Egypt Settlement Quick Start Guide

[Tutankhamen]

Started from a base guide from (deleteduser) on the EN server.
Have since updated and improved it.

Make sure to read the Fighting notes in the comments below the Guide.

Time	Task	Details
0 Hours	Start the settlement early morning, so that the daily Fights will recycle and be ready when you are.
0 Hours	Move the Town Hall - 4 spaces away from the west border
0 Hours	In the West side: - build 2 huts along North border. - build 3-length road running alongside them - build 4 huts on the other side that road - build 2-length road next to the 4 huts - build 5th hut next to Town Hall, touching south border - build 6th hut at the end of the 2-length road - build 2 potted plants (pots) in the remaining empty space in SW corner - build 1 pot at the end of the 3-length road
0 Hours	In the East side: - Build 2 farms in the NE and SE corners. - Build two 3-length roads along N and S borders to reach them. - Build 1 camp, touching the Town Hall and the North road you just built. - Build 1 hut, touching the Town Hall and the South road you just built. - Build 2 pots in the remaining 2*1 space east of the hut.
0 Hours	Complete Quests 1, 2 and Quest 3	This will open the Seige Camp (fighting pyramid). Every day at this same time, the fights will recycle. Choose your time wisely when you complete Quest 3.
0 Hours	Sell the camp and replace it with a farm.	You'll now have 3 farms, 1 hut and 2 pots in the East side
0 Hours	Defeat the Easy army in the pyramid.	Fight manually to avoid losses using the unattached troops received from the 3rd quest. Don't lose any troops! Make a note of whether you received under 300 loot; this will affect how soon you have to do the medium combat.
0 Hours	Complete Quest 4 Finish one Battle	At this stage you'll have 3 farms, 7 huts, 5 pots, completed 4 quests, and around 600 loot (or 1100, if you got the bonus)
1 Hour	Start 3*4-hour barley productions as soon as the farms are complete in 1 hour	At this stage you'll have 3 farms, 7 huts, around 450 loot, and completed 4 quests
5 Hours	Collect the 3*4-hour barley productions when they finish
5 Hours	Complete Quest 5 Gather 5 Barley
5 Hours	Start 3*4-hour barley productions
5 Hours	Buy one expansion for 1 barley.	Ideally choose an expansion touching your hall and one of the roads on the East side. But try to avoid expansions with an impediment right in the middle, where it isolates lots of squares. You get one impediment removal when you complete Quest 5 above.
5 Hours	Build 4 pots in the expansion (in addition to the 5 you had already) to reach 60 (63) diplomacy
5 Hours	Complete Quest 6 Have 60 Diplomacy
5 Hours	Buy the advancement for Divine Statues with the remaining 14 barley
5 Hours	Sell ALL pots. (Then, make sure to de-select Sell mode!).
5 Hours	Move all roads into the expansion	Roads are expensive at 200 deben per square, so always try to move them out of the way rather than sell them. You're going to run short on deben in the early stages.
5 Hours	Move the farm closest the Town Hall so it touches the north or south border away from the new expansion.
5 Hours	Close-pack the huts in the West side so that there is room for 2 more huts.
5 Hours	Move the hut in the East side into the West side
5 Hours	Buy a second expansion (5 barley from quest 7 reward); put it adjacent to the first one you purchased already on the farm side	This is critical: you're going to need 10 huts, to have enough population for the archer ranges. So pick an expansion that will enable this; or plan to use an impediment removal here.
5 Hours	Build 3 more huts (you need the population for Divine Statues). - Move one to the west side, making 8 huts there. - Sell 3 roads and move the other two huts into the expansion.	At this stage you have 3 farms, and 10 huts, the majority of which are disconnected.
5 Hours	Start building 2 Divine Statues. They don't need to be connected because you're going to immediately delete them.	I had to remove the impediment from my new expansion (makes 2 more squares); then I sold 2-3 roads, making enough room to put Div #1 in the expansion, then build Div#2
