C3C COTM 173
Austria, Regent
Civ 3 Conquests COTM 10 (Mongols, Monarch level)
Game started: 1 Mar 2005, finished: 1 Apr 2005
This game has finished. Click here to see the results.
You can no longer submit a competition entry, but you can download any starting save below (click on an icon) to play for fun.
| Open: (The standard save) |
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| Conquest: (The easier save) |
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| Predator: (The extra-hard save) |
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version 0.0.0 last updated on January 30, 2005
This is a C3C Game Of The Month. It MUST be played in Conquests Patch version 1.22f.
Conquest 10: Mongols
In the 13th Century, the mongols, lead by Temujin, attacked one of the ruling sects of their Chinese neighbours, beginning a course of conquest that would ultimately result in the largest contiguous empire ever seen in the history of the world!
The Mongols are one of the greatest incarnations of the militarist trait seen in the game of civilization: the children were taught to ride horses at the age of three, and hunt with bow and arrow at the age of 5. The use of the horse allowed the Mongol hordes to project their power by travelling great distances in very short times - the riders sleeping in the saddle where necessary.
The tales of their conquests go hand-in-hand with the tales of their cruelty; it was common to slaughter of anyone unfortunate enough to be captured - even if this was the entire civilian population a city!
The decline of the Mongol empire followed the death of the great Kublai Khan - the man who had finally united all of China under Mongol rule. You hope that you can emulate the conquest feats of the great lineage Khan, but can you prevent the subsequent decline?
Scope of the Game:
- Civilization: Mongols (Expansionist, Militaristic)
- Difficulty: Monarch
- World size: Standard
- Landmass: Continents, 60% Water
- Geology: 3 billion years old
- Environment: arid, cool
- Barbarians: Raging
- Rivals: 7 Preset
- Respawn: OFF
- Scientific Great Leaders: OFF
- Mobilisation: ON
- Goody Huts: Provide WORKERS (not settlers)
- Submissions due by April 1st, 2005. PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.
Goody Huts: Goody huts have caused some game balance issues previously, where some players have got settlers or cities from goody huts, and some have missed-out. This month, (on a trial basis) the game rules have been modified so that a hut that would have given a settler will instead give a worker (as discovered by Roland Ehnström and TimBentley ).
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 March 5, 2005. 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 10 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 10
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:
- Total Starting Cash in Treasury: 100 units of gold
- Extra Units: A scout and a worker.
Click on the image below to download the start Conquest-class save file. Open Class Game Details for Conquest 10 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 10 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:
