Classic GOTM 201
Zululand, Regent
C-IV BtS BOTM 290 (Spain, Emperor level)
Game started: 17 Apr 2025, finished: 8 Oct 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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| Adventurer: (The easier 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: Spain - Unique Unit: Conquistador (replaces Cuirassier),
- Unique Building: Citadel (replaces Castle)
- Leader: NZ BOTM 290
- Difficulty: Emperor
- Map size: Standard
- Map Script: Continents
- Starting Era: Ancient
- Speed: Normal
- Options: No vassal states, no goody huts, no random events
- Rivals: 6
- Victory conditions: All enabled
- World wrap Cylindrical 18th April 2025 to 26th May 2025
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:
Madrid has been founded and is size 2, both seafood resources have been netted and you have the Great Wall so no Barbarians to worry about!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.
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 Deity level although the AI civs still have Emperor level units.Click on the image below to download the challenger class start save file.
