Civ 3 Conquests COTM 101 (Portugal, Emperor level)

Game started: 16 Nov 2013, finished: 28 Dec 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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(The standard save)

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Game info

C3C COTM 101 starting position - Click for a wider view of the start position

Civilization: Portugal
Difficulty: Emperor
Map size: 120(X) X 150(Y) - a little larger than "Large"
Map topology: Cylindrical Continents (x-wrap on)
Rivals: 9 pre-selected opponents
Barbarians: Restless
Victory conditions: All enabled
Submissions due by December 28, 2013
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

Surely few in history can embody the trials, tribulations and sense of adventure found in the game of civilization like Ferdinand Magellan. His body became a war trophy long before Elcano completed the historic circumnavigation. But it is Magellan that is lauded for this accomplishment. He is attributed (almost certainly wrongly) as saying "The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the earth on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church." It is a nice story nonetheless. The photograph that accompanies this announcement is just a nod in the great man's direction.

This game returns almost to the standard out-of-the box Conquests scenario, though there are one or two minor tweaks for simple gameplay balance purposes, and the map is taller than it is wide.

This game has been modified from the standard COTM scenario in order to provide the chance of popping workers from huts in lieu of settlers. Note that it is still possible to pop cities from huts. Any technical or game play issues associated with this change should be reported to the GOTM staff immediatedly.

Below is a picture of your start location.

All that remains is to say is "Good luck, have fun, and see you in the spoilers!"

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 101

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.