only registers what it was originally set to, hence why you started with more funds, but changing the difficulty while in a mission means you'll still get the experience of playing at that level. As long as you keep on Very Hard, every mission from this point will start and be scored under Very Hard. I think in this instance, it was a god send that you started with more funds, or I think you would have struggled extremely to get to those early invasions.
Okay I just double checked, it was on Very Hard, but it's still strange that it started me with 10K when Hard starts with 13K. Must be some math problem in the code somewhere haha.
GamerZakh Ya, there are tons of bugs regarding the starting funds with Pharaoh, it was never fixed either. You could restart the mission (using the replay mission function) over and over and get wildly different starting funds. It's a good thing they completely fixed that bug for Zeus/Emperor (never seen the issue happen there), but it's quite a nuisance here in Pharaoh (although you shouldn't experience it again :))
To solve the bug, just reload the old save. I always save the game at very start to avoid this problem...strange. However great work Zack, towers could help you to solve some military matters
so glad you are playing pharoah again! can't wait until the next one!
Haha glad you like it! Next one should be on time on Sunday.
Fantastic episode!
There is SO much knowledge in the comment section for this series. Eventhough I only played Caesar 3 extensively, if you are up for some intesive micro for a slight advantage, you can exploit kiting BEFORE you engage with your infantry, instead of just using it as a last resort, getting some free rounds on the enemy troops by moving your archers aggressively ahead of the infantry.
Cutscene really makes clear Egypt's golden age is over.
22:22 Defensive formations.
31:31 Naval combat.
41:00 That guy in the marshes just drowned.
49:00 Amphibious expeditionary force.
i am still playing this lovely game at 2022.. admitted to succeed this mission quite challenging. i love Pharaoh!
I salute the return of Pharaoh to the channel! Good luck in this new dynasty!
Ahh, the world rejoices when Zakh makes a pharaoh/Cleo video!
The world also rejoices when another russian nazi terrorist dies =)
ArdZolox Fuck you ukrop dill supporter :)
ArdZolox Also, learn proper english before spouting broken xenophobe bullshit on it. I can't be bothered to come down to your neanderthal level of language command
I'm so fucking glad I found these OMG. I played this game and also the Greek themed one when I was a kid back when they came out. I thought everyone just kinda forgot about them.
I'm currently replaying the game and I'm so stuck on this mission... I used to skip the heavy military missions when I was a kid and honestly today I still really hate them x'D
I finally decided to skip this one too with shame and sadness, and looking at your gameplay even for the best players it's really a freaking high tension mission I don't have any regrets skipping it hahaha. Even years after, thanks a lot for your playthrough of Pharaoh. :)
Yeah some of these missions the military is just insane. In Cleopatra is gets even worse. Honestly, all military missions feel best on Normal difficulty. Hard and Very Hard can just get too extreme.
@@GamerZakh tbh I struggled on normal haha. But I'm bad at military in general, whatever the game is. I'll try this mission again following your tactics and see if I can get better. Thanks! :)
Tough mission indeed. You had damn luck with those transports :-)
To save some time experimenting with how many clays and potteries you need here, you can just calculate: 1 pottery produces 400 units/year, 2 clays supply 3 potteries; so for 8000/year one needs 20 potteries and 14 clays ;)
Just finished this mission on very hard and I have to say that this was by far the hardest mission I played so far (Finished the Dynasties before this one).
The military was just crazy, micro managing archers to kite, while trying to stay in positive money to not drop kingdom rating, while in desperate need for copper. It was a terribly hard one.
Its also easily the most stupid mission, which really shows some of the major shortcomings of the game.
first time watching, stuck on this level, its ***ing hard ^^ looking forward to seeing how you play
Welcome! It's a tough one, good luck! If you have any questions do ask.
Took me a while to find this mission, but here it is! The harderst mission on Pharaoh by far, imo. I had to cheat my ass off when I was a kid playing this! :D Let's see how you do!
It's a tough one! I struggled quite a bit here if I recall.
