Hi there,
This is my first try with Gauntlets, so I am not sure how to submit a game. Is it through the "normal" HOF proceedings or what? Anyway, I picked Mongolia and went for the first roll to make it more interesting and only finished on t284. The starting location was good, even if there were no horses nearby and as a bonus I also had Austria very close. That was nice, because I could take them out early. But my main enemies; Greece (obviously) and Morocco (left them alone too long) were far away behind tedious terrain (Sparta was the gateway to Greece and it could be attacked from exactly one (1) tile). So it took forever to conquer them, even with Keshiks. At the Globalization vote, I left Polynesia and Siam alive. I managed to save all CS but one, and I also passed Order as global ideology as well as my religion as global religion. All in all a quite enjoyable game, even on King.
Hey,
@Nizef, welcome to the Gauntlets!
Yes, Gauntlet games are simply HOF submissions, we just publish a given set of conditions so we can all play a (relatively) common game while we're adding to our personal HOF entries. The Gauntlets have been running for a month (although we're letting the current ones go for October and November), and only games submitted
during the published time frame are scored as part of the competition.
For example, G-Major L was Emperor, Standard Size, Standard Pace, Small Continents, Japan, Culture Vic, and it ran for July 2014. If you pull up the Gauntlet table, you'll see 7 players submitted games. But if you pull up the HOF table for that same set of conditions, you'll see those same 7 games PLUS there are 4 other games listed. Three of those were played outside the time frame for the Gauntlet, while the 4th was a Gauntlet-player's second entry to the Gauntlet (only your best entry is scored for the competition).
You should also know about the Veni Vidi Vici (VVV) tables. Every game you've ever had published in the HOF is part of your VVV. The VVV is about having made every possible choice of the 6 basic conditions that define an HOF table - namely;
Difficulty (there are 8 choices)
Victory Condition (5 choices)
Map Size (6 choices)
Game Pace (4 choices)
Map Type (20 choices)
Civilization (43 choices)
The way I see it, there are two goals for the VVV - first, to complete it, second, to increase your scores. I finally completed my VVV a few months ago, now I occasionally find one of my lower scores (it's easy, there are a bunch...
) and play for a better submission. Technically, one can complete the VVV with 43 submissions (one for every leader, but making sure at least one of them with each of 20 maps, each of 8 difficulties, etc.)
. Good luck!!
