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Walkthrough

by Warfreak

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Author: Warfreak
Version: 0.1
Date Started: 30/8/09

NOTE: This Guide will Contain Spoilers. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

REMEMBER, IF YOU LIKE THIS GUIDE, RECOMMEND IT TO OTHER USERS USING THE LINK
ABOVE!

*('@')~~~~~~Watch In Awe, Watch In Awe, Aeria Gloris, Aeria Gloris~~~~~~('@')*

Use Ctrl+F to quickly navigate this guide.

                              Table of Contents
 �1 Introduction
    [1.01] Introduction
    [1.02] Version History

 �2 Basics of Anno 1404
    [2.01] Goals of the Game
    [2.02] Game Basics
    [2.03] Playing the Game

 �3 Characters
    [3.01] Lord Northburgh
    [3.02] Grand Vizier Al Zahir
    [3.03] Hassan ben Sahid
    [3.04] Rivals

[A] Contact Information
[B] Credits
[C] Webmaster Information
[D] Copyright Notice

*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Now, Let the Guide Begin~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
[1.01] Introduction

Welcome to my 54th guide, these guides are starting to rack up into a big
rolling ball. This is for the game Anno 1404, Dawn of Discovery, where you 
are a budding ruler, building up an empire on a chain of islands. This is 
an interesting game, mainly because it is by itself in terms of historical
period and it's genre, empire building with a dash of real time strategy
involved. 

As a side note, with the manual as pathetic as it is, and don't bother suing
me, because it is, and I have no money, you should play the campaign, by
yourself, to learn the basics, you can pick up many things there that you 
don't need me to go over. 

I will assume that you have played the campaign and grasp the general basics
of the game, because if you don't and email me, I will get every angry, and
no one wants that. 

Anyway, without further nonsense rambling from me, let us begin. And the
ASCII is the best I could do with the title screen.

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[1.02] Version History

Version 0.0 [30/8/09]
Setted up the template, started the guide. 

Version 0.1 [28/9/08]
After canning a project and finishing another, I've finally got time to start
on this guide. Finally. 

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[2.01] Goals of the Game

Mildly put, this game is one where you need to build an empire, well, sort
of, a bunch of cities on a string of islands. You need to build housing for
your citizens, and then you need to build up a massive supply chain to supply
your citizens with resources. 

You build a city, and then you supply the citizens in it with some resources.
They develop into wealthier citizens, and the cycles goes on. Basically, it is
making money and keeping people happy. 

How, besides the many resources you have, there are two main resources that
are used universally. Gold, and Honour. Gold is well, the currency you get 
paid in, the currency you purchase things in, etc. Honour is the currency you
use to purchase special items and abililties.

Now, for those who have played the previous game, Anno 1701, you will
remember that there were two types of islands, the Northern and the Southern
islands. These islands are important, certain resources can only grow in the
Northern islands, and certain resources only grow in the Southern. It is the
same in this game, there are Occidential and Oriential islands. 

Now, what is the whole aim of the game? It does have a small goal, you need
to wipe out all your competitors. You will have access to an army late in
the game, but the smart way of winning to end an enemy is to defeat them
using a powerful navy. More on that later. However, once you have beaten them,
the game can still go on. 

Basically, it is free play, you set your own goals, everything. At the start
of the game, you can set the conditions for all the perimeters of the game. 
But that is pretty self-explanatory, and would be in the manual, if the manual
was any good, which it isn't. 

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[2.02] Game Basics

First, you need to get to understand the basics. Seeing I hate going through
campaigns, ?I won't make an exception here, but there should be enough that you
can win the campaign without too much drama. 

Basically, there is campaign, scenarios and continious game. Campaign is 
basically, well, a campaign. You get the idea. Scenarios are one off missions,
you complete it, everyone is happy. 

Continious play is a bit more different. It is where you will choose what you
want in the game. When you customise it, your first screen will allow you to
choose who you want to fight. They will have their difficulty listed, to make
it easier to choose. You will also get to choose what relationship you have 
with the Corsairs, and your relationship with the AI players. 

Next is the map itself. You get to choose what size map you want, the size
of the islands, how many fertilities, that is, growable resources are 
available on an island. You also get to pick the difficulty of the islands, 
that is, how much room you have to build on the island. You need to pick the
amount of raw materials, which you will need for production, and finally, you
will need to pick neutral powers, more on that later. You can create a random
map with those features with that little button on the bottom.

Next is the environment of the island. The first is when you destroy a 
building, how much is refunded. Nothing, half or all. Next are the disasters
that cna hit your island. You can choose whether you want the plague, a
thunderstorm, fires, tornados and sandstorms enabled. Of course, enabling
those will cause more work. Finally, you need to choose how often you will
get quests. 

Page 4 is the start conditions of your game. What you start out with. It will
also allow you to choose how much money and honour you will start off with, 
special items, and whether or not the map is fully revealed for you or not.

