Sanitation

Levels at a glance

	Level	Cost	Build time	Minimum settlement	Upgrades to		Level	Cost	Build time	Minimum settlement	Upgrades to
	Cisterns (Sanitation)	1,500	3	town	Sewers (Sanitation)		Sewers (Sanitation)	4,500	6	large town	Public Baths (Sanitation)
	Public Baths (Sanitation)	7,500	9	city	Aqueduct (Sanitation)		Aqueduct (Sanitation)	12,000	14	large city	Great Bathhouse (Sanitation)
	Great Bathhouse (Sanitation)	15,000	16	huge city	—

Costs in denarii, build time in turns.

Cisterns (Sanitation)

Cisterns to collect and hold drinking water for later use.

Clean, or at least clean-ish, drinking water is the primary requirement for human survival and therefore for civilization. In areas where it rains infrequently it is no more than prudent to dig some large reservoirs and wall them up. In these cisterns we can collect and hold what water is available against the proverbial rainy day, which would in this case mean a dry one. If the cisterns are well constructed and protected from contamination many diseases can be easily prevented.

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

• Local Barter or a higher level is built here
• Only one sanitation or healing building allowed
• Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)

What it does

• +1 population health
• taxable income -5 to -1, depending on how many settlements your empire holds

Sewers (Sanitation)

Sewers efficiently wash away the filth and rubbish from a settlement, making the place cleaner. Indeed, one measure of civilization might be the distance between one's nose and the final resting place of one's bowel movements! Sewers therefore help civilization's forward march.

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

• Local Market or a higher level is built here
• Only one sanitation or healing building allowed
• Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)
• You do not play a Libyan, Scythian, Brittonic, Germanic or Arab faction, nor Parni

What it does

• +3 population health
• taxable income -7 to -3, depending on how many settlements your empire holds

Public Baths (Sanitation)

Public baths play an important part in the social life of the town; they are a place to meet as much as somewhere to get clean. They are also a sign of 'Roman-ness'.

Public baths are often among the most magnificent of public buildings, and include cunning heating systems and many slaves to look after the needs of the citizens. They play an important role in public life in the Roman world. Baths are not only a place to get clean, but also a place where a man can socialise with his colleagues, argue about politics and catch up on the local gossip.

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

• Forum or a higher level is built here
• The region's water source is River, Lake or Springs
• Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)
• You do not play a Libyan, Scythian, Brittonic, Germanic, Arab, Gallic, Iberian, Thracian, Illyrian or Dacian faction, nor Parni

What it does

• taxable income -8 to -4, depending on how many settlements your empire holds

Religious belief: spreads 1 belief, by how much depending on what the region already believes.

• Italic +2

Aqueduct (Sanitation)

What have the Romans ever done for us? This, that's what.

The aqueduct supplies fresh, clean water to the city throughout the year. Apart from that used for drinking and washing, there is usually enough left over for public fountains and gardens as well.

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

• The region's water source is River, Lake or Springs
• Forum or a higher level is built here
• Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)
• You do not play a Libyan, Scythian, Brittonic, Germanic, Arab, Gallic, Iberian, Thracian, Illyrian, Dacian, Ethiopian or Indian faction, nor Parni

What it does

• taxable income -10 to -6, depending on how many settlements your empire holds

Religious belief: spreads 1 belief, by how much depending on what the region already believes.

• Italic +2

Great Bathhouse (Sanitation)

A huge bathhouse that forms a linchpin of Roman civilization.

This huge monumental bathhouse is more than a place to get clean. Its a place where the plebs and the patricians mingle. In its marble corridors the regular people can enjoy the benefits of being Roman. It is a place where weighty matters are debated and the business of state actually gets done, and all in the nude! Besides numerous baths of different temperatures and steam rooms the massive complex holds exercise courts, reading rooms, art galleries, gardens and shops. The mechanisms that heat the baths meanwhile are a marvel of Roman engineering. Truly, to be a Roman is to bathe here and to bathe here is to be a Roman.

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

• You play a Roman faction
• The region's water source is River, Lake or Springs
• Large Forum or a higher level is built here
• Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)

What it does

• taxable income -8 to -4, depending on how many settlements your empire holds

Religious belief: spreads 1 belief, by how much depending on what the region already believes.

• Italic +4

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