Conquests COTM01 Speculation Thread

ainwood · May 26, 2004

Here is your chance to speculate about what the next GOTM will be.

I will start off by telling you that it will be a 'standard' map, and will periodically add more details..... :mischief:

Map Size: Standard
Civ Trait 1: ??
Civ Trait 2: ??
Barbs: ??
Map Age: ??
Map Configuration: ??
Civilization: ??
Climate: ??
Starting map: ??
Minimap: ??
Temperature: ??
Ocean Coverage: ??

Moderator Action: Thread title changed now that we know this was really COTM 01 - AlanH

Lord Jimbob · May 26, 2004

ainwood said:
Here is your chance to speculate about what the next GOTM will be.
I will start off by telling you that it will be a 'standard' map, and will periodically add more details.....

Absolutely titillating you are, 'ol woody.... I await your adumbrations of the X-Y wrapping scheme of the map w/baited breath. :rolleyes:

Just out of curiosity, has there ever been a GOTM on a tiny map? I could see that huge maps might not go over too well w/players on older computers, GOTM21 is a notable exception[?]) but I'm too lazy to look through the GOTM thread to see....

Maybe denyd will be right about the aztecs? I don't see a militaristic and religious civ in any of the recent GOTMs. But then again, his avatar is a pig that flies...

Cuivienen · May 26, 2004

I think we might next learn that there is, in fact, water on the map.

Completely Random Prediction:

Map Size: Standard
Civ Trait 1: Religious
Civ Trait 2: Militaristic
Barbs: Raging
Map Age: 5 Billion Years
Map Configuration: Archipelago
Civilization: Japan/Tokugawa
Climate: Wet
Starting map: N/A
Minimap: N/A
Temperature: Temperate
Ocean Coverage: 80%

ainwood · May 26, 2004

GOTM 1 was on a tiny map.

I think. Small at least. :hmm:

King Of America · May 27, 2004

Game Predictions:

Traits: Miltaritistic, Expansionist
Barbs: Raging
World: Pangaea
Level: Deity
Civ: Zulu

Community Predictions:

1. A "major" player will return.

2. The QSC will be scored.

LeSphinx · May 27, 2004

It's hard to predict all the information showned by ainwood.
let me see, I take my cristal ball and see..... .....
NOTHING!
WE NEED MORE INFORMATIONS .....
LeSphinx

Karasu · May 27, 2004

Ok, here is my guess...

Civ Trait 1: Altruistic yet superficial
Civ Trait 2: Schizophrenic and with a generally unstable personality
Barbs: more than you would get by kicking a bees' nest
Temperature: Fahrenheit 451
Ocean Coverage: 87%
Land Coverage: 69% (of course it's more than 100%, it's a Panchipelago map!)

Offa · May 27, 2004

Warlord game, no barbs, pangea as the English. It's time for us poms to get our own back: we have had a hard time over the last few months.

A new minor tribe called New Zealand as neighbours would be a nice touch.

LeSphinx · May 27, 2004

Monarch game, normal barbs, ONLY 3 civ as we can play a game without a fight!
Civ trait : relegious and scientific
LeSphinx

ainwood · May 27, 2004

Ok... One of the traits is 'expansionist'.

Karasu · May 27, 2004

Offa said:
A new minor tribe called New Zealand as neighbours would be a nice touch.

Provided it is minor and does not start the game with Tanks...

LeSphinx · May 27, 2004

Here are the civilizations which are expansionit:
Iroquois, American, Russian, Zulu, British, Mongol, Viking and Arabs.

As we have recently played: America (GOTM 27), Mongols (GOTM25), Arabs (GOTM23), Vikings (GOTM22), I think we will not play this civilizations.

So : British, Iroquois, Russian, Zulu
As we only play once each civ, I don't know which one!
I can not guess!
Maybe we will have sooner the other civ trait except if ainwood gave us another informations like the climate or so on.....

dojoboy · May 27, 2004

LeSphinx said:
Here are the civilizations which are expansionit:
Iroquois, American, Russian, Zulu, British, Mongol, Viking and Arabs.

There is nothing written in stone that would prevent ainwood from changing the traits of a civ. Its been done before.

Tech Step · May 27, 2004

Well.

After my disasterous GOTM 31 (that is the last one correct) 1950 COnquest (I rue the day that I chose to go for Conquest (I had never won by conquest) as I believe I could of got domination by 1750 or some such) I intend to win this next GOTM convincingly. I believe it will be the russians for this GOTM as they have not been played in the 10 or so GOTMS that I have participated in.

Ainwood.

I would like to see more of the modifications that Cracker used to do. I would love to play as New Zealand for a GOTM. The UU couls be an ancient age warrior called "Maori Warrior" a 2/2/2 unit that doesn't care about the terrain or something like that.

Bring on the Russians.

Hergrom · May 27, 2004

LeSphinx said:
Here are the civilizations which are expansionit:
Iroquois, American, Russian, Zulu, British, Mongol, Viking and Arabs.

As we have recently played: America (GOTM 27), Mongols (GOTM25), Arabs (GOTM23), Vikings (GOTM22), I think we will not play this civilizations.

So : British, Iroquois, Russian, Zulu
As we only play once each civ, I don't know which one!
I can not guess!
Maybe we will have sooner the other civ trait except if ainwood gave us another informations like the climate or so on.....

Cracker's old trick was to have the next GOTM's featured civ be a close neighbor in the preceding GOTM. If Ainwood is following that trend, then we could have the English or Iroquois. BUT, we recently played the Iroquois as a Medal Play game, so I say it will be:

English
Standard map (ESP I say...)
Raging Barbs (Ainwood seems to like higher barb levels)
Continents
Monarch

LeSphinx · May 27, 2004

Hergrom, I agree with you with the English as we only play once with them!
The other thing is that we haven't play a Scientific or Militaristic for a while!
Mongol, Viking and Zulu are militaristic and Russian are Scientific!
So maybe you are right with the English.

Here are some statistics I've made about the civilizations traits according to the number of GOTM played as the beginning:

Civ trait #1 Total %
Commercial 12 39%
Expansionist 8 26%
Industrious 6 19%
Militaristic 4 13%
Religious 1 3%
Total 31 100%

Civ trait #2 Total %
Religious 11 35%
Scientific 8 26%
Militaristic 6 19%
Industrious 5 16%
Expansionist 1 3%
Total 31 100%

According to this tables, I think we will play with a militaristic civ!
We will see if the next little peace of information given by ainwood is relevant or not!

LeSphinx

AlanH · May 27, 2004

Offa said:
Warlord game, no barbs, pangea as the English. It's time for us poms to get our own back: we have had a hard time over the last few months.

Too right!

A new minor tribe called New Zealand as neighbours would be a nice touch.

And sheep turn into a UU? (pronounced ewe-ewe

)

denyd · May 27, 2004

Bromhead:"Sixty! We dropped at least sixty wouldn't you say?!"
Ardendorf:"Well that leaves only 3940."

ZULU

AlanH · May 27, 2004

King Of America said:
Game Predictions:
1. A "major" player will return.

I wonder who that might be? :hmm:

2. The QSC will be scored.

Now you're just being silly !

Ronald · May 27, 2004

Civ: English
Barbs: roaming
Map Age: 3 billion
Map Configuration: archipelago
Climate: arid
Temperature: cold
Ocean Coverage: 70%
Difficulty: Demigod

Ronald

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