Finally, Page 5 are the victory conditions. You can have a continious free
play game without needing to achieve any objectives, or you can set objectives
for you to complete. Those are up to you. 

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[2.03] Playing the Game

Now we get onto playing the actual game, rather than setting it up. This
is quite easy, it is basically build and plop, and provided that you have 
enough material, the game will build it for you.

Basically, the menu that you want will be on the bottom right hand corner of
your screen. From there, you can choose a variety of options that will allow
you to play the game.

The House Button will the most important, mainly because it is your build
menu. The Pickaxe will be your demolishing button. The Group button is your
Diplomacy button, Star is for your trade routes, Medals is for your honour
attainments and Gears is the central menu.

In the central menu, you get even more confusing buttons. From here, you can
access the quest log, play around with the lists of all your cities, ships
and warehouses, and your standard menu allowing you to load ans save, etc. 

For this is actually in the manual. Surprising, something in the manual...

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[3.01] Lord Northburgh

Simply put, this guy is your boss. He will be the one on the central island
all the time, and basically the main source of trade income, both buying and
selling. 

He is your line of contact to the Emperor, so basically, you need to be 
following what he says. He will give quests, helpful advice, and you will
always be at peace with him. 

With more honour, you can access more and more items and trade goods with
Northburgh. But that isn't all that you can do with him. You can also trade 
money and honour with him. You can demand honour in exchange for money, or 
you can loan money from him (without the need to repay) for the cost of some
honour.

You can also call for an auxillary fleet, in which you can ask to have some
combat ships for a small fee. This is useful in a pinch if you need some 
strength to fight the enemy or some pirates. 

This guy is important, he will trade you items, for the cost of honour, that
will increase your reputation with the Grand Vizier, which is very important
and I shall explain later on.

Needless to say, you are always at peace with him. 

*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
[3.02] Grand Vizier Al Zahir

This guy is basically the Lord Northburgh counterpart for the Orient. However,
there is a reputation that you can have with this guy, that is improved by
doing some quests, but mainly through the items that you can purchase from
Northburgh and give it to the Grand Vizier. 

This is important because it is used to unlock new buildings to build in the
Orient. As you have found out no doubt throughout the game, buildings in the
Northern Islands are unlocked when you reach a certain population level, but
in the Orient, it all depends on your reputation with the Grand Vizier. So it
is advised that with the honour that you receive early on in the game, you
use it to improve your repuation. 

Again, like Northburgh, you can trade money for honour, and likewise, honour
for money. Also, you will have the aiblity to call an auxillary fleet, but
this time, it will be oriential warships that will be sent, and they have 
their own perks.

Again, you will always be at peace with him, and for someone who can tell you
what to build or not, it isn't a good idea to take him on. 

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[3.03] Hassan ben Sahid

Unlike the previous two guys, this is one character that will you will 
encounter in games that have corsairs. Hassan is the leader of the Corsairs,
and they are basically a bunch of pirates. They will start off at peace or at
war with you, more often than not, at war. 

To stop this war, you can find their home island and ask for peace, and it 
will come at a cost, it normally amounts of 10% of your total gold reserves
that you are holding. It isn't cheap, to say the least. However, the only
action that you can perform diplomatically is to cancel the treaty and 
declare war.

However, if you do stay friends with him, he will, after a while, ask for 
more money, and it is up to you to decide whether you have a large enough
navy to take him on and defeat him. 

But bear in mind, while you are at peace with him, he will send his ships to
trade with you, which is very useful if you need a trade partner, and at his
lair, you will be able to purchase ships off him, and sell ships to him for
gold. Useful if you don't want to build a fleet yourself. 

*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
[3.04] Rivals

Your rivals are the ones that you have to watch out for. These guys can be 
your friends, or your enemies, it is up to you which one want to be at. 

Basically, there are 4 states that you can be at with your rivals. You can be
at peace, which is obviously, at peace, so no attacking on either side. A 
higher level would be trade alliance, they will be at peace with you, and they
will trade with you at your ports, likewise at theirs. The highest state of
peace will be alliance, they will trade and not attack you, and attack your
enemies. Which is useful.

Or you can be at war, where you basically shoot and take out their ships with
relative impunity, as long as they don't sink your ships first. It is at 
this stage when all punches are pulled, kiddy gloves off, and all that.

There are several actions that you can perform diplomatically towards your
rivals. You can declare war on them obviously, or you can cancel a treaty or
alliance that you have when then, AND THEN declare war on them. 

You can also demand or pay tribute to your rival, and this will raise your
relationship, or alternatively, decrease your relationship with them at the
cost or gain of a small amount of money. If you can't figure that out, paying
means you boost the relationship, demanding will lower it. 

