Scope of the Game:

• Civilization: Egypt
• Difficulty: DemiGod
• World size: Standard
• Landmass: Continents
• Geology: 70% Ocean, 4 Billion years
• Environment: Normal, Temperate
• Barbarians: Roaming
• Rivals: 7 pre-selected
• Respawn: OFF
• Scientific Great Leaders: OFF
• Mobilisation: ON
• AI Agression: Normal (See Predator Below)
• Submissions due by February 1, 2007. PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

ALL SPOILERS PROHIBITED: Do not post any messages or questions about this game in any forum until after about January 5, 2007. Please do not discuss any aspect of this game prior to that date, when official spoiler thread will be opened for discussions.

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 32 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 32

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:

• Bonus Units: 2 Extra Spears to defend or scout with.
• Bonus Tech: Your people also know The Wheel
• AI Bonus Reduction: AI Starting Units and Unit Support reduced to Emperor Level.
• (Note that Conquest class Games start with 60 Gold in treasury due to Goody Hut removal)

Click on the image below to download the Conquest-class start save file.

Open Class Game Details for Conquest 32

Players who choose to play in the Open Class game receive no bonuses compared to a game that would be normally be played on Monarch 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:

• None (Note that Open Class Games start with 60 Gold in treasury due to Goody Hut Removal)

Click on the image below to download the Open-Class start save file.

Predator Class Game Details for Conquest 32

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:

• Bonus 50 Gold from Goody Hut removed - Start with 10 Gold in Treasury
• Knowledge of Ceremonial Burial is lost
• Overall AI Aggression level increased from Normal to More Aggressive (4th level out of 5)

Click on the image below to download the Predator-Class start save file.