Capital Treasury

Levels at a glance

	Level	Cost	Build time	Minimum settlement	Upgrades to		Level	Cost	Build time	Minimum settlement	Upgrades to
	Small Treasury	5,000	2	town	Treasury		Treasury	10,000	8	large town	Great Treasury
	Great Treasury	15,000	12	city	Imperial Treasury		Imperial Treasury	19,000	14	large city	—

Costs in denarii, build time in turns.

Small Treasury

This building represents the wealth this region has amassed. By capturing other factional treasuries, you will drastically hurt your enemies and cripple their economy.

Even a small capital must keep its coin somewhere, lest it end up in the hands of thieves, or worse, politicians.

Every city requires a secure place to store its wealth, and this small treasury ensures that tax revenue does not mysteriously vanish between collection and expenditure. Guarded by trusted officials (or at least the ones who haven't been caught yet), it holds the funds necessary for governance, military upkeep, and the occasional lavish festival to keep the people from rioting.

Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.

• This settlement is your capital
• Direct Rule or Homeland

What it does

Treasury

This building represents the wealth this region has amassed. By capturing other factional treasuries, you will drastically hurt your enemies and cripple their economy.

A great city needs a great treasury, and great accountants to ensure nobody ‘misplaces’ the coin.

As Rome expands, so too does its need for financial oversight. This treasury, reinforced and watched by the quaestors, the elected officials who supervise the state treasury and conduct audits, houses the growing wealth of the Republic: tax revenues, tributes from allies (both willing and unwilling), and the vast spoils of war. From these coffers, roads are paved, temples rise, and legions march forth. Just don't ask where last year's surplus went.

In Roman mythology, Saturn ruled during the Golden Age, and he continued to be associated with wealth. His temple housed the treasury, the aerarium, where the Roman Republic's reserves of gold and silver were stored. The state archives and the insignia and official scale for the weighing of metals were also housed there.

Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.

• You play a Phoenician, Gallic, Ethiopian, Libyan, Egyptian, Iberian, Celtiberian, Dacian, Caucasian, Anatolian, Illyrian, Thracian, Iranian, Arab, Indian, Greek, Western Hellenistic, Eastern Hellenistic or Roman faction
• This settlement is your capital
• Direct Rule or Homeland

What it does

Great Treasury

This building represents the wealth this region has amassed. By capturing other factional treasuries, you will drastically hurt your enemies and cripple their economy.

The Senate and People of Rome ensure that every coin is accounted for. Mostly.

Now housed within mighty vaults, the Republic’s wealth is greater than ever. Taxed from the provinces, seized from defeated enemies, and "gifted" by foreign rulers seeking our favour, these vast reserves stored in the Temple of Saturn fund Rome’s roads, armies, and less-than-subtle bribes. Guarded by the state, managed by officials, and eyed enviously by ambitious men, this treasury is the beating heart of Roman power.

In Roman mythology, Saturn ruled during the Golden Age, and he continued to be associated with wealth. His temple housed the treasury, the aerarium, where the Roman Republic's reserves of gold and silver were stored. The state archives and the insignia and official scale for the weighing of metals were also housed there.

Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.

• You play a Phoenician, Iberian, Caucasian, Anatolian, Illyrian, Thracian, Iranian, Arab, Indian, Greek, Western Hellenistic, Eastern Hellenistic or Roman faction
• This settlement is your capital
• Direct Rule or Homeland

What it does

Imperial Treasury

This building represents the wealth this region has amassed. By capturing other factional treasuries, you will drastically hurt your enemies and cripple their economy.

Rome’s might is built on its wealth. And its wealth is built on everyone else’s misfortune.

The Republic is no more; an Empire rises in its place. With provinces stretched across the known world, the imperial treasury overflows with tax revenues, war spoils, and tributes from humbled rulers. Coin flows like the Tiber, making sure that the legions are never unpaid, building monuments, and ensuring Rome’s eternal rule. Of course, with such great wealth comes even greater corruption, but what is Rome without a few scandals?

Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.

• You play a Phoenician, Caucasian, Anatolian, Iranian, Indian, Greek, Western Hellenistic, Eastern Hellenistic or Roman faction
• This settlement is your capital
• Direct Rule or Homeland

What it does

Traits and retinue

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