Civ 3 Conquests COTM 102 (Maya, Monarch level)

Game started: 28 Dec 2013, finished: 18 Feb 2014

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

Civilization: Maya
Difficulty: Monarch
Map size: 80(X) X 80(Y) - small
Map topology: Cylindrical Archipelago (x-wrap on)
Rivals: 8 pre-selected aggressive opponents
Barbarians: Raging
Victory conditions: All enabled
Submissions due by February 18, 2014
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

Hello everyone and welcome to COTM102. This month you play as Smoke-Jaguar of the Mayan civilisation. Your tribe is endowed with industrious and agricultural traits and has gained the knowledge of masonry and pottery.

The Mayan unique unit is the Javelin Thrower, which replaces the Archer. The Javelin Thrower is more powerful in defence than the Archer, and costs more to build. Additionally, the Javelin Thrower has a one in three chance of capturing and enslaving a conquered enemy unit. That enslaved unit becomes a Mayan Worker.

This game continues to employ the 'almost' out-of-the box Conquests scenario, though there are one or two minor tweaks for simple game play balance purposes.

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 immediately.

Below is a picture of your start location.

All that remains is to say is Happy New Year to all, and good luck in the game.

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 102

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.