5 Hours	Complete Quest 7 Have 2 Divine Statues and gain 25 Barley.
5 Hours	Sell both divine statues.
5 Hours	Rearrange your base: make room for 2 Nubian Archer ranges (2x5) on West side - move middle grain farm off of border and reconnect farms - 1 hut is in the East side with the farms - 7 huts are in the expansions you bought - 2 huts in the West side, leave room for Archers - LAST: buy two Nubian Archer camps on West side	Move EVERYTHING first, BEFORE you buy the archer ranges. You need that space for mobility.
5 Hours	Connect as many huts as possible to roads
5 Hours	Buy and place 2 Nubian Archer ranges. (They take 4hrs to build)	At this stage you'll have 2 expansions, 3 farms, 2 nubian, 9-10 huts, 20 Barley, around 300 loot, and completed 7 quests
9 hours	Collect the 3*4-hour barley productions when they finish.
9 hours	Start 4hr production in 1 farm
9 hours	Sell the other 2 farms
9 hours	Buy 23 pots until you have 160 diplomacy
9 hours	Buy the tech for Pottery for 30 barley
9 hours	sell all the pots
9 hours	Rearrange your base to make room for Pottery buildings - put the grain farm in the expansions with 3+ huts - make room for 2 pottery and ~5 huts in the East side; most huts won't be connected - buy 2 pottery LAST	Buy the pottery buildings last, or you won't have room to move.
9 hours	Start building 2 Nubian Archers
9 hours	Build extra huts if you can connect them to roads	I couldn't, no room.
9 hours	At this stage you'll have 2 expansions, 1 farm, 2 pottery, 2 nubian, 10+ huts, 5 Barley, around 250 loot, and completed 7 quests
10 hours	Start 2*4-hour pottery production as soon as the buildings are complete in 1 hour.
10 hours		At this stage you'll have 2 expansions, 1 farm, 2 pottery, 2 nubian, 10+ huts, 5 Barley, around 150 loot, and completed 7 quests
14 hours	Collect the 3*4-hour productions when they finish
14 hours	Complete Quest 8 Gather 10 Pottery
14 hours	Start building 2 Nubian Archers
14 hours	Defeat the Medium army in the pyramid.	At this stage you'll just have 2 attached Nubian Archers; use them if it makes sense to do so. The medium battle will yield 305-400 loot (I'll assume 350 for simplicity)
14 hours	Start 3*8-hour productions
14 hours	Buy 4 expansions for pottery (cost 1,1,1,5 pottery)
14 hours	Build extra good farms and/or pottery if you can fuel them	This will require getting lucky with 4* bonus, or completing the hard battle. Normally I don't try to fight the Hard battle until much later - when I have elephants. See notes below about that. DO NOT fight the Hard guy and lose ANY troops, because at this point the loss will be devastating to your timeline! If you can't grow any goods overnight due to lack of Loot, don't worry, you'll still have plenty of time.
14 hours	End of first day. Sleep well!	At this stage you'll have 6 expansions, 1+ farm, 2+ pottery, 2 nubian, 14+ huts, 10 Barley, 2 Pottery, around 200 loot, and completed 8 quests
	From this point on, the guide gets more variable. Follow the general concepts if you can.
22 hours	Collect the 3*8-hour productions when they finish
22 hours	Start 3*4-hour productions
22 hours	Start building 2 Nubian Archers	At this stage you'll have 6 expansions, 1+ farm, 2+ pottery, 2 archers, 14+ huts, 20 Barley, 22 Pottery, around 50 loot, and completed 8 quests
26 hours	Defeat the Easy army in the pyramid.
26 hours	Collect the 3*4-hour productions when they finish
26 hours	Start 3*4-hour productions
26 hours	Start building troops in all buildings	At this stage you'll have 6 expansions, 1+ farm, 2+ pottery, 2 nubian, 14+ huts, 25 Barley, 32 Pottery, around 200 loot, and completed 8 quests
30 hours and on	Repeat the steps from 26 Hours.
	What comes next depends on what mix of goods you need for advancements.
	As soon as space allows, build a camel barn (if not sooner). Grow 4 camels.	Defeating even the Medium army with only archers is hard, if he has camels.
	When you have enough barley and pots, sell all goods building(s) and build 36 pots to so that you can buy the clay house tech.	Requires 250 diplomacy = 36 pots
