BOTM 04 Saves Available

[DynamicSpirit]

BOTM 04: English

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Since I'm from England, it's about time I did this...

Game Details:

Game settings:
Civilization: English (Leader: Churchill; Traits: Charismatic, Protective)
Rivals: 6 AIs
Difficulty: Prince
Map: Fractal
Mapsize: Standard
Climate: Tropical
Water level: Medium
Starting Era: Ancient
Speed: Epic
Options: None
Victory Conditions: all enabled

Churchill:
Churchill is Charismatic and Protective; starting with fishing and mining. Charismatic gives +1 happiness per city as well as an additional +1 happiness with monuments and again with broadcast towers. In addition, units need 25% less experience to get promotions. Protective gives free City Garrison 1 and Drill 1 promotions to all archery and gunpowder units, and double production speed for walls and castles.

Unique unit: Redcoat (replaces rifleman)
The redcoat has the same strength (14) as riflemen, but has an extra +25% strength against gunpowder units. Both redcoats and riflemen have +25% strength against mounted units.

Unique building: Stock Exchange (replaces bank
The stock exchange gives 65% extra gold in a city, as opposed to 50% for a bank.

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



Adventurer Class bonuses:

1. Scout You have a scout (sharing a tile with the warrior)
2. You're clever! You know the secret of hunting
   

Challenger Class Equalisers:

1. You still haven't learned anything since the last time you played challenger, have you? You don't know any techs
2. Barb uprising. Reports have been heard that three barbarian warriors are on the prowl, somewhere between 8 and 13 tiles away from your settler start position.

To Enter the Competition:

You can get the starting saves at here. Use the same URL to submit your completed entry, which you must do by 15 April 2008.

Civ version

This game MUST be played in Beyond the Sword (NOT Warlords or vanilla Civ), patched to version 3.13, for Windows, and with the HOF mod version 3.13.001 installed.

You can download the HOF 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. Please use this Saves Available thread for any technical queries, eg. if you have trouble opening the game, NOT for discussions about what happens in your game.

Staff Contacts
The GOTM staff contacts for this gameif you have any issues are DynamicSpirit and AlanH. Please don't contact other GOTM staff members about your game as other staff members may be taking part in the competition.

 

[BLubmuz]

wow first
hi DS,
i hope you're not angry by my opinions on BotM03.
but take look on my final spoiler and you will understand.

i suppose your worst nature is showing up in those BotMs... what surprise you left behind that gold/pig start?

let's grab the save and see...

edit:
uhm...
deleted

 

[da_Vinci]

Second, a day later?

The save on exit did not execute (got a save error) at end of my first session ... good think I saved manually before exiting ...

I think the first save on exit has not worked in other games, but then worked on later saves, IIRC ... I will have to see how this one goes.

DS ... I am PM'ing you with a question.

dV

 

[hellwitch]

One question about submiting. I had a crash and loaded the autosave at the same turn and i've made the same actions again. I was able to submit the final save file successfully.
Do I need to do something more ?(i.e. report somehow to the gotm staff)

 

[da_Vinci]

One question about submiting. I had a crash and loaded the autosave at the same turn and i've made the same actions again. I was able to submit the final save file successfully.
Do I need to do something more ?(i.e. report somehow to the gotm staff)

It's a good idea to PM the game author (DynamicSpirit in this case) about what turn the crash occured, what turn of autosave you had to reload, and some sense of how many moves you had to replay. If you do that, should be no problem with the submission being accepted.

dV

 

[hellwitch]

ok i will do it.

 

[Smend]

Quick question --

Can this be played using the unofficial patch from Bhuric?

 

[AlanH]

No. You have to play using the official HoF Mod, which includes a lot of Bhuric's work anyway.