Civ 3 Conquests COTM 148 (Byzantines, Demigod level)

Game started: 1 Jul 2019, finished: 30 Sep 2019

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

Civilization: Byzantines
Difficulty: Demigod
Map size: Large
Map topology: Archipelago, Small landmass (85% water)
Rivals: Seven opponents
Barbarians: Restless
Victory conditions: All enabled.
Required victory: None specified.
Options: No scientific leaders.
Submissions due by September 30, 2019
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

Welcome to the 148th Conquests Game of the Month, designed by templar_x, which features the Byzantines on Demigod level, on a large archipelago map.

The Byzantines are Seafaring and Scientific and start the game with the knowledge of Alphabet and Bronze Working. Their Unique Unit is the Dromon, a Galley unit that has stronger attack and bombardment - lethal at sea.

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 148

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.