Civ 3 Conquests COTM 137 (Arabia, Regent level)

Game started: 17 Jan 2018, finished: 28 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 137 starting position - Click for a wider view of the start position

Civilization: Arabia
Difficulty: Regent
Map size: Large (130 x 130)
Map topology: Pangaea 80% water
Rivals: Seven opponents
Barbarians: Restless
Victory conditions: All enabled.
Required victory: None specified.
Options: No scientific leaders.
Submissions due by February 28, 2018
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

In this Regent game of the month for Conquests, created by Più Freddo, you will rule as Abu Bakr over the Arabs, who in Civilization III are a Expansionist and Religious people. You start the game with the knowledge of Pottery and Ceremonial Burial. Your unique unit is the Ansar Warrior, a cheaper, faster and more vulnerable replacement for the Knight.

The game plays on a Large Pangaea map with 20% land area. There are seven very special opponents. Will you be able to adapt to the given situation and make good use of your tribe's special advantages? Since this is a low-level game, you can expect to get no special goodies or bonuses.

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. The impact of disease has been diminished.

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 137

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.