Nicely played though! :)
A bit of info on ship combat: first repair them after combat (button before return to warf), second: check for their restiveness
land combat: Using the infantry as tanks is better than just using your archers as fodder because they deal less damage on melee fights in terms of combat strength, economically yes not so much. You can also rotate the unit positioning using R and change the formation using T
When the Egyptians attacked I met them by the flood plains and held the line on dry land. Then the flood came and drowned the whole army. Kind of reminded me of the Ten Commandments movie.
That's always a satisfying way to defeat the enemies haha.
To anyone who failed to finish this map: if you did not send warships or troops to help Menefer's siege, you will lose the trade route to get papyrus, therefore could not win the mission and you have to replay.
I just finished playing this mission (on very easy, I'm not that good and still learning) and it reminded me how frustrating and opposite of fun the combat in Pharaoh is. 56:37 -- so clunky, unresponsive, and unsatisfying!
memories of my childhood! good game bro :)
Thanks! And yeah, Pharaoh is still good today too.
I hate this mission so f@#$&ng much. Good job bro
Thanks! It was a tough one.
Yes, the Egyptians did indeed attack from the north and the NUbians from the south, which makes sense considering that the west and east were mostly blocked off and the road was incredibly linear.
It turned out the trick was figuring out if there was a Navy or not, but generally naval battles seem quite easy despite the clunkety clunk of the troops.
I guess just building forts right in the middle area would cover enough.
The sad part is that the part of the city with the towers was completely useless.
Hilarious, I've struggled with this level so much haha 😂
You went insanely overkill on the pottery and clay pits there. One Potter produces roughly 550 units of pottery every year, and one clay pit produces just under 1000 clay a year. The reason you weren't selling enough pottery was because your industries and storage yards didn't have enough workers.
38:31 Webwawetmoouussee! love it
I tried my best haha
How come you didn't build walls and towers near the invasion areas? The javelins that the towers throw do tons of damage, and it also helps if you're kiting some infantry around with archers. Also, people don't immigrate when there's an invasion in progress.
Walls and Towers cost a ridiculous amount of cash to erect at Very Hard (just the tower on its own costs 525). The total cost of just one 2x2 wall and a tower on top of it is 733 debens, which is many times more the price of just importing copper and using your own troops. Not worth the expense when you are fighting troops that are near equal or stronger than your own, walls are only useful against average strength troops such as Nubians/Kushites etc.
Yeah, as Sajuuk said, it was way too expensive. At the end of the map when I won I still only had 1000+ in the bank (not counting the absolute end of 2700, which I would've spent on more warships first anyway). Not even enough to properly set up 2 towers, let alone a gate and walls. Plus, you don't know where the invasion areas are and the sand dunes meant I couldn't build properly. They could suddenly attack from the southwest, so it's important to have mobile troops. Ah I also know immigration is affected by invasions but I was talking about a literal message of 'slums prevent immigration' that popped up.
This is the hardest mission so far in the game. Before this, Simcity. Now this, Age of Empires.
Also, congrats on switching to Hard. YOu will probably find how much more challenging rewarding and fun these Impressions game are on VH
Haha thanks. Yeah I think I'm good enough to handle these on VH now anyway. The only threat for me is military, so I just need to focus more on that.
You know if Seth was a local deity or patron god in this level he would be able to help you defeat the invading army.
Well... It’s April 1977 BC, all ratings are as needed, population must be 4500 but is currently on 9682, fought countless wars, fortified my city with walls and countless towers so there’s no need to send troops (only postition war ships near riverbanks stuffed with towers) but I can’t seem to import any more papyrus and so I can’t complete the mission (need 10 common residences). Not in the mood to begin all over again...
When I have lots of Db and a grand landscape unfit to build housing I write something down simply by building roads, put gardens around it an plaza the roads, it comes out nice and readable on your overview map. I just wrote “F*** THIS SH*T” in honor of the pharaoh not sending me a that hard needed or a new trade route for papyrus. (While writing this down I’ve heard Zakh’s laughter in this video, not helping me bro, but I get the point)....
