Can't finish Hydra episode without enough wine

[Rhubarb]

Hi,

I've just started playing Zeus, reached the very first goal and have moved onto the second goal, which is to produce 48 slabs of marble in a year. The only marble quarry is being guarded by the Hydra, so I need to summon Hercules to help defeat it.

I built the Hero's Hall for him and the final requirement for summoning him is having 32 amphorae of wine. But the option to produce wine is locked. I did receive 32 amphorae as gifts from other cities before I unlocked the Hero's Hall, but not knowing I would need it all later to get rid of the Hydra, I gifted 16 amphorae to a city in need of wine, so I now only have 16 amphorae available.

There is no city that sells wine, although a rival city does produce it. I tried demanding they send me some twice but they declined both times, so I'm not sure what to do now. I've been waiting for a possible new trade route to open up (in case someone else got rid of their wine before the game told us we needed it, so at least there'd be a backup plan), but no luck.

Is it really impossible to finish the episode now and do I need to restart the entire game just because of this?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Humpbacked Angel]

Either wait for another gift, or just restart that episode. It should be possible without starting everything a new.

[Rhubarb]

I've been waiting for a long time; it seems they only sent the 32 amphorae towards the beginning, assuming that was all you'd need, so now I'm just stuck. I've built a lot of things since I started the episode so I will wait a little longer, but if there are still no new gifts, I guess I'll have to restart the episode. It'll probably just make me not want to play anymore because of the time wasted, but oh well. Thanks for your reply.

[Mythii]

If you're able to, send resources that the rival city needs so they become friendly enough that you can 'request' wine, instead of demand it. You should get a gift then. Other than that, restarting the episode is the only option.

[drgnldy812]

Don't put in a stall to sell wine, stockpile it when it comes in as a gift.

[planescaped]

Man... I remember having this same problem a decade ago when I was playing this game back in highschool. XD

I too had to restart.

[Aranwen1]

i did this once XD i know the feeling

you probably wont get another and need to restart. you should be able to make enough money from trading to keep sending that rival money to raise relations. the request for more wine is a trap. an evil stupid trap x.x

in later missions they will send you so much of water you need it will drive you insane but this mission they wont. just finished the 3rd or 4th story and wanted to burn down the cities around me so they would stop trying to gift me things.

[Rhubarb]

Originally posted by Aranwen1:

in later missions they will send you so much of water you need it will drive you insane but this mission they wont. just finished the 3rd or 4th story and wanted to burn down the cities around me so they would stop trying to gift me things.

Lol, I haven't made it that far yet. I did have to restart the episode in the end because I received no more gifts and bribing my enemy didn't help either. It's unfortunate that's the only way to do it!

[Drisana]

yeah same issue. I never built any wine merchants on my agoras, but only recieved 28 when i need 32. i can't help but feel this might be a glitch of some sort. I also tried bribing my rival ludicrous amounts of money, but it didn't help. restart away lol

[Raku]

Originally posted by Drisana:

yeah same issue. I never built any wine merchants on my agoras, but only recieved 28 when i need 32. i can't help but feel this might be a glitch of some sort. I also tried bribing my rival ludicrous amounts of money, but it didn't help. restart away lol

Maybe you only had space for 28 so you lost the other 4

[Drisana]

Originally posted by Raku:

Originally posted by Drisana:

yeah same issue. I never built any wine merchants on my agoras, but only recieved 28 when i need 32. i can't help but feel this might be a glitch of some sort. I also tried bribing my rival ludicrous amounts of money, but it didn't help. restart away lol

Maybe you only had space for 28 so you lost the other 4

I thought about that too, but i set a stockyard with everything but wine as do not accept and wine set to 'get'. plus even if i hadn't, if you don't have room it will alert you and give you the option to postpone accepting the gift.

[Melvin85]

Hmm i bribe the rival till they are docile again me.when i request they just give

[kisanak]

I already tried to send gift to rival & ally a lllot, but they didnt send wine. But when I restarted the mission, i can achieve the goal

[chris-t6290]

That is where you went wrong.

Click this link for help with playing the game. It includes, among many things, a list of what each hero needs and so you won't go short again.

https://www.truth2020.me/pc-games

The game should Autosave every six months. You need to go back to a point before you gifted the wine.

At the start of an adventure's mission, you should do things slowly. By that I mean do one thing, layout a road and save it, before doing the next thing and so on. That way you can go back to a previous save and re-do what you did in order to get it right.

So here is what you need.

Keep the large SW area for 32 elite houses (8 per block 4 blocks in all). On the raised NE section place 3 long roads with 23 houses in each. The top end of those will connect to the Olive oil industry and Athena's arbour (sanctuary)

On the meadow near the bottom you can place goats for cheese and sheep for fleece. Be sure to keep them away from the wolves to the east, where the meadowland is used for whet farms to feed your ranches for horsemen.

[T I G E R F O R © E]

Just buy wood from Libya give 32 packs of wood to Eleusis after that ask for a wine and it's done.

[chris-t6290]

Originally posted by T I G E R F O R © E:

Just buy wood from Libya give 32 packs of wood to Eleusis after that ask for a wine and it's done.

For the time it will take to acquire 16 wine, added to which there is the bigger picture of the 'Ultimate goals' (how the city will end up) to consider, It's advisable to correct the errors now rather than get deep into the adventure and find yourself having to replay the adventure from the start.

'Fail to plan' or 'Plan to succeed', is one way to describe it.