Civ 3 Conquests COTM 163 (Japan, Emperor level)

Game started: 1 Apr 2023, finished: 30 Jun 2023

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

Civilization: Japan
Difficulty: Emperor
Map size: Standard
Map topology: Continents, 70% water
Rivals: Seven opponents: German, Chinese, Iroquois, Viking, Zulu, Persian, and Egyptian
Barbarians: Sedentary
Victory conditions: All enabled.
Required victory: None specified.
Options: No scientific leaders.
Submissions due by June 30, 2023
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.

Welcome to the 163rd Conquests Game of the Month, created by [b]MrRandomGuy[/b].

In this game you are Tokugawa. You rule over the empire of Japan, who are Militaristic, Religious, and already know The Wheel and Ceremonial Burial. While worshiping in the Shinto shrine, Tokugawa felt the spirits of the ancestors all around him. He was there before dawn because of a dream he had that felt important but one he couldn't remember. A beam of light surrounded him. He felt knowledge pass to him from the spirits. The ancestors whispered "We can help you a little with knowing the world, but the rest is for you to discover. The world is standard size. It has continents with several islands and the world started with 70% ocean. You have normal temperature and climate. The world is 4 billion years old. Barbarians are sedentary." Tokugawa's mind spun with all the information. He graciously thanked the ancestors for their gift. The presence of the ancestors slowly moved away from him. The light around the shrine began to fade. The world around him plunged back into the darkness before dawn. Right before the glow of the shrine faded, he felt one last gift from the ancestors. An image of a warrior unlike any other.

"The Samurai" Tokugawa whispered. He knew he couldn't make the warriors at the moment, but was not discouraged. The ancestors knew what they were doing. He was confident they would help him discover the secrets that would allow him to train such a warrior. Tokugawa thanked the ancestors one last time. The darkness around him faded as dawn arrived. Tokugawa quickly left the shrine, glad that morning had finally come. There was much work to be done with so little time...

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 163

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.