Out of frustration/boredom I just found out that a nice way to protect my towers and walls is placing a dry irrigation ditch in front of it. 😅
You already started with a second type of statue on the Serabit Khedim Mission ;)
Haha I must've not noticed back then.
wtf I've been playing this game for at least 15 years and i never knew that you could change the statue
I never really knew either. Just people kept posting in the comments that you could, so apparently it's a secret feature.
World changed and mind blown!
What resolution are you playing? It looks amazing!
This is 1080p, you can use the Pharaoh Resizer app by crudelios to make it fit your screen properly.
@@GamerZakh I just discovered this. Where can I get the app?
@@miguelmolano6611 If you Google the name and 'crudelios' you should find it. These mods keep shifting around sited, last I saw it was on ModDB.
@@GamerZakh I'm playing through Steam. I don't think I can add mods to folders 😭
You don't need to add any mods. Just go to the Pharaoh Steam install directory and out the Pharaoh Resizer in there. Run the app and it'll work.
Wow nice game! If I may, I dont get how you manage to move pottery from a storage to another..
Storage facilities have special orders, specifically Accepting, Getting, and Not Accepting. When you set it to Getting, that building will send out a walker to another same building that is set to Accepting to Get that resource and bring it back. They cannot Get from buildings also set to Getting, only Accepting. Storage Yard people can go off road too.
@@GamerZakh Thank you so much ;)
Gates and towers is the way to fight this level
boy, that escalated quickly!
Those invasions did start getting rather frequent haha. I just hate how they can walk right onto the floodplains and I can't.
I don't know about that, but your warships didn't react because they were "exhausted".
Ah yes, I didn't know they had energy limits haha. It makes sense though.
@43:45 Should've waited for the Flood.
On Very Hard Thinis starts with 6019 Db. You started with 10000 Db, rendering your performance irrelevant as 4000 Db at the very beginning make a huge difference.
Oh well I set it to Very Hard as you can see, so must be a bug with the game. Not much I can do about it 7 years later, but I beat the rest of the game and Cleopatra on Very Hard, plus I beat Emperor and Zeus too, so it's not like I couldn't just beat this if I wanted to today. I can't go back to my skill level of 2016.
Did you download a patch from Pharaohs Heaven that gave the extra missions or did you get it through Steam. I have the original game in a disk.
I bought the game from gog.com, so I'm not sure which missions are the extra ones.
Where was the point of upgrading statues ? How did u up grade them ?
You can't upgrade statues, I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean change the look of them? It's just the look for decoration. They change design if you press 'R'.
@@GamerZakh thanks !!!
I would also use the warships when batlles take place close to water
Oh yeah, that's a good idea haha. Didn't cross my mind.
After many tries, I finally reach the point where I completed all rating requirements & population except kingdom rating. My kingdom rating keep falling down for no reason. Send gift, boost kr temporarily but never reach 90,then fall again suddenly.
Kingdom rating drops every year no matter what. You can give gifts from your personal savings, but remember if you send more than 1 gift every 12 months the effect is less. What you do is send a big gift once every 12 months, that will raise your kingdom rating by 10. Do that every year and you'll be able to reach 100 kingdom rating.
I see now. Thanks for the tip.
I miss Pharaoh... :D
A new one will be going up this Sunday.
GamerZakh Oh I just randomly saw this specific one in my suggested area after paroosing your Civ VI videos, now I'm working my way through the entire playlist.
Haha glad you like the videos! I do find the game still holds up really well today.
GamerZakh Indeed, was my first game of this style. I remember there being one or two poor houses in a high class area keeping them all from upgrading.
I can't get this working in widescreen.
Downloaded the latest patch (2.1 i think) and tried running it in 16bit mode. Help anyone?
The widescreen fix linked in the description is for Pharaoh with the Cleopatra expansion. Where did you get your copy of the game? Do you have Cleopatra installed? If you buy the GOG.com version it's complete. Otherwise there is a widescreen fix for just Pharaoh but it's not as good. You don't need to change to 16-bit or anything, the GOG.com version I use works perfectly as is on Windows 7 and Windows 10.
