News: COTM66 Pre-Game Discussion; Saves Available!

[civ_steve]

COTM 66: Korea!

We're going to power through (with a little bit of Halloween sugar rush) and put this game up. The saves are available now, and you get an extra day to submit. It's Korea, and the level is Demigod. Please post any words of wisdom you have, then go get the saves. Good Luck!


Civilization: Korea
Rivals: 6 pre-selected
Barbarians: Raging
Difficulty: Demigod
Land Form: Pangaea, 70% ocean, Standard map.
Geology:3 billion years old, Normal and Temperate.
AI Aggression: Normal

Conquest-Class Bonuses:

1. 
   Free Pottery AND Masonry
   2 Free Spears
   100 Free Gold

Open-Class Bonuses
None

Predator-Class Obstacles:

1. 
   No BronzeWorking
   AI 2 Additional Bonus Unit Support
   AI Knight-type UU's have been enabled to Enslave, generating a Worker

 

[TriumphSpitfire]

Congrats on the timing CivSteve - you get so much stick when it's late, I figured you deserve some appreciation when it's early!

Like the forest game & river - less impressed with the raging barbs and arguably the most pointless UU in the game. Mind you, for that reason I don't think I've ever played as Korea, so could be interesting.

 

[TheOverseer714]

It isn't as bad a UU as you might think. You can kill enemies with enough shots, so a mass of hwach'as can be handy. They can also kill enemy boats. Mind you, I'm much more partial to a mass of cavalry.

 

[Paul#42]

I love the predator obstacles.

I wonder how to encourage AI to make slaves for me...
At least they might provide some nice road networks for my troops...

Korea, finally, to honor our brave struggle in the MTDG.

 

[Più Freddo]

I wonder how to encourage AI to make slaves for me

I was thinking the same. The beauty of the enslave function is, that whilst the enemy creates a slave when enslaving, that slave becomes a full-fledged Worker when it is recaptured. Perhaps one could "trade" Warriors for Workers? Would it be culturally Korean to bring masses of ill-equipped and poorly trained troops to be enslaved on the battle-field and then taken back as chain-gangs building war roads?

Perhaps North Korean?

At least they might provide some nice road networks for my troops

I don't think so. At demigod, perhaps the AI can fight internally with a fair amount of Knights, which they don't at lower levels. But even so, these fights will come late in the game and the AI wastes most worker moves.

 

[Più Freddo]

AI Knight-type UU's have been enabled to Enslave, generating a Worker

Only the UU's, ha? That means one or at the most two tribes out of the six, I suppose.

Kolean wise man say: Use Game Folest on livel to cleate Walliols befole Glanaly can be buirt!

 

[civ_steve]

I figured the Predator players will come up with inventive ways to use that obstacle. I look forward to engaging entries in Spoiler #2!

 

[Megalou]

That particular modification with the predator slaves is elegant but why so late in the game? I suppose you don't want to create an imbalance. A delicate thing, this modding business. I've been toying a bit with extreme maps in the editor a few times and the maps so easily become either too hard or too easy.

 

[Megalou]

Kolean wise man say: Use Game Folest on livel to cleate Walliols befole Glanaly can be buirt!

Does a "no-brainer" mean something that you don't have to use your brain to figure out? Or does it mean to say it in a dumb way? I'm not familiar with that expression. I'll start playing now so I won't be able to reply or say thank you for informing me in this particular thread. So thanks in advance.

 

[templar_x]

Kolean wise man say: Use Game Folest on livel to cleate Walliols befole Glanaly can be buirt!

this very specific Korean wise man does not really have a problem to pronounce the letter "r". but rather *confuses* it with the letter "l" - and *vice versa*

templar_x

 

[Più Freddo]

Does a "no-brainer" mean something that you don't have to use your brain to figure out?

Yes, it does. Actually, that was intended as a response to this:

Please post any words of wisdom you have

I asked my Korean wise men, and that is what they said. So please don't embarras them. There could be some profound wisedom hidden in those words!

 

[Più Freddo]

this very specific Korean wise man does not really have a problem to pronounce the letter "r". but rather *confuses* it with the letter "l" - and *vice versa*

I think that is common in eastern Asia. To the people there, l and r are the same, so they have difficulties remembering when to use which.

"We conglaturate Genelar MacAlthul for his gleat erection!"

There are many similar short-comings in all parts of the world. Swedes have difficulties with s and z, which are the same in Swedish. Germans have difficulties producing an s and a th in the same word, so they say things like Elithabeth or Donald Sussulund.

 

[Lanzelot]

But zen you have to admit: "th" is one of ze most stupid sounds ever invented... I always bite my tongue off when trying to say it...

Lanzelot

 

[axehaxe]

Wow this looks challenging! I haven't played Civ 3 in a while so this looks doubly tricky. Should I be crazy and go for the predator class or wimp out and take it conquest class?