Civ 3 Conquests COTM 99 (Sumeria, Monarch level)

Game started: 24 Aug 2013, finished: 5 Oct 2013

This game has finished. Click here to see the results.

You can no longer submit a competition entry, but you can download the starting save below (click on an icon) to play for fun.

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Game info

C3C COTM 99 starting position - Click for a wider view of the start position

Civilization: Sumeria
Civilization: Enkidu Warrior
Difficulty: Monarch
Map size: 80 X 80 Small
Map topology: Pangaea
Rivals: 8 pre-selected aggressive AIs
Upgrade Swordsment/Longbows: ON
Victory conditions: All enabled
Additional Information: Iron location is fixed and will not disappear.
Submissions due by October 5, 2013
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

For the 99th game of the COTM series we play as the Sumerians, who are widely regarded as the first of all civilisations.

You are pitted against aggressive neighbours, and abundant restless barbarians. Your tribe is considered scientific and agricultural and so you start with a knowledge of pottery and bronze working. Your unique unit is the Enkidu Warrior, which has the same stats as a spearman, which you are unable to build. The difficulty level this time around is set nominally to Monarch, but may present a slightly bigger challenge than that level suggests.

As always, we hope you enjoy the game and look forwards to reading about how you get on in the spoiler threads.

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).

Open Class Game Details for C3C COTM 99

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.

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.