I found it, it's because I didn't set to the correct resolution :)
Thanks anyway and keep up the good vids, been enjoying them!
***** Oh right, I always forget about that, sorry! It's just I set mine up so long ago I don't always remember the little details.
Still can't make it work because I can't select my screen resolution in the fixer :(
Btw, any chance you'll do the Zeus and Poseidon series after this? :)
***** Hmm, you could ask Crudelios on the thread linked or show some screenshots of your problem. I'm not sure exactly what issue you're facing. And I plan to play Zeus once Pharaoh ends yeah.
I think to increase the speed of military, you shud have more recruiter
but recruiter is sadly limited to 1 as max cap in this game
In normal difficulty, the ennemy's armys are so big. why they are tiny here ?
I dont understand why you have 10 000db at very hard, i started with 6000 deben which is quite low, because initial attack is heavy... i did it on hard quite easily, but never on very hard :-(
Never mind, i red the comments and there is bug :-) Actually you played on hard...
Yeah it was confusing on this one. I didn't realise there was a bug when playing. I'm not sure if I actually played on Hard or if it was just the starting money that was wrong. All my other missions after this I make sure it's very hard though.
Lets play Ancient Egypt Import/Export Simulator! 😂
I dont understand, you put down 1 house and expect dem to fill 50-70 jobs. What am i not getting?
1 house gives the industries access to the entire worker pool, which comes from your total population. When you put down an industry buildings, it sends out a white walker. That guy needs to pass at least 1 house before the building gets employment.
@@GamerZakhA White Walker?? Oh no. Winter is coming!
finally !!!!!!
I hope you didn't finish the game without knowing archers are useless and it's better to improve the houses as much as the mission let's you, because better houses pay a lot of taxes and store a lot of population; importing papyrus, linen, even luxury goods is totally worth it.
I know that here. I knew that before this mission. If I don't do it it's for another reason.
@@GamerZakh oh well then xd
on very hard you start the game with 4514 db
It’s actually not the first map that the statues are different. They’ve always been different. You just literally have never pressed R to rotate or switch them. Also you have been able to rotate the map for years now. It would’ve helped if you read the in-game help, but here I am necro-ing this comments section. I must say, while enjoyable, your play through has been incredibly frustrating.
You'll be happy to know it's been years since this video so I've discovered plenty since. Many enjoy seeing the learning process and the vast majority of people playing games like these aren't going to read through the in-game help. How do you even do that to discover rotating statues? Just open it up and read through everything for hours? Nothing really prompts you to look up statues in the help.
GamerZakh I mean...I love reading so lololol yes. I am on the Itjtawy map now and eagerly forging on.
You needed to build more infantry instead of archers. They are weak.
And also try building walls and towers, they really help. :)
I didn't build so much infantry here because copper was taking a toll on my money. Archers are free. I also did the math on effective walls and towers. It would've cost an extra 8,000 to 10,000 to build just minimum defences. Don't have the money to do things like that haha!
I think walls at the entry points aren't that expensive. I know it won't defeat the enemy but extra firepower and also time for fielding your guys will sure help.
Anyways, I love your game play. I sit and watch and really enjoy your vids Zakh! I just want to see your fortification design once. :D
Be well!
Haha, that's just the cost of walls, gate, and 2 towers at both entry points. It's really expensive =S And thanks! If I ever get a map with a lot of money and military I'll build more defences.
WHY THE FREAKING F**** IS THIS MISSION SO HARD????
Yeah Pharaoh has balance issues throughout. Some missions are just way hard, 1 is even impossible to win normally without massive cheese of some form if you're on Very Hard difficulty. The game is really balanced for Normal difficulty.
@@GamerZakh I believe I was playing this on hard recently but I will restart it on easy.... I don't want to struggle with the game I just want to chill and build Egypt. I got so frustrated when I got attacked every five minutes 😅