[BTS] News: BOTM 295: Mehmed II, Noble -starts August 13

[kcd_swede]

BOTM 295: Mehmed II, Noble difficulty
Game starts immediately (start file is attached). You have at least a month to submit by PM if the automated submission system is not working. I'll put up spoiler threads as soon as I get a chance. Please do not discuss your game outside those threads. Thanks!

Civilization: Ottomans - Unique Unit: Janissary (replaces Musketman), <li>Unique Building: Hammam (replaces Aqueduct)
Leader: Mehmed II
Difficulty: Noble
Map size: Standard
Map Script: Inland Sea
Starting Era: Ancient
Speed: Normal
Options: No tech brokering, no goody huts, no random events
Rivals: 7
Victory conditions: All enabled
World wrap None





Enjoy a nice relaxed Noble level game as Mehmed II of the Ottomans on an Inland Sea map. If you are frustrated and feel like cursing the mapmaker, just remember I'd rather be playing.

No Adventurer or Challenger saves, mainly because it is a manual process right now and that adds unnecessary problems. Game starts immediately. Disregard any warning texts in the settings that say it isn't suitable for HoF submissions.

Respect our most sacred tradition of no replays... if you make a mistake, learn from it and live with it.

 

[Mitchum]

That looks like a very green/flat starting area. That inland sea looks very small from here. I wonder how much fiddling our map maker did...

 

[lymond]

I always found Mehmed to be a very underrated leader. He is one of my favorites. Start looks kinda pants though ..lol

 

[kcd_swede]

That looks like a very green/flat starting area. That inland sea looks very small from here. I wonder how much fiddling our map maker did...

All I can say in fairness to our players who just dig in without reading through all the prelim... mess around and find out.

 

[LowtherCastle]

So is this the PITA Noble map that KCD was thinking about when he started the deity?

 

[LowtherCastle]

Basic probabilities for settling. Let’s say there’s a 10% chance that there is copper one east or one north. I know for a fact that there’s 100% chance I’ll settle on the copper if it’s there.

 

[LowtherCastle]

This looks like a good opportunity to scout around a turn or two before settling.

 

[LowtherCastle]

That looks like a very green/flat starting area. That inland sea looks very small from here. I wonder how much fiddling our map maker did...

I wouldn’t be surprised if originally our settler was inland and KCD created an inlet from the sea to us.

 

[LowtherCastle]

just remember I'd rather be playing.

All praise to thee…!

 

[LowtherCastle]

OK, thinking out loud…
I think I wanna settle coastal for the water access and for the coins in addition to the seafood of course. I also want the corn since I have agriculture. It gives me two settling locations for T0 and probably one or two more to the northeast on T1.

Most likely we’re located in the south western corner of the map so settling further east or north centralizes me better. But not necessarily better for the initial cities.

I’m too dumb to figure out how to optimize early exploration and settling a turn to later. Crap. But! If I settle on turn one two tiles northward on either of those locations, then my second city can settle here in place and access any horse or metal that I might be missing out on if I don’t settle in place and still share the food. Although my sneaking suspicion is that KD deprived us of everything including iron.

Ok!

 

[Mitchum]

Basic probabilities for settling. Let’s say there’s a 10% chance that there is copper one east or one north. I know for a fact that there’s 100% chance I’ll settle on the copper if it’s there.

Just tell us which way you're going so that the rest of us can go the other way!