C-IV BtS BOTM 217 (England, Deity level)

Game started: 15 Jul 2021, finished: 16 Aug 2021

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 Starting save for Mac
Adventurer: (The easier save)	Starting save for Windows Starting save for Mac
WorldBuilder: (Play or see the map)	WorldBuilder

Game info

BtS BOTM 217 starting position - Click for a wider view of the start position

Civilization: England - Unique Unit: Redcoat (replaces Rifleman),
Unique Building: Stock Exchange (replaces Bank)
Leader: Elizabeth
Difficulty: Deity
Map size: Standard
Map Script: Fractal
Starting Era: Ancient
Speed: Normal
Options: No goody huts, no random events
Rivals: 6
Victory conditions: All enabled
World wrap Cylindrical
Schedule: Submissions closed on August 16, 2021

It's deity time again. In order to help you a bit with your settling decision, I decided to reveal the local resources. So - if I've got it right - besides the tiles that your units can see anyway, you can also see every tile within 4 tiles of the settler that has a resource on it. Then I figured that it wasn't really fair to help you if I wasn't going to help the AI as well. So I added a few extra resources in a location that I think an AI will probably get to before you do.

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:

You play on monarch level But the AI still starts with deity starting units - so it'll be quite a hard monarch!

Click on the image below to download the adventurer class start save file.

PC adventurer-Class save file PC File Mac adventurer-Class save file Mac 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.

Click on the image below to download the contender class start save file.

PC contender-Class save file PC File Mac contender-Class save file Mac File

Other info

Software Versions

Windows players require version 3.19 of Civilization IV BtS, as well as Hof Mod version BUFFY-3.19.005, available here.

Mac players will require version 3.19 of Civilization IV BtS, plus HoF Mod version MacBUFFY-3.19.003, available here.