Civ 3 Conquests COTM 118 (Spain, Deity level)

Game started: 11 Nov 2015, finished: 23 Dec 2015

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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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C3C COTM 118 starting position - Click for a wider view of the start position

Civilization: Spain
Difficulty: Deity
Map size: Large
Map topology: Archipelago.
Rivals: 8 pre-selected opponents
Victory conditions: Only Conquest and Space enabled.
Options: No scientific leaders. Unknown barbs.
Submissions due by December 23, 2015
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

The normal COTM changes apply to this game and so Iron locations are fixed. Workers can be ppped from goodie huts instead of settlers.

Your November C3C COTM is presented by GreatBeyond. Here is his description of the scenario ...

You play as the Spanish at Deity level on a large size map with 13 aggressive opponents. You will see from the screenshot all the landmass is revealed to you at the start. The AI aggressiveness has been set to the maximum. To make things even worse the AIs are locked in a coalition alliance against you. This means they will cooperate fully to eliminate you, and not each other! The only victory conditions are Space and Conquest wins. This is a change from the original plan but due to the unique nature of the game, the AI was able to score domination and cultural wins well before the human player had a chance of winning. The human does get one bonus, they start with the knowledge of all techs, Republic for a government, a Settler, Worker, Conquistador, and a Mech Infantry. Please see GreatBeyond's post in this thread for the story behind the scenario. Good Luck!

Here is the start position. Click it for a larger version.

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 118

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.