C-IV BtS BOTM 18 (Ottoman, Monarch level)
Game started: 16 May 2009, finished: 16 Jun 2009
This game has finished. Click here to see the results.
You can no longer submit a competition entry, but you can download any starting save below (click on an icon) to play for fun.
| Contender: (The standard save) |
![]() Starting save for Windows
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| Adventurer: (The easier save) |
![]() Starting save for Windows
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| Challenger: (The extra-hard save) |
![]() Starting save for Windows
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| WorldBuilder: (Play or see the map) | ![]() WorldBuilder |
Game info
- Civilization: Ottoman - Unique Unit: Janissary (replaces Musketman), Unique Building: Hammam (replaces Aqueduct)
- Leader: Suleiman
- Difficulty: Monarch
- Map size: Standard
- Map Script: Oasis
- World wrap: Flat
- Starting Era: Ancient
- Speed: Normal
- Options: Raging Barbarians, Aggressive AI
- Rivals: 8 AIs
- Victory conditions: All enabled
- Submissions due by June 16, 2009
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE.
Suleiman is Philosophical and Imperialistic and starts with The Wheel and Agriculture. The Philosophical trait gives +100% to Great People birth rate, and +100% production bonus towards Universities. Imperialistic gives +50% production bonus on Settlers, and +100% Great General emergence rate.
Your Unique unit is the Janissary, replacing the Musketman. Unlike normal muskets, Janissaries have +25% against Archery, Melee and Mounted units. Your Unique building is the Hammam, replacing the Aqueduct. It gives the same +2 health of a normal aqueduct, but also gives +2 happiness.
IMPORTANT: This game must be played with the BtS 3.17 patch, and the HOF mod version 3.17.001.
As always, have fun playing the GOTM and we hope you join us in the postgame discussions!
New Players
The Newbies' Guide to Getting Started tells you how to get set up to play GOTMs as well as explaining the competition rules. 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 contender, we sometimes provide an easier save (the adventurer save) and an extra-hard save (the challenger).
Below are the details for the saves we are providing for this game. You can choose to play and submit any one of these:
Adventurer (the easy save)
The adventurer starting save has been changed to make your game a bit easier. However, if you submit an adventurer game, you won't eligible to win any of the medals or fastest finish awards when the results are published.
These are your adventurer bonuses:
Game will be played on Prince level. Note that AI starting units have been changed.Click on the image below to download the adventurer class start save file.

Contender (the standard save)
This is the save that most people play. If you want to enter the competition with a normal game, then download and play this one.
Contender bonuses:
None. Note that AI starting units have been changed.Click on the image below to download the contender class start save file.

Challenger (the extra-hard save)
Play this save if you want an extra challenge. Your entry will be marked out as a contender
entry when the results are published, so you'll get extra kudos.
These are your challenger equalizers:
Game will be played on Emperor level. Note that AI starting units have been changed.Click on the image below to download the challenger class start save file.
Other info
Software Versions
Windows players require version 3.17 of Civilization IV BtS, as well as Hof Mod version HOF-3.17.001, available here.
Note that you cannot play this BOTM in Mac OS X, as Mac versions of BtS or the HoF Mod were not available when this game was released.












