C-IV BtS BOTM 218 (Russia, Prince level)

Game started: 1 Aug 2021, finished: 1 Sep 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
Challenger: (The extra-hard save)	Starting save for Windows Starting save for Mac
WorldBuilder: (Play or see the map)	WorldBuilder

• Civilization: Russia - Unique Unit: Cossack (replaces Cavalry),
• Unique Building: Research Institute (replaces Laboratory)
• Leader: Peter the Great
• Difficulty: Prince
• Map size: Standard
• Map Script: Inland Sea
• Starting Era: Classical
• Speed: Normal
• Options: No goody huts, no random events, no espionage
• Rivals: 7
• Victory conditions: All enabled
• World wrap None
• Schedule: Submissions closed on September 1, 2021

A nice simple Inland Sea to play as Peter of Russia at Prince difficulty. But since I moved you to a penninsula, I added a Minor Civ (Terrorists) where you would have started. Please note, this is a CLASSICAL ERA start. In order to avoid game advantages or disadvantages due to the random assignment of the first 3 religions at turn 5, I removed Meditation, Polytheism, and Monotheism from your starting techs, and the starting techs for the Terrorists. To compensate, I gave you Alphabet. Please note that you have CIVIC OPTIONS already on turn zero, so you might wish to take a turn of anarchy while you select your settling location. If Prince is too easy for you, try it as a Challenger at Immortal difficulty... that should be enough challenge for most players, I think (start units are still Prince level start units).

As always, have fun playing the GOTM and we hope you join us in the postgame discussions!

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:

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 File             Mac 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:

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

PC File             Mac File

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