Finally, you have the ability to intimidate and ingratiate your rivals. This
will either decrease your reputation or increase your reputation towards that
player. 

The state of your relationship is up to you, you want to be at war, or at 
peace? I smell a Leo Tolstoy novel. 

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[A] Contact Information

APPEARS IN g,a,m,e,f,a,q,s.c,o,m always. Remove the commas. Never on that
c,h,e,a,t,c,c.c,o,m. Remove the commas.

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!Before you Email me, read everything in this Contact Information section and!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

E-Mail Me, and for the love of all that isn't sacred, make sure that the title
of the game is smacked into place. IF THERE IS NO TITLE ON THE MESSAGE, IT 
WILL NOT BE READ, AND PROMPTLY DELETED. Also, email with courtesy. If you just
hurl abuse, I will promptly hurl more abuse back, and save it so the entire
world can abuse you and see your stupidity. 

When you write the Email, you have to do so in English, and English only. No
foreign languages allowed, Chinese, French, Spanish, Antarctic Penguin and so
forth, mainly because I won't be able to understand it. 

There will be absolutely NO INTERNET SPEAK IN ANY EMAILS. Seriously, I will
not read emails full of lols, rofls or the like. No lazy English either. I 
won't read crap like "Hw Tis in Gme" because it is lazy and inconsiderate. But
that doesn't mean you send me a business letter detailing what information you
want to know either. 

Finally, if you see that there is something wrong in this FAQ, or something 
that you think should be included in it, please send it in, the worse you can
do is to have it rejected, but if I think it is a good addition, I'll add it
with the next update as well as give you credit for the addition. Corrections
are always welcome.

I will also NOT RESPOND to the following:

 * Phishing Sites
 * Attempted Scams
 * Mass Spamming
 * Forward Messages
 * Advertising
 * Technical Issues
 * Illegal Activities
 * Unrelated Emails to the Game
 * Emails about Another Game

All problems with technical issues to do with the gameplay such as bugs and
glitches should be sent to the developer or publisher, or look for fixes or
ways to avoid it. All technical issues with hardware should be sent to the 
manufacturer of the piece of hardware in question. 

The secret email address is:

hillsdragon13 [at] [ho.tm.ail] [dot] [co.m]

Now, the legend:

[at]        = @
[ho.tm.ail] = Remove the .'s
[dot]       = .
[co.m]      = Remove the .'s

If you feel generous, you can send money via Paypal to that address. It is
completely optional, but I'm curious to see how much I can milk, I mean make
out of this. All donations are appreciated, seeing I have to pay for the 
game this guide is for, and that does cost money, more since I'm faced with
the outrageous prices found in Australia. 

It may be a pain in the ass, but most smart people could figure out the real
email address. The problem is that people would normally Ctrl+F to find the
email address without reading the relevant guidelines, as well spamming sites
which always find their way to my inbox. 

Also, do not add me to your MSN, Yahoo or any other instant messaging system
because you will be blocked and deleted permanently. Also, I will not accept
invites to be your Facebook friend, or join any other social networking site
because all invites will be rejected. 

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[B] Credits

The credits section is where all the credits for the guides go. Anyone or
anything that remotely helped out with this guide goes here, and that goes
for all those people out there who have interesting information to send in.
You know, your name could be on this list as well. 

CJayC, The Creator of GameFAQs, thanks for all the memories
SBAllen for administrating GameFAQs, keep up the good work
You, no point of writing if no one is reading
Ubisoft for the distribution of the game
Sunflower, Blue Byte for developing the game
ASCGen for their program making ASCII Art
Me, for a shameless piece of self promotion

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[C] Webmaster Information

This is where all the sites that this guide can appear on are listed. If the
site name is not on this list, that means that either they are accepted by
me but not listed, due to logistical reasons (this is the same copyright 
section as all the other guides, and no point listing a Civ 4 site on a Sims
game), or they are not allowed outright. 

Anyway, POINT OUT ALL SITES NOT LISTED HERE. It will be up to me what site is
allowed or disallowed.

www.GameFAQs.com <Master Copy> 
www.NeoSeeker.com 
www.SuperCheats.com 

NeoSeeker and SuperCheats will have the guides a full day after it appears on
GameFAQs. This is because those two sites grab any new update from me from
GameFAQs itself, so if you are itching for the newest version, please check
www.GameFAQs.com first.

It will NEVER BE ALLOWED TO APPEAR ON

www.cheatcc.com

Why? Because they stole some of my works before, and I will not forget that.
No amount of goodwill will be able to repair what you have done. 

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[D] Copyright Notice

This game is Copyright 2009 Ubisoft. All Copyrights are held by their rightful
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If you do sell it, and you are caught, I will launch court proceedings if 
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big site, through your advertisers. It might start with a small email of 
request, but I can snowball it. In fact, I will. 

You also cannot claim this guide as your own. You are not allowed to use this
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