NihilZero
WHEOOHRNY
Greetings all. It is with great trepidation and profound humility that I welcome you all to this, the 53rd edition of the Immortal University.
It has apparently fallen to me to host this one. I have purpose-generated a completely random Fractal map for your amusement. No care has been taken whatsoever to ensure the worthiness of this map or its suitablity for purpose. And that, fellow civvers, is the whole point.
I won't promise you that this map will be easy, or hard, or interesting, or fun. What I can promise you is a randomly generated map that is unchecked for isolation, lack of commerce or food or metals, Shaka, or other unfortunate things that can befall you in the real Civ world but which forum games in general often shy away from.
No, this is utterly raw and uncooked and is the first map I generated.
Regardless, we will do our utmost to uphold the university's traditions - namely, smacking down the hapless AI! (I always wanted to say that)
So, as you may have gathered from the title, the randomiser in its infinite wisdom has given us:

Genghis in his civ incarnation doesn't quite embody the sheer unholy terror of his real-life counterpart and is definitely one of the weaker leaders. His traits are, on the whole, below average, and those starting techs are not going to help much either when it comes to quickly hooking up life's necessities in the early game. Still, if he gets up some momentum going his highly promoted units (particularly the mounted ones) can certainly put a hurt on somebody. When he's not fighting he's pretty much a lame duck, but fighting he does well. Kind of a one-trick pony.
The start looks like this:

As coastal starts go, this one doesn't look too bad. Two Agriculture specials means we can get the show on the road fast with just one tech and expect our worker to be busy from the word go. My instinct here is SIP on the picturesque plains hill, worker first and delay the workboats until we can chop 'em out (but no doubt somebody will prove me wrong).
I'm posting the inital Autosave on Immortal/Normal. This means you don't need to mess about giving the barbs Archery. I guess I can worldbuilder up one with variable difficulty and speed settings if people really want one. Do people really want one?
It has apparently fallen to me to host this one. I have purpose-generated a completely random Fractal map for your amusement. No care has been taken whatsoever to ensure the worthiness of this map or its suitablity for purpose. And that, fellow civvers, is the whole point.
I won't promise you that this map will be easy, or hard, or interesting, or fun. What I can promise you is a randomly generated map that is unchecked for isolation, lack of commerce or food or metals, Shaka, or other unfortunate things that can befall you in the real Civ world but which forum games in general often shy away from.
No, this is utterly raw and uncooked and is the first map I generated.
Regardless, we will do our utmost to uphold the university's traditions - namely, smacking down the hapless AI! (I always wanted to say that)
So, as you may have gathered from the title, the randomiser in its infinite wisdom has given us:

Genghis in his civ incarnation doesn't quite embody the sheer unholy terror of his real-life counterpart and is definitely one of the weaker leaders. His traits are, on the whole, below average, and those starting techs are not going to help much either when it comes to quickly hooking up life's necessities in the early game. Still, if he gets up some momentum going his highly promoted units (particularly the mounted ones) can certainly put a hurt on somebody. When he's not fighting he's pretty much a lame duck, but fighting he does well. Kind of a one-trick pony.
The start looks like this:

As coastal starts go, this one doesn't look too bad. Two Agriculture specials means we can get the show on the road fast with just one tech and expect our worker to be busy from the word go. My instinct here is SIP on the picturesque plains hill, worker first and delay the workboats until we can chop 'em out (but no doubt somebody will prove me wrong).
I'm posting the inital Autosave on Immortal/Normal. This means you don't need to mess about giving the barbs Archery. I guess I can worldbuilder up one with variable difficulty and speed settings if people really want one. Do people really want one?