Civ 3 Conquests COTM 107 (Scandinavia, Monarch level)

Game started: 26 Jul 2014, finished: 6 Sep 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 107 starting position - Click for a wider view of the start position

Civilization: Scandinavia
Difficulty: Monarch
Map size: 100(X) X 100(Y) - Standard
Map topology: Cylindrical Archipelago
Rivals: 16 selected opponents
Barbarians: Mystery
Victory conditions: All enabled
Submissions due by September 6, 2014
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

We don the mantle of Ragnar Lodbrok as we begin our quest for glory (or ignominy) on this archipelago map. As you will know, Scandinavia comprises three countries; Norway, Sweden and Denmark. With the recent release of the Lego movie, it was tempting to give Emmet the leaders' role in this game, but I resisted. (Spoiler Alert) He is the saviour of the world after all, and not just Denmark.

The Scandinavians are militaristic and expansionistic, and start the game with the knowledge of pottery and warrior code. Their unique unit is the Berserk warrior which is avialable once your civilisation has learned invention and replaces the longbow unit. The Berserk is the first available amphibious unit in the game, which means it can launch assaults from within sea-based transport vessels. I this game the Berseks have been further modified to increase their attack strength from 6 to 7. The build cost remains the same.

This game continues to use a modified form of the standard Conquests scenario, and although no bugs have been reported in some time, it is possible that play testing has not been exhaustive. Any in-game event or behaviour that a player feels is unintended should be reported to the GOTM staff immediately.

Below is a picture of your start location.

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 107

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.