Scope of the Game:

• Civilization: Zulu
• Difficulty: Regent
• World size: Standard
• Landmass: Continents
• Geology: 4 billion years old
• Environment: Temperate
• Barbarians: Off
• Rivals: 7 Preset
• Upgrade Swordsmen/Longbows: ON
• AI Respawn:: ON
• NOTE: Differential Naval Movement is OFF
• Submissions due by September 15, 2004. PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

"Up! Children of Zulu, your day has come. Up! and destroy them all!" - Shaka Zulu, 1819, in the second Ndwandwe War

A SPECIAL NOTE: In recent classic GOTMs, there have been some changes made to provide a rule-set similar to that used in Civilization3: Conquests. This month's game is a 'classic' game, and hence most of these rule changes have been reversed. In particular, Map Trading is restored to being possible with Map Making, and communication trading with writing. Differential Naval movement is OFF. However, please note that some (minor) changes are still in-use. Some of the A/D/M value tweaks are continued, as is the lethal bombard and defensive free-shots for archers.

• Contact trading: restored to Writing.
• Map Trading: restored to Map Making.
• The Great Wall Wonder: now gives free walls in all your towns/cities on the continent
• Explorers and equivalent unique units have been moved from Navigation to Astronomy.
• Space Race - SS Stasis Chamber Has been moved from Synthetic Fibers to Robotics.
• Republic Government Unit maintenance cost is now 2 gpt/unit with free unit support of 1/3/4 for t/c/m.
• Archer/Bowmen added defensive freeshot at 1/0/1.
• Longbowmen added defensive freeshot at 2/0/1.
• Marines Increased attack strength from 8 to 12 and cost increased to 120 shields.
• Radar Artillery Movement increased to 2 and rate of fire increased to 3.
• Ship movements restored to 'normal' (but bombard and attack details kept as recent)
• Air Unit Operating Ranges most have been increased up to the maximum hardcoded limit in Civ3v1.29.
• Lethal Sea Bombardment for all air units that can bomb targets.
• Lethal Land Bombardment for all bombers and steath bombers.
• F-15 stats increase to 8/4/1 (range of 8) with bombard at 6/0/2 lethal land & sea
• Helicopter transport capacity has been increased to 3.
• Stealth Fighter stats increased to 8/6/1 with bombard at 6/0/2.
• Stealth Bomber stats increased to 0/5/1 with bombard at 18/0/3.

Being a 'classic' game, this month's game will not require any downloads for the Play The World version - It will play with the 'out of the box' PTW install. For Civ3 and Mac players, you will require the install packs as for previosu GOTM events. Note that custom resources are NOT used!

Macintosh installlers are available in this thread.

If you have any questions regarding this set-up, then please let me know by PM or email.

ALL SPOILERS PROHIBITED: Do not post any messages or questions about this game in any forum until after about July 20, 2004. Please do not discuss any aspect of this game prior to that date.

As always, have fun playing the GOTM and we hope you join us in the postgame discussions!

You will have your choice of Playing Gotm 32 in one of three skill levels that most closely matches your current abilities - Conquest Class, Open Class, or Predator Class. The two software choices for this game do not have compatible setup files. You may only play the game in one software format and at one difficulty level for comparison to other players.

Conquest Class Game Details for Gotm 34

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:

Conquest Save for Civ3v1.29 (PC / Mac)        Conquest Save for PTW

Open Class Game Details for Gotm 34

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.

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.

Open Class Starting Bonuses:

Open Save for Civ3v1.29 (PC/Mac)        Open save for PTW

Predator Class Game Details for Gotm 34

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.

Predator Class Equalizing Obstacles:
The game features for Predator Class Games have been raised to provide the following obstacles:

Predator Save for Civ3v1.29 (PC / Mac)        Predator Save for PTW