Game-of-the-month style game: Aztecs

MantaRevan · Apr 27, 2014

So I know that civ 5 already has an official GoTM going on right now, but a group of my friends who play multiplayer together have decided to start our own GoTM style game, which anyone and everyone is invited to join in on! Here's the turn 0 save, feel free do whatever you want with the game, and check in every 50 turns or so to discuss the situation. This game will be on emperor, which will be a walk in the park for some of you, but it will allow the less experienced players to get direct feedback about their play on a manageable level.

Here's the start

We're going to have a lot of good solid production, and the jungle to the north means good food and science if we need it. The river start will mean that we can take advantage of floating gardens in the capital. Have fun!

Doctorgate · Apr 27, 2014

Here is my turn 50, i have the great library, and I went tradition.

Gamewizard · Apr 27, 2014

No offense, but I hope Genghis is coming for you! Unprotected capital just begging for somebody to comp rush it.

GoStu · Apr 27, 2014

Okay, I'm interested. Aztecs are my favorite civ, so this should be fun. Looks like a nice start, couldn't ask for much better than Salt and Marble.

EDIT: looked at the first screenshot below that. Pedro doesn't have a hope in hell in that kind of crowd. Aztecs, Assyrians, and Mongols? He's dead, but just doesn't know it yet.

MantaRevan · Apr 27, 2014

GoStu said:
Okay, I'm interested. Aztecs are my favorite civ, so this should be fun. Looks like a nice start, couldn't ask for much better than Salt and Marble.

EDIT: looked at the first screenshot below that. Pedro doesn't have a hope in hell in that kind of crowd. Aztecs, Assyrians, and Mongols? He's dead, but just doesn't know it yet.

Nope! He got DOWd by every civ on the continent in my game.

MantaRevan · Apr 27, 2014

Got a ton of growth based wonders plus oracle, went piety and tradition so that I could grab Glory of God. Got DOWd by Genghis and Assyria, even though we had a DOF and research agreement. I didn't know the AI was dumb enough to cancel those by declaring.

budweiser · Apr 27, 2014

You really should have some trade routes going. Its t165 already. With all that salt there is no excuse for not making any.

Myth and Legend · Apr 28, 2014

Uh, what difficulty is this? You having the GL and not being crushed to bits by such strong AI warmongers tells me this isn't anywhere near Deity.

4N4C0ND4 · Apr 28, 2014

Its nice and I may give it a try: I love war and Aztec are fun for that. I just miss not meeting Monty as an AI though, he is so fun

But btw, if you want to do a GOTM style, you should propose a goal, a victory condition or something.

At the end, at least in regular GOTM, the whole purpose is to achieve something the fastest possible

As an idea, why not trying to make a total culture goal? or total kill culture goal? will encourage to make the most of the UA

budweiser · Apr 28, 2014

I'm looking forward to starting this tonight. I might go extremely tall science or I may try and get those archeology achievements that I am lacking.

danaphanous · Apr 28, 2014

Wouldn't a lake be a way better start for Aztecs? or was the point to just give a random start?

MantaRevan · Apr 28, 2014

Myth and Legend said:
Uh, what difficulty is this? You having the GL and not being crushed to bits by such strong AI warmongers tells me this isn't anywhere near Deity.

This is emperor. We decided that it was the most suitable level for most of the players participating. And I didn't go GL, Doctorgate did.

4N4C0ND4 said:
Its nice and I may give it a try: I love war and Aztec are fun for that. I just miss not meeting Monty as an AI though, he is so fun

But btw, if you want to do a GOTM style, you should propose a goal, a victory condition or something.

At the end, at least in regular GOTM, the whole purpose is to achieve something the fastest possible

As an idea, why not trying to make a total culture goal? or total kill culture goal? will encourage to make the most of the UA

Well my friends and I just left it open ended to observe how our different playstyles would come out in the same save. I can set a goal if you guys want me too. The goal I set for myself was to try and see how much culture I could accumulate via sacred path and 3 cultural CS. I suppose that can be the new goal of the game if you guys want it to be.

danaphanous said:
Wouldn't a lake be a way better start for Aztecs? or was the point to just give a random start?

It was a random start, and since the Aztecs can build floating gardens on both rivers and lakes, I decided to keep the seed.

budweiser · Apr 28, 2014

I cant play it, it needs some kind of DLC that I don't have.

MantaRevan · Apr 28, 2014

budweiser said:
I cant play it, it needs some kind of DLC that I don't have.

Yeah the problem is that Firaxis has made it so that you literally need to have all of the DLC(even scrambled continents and nations) in order to use save files from anyone who has DLC.

CraigMak · Apr 29, 2014

budweiser said:
I cant play it, it needs some kind of DLC that I don't have.

I have no idea what the hell DLC this requires. I have pretty much everything you could possibly buy.... Pretty dumb.

I don't think anyone is going to be able to load this up.

Myth and Legend · Apr 29, 2014

CraigMak said:
I have no idea what the hell DLC this requires. I have pretty much everything you could possibly buy.... Pretty dumb.

I don't think anyone is going to be able to load this up.

I will be able to, though these past few days I've been on a Hearthstone frenzy. Are there any specific rules on how to play these out?

Walter E Kurtz · Apr 29, 2014

Looks like fun, I'll give it a go.

CraigMak · Apr 29, 2014

What DLC does this need? I have pretty much everything including scrambled.

MantaRevan · Apr 29, 2014

CraigMak said:
What DLC does this need? I have pretty much everything including scrambled.

Much to my dismay, it appears that you need to have literally every piece of DLC that the save author has, in my case- all of it. Anyone who has complete addition should be fine, this includes map packs and irrelevant stuff like that, unfortunately.

CraigMak · Apr 29, 2014

MantaRevan said:
Much to my dismay, it appears that you need to have literally every piece of DLC that the save author has, in my case- all of it. Anyone who has complete addition should be fine, this includes map packs and irrelevant stuff like that, unfortunately.

Very stupid design, making the game unplayable for people who want to pass files around is a bad idea. I think this would encourage people to not get any DLC rather than to get them all. The less you have the wider audience you can swap with.

Really Really bad design.

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