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Yeah, I didn't play these when Civ V came out because I was waiting for the actual competition to start, now I come back two years later and still no sign of it. Are we so worried about people cheating that we would rather not compete at all?

For some reason I tried out the ICS strategy early in this game. Built 11 cities, captured 17 more and conquered my entire continent shortly before the end whilst remaining allied with the majority of the city states in the vicinity. When the opportunity for a diplomatic victory came I still had...

I don't need to imagine that, already did it. :p

I went for the easy save knowing I'd never won a Monarch GOTM. Did a Quechua rush on America, followed by Saladin and then more of a combined Elephant/Catapult/Quechua attack on Mali's damn skirmisher's to take the continent. I didn't bother checking the victory conditions at this point to see...

I didn't have a very good game, only ever had 3 cities, including one way over next to the ethiopians, which I eventually had to concede to them after a war. I tried to get involved with some dogpiles but it never quite worked, I did handle the diplomatic situation slightly better than usual...

I settled in the rather odd spot of 3W 1S. I made the fatal mistake of building a warrior instead of a worker first though, I hadn't managed to improve a tile before the barbarians showed up and declared the show to be over in 2710 BC. I think its the first time I've finished a GOTM in less than...

The aim was to try and hang on in this game since it was Immortal and all. I Settled 3 cities, took two from barbarians, and I was even leading on tech early on, but it didn't last. I joined in a war with GK and Qin against washington and took his capital, then turned my attention to Tokugawa...

It never even occured to me to wait till the end to bomb my GA, :confused: They turned legendary on 3 successive turns so I suppose I picked right, although I only had 3 GA to play with I think. Now I know to avoid doing this in normal circumstances. :)

Very fun game thanks, I also decided to go cultural, although I didn't decide this fast enough to get the early religions, but founded 3 and had two spread to me from Mali, so 5 Cathedrals in each city by the end. I made plenty of other mistakes due to this being only my second attempt at...

I took the adventurer save this time, since I've never won on immortal, technically I'm not supposed to since I finished in the top half of the field in GOTM 32 with a score of 2065 :p, but I decided to break the rules anyway. I think that extra workboat helped me out a lot. I decided beforehand...

I'm not really sure what to say about this game, if I'd gone for Japan by the throat earlier I should have taken a victory, but I stuck to my little peninsula and whatever islands I could settle, trying to remain peaceful, which I did apart from a token city razing by Monty. Later on I built the...

Uh... yeah. I looked at it again to see if was one of those ambiguous greeny-yellow colours, but no, it's green. :p

I don't think I've ever won a cultural victory before so maybe I should launch a challenge for the yellow shield. :cool:

Sweet, an award of some kind. I was actually wondering a while ago if the medals were for lowest base score or lowest final score, but since I amatuerishly got the highest base score of the conquests my question is answered.

I took the adventurer save to try and ease the pain of deity. I used my work boat and scout initally to explore the 'other' landmass. My scout died before it figured out it was connected. I went for hinduism straight off and I think I would have got it if I had used my work boat on the clams...

I suspected so, Oh well, no half measures in that game :p

I went for Conquest since I thought maybe noone else could be bothered :P, and decided to go round the maze instead of skipping across to Hannibal, so took Hatty, Hannibal, Brennus, Caesar. I wasn't sure if you had to wipe everyone out to win a conquest or could vassalise them, so I ended up...

I was going for Domination, I can't quite remember when I decided that but since my last two wins were spaceship and conquest and I don't really know how to do culture or diplomacy I thought I'd try it. I was slow starting though and didn't get war started against Genghis until 1250 AD. I...

Those look like some interesting ideas. I think your setup looks good reuster, I think the reasoning behind having seperate sawtooths is that if people choose to only play one version then they still experience the sawtooth effect. One quirk in your spreadsheet is that the WOTM level goes down...

Don't worry Harbourboy, you weren't the only one. I didn't really want to bother with a write up of my game because there weren't really any good points. I was on Adventurer, settled in place and built a settler first, :( then sent it out to get killed by barbs. I think the barbs killed the...