News: BOTM 15 Saves Available

[DynamicSpirit]

BOTM 15: Khmer

Game Details:

Game settings:
Civilization: Khmer (Leader: Suryavarman; Traits: Expansive and Creative)
Rivals: 6 AIs
Difficulty: Emperor
Map: Continents
Mapsize: Standard
Climate: Temperate
Starting Era: Ancient
Speed: Epic
Options: No random events.
World wrap: Cylindrical
Victory Conditions: all enabled.

Suryavarman:
Suryavarrman is Expansive and Creative, and the Khmers start with the hunting and mining. Expansive +2 health per city, +25% production of workers, and double production speed of granaries and harbours. Creative gives +2 culture per city per turn, and double production speed of theatres, libraries and colosseums.

Unique unit: Ballista Elephant (replaces elephant)
The ballista elephant has all the same stats as the elephant: 8 strength, +50% versus mounted units, but doesn't get defensive bonuses. The difference is that when attacking outside cities, the ballista elephant specifically targets any mounted units in a stack before other units.

Unique building: Baray(replaces aquaduct)
Like the aquaduct, the Baray gives +2 health in the city. The extra bonus of the Baray is it also gives +1 food.

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



Challenger Class Equalisers:

1. No scout Gone.
2. No techs Yeah, I'm still in boring mode and giving you the same old equalizers as before.

Adventurer Class bonuses:

1. Worker You start a worker, sharing a tile with the settler
2. Archer You start an archer for defence, sharing a tile with the scout.

To Enter the Competition:

Just get the starting saves here and start playing! Use the same URL to submit your completed entry, which you must do by 15 March 2009.

Civ version

This game MUST be played in Beyond the Sword (NOT Warlords or vanilla Civ), patched to version 3.17. It must also be played with the HOF mod version 3.17.001. Note that for game security reasons this HOF mod version requires you to be logged in with an account that has admin privileges when you are playing for your game to be a valid entry to the GOTM competition. You'll see a warning dialog if you attempt to start a session without appropriate privileges.

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.

 

[PutCashIn]

A while ago, on the Stalin Immortal BotM, I choose Adventurer and somehow managed a tight win.

I simply are to newbie to play at Emperor confidently, I'm going to chose Adventurer again.

I am a bit worried by winning a game at a higher difficulty I have forfeited my adventurer save submission option.

It would be neat if (even with -15% ponts etc) I could still submitt a (highly unlikely at emperor) win.

Is there a way of telling my submission rights?

 

[DynamicSpirit]

The eligibility conditions for playing adventurer are more like guidelines. I'd say our attitude is that we encourage people to move up to playing contender as soon as they feel able to do so, but if you really don't feel comfortable playing contender on a particular game, we're not going to reject your entry just because you submitted adventurer but didn't strictly speaking quite meet the criteria.