Civ 3 Conquests COTM 76 (Ottomans, Monarch level)

Game started: 17 Sep 2010, finished: 18 Oct 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 76 starting position - Click for a wider view of the start position

Civilization: Ottomans Unique Unit: Sipahi
Difficulty: Monarch
Map size: Standard
Map topology: Continents
Environment: Normal, Temperate
Geology: 60% Ocean, 3 Billion years
Options: Raging Barbs
Rivals: 9 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 October 18, 2010
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE. Still delayed, but you do have one month to play.

The Ottomans and their strong cavalry-type UU are the civ this month. You are playing against 9 AI! But don't worry; the map settings will provide more land than normal, and 2 of the AI will be 'restricted' in their normal expansion. (But they do get other 'benefits' as compensation.) 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 are guarding your Settler.
Bonus Gold: You start with an extra 100 gold.
Bonus Techs: You also have knowledge of Pottery.

Open Class Game Details for C3C COTM 76

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 BronzeWorking
AI Bonus Units and Support: Each AI gets 2 Bonus Unit Support
UU Mod: Your Sipahi cost 110 shields and can not start your Golden Age.

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.