[BTS] G-Major 152 - Prince, Hammurabi, Conquest - deadline 24th May 2017

While the general Hall of Fame is an ongoing competition, we like to run time-definite competitions between updates that we call Gauntlets. Standard Hall of Fame rules (*) still apply, but any games meeting the settings will be counted towards the Gauntlet.

Settings:

Settings:

• Victory Condition: Conquest (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
• Difficulty: Prince
• Starting Era: Ancient
• Map Size: Tiny
• Speed: Normal
• Map Type: Pangaea
• Civ: Babylon (Hammurabi)
• Opponents: Must include Germany (Frederick), India (Gandhi)
• Version: 3.19.003 or 3.19.004b
• Date: 25th April to 24th May 2017

Must not play as Inca.
The earliest finish date wins, with score as a tiebreaker.

This game should be easy to win but can you beat the current record of t29 set way back in 2008 by @Hindi?

 

lol...it will be very interesting to see what dates we get here

this game will be very much about the starting roll..and I don't mean lots of wet corn or shinies' (actually on second thought it may not matter at all other than analyzing one's general position on the map)

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Beat it by one turn. There's basically one tactic I see to this game, although obviously some luck is involved - not just with rng - but location.

I had one game that I almost finished on t19 (actually that would be t20), but had back luck on last warrior, who did have 85% odds to win. So I could see someone achieving t18 to 19 with best of luck...anything better would be amazing.

(game time averages about 8 minutes)

 

Nice, another Inca record bites the dust

The short games have been the most popular around here lately so we'll see who else has a go.

 

I was thinking the effort would be in multiple attempts, trying to pop a warrior from a hut, having both your opponents close etc etc.

Thanks for pointing that out - will need to speak to Denniz, might be a nightmare to sort out!!

 

Staff laying down the challenge as Ozbenno overtakes Lymond

 

Oooh now, we will just see about that!

 

Got it down to 3040BC, which I think is 4 turns quicker than lymond. Sure it won't last long.

Luck, of course, is the major factor in this. I won the last battle with both opponents with my last unit at about 60%, which was lucky. Both weren't too far, which was lucky. Gandhi (with his religion founding capital) was closer (so I could get there before the culture went to 40%), which was lucky.

 

He obviously made good use of founding on a plains hill.

 

Awesome result.

 

yeah, resources are obviously irrelevant, but you want to settle on PH or marble or stone. The trick though is to move your settler closer to the AI.

 

After a lot of fruitless attempts I discovered you can't pop a warrior before t10, oops

Apart from what others have said you played with Barbs on which most HOF games don't have.

The basic strategy is settle on a plains/marble/stone hill, work a multiple hammer tile and pump out 3 warriors to join your initial to make 2 warriors for each AI. You need a lot of patience and a lot of luck!

 

Depends really, I took several turns to settle in my game. Part of it is scouting out the AI as well while your starting warrior is doing the same. I settled right in their face on a PH. Ofc, the sooner you can do that the better which is part of the luck factor. A lot about this game is luck. Not to much strategy to it.

Another way to look at it I guess, is yeah , your warrior pumping starts a bit later, but you have far less distance for them to move, which can sometimes be quite long. Settler gets two moves, so you are taking advantage of that at the very beginning.