6otM152 Announcement

[Eyswein]

Welcome to game 152 in the 6OTM Series! These games will allow new and old GOTM fans to try out the new features in Civ6 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. We will be working to refine the 6otM concept as we move ahead with the series. Gifting of cities is an exploit in a religious VC as the AI cant see that it will lose if it accepts the cities.


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Civ VI - 6otM152 Details:

Player (You): Catherine de Medici (Magnificence) – France
Victory Condition: Culture but all other VCs are enabled.
Difficulty: King
Civs/City-States (including player): 20 / 24
Map Type/Size: Continents & Islands / Huge Size
Resources: Abundant
Start Position: Legendary
Rainfall: Wet
Sea Level: Low
Game pace: Standard
Disaster Intensity: 0
Game Mode(s): Barbarian Clans; Duplicate Leaders and Civilizations allowed

Game options:
Start - Ancient Era
Enabled - Barbarians; Tribal Villages
Game Version: This game was created in Civ6 Gathering Storm version 1.0.12.9.
Game Requirements: vanilla version of Civilization VI with Rise and Fall and Gathering Storm expansions. All pre-NFP & NFP DLCs are required.

Here is where you will start:

Catherine de Medici (Magnificence) – France Unique Attributes:

Spoiler Unique Attributes :

Catherine de Medici (Magnificence) Leader Bonus: Catherine’s Magnificences - +2 Culture for improved Luxury resources adjacent to a Theater Square or Château. Cities with a Theater Square gain the unique Court Festival project, which upon completion grants Culture and Tourism based on the number of excess copies of the Luxury resources that France possesses.

Unique Ability: Grand Tour- +20% Production towards Medieval, Renaissance and Industrial Era Wonders. Double Tourism from Wonders of any Era.

Unique Unit: Garde Impériale- Replace Line Infantry, Unlocked by Military Science

Common abilities: +5 Combat Strength vs. anti-cavalry units.
Special abilities: Earns Great General points from kills; +10 Combat Strength on the original Capital Capital's home continent
Special traits: Higher Combat Strength (70 vs. 65).

Unique Infrastructure: Château- Built by Builder; Unlocked by Humanism

Effects: +2 Culture; +1 Gold; +1 Appeal; +1 Culture for each adjacent wonder, increasing to +2 Culture per wonder (with Flight); +2 Gold if built on a River
Restrictions: Cannot be adjacent to another Château.

Unique Project: Court Festival - built in Theater Square; Unllocked by Drama and Poetry

Effects: Upon completion, it awards 50 Culture and 50 Tourism per excess copy of the luxury resources that France possesses, including traded luxury resources and ones from your tributary city-states. The Tourism burst applies to all civilizations, including ones she has not met. Note: The tourism gained with civilizations you have not met does not count towards a cultural victory condition until you meet the civilization. It will start immediately at that higher value.

Information about threads associated with each individual 6otM -- Must Read if you are new to our Game of the Month!
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Spoiler :

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. Once you have opened the save, DO NOT POST in the Announcement thread, even non game-related information. Instead use the next thread.

Opening Actions thread: This thread is used to discuss the game's opening decisions and strategies through the first 100 or so turns. Here you can post questions related to the game and share your achievements/anger/frustration/victories while you play. We encourage players to use the spoiler tags for screenshot. During the time the game is active, please do not post any information concerning the game outside of the spoiler threads including screen shots, videos, or recorded/live-cast Let's Plays on other websites.

After Actions thread: In this thread you can post the results of your game. Please state your victory/loss date and final score (preferably in the post title) and describe your path to glory in this post! 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 one month, the results will be compiled, and will not necessarily be updated with reports coming in after the finish date.

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In development.

This game runs for a month and ends 1 March 2023.
@The_J @Blake00

The save is attached below.

 

[Eyswein]

Ain't no party like a Catherine (Magnificence) Party!! If you haven't played Magnificence, take a look at Court Festivals projects. A completely different way for a potentially very, very fast cultural victory.

 

[flairin]

Wow!! Awesome I'll see if you system can handle a huge map.

Curious when the new leaders will be incorporated in the Game of the Month cycle?

 

[FeiLing]

Do luxury resources count for the court project, if you have them traded away?

 

[Eyswein]

Wow!! Awesome I'll see if you system can handle a huge map.

Curious when the new leaders will be incorporated in the Game of the Month cycle?

They will. I've been holding off to ensure they can work for everyone. Right now believe there is still an issue with Leaders of China and Macs.

 

[Eyswein]

Do luxury resources count for the court project, if you have them traded away?

No, only excess that you maintain / currently have (i.e. have directly, trade for, have via Suz, etc.).

 

[hitretz]

Nice game config Eyswein. I wonder if the bottleneck will be meeting all Civs in time. SIP to keep R2 chops, if Jade was on a hill possibly would consider moving. Going to aim for a massive Settler production. Religion would be nice to float builders. Not sure if reliquaries can be considered on King difficulty nor if it will be help for a faster win?. Aiming to take out 2-4 neighboring Civs for land and luxes. Will try to prevent targeted neighbors from ever settling. Not sure how cost scaling for the project works here, will it resolve sequentially just like a Settler does? i.e. finishing multiple projects in multiple cities on the same turn will scale the cost regardless? Hong Kong and Buenos Aires will be crucial here, hope you added them , if not will try converting barb camps.

 

[Eyswein]

I wonder if the bottleneck will be meeting all Civs in time.

Technically you don't have to meet them all, but if you don't meet them then you don't get their tourism, so really about meeting enough of them.

Not sure how cost scaling for the project works here, will it resolve sequentially just like a Settler does? i.e. finishing multiple projects in multiple cities on the same turn will scale the cost regardless?

Court Festival projects scale based upon your science/culture advancements - the more techs/civics you have discovered the more the projects cost (similar to district cost rate increases).

 

[hitretz]

Technically you don't have to meet them all, but if you don't meet them then you don't get their tourism, so really about meeting enough of them.


Court Festival projects scale based upon your science/culture advancements - the more techs/civics you have discovered the more the projects cost (similar to district cost rate increases).

Thanks. Yeah exactly, but I was wondering in addition to the base cost scale via tech/policies, each subsequent project completion will also increase the cost by .. (how much?)

 

[Eyswein]

Thanks. Yeah exactly, but I was wondering in addition to the base cost scale via tech/policies, each subsequent project completion will also increase the cost by .. (how much?)

That (tech/policy advancement) is the only increase in production scale. You can build as many as you want at the same tech/policies level for the same cost.

 

[A. mexicanum]

Haven't played with Catherine de Medici yet, will give this one a go.

The warrior will move south, and then I will probably settle either NE (better immediate growth, deer production for the first tile to acquire) or E (+1 "free" culture, production instead of food, but can grow into food quicker with the culture, turn 2 settle). Haven't decided yet.

With her "Grand Tour" ability, the projects and the king difficulty I wonder if I should try for a culture victory without any religion/faith at all. No national parks and no rock bands. Might be a nice challenge.

Civs: 20

Game Mode(s): Duplicate Leaders and Civilizations

oh boy.

 

[Rutseg]

Game Mode(s): Barbarian Clans; Duplicate Leaders and Civilizations allowed

I wonder if we are facing a 20 France civs game