	Then replace huts with clay houses as much as possible. Complete Quest 9 Have Two Clay Houses
	Sell all pots.
	Build 3 of the goods buildings you need to get to flowers.	Each time you do the Settlement, the total number of goods needed for each Quest will be the same; but the mix of goods required will change each time.
	Continue to gather goods for advancements up through flower farms.	Requires 610 diplomacy = 24 Palm Gardens
	Once you have all the goods needed for flowers, sell ALL goods farms, and put pots everywhere. Then a flurry of things happens at once:
	Quest 10: "Have 360 diplomacy OR Gather 30 Pottery"	If you're struggling to bank enough Deben, somewhere around this time, if you have space, build some Divine Statues. They have nearly as much happiness per sq as Palms, but they also produce coins, which helps stay ahead of rebuilding fighters and roads. BUT... they also require 41 people each; so only do this if you're running out of Deben.
	Unlock palms (360 diplomacy), then sell all the pots and build palms.
	Unlock water gardens (480 diplomacy)
	Quest 11: "Have 2 Water Gardens"
	Sell the water gardens. (They take an hour to build; and they're no more efficient than Cultivated Palms)
	Unlock Flower Farms (610 diplomacy)
	Build 3 flower farms (takes an hour)
	Quest 12: "Have 1 Flower Farm"
	Cycle a few times, make enough flowers to unlock Residential Blocks	By this point, I deleted my Divine Statues to make room for Palm Gardens. I already have 9000+ coins, so I don't need more; and Palm Gardens are more efficient happiness per square.
	Quest 13: "Have 3 Residential Blocks"	1060 diplomacy = 20 Palm Gardens
	Quest 14: "Have 1 Elephant Stable"	Don't delete it! Start building 4 elephants. Once you have elephants, you can fight the Hard warlord in the pyramid battles. Use 4x elephants and 4x archers. Focus the archers on attacking the enemy's elephants; and focus your elephants on attacking his camels.
	Quest 15: "Have 1230 diplomacy OR Gather 40 Flowers"	1230 diplomacy = 24 Palm Gardens
	Quest 16: "Have 1 Place of Prayer"	1230 diplomacy = 24 Palm Gardens
	Quest 17: "Have 1 Procession"	1420 diplomacy = 26 Palm Gardens
	Now make enough Sacrifices to buy Estates/Oasis, but NOT finish pyramids (yet)
	Quest 18: "Have 1,610 diplomacy"	1610 diplomacy = 4 Processions or 30 Palm Gardens
	Quest 19: "Have 2 Luxury Estates" and "Have 1 Oasis"
	When you get near the end, be careful! Quest 20 requires you to gather 20 Sacrifices. Don't delete the Prayer Place before that, and don't go too fast on Advancements without finishing the quests in sync -- or you'll have to backtrack and rebuild/regrow Sacrifices before you can continue to finish the settlement.
	ALSO don't delete all your diplomacy stuff before you finish quest 21.
	Quest 20: "Gather 300 Loot" and "Gather 20 Sacrificial Offerings"
	Quest 21: "Have 1,820 diplomacy"	8.2 Oases
Last stages	Quest 22 Build Pyramid.	Don't be hasty to delete it. You may want to keep it to collect deben for Quest 23.
	At the end, when you have all the 30x4 goods, delete all the goods buildings/farms, and build as many Processions or Pyramids as possible.
	Processions and Pyramids produce the most coin (deben), and you need 30k to complete final quest.
	Pyramids are much more space-efficient for coin collection (see previous tab)
	Procession: At 465 per hour for 12h you can reasonably get 5580 deben per day; plus 1859 per 8h overnight, for a total of 7439 deben per day per Procession.
	With 3 Processions, you can complete 30k for the quest in 4 days.
	Quest 23: "Gather 30,000 Deben" "Gather 30 Barley" "Gather 30 Pottery" "Gather 30 Flowers" "Gather 30 Sacrificial Offerings"	I typically start this quest with one pyramid and 6 goods farms. When you see that you have enough Loot to finish quest 23, you can delete all your military buildings and use the space for more goods farms. When you finish making all the goods, delete those and build more pyramids, and speed up producing Deben.

