Civ 3 Conquests COTM 128 (Rome, Regent level)

Game started: 4 Jan 2017, finished: 15 Feb 2017

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

Civilization: Rome
Difficulty: Regent
Map size: Standard
Map topology: Continents, 70% water
Rivals: 7 pre-selected opponents
Victory conditions: All enabled.
Required victory: None specified.
Options: Rome-ing barbarians. No scientific leaders.
Submissions due by February 15, 2017
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

In this Regent game, created by Quintillus, you start the game as Consul Lucius Junius Brutus of Rome. Brutus was the founder of the Roman Republic, leading the revolt that overthrew the last King of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, in 509 BC. The Republic would last for almost 500 years, with varying levels of power between the nobiles, equites, and plebians, and see Rome become one of the pre-eminent powers in the world.

All roads lead to Rome, the city built on seven hills; in the actual game, you may not have seven hills if you choose to settle in place, but you still have an ample supply of hills and mountains nearby.

The starting area is in fact from a randomly generated map, and is not modified. However, there is at least one surprise lurking in the great beyond, so don't let yourself get too cozy. The barbarians are Rome-ing, but aren't likely to be your greatest challenge.

Will you follow the path of Rome and Lucius Junius Brutus and establish a Republic, or will you let Rome remain a monarchy for far beyond 500 BC? And will your friendly environs lead to a prosperous empire, or will Rome encounter powerful rivals that stymie your ambitions?

The normal changes to the Conquests rules apply to this game: Iron locations are fixed, and Workers insted of Settlers can be popped from Goody Huts. In addition to this, the following changes have been made to terrain causing Disease in order to limit the impact of chance on the competition:

Flood Plains do not cause Disease
Jungles and Wetland have their Disease level lowered from 50% to 25%
Knowledge of Sanitation cancels Disease in Jungles and Wetlands

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 128

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.