Civ 3 Conquests COTM 71 (Hittites, Monarch level)

Game started: 13 Apr 2010, finished: 13 May 2010

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)	Starting save for
Conquest: (The easier save)	Starting save for
Predator: (The extra-hard save)	Starting save for

Game info

C3C COTM 71 starting position - Click for a wider view of the start position

Civilization: Hittites Unique Unit: Three Man Chariot
Difficulty: Monarch
Map size: Standard
Map topology: Continents
Environment: Normal, Temperate
Geology: 70% Ocean, 5 Billion years
Options: Restless Barbs
Rivals: 7 pre-selected AIs
Respawn: OFF
Upgrade Swordsment/Longbows: ON
Victory conditions: All enabled
Additional Information: Iron location is fixed and will not disappear.
Submissions due by May 13, 2010
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE. We have a late start and submissions will be open for 1 month from the start date.

It's been 3 years since the Hittites were in play - long enough! Their UU is not considered the best one out there, but I'm sure you'll manage to show the Monarch level AI their place in the order of things. Good Luck!

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

New Players

Welcome to GOTM! Please note our no-replaying rule. If you want to enter the competition, don't replay any turns. Feel free to discuss your game with other players, but ONLY in the spoiler threads that we'll open in this forum.

Choose your Game

Besides the normal open, we sometimes provide an easier save (the conquest save) and an extra-hard save (the predator).

Bonus Units: Two Bonus Spearmen will protect your early empire.
Bonus Gold: You start with an extra 100 gold.
Additional Techs: You also have knowledge of The Wheel.

Open Class Game Details for C3C COTM 71

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 unmodified.

Open Class Starting Bonuses:

None

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

Technology Loss: You don't know Pottery.
AI Bonus Units: The AI Bonus Units are doubled - 2 more Defense and 1 more Offense, PLUS 3 more Bonus Unit Support.
AI Aggression Level: The Overall AI Aggression Level is increased 1 level to "More" Aggressive.

Other info

Software Versions

To play this game, you require version 1.22f of Civilization III Conquests.

Special notes for C3C

NoAIPatrol Setting: There has been a lot of discussion regarding the barb behavior in C3C and how the NoAIPatrol flag controls that behavior. For the COTM competition it is highly recommended that all players set the NoAIPatrol flag to 0 to permit fairly consistent barb behavior across all player's games. This is done by opening the "conquests.ini" file in your favorite editor, adding the line "NoAIPatrol=0" to it, and saving.