News: TSG36 Announcement

Welcome to the thirty-sixth game in the GOTM V Training Series! There are plenty of new features in Civilization 5 to explore and the Training Series games will allow new and old GOTM fans to try out these new features in a friendly environment. You are all encouraged to post your questions, stories, advice, tricks and failures in the dedicated game threads described below. You can read more about the GOTM and Training Series concept in this thread. Before going into the details of this game, we would like to ask you to abide to our most sacred rule: don’t replay any turns. If you make a mistake, accept it and try to recover. It's better to do the bad moves in the Training Series instead of in the actual GOTM competition, once it starts.

In this game, the designated VC is Diplomatic. You may win by any VC you wish, as all VC's are enabled, but the results will be posted with fastest finish by Diplomatic victory and then all other VC listed below by fastest time.

In this game you will play as Catherine and lead The Russian civilization to victory. It's a standard-sized mystery map played at Warlord difficulty and at standard pace. Diplomatic victory is the designated VC for this game, all victory conditions are enabled. You will have until June 15th to complete the game and submit.

Very happy to have out Mac players back with us, hope you enjoy the game.

Please note that you are only allowed to build Oxford University one time.

Civ V - TSG36 Game Settings:
Playable Civ: Catherine - Russia
Number of AI Opponents: 7
Number of City-States: 20
Map type: Mystery
Map Size: Standard
Difficulty Level: Warlord
Game pace: Standard
Game options: Promotion Saving is enabled. Quick Combat is disabled (You can enable it by following instructions in this link.)
Game Version: This game was created in Civ5 version 1.0.1.511

In this game, you will be playing as Catherine, you possess Siberian Riches. Strategic resources provide +1 production and Horse, Iron and Uranium resources provide double quantity.

You can train the Cossack, which replaces the Cavalry. The Cossack has the same strength as Cavalry and can move after attacking, but gains a significant bonus when attacking damaged units. This makes Cossacks exceptionally strong at counter-attacking enemy units. You must discover the technology of Military Science and you need the horse resource to build it.

You can build the Krepost, which replaces the Barracks. The Krepost provides +15 experience points for all units built in the city in which it is built. It also reduces the cultural and gold cost of acquiring new tiles by 25% in this city. You must discover the technology of Bronze Working to build it.

This is where you will start:



Information about threads associated with TSG
TSG Announcement thread (this one). This thread is used to announce the game and clarify the settings and rules (don’t be afraid to ask questions). It’s also used to discuss the game before you start, and post problems with opening the save. Please don’t post any information from a game you have started. Instead use the next thread.

Game In Progress thread. This thread is used to discuss the game once it's on the way. There are no reading or posting restrictions as such (apart from normal decency), although we encourage players to use the spoiler tags for screenshots. Here you can post questions related to the game and share your achievements/anger/frustration/victories while you play.

After Action Report thread. In this thread you can post the results of your game. Please state (preferably in the post title) your victory date and score, as recorded in the Hall of Fame, and the most important: your path to glory! , We will create a separate thread with the results at the end of the two week period (sorted by date and score). Players are encouraged to provide feedback on the game. Some players like to replay the game, and although we will not record the results from a replay, you can still post your new experiences. The game will not be closed as such, but after two weeks, the results will be compiled, and will not necessarily be updated with reports coming in after the finish date.

File Upload System
We now have a game file upload system you can find here. Please use it to upload your completed first attempt by saving the game on the turn after your victory or defeat. (by using the "lemme play one more turn" feature)

This game runs for a month and ends Friday, 15 June 2012.

The Save can be found here.

Looks like time to build a granary. I'm somewhat inclined to settle on the WSW hill, for the hill/river/mountain combo. I'll probably move my warrior up there to see what's to the SW.

Right on the edge of Siberia. Fortunately, we will soon have something to drink.

Unfortunately Siberian wine is not that great. You may want to move furthur south!

Looks quite bad to the west. Maybe settle one tile SW on top of the wine (for the observatory also)?

Thresian said:

Looks like time to build a granary. I'm somewhat inclined to settle on the WSW hill, for the hill/river/mountain combo. I'll probably move my warrior up there to see what's to the SW.

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I agree with the inclination to settle WSW. However, I think I will move the warrior to one of the Northern hills first, just to see if I would be moving away from something better.