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This is a C3C Game Of The Month. It MUST be played in Conquests Patch version 1.22f.
Conquest 06: Portugal
Initially a province of Spain, Portugal declared their independence after defeating an army of the common Muslim foe. This was tolerated by the kingdoms of Spain, as they fought together to rid the mainland of the Muslim threat. After two hundred years, with the Muslim threat removed, Spain attempted to reunite the iberian peninsula under one flag. However, their endeavours were resisted, and Portugal's independence was assured.
Your task is to take the fledgling Portuguese civilization, and expand it to a major world power!
Scope of the Game:
QSC Is up-and running!: Please note that we have caught-up on the Quick-Start Challenge backlog, so remember to complete your timelines and submit your 1000BC QSC saves!
A 'fix' for the Barbarians!: As many of you know, the barbarians in C3C are 'broken'. This can be fixed by going to your \Conquest\ folder, and opening your Conquests.ini file, and adding a line noaipatrol=0 to the file. Whilst we cannot force people to do this, it will make the game a bit more interesting if you do. If you are not comfortable editing your .ini file, you can download a utility here to do it automatically.
ALL SPOILERS PROHIBITED: Do not post any messages or questions about this game in any forum until after about October 5, 2004. Please do not discuss any aspect of this game prior to that date.
As always, have fun playing the
COTM and we hope you join us in the postgame discussions!
You will have your choice of Playing COTM 06 in one of three skill levels that most closely matches your current
abilities - Conquest Class, Open Class, or Predator Class.
Conquest-Class Game Details for Conquest 06
Players who choose
to play in the Conquest class game will receive a set of bonuses designed to
help them focus on key early strategic decisions that may help them to
get more enjoyment out of the specific conditions of this game. The bonuses
ARE NOT designed to guarantee you a win without requiring some good early decisions
to be made and without asking you to manage your Civilization properly.
Players who might be interested in playing the conquest class game could be those players
who might only feel comfortable playing at Warlord or Regent difficulty.
For the purposes of global ranking and comparison to all other GOTM scores, the Conquest class
games scores in the QSC and GOTM results will be weighted downward with an 85% multilpier
to factor out the
value of the additional starting bonuses.
Conquest Class Starting Bonuses:
Conquest class players will begin the game with following unit and game feature bonuses:
Click on the image below to download the start Conquest-class save file. Open Class Game Details for Conquest 06 Players who choose
to play in the Open Class game receive no bonuses compared to a game that
would be normally be played on this level. Open Class Starting Bonuses: Click on the image below to download the OPen-Class start save file. Predator Class Game Details for Conquest 06 Predator Class Equalizing Obstacles: Click on the image below to download the Predator-Class start save file.
For the purposes of global ranking and comparison to all other GOTM scores, Open class
game scores will be ranked according to the Jason score which balances speed and scoring skills
for a combined "Best Overall game" rating.
Players who choose
to play in the Predator class game must overcome an extra set of obstacles
built into their game to provide an extra level of challenge. The intent
of these changes is to raise the difficulty without altering
strategic play progress from that which you would see for comparison in the conquest class and
open class games.
Players who might be interested in playing the Predator class game could be those players
who have participated in the Elite or Leader divisions of the Medal Play Series or players who just
want an extra level of excitement or challenge.
For the purposes of global ranking and comparison to all other GOTM scores, the Predator class
game scores in the QSC and GOTM results do not receive any compensating scoring bonus for the added
elements of challenge.
The game features for Predator Class Games have been raised to provide the following obstacles: