Classic GOTM 201
Zululand, Regent
C-IV BtS BOTM 285 (France, Prince level)
Game started: 11 Jan 2025, finished: 16 Feb 2025
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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| Challenger: (The extra-hard save) |
Starting save for Windows
| WorldBuilder: (Play or see the map) |  WorldBuilder |
Game info
- Civilization: France - Unique Unit: Musketeer (replaces Musketman),
- Unique Building: Salon (replaces Observatory)
- Leader: DeGaulle
- Difficulty: Prince
- Map size: Standard
- Map Script: Pangaea, Rocky, Natural Coastlines
- Starting Era: Ancient
- Speed: Normal
- Options: Raging barbarians, no goody huts, no random events
- Rivals: 8
- Victory conditions: All enabled
- World wrap Cylindrical
- Schedule: Submissions closed on February 16, 2025
This game is a little unusual, in that you begin the game in contact with all of the AI. You and three of those AI are at Always Peace, so that none of you can go to war against any of the other three. The five other AI are at Always War, so that they will never make peace with anyone (including each other). The four peaceful civilizations all begin the game having learned Writing, so that they can communicate with each other. The five warmongers have disdained this skill; who would they want to write to?
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:
There is not Adventurer Class in this game.
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.
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:
You play at Emperor difficulty. The AI still have the Prince level starting unitis.Click on the image below to download the challenger class start save file.