 

[Drumlin]

Thank you for your insights, and especially your time. I have some notes from my first few times through, but having it layed out like your chart is extremely helpful.

 

[BruteForceAttack]

Nice we need some pictures

 

[Tutankhamen]

FIGHTING IN EGYPT

Boosts from your main world do not apply.

Camels defeat Nubian Archers (“archers”)
Elephants defeat Camels (even in one blow!)
Archers defeat Elephants and Chariots

Strategy

1. NEVER auto-fight in Egypt. You’ll lose too many troops.
2. Don’t lose troops. Especially in the early days. It takes too long to replace them, and you’ll run out of coins (deben), too.
3. If an opponent has more than 3 camels, don’t fight him at all.
4. You can reliably complete Egypt under the first deadline without ever fighting the third/hard enemy.
   1. However, on the rare occasion when the third/hard guy has zero camels, and if it’s later in the cycle where I have plenty of camels and archers and deben, then I will fight him. But only when he has zero camels.
5. Elephants and Chariots are slow to build, and expensive. Kopesh Fighters are nifty in a swarm, but otherwise too easy for the enemy to kill. I never build any of these.

Tactics

1. Initially, don’t move fast against the enemy!
   1. If you run ahead, your fast troops will get out in front, and they will only get one hit on the enemy before he gets 8 hits on you. One vs eight is suicide.
   2. Ranged units do less damage when they’re hurt. Getting the first strike on the enemy is critical.
   3. Stay out of his range and wait for him to come to you. This way, you get many hits (from all of your fighters) on the one or two troops he moves toward you.
2. Camels always get a retaliation attack. Try to attack the enemy’s camels with your archers, outside of the camel’s attack range.
3. If you use Kopesh fighters (once I get Archers, I never use the K fighters)
   1. Keep them in a group - they get attack and defense “swarm” bonus when they’re touching each other.
   2. Even consider moving them into a swarm position before you attack an enemy unit (if you have that many choices).
   3. Move them into a bush. They get a bonus for this too.
4. Chariots
   1. Get a +30 attack bonus when touching an enemy. Stay away from them!
   2. Chariots are easily defeated by your Archers if you keep your distance.

My standard order of battle:

• I only ever use Camels and Archers (except for using K Fighters the first day)
• My base configuration is 2 camels and 6 archers.
• If the enemy has a lot of camels then I might use 4 camels and 4 archers.
• Deploy them in two groups of four, split evenly.
• Move one group north-northeast, and the other group south-southeast. This forces the enemy to choose between splitting his forces, or running down the middle and being surrounded (which he does, more often).

 

[Tutankhamen]

First couple of steps here.

 

[Tutankhamen]

Bad choice using this as your first expansion - has an obstruction in the middle of it. Instead, for your first expansions, look for those that have obstructions on the outer edges and don't break up the space.

 

[Tutankhamen]

At the end of 5 hours. Nubian Archer camps are building.

 

[Tutankhamen]

At the end of 9 hours. Pottery buildings are building.

 

[elnyry]

Thanks for the post, very comprehensive and informative..

The only concern I have is (especially for repeats) around doing the 4hr productions which may cause significant "bonus" loss when the "x4" happens..

I did Egyptian so far three times with 10days left in #2 and #3 runs but on #1 was close to the timeline about 2days left.. would like to try this one out for one of my next tries..

Thanks again!

 

[Tutankhamen]

Hey elnyry,

If you do a 4-hour production and build 5 goods, and get the 4x, then you make 20 goods.
If you do an 8-hr production and build 10 goods, and get the 4x, then you make 40 goods.

BUT: if you do 4-hr productions twice (over 8 hours), you have the same % chance of hitting the bonus each time. So you really don't lose anything, statistically. Over time, with many tries, statistically you'll end up with the same total number of goods regardless of using 4-hr or 8-hr productions.

HOWEVER: Let's say you're at a point where you only need 20 goods, and you have two buildings. You're better off to choose 4-hr productions instead of 8-hr productions. Because if you're lucky, and you get the 4x bonus the first time, you've saved yourself 4 extra hours.

So, you're sometimes better off using 4-hr productions -- as long as you're going to be around to check them in 4 hrs when they're baked. And there's never an advantage to using 8-hr productions (except overnight when you won't be awake to collect and reset).

 

[CommunistPotato]

FIGHTING IN EGYPT

Boosts from your main world do not apply.

