News: BOTM 104, Noble, starts 1 April

BOTM 104: Il Duce of Rome.

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Julius Caesar, The Leader of Rome, Il Duce. SGOTM22 Revenge: Zara Yacob must die. And Gilgamesh as well.
This BOTM is revenge for my team's defeat in SGOTM22.
Julius Caesar has never starred in a BOTM! He was The Leader for SGOTM22 and led 3 of 5 teams to defeat. This game you can get your revenge on all those other civs that were so mean to you then.
This time AIs aren't excessively buffed and no restrictions on player growth or victory conditions.

In contrast to SGOTM22 and BOTM102, there is no reward for building Wonders. However the will be awarded to the player that captures the most wonders.
Game settings:
Playing as: Il Duce of Rome
Rivals: 6 AIs
Difficulty: Noble
Starting Era: Ancient
Speed: Normal
Options: None it is Noble after all, so huts and events are in
Victory Conditions: All enabled

Map settings:
Map: Pangaea
World Wrap: Cylindrical
Mapsize: Worldsize_standard
Climate: Climate_temperate
Sea level: Sealevel_medium

Il Duce is Organized and Imperialistic, and you start with Fishing and Mining.

The Organized trait gives -50% civic upkeep and double production speed of Courthouse, Factory and Lighthouse

The Imperialistic trait gives +100% great general emergence and +50% production of settlers

Unique unit: Praetorian (replaces Swordsman)
The Praetorian benefits from: base strength = 8, 0% city attack bonus, and 45 hammers to build (on normal speed). This compares with the Swordsman which has: base strength = 6, 10% city attack bonus, and 40 hammers to build (on normal speed).

Unique Building: Forum (replaces Market)
Unique building for Rome; Replaces Market
+25% gold; Can turn 2 citizens into merchant; +1 from fur, ivory, silk, whale; +25% Great Person birth rate

Starting screenshot

This is the start of the game (click for a bigger image):




Note that in this game, any espionage-culture victories will be counted as cultural victories.

No Adventurer Class nor Challenger Class saves for this game. Noble Contender for all.

To Enter the Competition:

This competition will open at 00:01 am on 1 Apr 2016, server local time (UTC-6:00). From that date and time, you'll be able to get your chosen starting save >>>here<<<.

Submit the save after your victory (or defeat) here, by 1 May 2016.

Here is a link to a list of the differences between Vanilla, Warlords and BtS.

Software Versions

Windows: This game MUST be played in Beyond the Sword (NOT Civ4 Vanilla or Warlords), patched to version 3.19, and with the BUFFY mod version 3.19.003 installed. You can download the BUFFY mod here. Players using Windows Vista or Windows 7 are encouraged to read the notes on Vista fixes here.


Macintosh: This game MUST be played in Beyond the Sword (NOT Civ4 Vanilla or Warlords), patched to version 3.19, and with the Mac BUFFY mod version 3.19.003 installed. You can download the Mac BUFFY mod here.

While playing...

Remember - for your entry to be accepted, it MUST be your first attempt to play this game, and you MUST NOT replay any turns. If you make a mistake while playing, you have to live with it, learn from it, and carry on the game without replaying.

We will open 'spoiler' threads during the month for players to discuss what happens in their games. Do not discuss any details of your game outside those threads.

Interesting concept. OPtorians!

Sure you don't want some restrictions, like you can only capture/found a new city if you have the equal amount of wonders as cities?

G-Major 144 is taking up all my time, for better or worse, so haven't had time to play the last BOTMs, nor this one I reckon. Looks like an odd starting area. Jungle in the BFC, practically no forests. Don't think the warrior will reveal anything no matter where you take him. Think I might have taken the settler to the green hill in the SW to reveal a lot of tiles, and possibly settle down there. There are FPs at least, and moving away from a rice isn't all that hurtful. All those green hills would be nice of course, but I don't like the SIP position. The rice up there is wet, which is better, but still, it doesn't look like a great spot, which jungle nearby, which may grow over the rice if you are unlucky.

"National Wonders and Projects don't.
But you can't capture those. "
Projects can't be captured but I believe National Wonders can. You just have to not have that NW built or under construction anywhere when you capture a city that has it. I'm not sure if this applies to or was it in or but I definitely remember having been annoyedwhen I got a sub-optimally placed national wonder through city capture.
Starting location looks a bit boring. Might not SIP.

Don't think that is possible in BtS. For instance, in the G-Major 144 game I'm currently playing, I captured a city with Moai in it, very early, and it got razed.

It may be possible if the AI is so grand as to gift you a city with a national wonder in it, though don't hold your breath for that happening! The reason I say that is that I've gifted away a city with a national wonder in it, and that got preserved in the city afterwards. It was a desperate measure to prevent domination in a conquest game. Think it was the Heroic Epic city actually.

Trying to decide whether to name the capital dNgheap, grAssland, or Crappola. Thoughts?

Pangaea said:

Don't think the warrior will reveal anything no matter where you take him.

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Warrior SW should reveal something, as the hill 3S of warrior looks like a hill (line in tile grid isn't straight), as does 3W1N of warrior.

Still hoping to play some BOTM one day, maybe this one. But our team already killed Zara and Giggles, they might be out to take revenge on me!

Looks like we had 1 event allrdy.

Neron(s) Fire.

If you are really lucky jungle spreads to the wet rice before you can improve it

Vengeance is a dish best served cold- what's with the jungles?

This start is clearly april fools, it can't be that bad. Expecting the real game to open up soon.

Right...?

Sheesh, no one is ever happy.
"Deity start is too easy." "Noble start is too poor."
I revealed the rice so you could see how strong SIP was. Do I get any thanks?
Sorry about the jungles. I was too busy adjusting the AI positions.

Someday I may learn to stop responding to trolls.

kcd_swede said:

"Soon" is relative to what, exactly? Continental drift?

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Spoiler threads are up.

Deckhand said:

Sheesh, no one is ever happy.
"Deity start is too easy." "Noble start is too poor."
I revealed the rice so you could see how strong SIP was. Do I get any thanks?
Sorry about the jungles. I was too busy adjusting the AI positions.

Someday I may learn to stop responding to trolls.

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The start is so horribly pathetic that I feel like walking my settler over teh entire map before settling about 2016 AD next to 3 porkers. At least we could be Mao if all we get to eat is rice.

Please note that eliminating Zara and Gil is not required for any of the usual medals and fastest finish awards.
It is only needed for the stealing wonders award.
It is a big part of the theme.
Sorry about any confusion.

And if you didn't notice, the spoiler threads are open.

Deckhand said:

Please note that eliminating Zara and Gil is not required for any of the usual medals and fastest finish awards.
It is only needed for the stealing wonders award.
It is a big part of the theme.
Sorry about any confusion.

And if you didn't notice, the spoiler threads are open.

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OMG... so that means putting them on their knees is not enough... you have to eliminate them? OMG you are worse than the director for The Walking Dead!

1st move, Settler 2SE.

kcd_swede said:

OMG... so that means putting them on their knees is not enough... you have to eliminate them? OMG you are worse than the director for The Walking Dead!

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I can well understand your horror, kcd_swede, because when it comes to Civ mapmaking, you are always so kind and gentle - never evil or mean - so clearly you don't have a single iota of evil anywhere in you. So I guess the thought of a civ being eliminated must come as a shock to you. You have my deepest sympathies.