G-Minor 115

Denniz · Feb 25, 2011

[img=right]http://www.civfanatics.net/methos/hof/staff/gauntlet.gif[/img]While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets. Standard Hall of Fame rules (*) still apply, but any games meeting the settings will be counted towards the Gauntlet.

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Settings:

Victory Condition: Domination (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
Difficulty: Chieftain
Starting Era: Ancient
Map Size: Standard
Map Type: Pangaea
Speed: Quick
Required: Raging Barbarians, No Tribal Villages
Must Not Be Checked: No Barbarians, One City Challenge
Civ: Mongolia
Opponents: Any
Version: 2.13.004 or 3.19.003
Date: 25th February to 10th March 2011

Must not play as Inca.

The earliest finish date wins, with score as a tiebreaker.

The-Hawk · Feb 26, 2011

Question of the day... will it make sense to tech to Keshiks? Gers make it even more tempting. I'm guessing chariots will be sufficient, but with quick speed, they might be stretched.

ParadigmShifter · Feb 26, 2011

Presumably you can't play this on vanilla because you can't turn huts off.

Is it better for early dates to play on warlords? I can see lack of whipping from AI as advantageous.

cabert · Feb 27, 2011

first try, 1340 AD
I guess the_hawk will be 2000 years earlier, but at least I made it

first impressions :
- building settlers earlier is certainly worth it :-(, AIs don't build enough cities
- barbs are painful even on chieftain

Denniz · Feb 27, 2011

ParadigmShifter said:
Presumably you can't play this on vanilla because you can't turn huts off.

Is it better for early dates to play on warlords? I can see lack of whipping from AI as advantageous.

I keep making that mistake. :blush:

Yeah, no vanilla.

The-Hawk · Feb 27, 2011

ParadigmShifter said:
Presumably you can't play this on vanilla because you can't turn huts off.

I didn't know this :lol:

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ParadigmShifter said:
Is it better for early dates to play on warlords? I can see lack of whipping from AI as advantageous.

I vaguely recall that the different versions have different timelines... i.e. number of turns to get to a certain date, but I can never recall which is better. I'm playing BtS mostly because I like Buffy so much better.

cabert said:
first try, 1340 AD
I guess the_hawk will be 2000 years earlier, but at least I made it

Not quite, but I have submitted 80AD. I'm guessing the winning time will be 200 BC or so.

cabert said:
first impressions :
- building settlers earlier is certainly worth it :-(, AIs don't build enough cities
- barbs are painful even on chieftain

Yes, some settler spam is required for sure. Make sure you start with max AIs. I have not had significant barb trouble. In both of my games I let an AI build the GW and then captured it.

cabert · Feb 27, 2011

max AI should help minore the barb issue + easier domination
good thought

ParadigmShifter · Feb 27, 2011

Max AI and warlords seems the best bet for this.

The-Hawk · Feb 27, 2011

I think you might be right. My 80 AD game was turn 78 in BtS. I looked back at an old log from a Warlords quick game, the 78th turn was 20 BC. :sad:

AAA · Mar 6, 2011

90BC

Using Warlords :mischief:

Odd game. Had to do it mostly with Axemen, but excellent placement, and insanely lucky with battles.

An interesting game might be run using mostly GAs as they add around 8% of land.
I had 65% in the end. 10% more than I needed.

The-Hawk · Mar 6, 2011

Uh oh, its going to come down to score for tie breaker. I submitted a 90 BC game last weekend. My score was 33251.

Might just have to try again. :lol:

AAA · Mar 6, 2011

The-Hawk said:
Uh oh, its going to come down to score for tie breaker. I submitted a 90 BC game last weekend. My score was 33251.

Might just have to try again.

You might have to, I'm pretty sure it was around 50000

The-Hawk · Mar 7, 2011

OK, knocked off a turn. Just submitted 125 BC. This can be improved, I was still a little slow building settlers. Might try one more tomorrow.

WilliamOfOrange · Mar 8, 2011

There is no Mongols in Vanilla anyway, right? I haven't played Vanilla in years.

So, Imperialistic Ghengis versus Creative Kublai...I feel GK has the edge, no?

Sun Tzu Wu · Mar 8, 2011

WilliamOfOrange said:
There is no Mongols in Vanilla anyway, right? I haven't played Vanilla in years.

So, Imperialistic Ghengis versus Creative Kublai...I feel GK has the edge, no?

Wrong, both Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan were introduced in Vanilla. In Vanilla, Genghis Khan is Expansive rather than Imperialistic (WL). Doesn't seem that long ago.

However, Vanilla can't be used in this Gauntlet, because it is not possible to turn of those game breaking "Tribal Villages" in Vanilla.

Sun Tzu Wu

The-Hawk · Mar 8, 2011

WilliamOfOrange said:
There is no Mongols in Vanilla anyway, right? I haven't played Vanilla in years.

So, Imperialistic Ghengis versus Creative Kublai...I feel GK has the edge, no?

I did Kublai in Warlords. I wanted the border pops from Creative. With the late settlers, I was mostly whipping and chopping, but low priced settlers might be better. I really was ready to flip a coin on this. :confused:

AAA · Mar 8, 2011

The-Hawk said:
OK, knocked off a turn. Just submitted 125 BC. This can be improved, I was still a little slow building settlers. Might try one more tomorrow.

160 BC at about 50000
If you beat me, don't tell me, I've had about enough of this game :crazyeye:

Denniz · Mar 10, 2011

Results:

G-Minor 115 - Domination, Chieftain, Standard, Quick on Pangaea with Mongolia (Raging Barbs, No Huts or OCC)
1^st AAA 160 BC
2^nd The-Hawk 125 BC
3^rd Rockin_T 940 AD

Congratulations!

The-Hawk · Mar 10, 2011

Well done AAA! Unfortunately, I never had time for another try. Great finish. :goodjob:

enKage · Mar 11, 2011

at least i have highest scored

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