Civ 3 Conquests COTM 86 (Zululand, Regent level)

Game started: 28 Oct 2011, finished: 28 Nov 2011

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 86 starting position - Click for a wider view of the start position

Civilization: Zululand Unique Unit: Impi
Difficulty: Regent
Map size: Small
Map topology: Pangaea
Environment: Wet, Warm
Geology: 60% Ocean, 5 Billion years
Options: Restless Barbs
Rivals: 6 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 November 28, 2011
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE. One month to play this game.

After a bit of delay, here come the Zulus! Last time we played Shaka in the COTM was back in '08. He hasn't changed much. You get a Pangaea style map and 6 Regent level AI's to compete with; should be right up Shaka's Alley! 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).

Special Notes for COTM86

None

Bonus Units: You start with 2 Bonus Spearmen.
Bonus Gold: You start with an extra 100 gold.
Bonus Techs: You also have knowledge of Cereonial Burial.

Open Class Game Details for C3C COTM 86

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.

Loss of Tech: You do not know Pottery.
AI Bonus Units/Support: Each AI gets 2 Bonus Unit Support and 2 "Starting Defensive Units".
More AI Bonuses: AI get 1 Bonus Unit Support per City.

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.