Civ 3 Conquests COTM 136 (Greece, Sid level)

Game started: 6 Dec 2017, finished: 17 Feb 2018

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

Civilization: Greece
Difficulty: Sid
Map size: Standard
Map topology: Continents 80% water
Rivals: One pre-selected, and six random opponents
Barbarians: No barbarians
Victory conditions: All enabled.
Required victory: None specified.
Options: No scientific leaders.
Submissions due by February 17, 2018
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

In the unique Sid level game of the year, created by Più Freddo, you will rule as Alexander over the Greeks, which in Civilization III are a Scientific and Commercial people. You start the game with the knowledge of Alphabet and Bronze Working. Your unique unit is the Hoplite, a stronger replacement for the Spearman.

The game plays on a Continents map with 20% land area.

As always at Sid level, you'll find yourself in the position of Themistocles: pinned against quantitatively superior opponents. Will you be able to outsmart them?

In order for you to survive at all, Più Freddo has taken some precautions. First, he's made the Hoplite stronger. It now defends at 4 instead of 3. Second, he's provided you with six of them from the very beginning. The rest you will notice in due time. Don't despair

The normal changes to the Conquests rules apply to this game: Iron locations are fixed, and Workers instead 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 136

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.