COTM 02: Pregame discussion
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Diakonos
Chieftain
You sure love drip-feeding us ainwood 
SniperDevil
Skipper of Barnegat Bay
noooooooooo not monarch... ive never played that high b4 and i sucked so bad on regent ... lol... i shall try though
SniperDevil
Skipper of Barnegat Bay
will monarch on this map be roughly the same as regent on COTM 1(because of its bad starting location)
Diakonos
Chieftain
I thought the start position was pretty good (COTM01) and only 3 or 4 moves from being excellent (flood plains). So my guess is this game will be slightly harder - especially so if on a small island. But it should still be an easy win.
Which level did you play the last game on SniperDevil?
Which level did you play the last game on SniperDevil?
dojoboy
Tsalagi
Re: C3C difficulty levels v. Civ3/PTW difficulty levels
Weren't they reconfigured w/ the addition of demi-god & Sid? Or, did that just affect Emperor & Diety.
Weren't they reconfigured w/ the addition of demi-god & Sid? Or, did that just affect Emperor & Diety.
handy900
Deity
Gotta move the worker to the hills, but which hill?
Would he give us a seafaring civ on a 5 tile island that's mostly hills. What a challenge that would be.
Would he give us a seafaring civ on a 5 tile island that's mostly hills. What a challenge that would be.
eldar
ChiefTank
Monarch, okay, GOTM32 was my first completed Monarch game and it wasn't too scary. I don't like the start location. Unless there's something worthwhile over the hills, settle the BG for the Whales. So a single worker move won't go amiss (I have no aspirations for a fast win, I just want to win first.)
Neil.
Neil.
Darkness
Shadow creature
So, now we know:
Monarch level
standard size map
raging barbarians
seafaring civ
4 billion years old, temperate, normal wetness
"difficult start"...
What's with the difficult starts for the COTM games, Ainwood? You think we don't like nice settler factories in our capitals....?
Monarch level
standard size map
raging barbarians
seafaring civ
4 billion years old, temperate, normal wetness
"difficult start"...
What's with the difficult starts for the COTM games, Ainwood? You think we don't like nice settler factories in our capitals....?
handy900 said:Gotta move the worker to the hills, but which hill?
Would he give us a seafaring civ on a 5 tile island that's mostly hills. What a challenge that would be.
I still say if you have to scout with the worker, move it NW. Assuming there is another hill NW of the W hill, you won't be able to see behind it if you move W.
eldar
ChiefTank
MikeH said:We should be OK, in Civ only the Dutch get Swiss mercenaries.
I was thinking that too. I'd quite happily boycott the UU if we do turn out to be Dutch (if it weren't for the fact that a 1-4-1 Pikeman replacement is actually quite nice to have
).Mind you, looking at the starting loc, Ag is probably wasted as a trait. I'm more inclined towards Byz. At least, I hope it's Byz.
Neil.
TheNemesis666
Warlord
My first gotm was last month (cotm1), I wanted to start playing them so I could force myself to get used to any start. Normally I'm a bit woosy and if I don't like my start loc. I start again on a new map. I thought the first cotm was a pretty sadistic start. This, I think, is going to hurt a lot more.
The Nemesis.
Random fan
Warlord
So...monarch... then we can biuld a little fleet of curragh before we need a warrior for MP
Detlef Richter
The Pikeman
Hmmm, Ainwood, sadistic, this could be a possibility 
But believe it to me, behind the fog we find a great plain with horses, iron and three different lux
or a barb camp :shakehead
But believe it to me, behind the fog we find a great plain with horses, iron and three different lux
or a barb camp :shakehead
Singularity
Infinite Density
I just got a crazy idea to the starting civs. 
England, Portugal, Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Rome and Spain. The top dogs of the Euro 2004 will duke it out in COTM2 And England is our civ, starting next to fat Portugal who's seemingly unbeatabable Or is it? 
We will rule the waves, eventually
edit:
For the football interested you will notice that only Portugal and Holland remains of the favourites. You could probably mix in Scandinavia(sadly not due to Norways 'strong' team), Greece and France as well.
Now I know that the admins isn't diehard football fans, but it would be a nice touch anyway to select the compeeting civs based on the Euro2004 roster
England, Portugal, Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Rome and Spain. The top dogs of the Euro 2004 will duke it out in COTM2
And England is our civ, starting next to fat Portugal who's seemingly unbeatabable Or is it? We will rule the waves, eventually
edit:
For the football interested you will notice that only Portugal and Holland remains of the favourites. You could probably mix in Scandinavia(sadly not due to Norways 'strong' team), Greece and France as well.
Now I know that the admins isn't diehard football fans, but it would be a nice touch anyway to select the compeeting civs based on the Euro2004 roster
handy900
Deity
So, now we know:
Monarch level
standard size map
raging barbarians
seafaring civ
4 billion years old, temperate, normal wetness
"difficult start"...
If it's monarch, it's bound to be a hard start. Won't this make the 4th GOTM in a row that's monarch. IIRC the last 2 Classics and first 2 COTM's were monarch.
Monarch level
standard size map
raging barbarians
seafaring civ
4 billion years old, temperate, normal wetness
"difficult start"...
If it's monarch, it's bound to be a hard start. Won't this make the 4th GOTM in a row that's monarch. IIRC the last 2 Classics and first 2 COTM's were monarch.