Camels defeat Nubian Archers (“archers”)
Elephants defeat Camels (even in one blow!)
Archers defeat Elephants and Chariots

Strategy

1. NEVER auto-fight in Egypt. You’ll lose too many troops.
2. Don’t lose troops. Especially in the early days. It takes too long to replace them, and you’ll run out of coins (deben), too.
3. If an opponent has more than 3 camels, don’t fight him at all.
4. You can reliably complete Egypt under the first deadline without ever fighting the third/hard enemy.
   1. However, on the rare occasion when the third/hard guy has zero camels, and if it’s later in the cycle where I have plenty of camels and archers and deben, then I will fight him. But only when he has zero camels.
5. Elephants and Chariots are slow to build, and expensive. Kopesh Fighters are nifty in a swarm, but otherwise too easy for the enemy to kill. I never build any of these.

Tactics

1. Initially, don’t move fast against the enemy!
   1. If you run ahead, your fast troops will get out in front, and they will only get one hit on the enemy before he gets 8 hits on you. One vs eight is suicide.
   2. Ranged units do less damage when they’re hurt. Getting the first strike on the enemy is critical.
   3. Stay out of his range and wait for him to come to you. This way, you get many hits (from all of your fighters) on the one or two troops he moves toward you.
2. Camels always get a retaliation attack. Try to attack the enemy’s camels with your archers, outside of the camel’s attack range.
3. If you use Kopesh fighters (once I get Archers, I never use the K fighters)
   1. Keep them in a group - they get attack and defense “swarm” bonus when they’re touching each other.
   2. Even consider moving them into a swarm position before you attack an enemy unit (if you have that many choices).
   3. Move them into a bush. They get a bonus for this too.
4. Chariots
   1. Get a +30 attack bonus when touching an enemy. Stay away from them!
   2. Chariots are easily defeated by your Archers if you keep your distance.

My standard order of battle:

• I only ever use Camels and Archers (except for using K Fighters the first day)
• My base configuration is 2 camels and 6 archers.
• If the enemy has a lot of camels then I might use 4 camels and 4 archers.
• Deploy them in two groups of four, split evenly.
• Move one group north-northeast, and the other group south-southeast. This forces the enemy to choose between splitting his forces, or running down the middle and being surrounded (which he does, more often).

ranged units do less damage when hurt? I never knew that.

 

[Agent327]

ranged units do less damage when hurt? I never knew that.

All units do less damage when hurt.

 

[Blatantlybiased]

LOL what a joke. I love how he advises to defeat the army and don't lose any troops. Oh really? And here I was intentionally losing a bunch of troops. Should I not have done that? Of course not the first inkling of exactly how you are supposed to not lose any troops with the ridiculous Egyptian combat that makes absolutely zero sense. I outnumber them 8 to 5 and all my units have bonuses against theirs and none of theirs have bonuses against mine. Somehow, I lose? Manual fighting is the same way, but just not as bad. At least I win the battle, but lose two units in the process. No result matches anything the supposed strategy would suggest. So how, exactly, do you not lose any troops fighting in Egyptians? Ridiculous.

Also, you do not get an impediment removal for completing quest 5.

The strategy for the first few hours seems to be:
1. Get lucky and draw an enemy army with no chariots or archers (nope)
2. Get lucky and somehow magically defeat that army without losing any units (nope)
3. Get lucky and get more than 300 loot for beating that army (nope)
4. Get lucky and find an expansion in exactly the right spot with no impediment in the middle of it (nope)
5. Use an impediment removal item that you don't have if you can't find one without an impediment in the middle (nope)
6. Use some of the barley you get as a reward for quest 7 to buy an expansion--- three steps before you complete quest 7 (LOL)

Going great so far!

 

[Pericles the Lion]

LOL what a joke. I love how he advises to defeat the army and don't lose any troops. Oh really? And here I was intentionally losing a bunch of troops. Should I not have done that? Of course not the first inkling of exactly how you are supposed to not lose any troops with the ridiculous Egyptian combat that makes absolutely zero sense. I outnumber them 8 to 5 and all my units have bonuses against theirs and none of theirs have bonuses against mine. Somehow, I lose? Manual fighting is the same way. No result matches anything the supposed strategy would suggest. So how, exactly, do you not lose any troops fighting in Egyptians? Ridiculous.

