News TSG 170 Announcement

[Knowtalent]

Civilization 5 - Game of the Month Training Series Game 170
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Welcome to the 170th game in the GOTM V Training Series! This Series will allow new and old GOTM fans to try out these features from Civ5's expansions and DLCs in a friendly environment. Participants are encouraged to post questions, stories, advice, tricks and failures in the dedicated game threads (described below). Each game will specify the Civ you will play and the Victory Condition to strive for. You can read more about the GOTM and Training Series concept in this thread.
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Civ V BNW - TSG170 Details:

Player (You): Askia of the Songhai
Victory Condition: SCORE NO other VCs are enabled, Difficulty: Diety
Civs/City-States (including player): 8/16
Map Type/Size: Mystery/ standard
Game pace: Standard

Game options: 250 turn score victory!
Start - Ancient Era
Enabled - Quick Combat, Quick Movement, NO BARBARIANS, NO ANCIENT RUINS
(Regardless of starting options, you may turn on/off Quick Combat/Quick Movement using the game options menu at any time during gameplay.)
Game Version: This game was created in Civ5 Brave New World version 1.0.3.279.
Game Requirements: All leader DLC Explorers maps, Wonders of the Ancient World DLC. Gods and Kings expansion, Brave New World Expansion.

Songhai Unique Abilities:

Spoiler :

UA: River Warlord - 3x the Gold from barbarian camps. and city pillaging. Land units start with the Amphibious and War Canoe promotions
UU: Mandekalu cavalry - a Unique unit that replaces the Knight. It has no penalty attacking cities. and is cheaper to build
UB: Mud Pyramid Mosque - Replaces the Temple it provides 2 culture as well as 2 faith

This is where you will start:

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Results and Congratulations thread: We will create a separate thread with the results at the end of the one month submission period (sorted by earliest date and highest score ). We will issue a medal to the top winner (based on earliest date finished for each VC). There are no long-term records kept for these results, they are just given out to top finishers to reward their efforts.

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This game runs for a month and ends june 1 2018.

The save is available for download

 

[beetle]

Can anyone provide insight as to how score is calculated? I am sure there are a few threads about that!

I do not think I have ever been winning on score by T250. The settings probably means that this map is for the small minority of players who can win a DOM game early.

Also, no barb camps means that the UA is significantly diminished.

 

[raider980]

Yeah, definitely going to research score calculation. Knowtalent, did you change the defaults, I thought on standard speed the end of the game was at 500 turns? Not like it matters for me, on Deity I'll be lucky to last past T150, lol.

Looks like a good start. I'll move the warrior to the SW hill but I can't imagine there will be anything good enough to warrant moving. So I'll settle in place.

 

[beetle]

Agreed, SIP looks good, but Warrior S to one of the hills first. I plan to run Liberty since I am sure score is heavily weighed for territory. Maybe use Liberty finisher for GS to unlock Chivalry for the UU to kill off the neighbors?

I thought on standard speed the end of the game was at 500 turns?

Yes, but when one sets up the game, one can pick a different value.

 

[zxcvbob]

Looks like a tough one! Lots of jungle tiles and not many turns to work with them, and citrus for one of the luxes. I normally play Emperor, and I struggle at Immortal. But I'll give it a shot (should be over pretty quick Maybe there's a good surprise just to the south; better check with my warrior before I settle... (is the settler standing on a hill?)