G-Major 61

[Ozbenno]

[img=right]http://www.civfanatics.net/methos/hof/staff/gauntlet.gif[/img]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.

(*) Please read the >> HOF rules << BEFORE playing!​

Settings:

• Victory Condition: Domination (though all victory conditions must be enabled)
• Difficulty: Monarch
• Starting Era: Ancient
• Map Size: Large
• Map Type: Hemispheres
• Speed: Normal
• Civ: Holy Roman Empire
• Opponents: Any
• Version: 3.19.001
• Date: 10th October to 10th November 2009

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

 

[pholtz]

Anyone thinking of doing this? Large and Normal speed, makes it more difficult than normal Monarch, and I'm barely a Monarch player. Hopefully I'll find the time to give it a try.

What's the difference between continents and hemispheres?

 

[Ozbenno]

Anyone thinking of doing this?
What's the difference between continents and hemispheres?

I'll probably give it a shot at some stage.

Difference between continents and hemispheres is that you can determine at startup how many continents there are on a hemispheres map (continents has 3 only for large I think).

 

[kcd_swede]

Anyone thinking of doing this? Large and Normal speed, makes it more difficult than normal Monarch, and I'm barely a Monarch player. Hopefully I'll find the time to give it a try.

What's the difference between continents and hemispheres?

I'm giving it a go. I'm confident it will only take me one try since it is on Monarch level. Large is pushing my computer t othe limits, but I just upgrade RAM so it shouldn't hang up so much in late game.
But as for competitiveness... I doubt I'll make the cut. I haven't tried to take settings to favor fast domination (presumably max opponents to reduce dom limit and hope you start on the big hemishpere). I picked 4 military patsies and left 4 random civs. No map regens. I'm keeping the peace until about knights because there is just so much room to expand without war.
I haven't set myself up to win a gauntlet, but I'm so far having a fun game (equals wonderspamming ). It will take a while to finish, though. Esp. if I take time out to do the Minor and/or the upcoming BOTM23.

 

[KingMorgan]

IIRC Hemispheres are always uncontactable pre optics and roughly equal in size.

 

[pholtz]

So if you can choose number of Hemispheres, how many? I was thinking three.

 

[Ozbenno]

So if you can choose number of Hemispheres, how many? I was thinking three.

I was thinking three as well as you could capture two and have 66% land, easily enough for domination. Two might be all right as well or even five.

 

[WastinTime]

Seems like 2 is best. If you get lucky, you won't need astronomy...and you won't need much of the other land mass if any.

 

[Almond]

Anyone have any tips?

I tried once and every time that I attack one civ it becomes the vassal of a stronger one. When I gave up China had two vassals and I was suffering too much attrition to keep going.

How many cities to build before the first attack? Any must-have wonders? Any must-have techs by a certain date? Low sea level? Any certain opponents better than others?

I'm not a monarchy player any advice would be appreciated!

 

[smitsk00]

Snaky Continents for chokepoints.
Max or close to max opponents to lower dom. limit
2 continents
Raging Barbs to slow down AI expansion (leverage your protective)
Peaceful/non-unit spam opponents (Ghandi, Asoka, Fred, Lincoln, Louis, Hatty, Roose, Willem, Mansa, Wang) while avoiding aggressive leaders.
Stone in BFC!!!! Settle on it if you can.
Several plains Ivory in BFC will let you delay Mining/BW, build the GW, rex and get to Writing quickly to recover. Charlie's starting techs suck, but this lets you leverage them a bit.
I have been teching Agri/AH, Masonry, Archery, Wheel, Writing, Mining, BW

EDIT: Raging Barbs slows down the AI, but it might slow down your domination time too. It has been taking me a while to get a rush going. Not so sure that its a good idea now. Given, I havn't finished a game yet...

 

[Almond]

Thank you sir! It is much appreciated.

 

[Salomo]

This gauntlet seemed so nice and easy when i read it, just perfect for a little game after a few month's break... But somehow i'm really not doing well with it.

I first tried rushing a bit with swordsmen coupled with some axes. Worked ok, until i i hit on washington, who for some reason had been stacking chariots and axeman. And the going with the swordsmen was very slow indeed. Perhaps i could have played on, but i would have had to regroup and rebuild, etc and i wanted a straight run-through victory.

Next game I tried with Horse Archers, which worked pretty well for a while. But teching is so fast and the large map is large indeed. After securing half a hemissphere mansa, lizzy and ghandi had outteched me and i noticed too late that willie could already build elephants. I can probably beat him anyway if i can fight/sneak my way through to his ivory, but lizzy just vassalized another dude and has more pop and land than me, and my cities really aren't all that great. It's 500 AD already and by the time i mopped up my continent it will probably be quite a while. Not cool at all :-/

Is barbs, GW and rexing really the best strategy for this one? To me it seems so wrong for a monarch domination game

 

[Cat Behemoth]

Is it allowed to play this game by the leader other than Charlemaine?

 

[Ozbenno]

Is it allowed to play this game by the leader other than Charlemaine?

Only games using Charlemagne are accepted for this gauntlet.

 

[WilliamOfOrange]

I ran into vassal problems as well. I will try again without vassals on. Although, it means less land covered when you vassalize an AI with a few islands, it should be better for taking over a continent: You can do one at a time, if need be.

 

[smitsk00]

Any submissions yet? This is taking me some time.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Only games using Charlemagne are accepted for this gauntlet.

You should be mean-spirited and pull the "must not play as inca" ban only to force everyone to one civ anyway .

 

[smitsk00]

1700s...45% land...easy win...stupid display driver error freezes my game...


Anyone know how to fix this?

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Any submissions yet? This is taking me some time.

Now that I have a machine that can take it, I will probably be a little more active in HoF again...

Though I probably won't do another one of those "7-10 valid games submitted in one weekend" type deals. I have other commitments too after all .

 

[Fluroscent]

Bugged out!
Achieved domination in 165xAD, but the game didnt grant me victory. Nothing happened, other than the notifications that stated that my land area exceeds the limit.

-yes all victory conditions are enabled.

-yes my population also exceeds the limit.

-yes I did end turn...

-I used max opponents to lower the limit. Is BUFFY calculating it wrong or something?

Any ideas?? It is a pretty long game, I'd hate to lose it this way.