G-Minor 3 Prerelease

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We start the third Permanent HOF Minor Gauntlet in two days, and I do believe that update will prove to be quite interesting. :mischief: Why not whet some appetites a little early?

  • Difficulty:
  • Mapsize: Small
  • Starting Era:
  • Speed:
  • Submitted on or before: June 24th.
  • Victory Condition: (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
  • Map Type:
  • Opponents:
  • Version: HOF Mod 1.61.003
 
The basic point of this thread is to have a little guessing game to see who lands closest to the actual Gauntlet details. I'll add the difficulty in to see if that elicits any estimates:

  • Difficulty: Warlord
  • Mapsize: Small
  • Starting Era:
  • Speed:
  • Submitted on or before: June 24th.
  • Victory Condition: (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
  • Map Type:
  • Opponents:
  • Version: HOF Mod 1.61.003
 
I'll take a guess ...

Speed: Marathon
Map: Archipelago
Opponents: India, China, Japan, Russia (basically Indo-Eurasia civs)
Victory: Culture
Start Era: Not Sure, guessing maybe not Ancient
 
I guess there's no harm in confirming Archipelago. It is afterall the last of the three "traditional" landmasses we haven't minored in yet:

  • Difficulty: Warlord
  • Mapsize: Small
  • Starting Era:
  • Speed:
  • Submitted on or before: June 24th.
  • Victory Condition: (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
  • Map Type: Archipelago
  • Opponents:
  • Version: HOF Mod 1.61.003
 
* Difficulty: Warlord
* Mapsize: Small
* Starting Era: Medieval
* Speed: Marathon
* Submitted on or before: June 24th.
* Victory Condition: Culture(though all victory conditions must be enabled)
* Map Type: Archipelago
* Opponents: Egypt, Rome, Greece...
* Version: HOF Mod 1.61.003
 
The last one was "Time" but played almost the same as Conquest and Domination. So this one almost has to be Culture or Space Race. Probably Culture.

I'd be shocked if it were marathon. We havent' done Normal yet, so that's probably right.

Starting Era has never been anything but Ancient (which is probably a good thing). I'll stick with the standard there.

Odd you didn't let us speculate on Civilization. I guess it's Any then.

Now, what would make this more interesting...

A few aggressive opponents. (or maybe Always War turned on!)
High seas : would make it harder to construct wonders and spam cottages.
This would be a bad one for Barbarians on, since it's islands.
 
WastinTime said:
Odd you didn't let us speculate on Civilization. I guess it's Any then.
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Any, other than of course the TBA AI. Selecting your own player nation is a fuandamental choice in regular HOF games, so it's something that will be optional quite frequently in the Gauntlets.

WastinTime said:
I'd be shocked if it were marathon.
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Take a deep breath, close your eyes and count to ten:

  • Difficulty: Warlord
  • Mapsize: Small
  • Starting Era:
  • Speed: Marathon
  • Submitted on or before: June 24th.
  • Victory Condition: (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
  • Map Type: Archipelago
  • Opponents:
  • Version: HOF Mod 1.61.003
 
Being marathon, seems to be most appropriate for conquest or domination, the others might just turn into a wait-fest.
So maybe a historical island war scenario, with a certain starting era to reflect that?

WWII Pacific, industrial or modern era, the AI being America, Japan, China, Russia?
Colonial wars (carribbean), renaissance or medieval, vs France, Spain, England,...?
Colonial wars (southeast asia), renaissance, vs ...(damn, Portugal and Netherlands missing).

I can't think of any more big historical island wars. There don't seem to be many. Ah well, it doesn't sound very likely to me anyway... ;)

I do really like the carribbean idea though. Can we have that some day? Please, please! ;)

edit: *hint* how about G-major 2? On monarch or above? :mischief:
 
Thrar said:
edit: *hint* how about G-major 2? On monarch or above? :mischief:
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I still have a month to decide that one don't I? :mischief:
 
superslug said:
I still have a month to decide that one don't I? :mischief:
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I guess so...unless you decide to follow my suggestion in the other thread! :p
 
  • Difficulty: Warlord
  • Mapsize: Small
  • Starting Era:
  • Speed: Marathon
  • Submitted on or before: June 24th.
  • Victory Condition: (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
  • Map Type: Archipelago
  • Opponents: All the AI will have the aggressive trait.
  • Version: HOF Mod 1.61.003
 
Well, I got map and speed right, but I was wrong on the opponents. And, I was probably wrong about the victory condition being cultural.

What about these settings?

  • Difficulty: Warlord
  • Mapsize: Small
  • Starting Era: Industrial
  • Speed: Marathon
  • Submitted on or before: June 24th.
  • Victory Condition: Domination (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
  • Map Type: Archipelago
  • Opponents: All the AI will have the aggressive trait.
  • Version: HOF Mod 1.61.003
 
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