This thread's been dead for two years. Anyway, if you are losing the "easy" or "medium" battles you need to work on your manual fighting technique. The best advice that the OP provides is "don't autobattle". My advice is to build 2 Archer barracks and only use 8 archers against opponents. The "easy" and medium" will be no problem. Losing a few troops on the medium might happen but the cooldown period is enough time to replenish them. I only do the "hard" battles when they are mostly elephants and Khopesh fighters. I skip them if they are nearly all Camels and Chariots.

 

[The Lady Redneck]

I found fighting in the Egyptian settlement extremely easy. Like PtL I just built 2 Archer Barracks. I did the easy and medium fighting manual and never did the hard one. Yes I lost a few troops, but always had a full line up by the next time I was ready to do more.

 

[xivarmy]

LOL what a joke. I love how he advises to defeat the army and don't lose any troops. Oh really? And here I was intentionally losing a bunch of troops. Should I not have done that? Of course not the first inkling of exactly how you are supposed to not lose any troops with the ridiculous Egyptian combat that makes absolutely zero sense. I outnumber them 8 to 5 and all my units have bonuses against theirs and none of theirs have bonuses against mine. Somehow, I lose? Manual fighting is the same way, but just not as bad. At least I win the battle, but lose two units in the process. No result matches anything the supposed strategy would suggest. So how, exactly, do you not lose any troops fighting in Egyptians? Ridiculous.

Also, you do not get an impediment removal for completing quest 5.

The strategy for the first few hours seems to be:
1. Get lucky and draw an enemy army with no chariots or archers (nope)
2. Get lucky and somehow magically defeat that army without losing any units (nope)
3. Get lucky and get more than 300 loot for beating that army (nope)
4. Get lucky and find an expansion in exactly the right spot with no impediment in the middle of it (nope)
5. Use an impediment removal item that you don't have if you can't find one without an impediment in the middle (nope)
6. Use some of the barley you get as a reward for quest 7 to buy an expansion--- three steps before you complete quest 7 (LOL)

Going great so far!

It seems you're nitpicking details mostly. But in the event you're actually frustrated:

1-2) You can beat any easy army with the starting troops - no praying for particulars. While it's obviously preferred not to lose a unit, you won't be using those units for most of your fights anyways. So if 1 dies, oh well.

3-6) I've never had 300 loot or not impact my first day. Maybe he's running long cycles or something and needs the extra loot early? You need 15 barley to unlock divine statues and get past quest 7 to get the bonus 25 barley. That only takes 150 loot which you will always get.

Here's some of my early progress:






And a demonstration of the hardest hard fight to do with 8 nubian archers (the only army i ever use):



Abort and restart until you get something similar to this:

 

[xivarmy]

And an image of the kind of city you're looking to hit towards the end:

 

[Blatantlybiased]

Yes, I'm very frustrated with the Egyptian settlement. I always have been since it came out all those years ago and I first tried it on beta. I'm on the sixth play through in my main city and it feels like 60. It's the worst of all settlements by far, unless they've outdone themselves with Polynesians, which I haven't tried yet.

 

[xivarmy]

Yes, I'm very frustrated with the Egyptian settlement. I always have been since it came out all those years ago and I first tried it on beta. I'm on the sixth play through in my main city and it feels like 60. It's the worst of all settlements by far, unless they've outdone themselves with Polynesians, which I haven't tried yet.

Egypt is the only one of the 5 settlements i liked. 3 manual fights a day and you can skip all the nasty "show up 3+ times a day" crap that the other settlements ask of you.

Mughals is by far the worst for me - only finished like 2 playthroughs of it total i think. The ~5 days before you even get a "production" building unlocked is insane.

Polynesia is basically the same as vikings, but without roads. Not fun but shouldn't be too frustrating. If you still care about FoE

 

[Blatantlybiased]

I have learned two things in this thread. Don't use autobattle and just use archers instead of using all the different unit types. I have been using all types, matching them based on bonuses against the defending army and then doing autobattle. It was not working well, although I have been finishing the settlements within the first time bonus. Fighting manually I am seeing better results, but am still losing a unit or two. Running out of loot and losing too many troops and having to wait to recruit more before I could fight again has been holding me back at times, so maybe now it will go faster. I just want the building maxed and this settlement over with as soon as possible. After that, if I never have to play through it again, it'll be too soon.