Pitch Industry

Levels at a glance

	Level	Cost	Build time	Minimum settlement	Upgrades to		Level	Cost	Build time	Minimum settlement	Upgrades to
	Tar Gatherer (Industry)	1,000	2	town	Pitch Rendering Kilns (Industry)		Pitch Rendering Kilns (Industry)	2,000	4	large town	Pitch Exports (Industry)
	Pitch Exports (Industry)	6,000	6	city	—

Costs in denarii, build time in turns.

Tar Gatherer (Industry)

The game ships no picture of its own for this level and shows the Local Barter picture instead.

A site for gathering pitch.

At this remote site workers gather the mysterious and usefull substances that can make any surface waterproof, especially handy for ships, which you generally want to be watertight. In Mesopotamia and at the dead sea liquid naptha and bitumen naturally bubble up from depths unknown. While in the forests of the mediterranean and the north resinous woods like pine are gathered and burned in clay pits to produce tar. No matter the source the work is dirty, smelly and difficult.

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

• The region has Pitch, Bitumen & Tars
• Only one heavy industry building allowed
• Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)

What it does

• +8 taxable income

Pitch Rendering Kilns (Industry)

The game ships no picture of its own for this level and shows the Local Market picture instead.

Pitch processing kilns further refine the gathered pitch.

The pitch that is gathered here was previously directly brought to town, but now that we have build up the kilns necessary to further refine the pitch we can create a more valuable product.

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

• Local Barter or a higher level is built here
• The region has Pitch, Bitumen & Tars
• Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)

What it does

• +10 taxable income
• +1 trade income
• -1 population growth
• -1 public order (happiness)

Pitch Exports (Industry)

The game ships no picture of its own for this level and shows the Forum picture instead.

A great industry supplying pitch to our factions shipyards.

All over the coasts great shipyards turn out and maintain numerous warships and ships of trade. But to do so they require massive amounts of pitch to keep our sailors from a watery grave. This region has developed the production capacity to meet this demand. Throughout the evening and the night the sky lights up from the fires of the rendering kilns.

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

• Forum or a higher level is built here
• The region has Pitch, Bitumen & Tars
• Any Government except Dependency (Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)

What it does

• +12 taxable income
• +2 trade income
• -1 population growth
• -1 public order (happiness)
• (Faction) Ports gain +1 special attack for ships (does not stack with local pitch, but can stack with hemp and timber on higher level ports)