Civ 3 Conquests COTM 100 (Russia, Regent level)

Game started: 5 Oct 2013, finished: 16 Nov 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 100 starting position - Click for a wider view of the start position

Civilization: Russia
Difficulty: Regent
Map size: 100 X 100 Standard
Map topology: Continents
Rivals: 20 pre-selected opponents
Victory conditions: All enabled
Submissions due by November 16, 2013
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

So here we are at the 100th anniversary of the Conquest of the Month competition. Who would have thought it? Certainly the longevity of this competition bears testimony to the depth and variety that drives us to "play one more turn" over and over again. So what is in store this month....?

...Well, I thought we might do something a little bit different in this game, just to mark the auspiciousness(?) of the occaision. You will play Russian Roulette (of sorts) with an unusual start position. At least one of our playing customers might recognise this start from an SGOTM in the ancient history of that competition. This is not the same map.

This is a flat earth map - there is no X-wrap (You can't walk off the edge and reappear on the opposite edge in any compass direction). Barbarians are set to roaming (and this is relevant). Oh yes, one small point I nearly forgot to mention.... you can't build settlers...

This scenario therefore plays as a One Built City (OBC) variant. You can of course capture as many opposing tribe cities as you like. Various OBC games have been played, and two of the best are in the SGOTM back catalogue if you are looking for advice. The only advice I will give is that settling in place doesn't look to be a great option....

I am not evil by nature, and so I can assure you that this is a perfectly playable map, and I hope you have as much fun playing it as I had devising it.

Finally, a big HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! to COTM, and best wishes for a long and happy future.

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 100

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.