[Vanilla] News: GOTM 128, Emperor Julius Caesar, starts January 17

[Deckhand]

GOTM 128: Caesar of Rome.

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Two EXes. Julius Caesar of Rome. This month you play as one of the more popular leaders. And once again, all the AI civs have something in common.

The Civ Map gods were discussing gotm128:
"I know, let's use Maze, that hasn't been used for a while."
"That's a stupid map, here's what I think of it" - and drew a big X (of desert tiles) thru the map.
"You didn't do that right, this is better" - and drew another X thru the map, but with grass tiles.

Game settings:
Playing as: Caesar of Rome
Rivals: 5 AIs
Difficulty: Emperor
Starting Era: Ancient
Speed: Normal
Options: No city razing, raging barbarians, no huts
Victory Conditions: All enabled

Map settings:
Map: Modified Maze
World Wrap: Cylindrical
Mapsize: Worldsize_standard
Climate: Climate_temperate
Sea level: Sealevel_medium


Caesar is Expansive and Organized, and you start with Fishing and Mining.
The Expansive trait gives +3 health/city and double production speed of Granary and Harbor

The Organized trait gives -50% civic upkeep and double production speed of Courthouse and Lighthouse

Unique unit: Praetorian (replaces Swordsman)
The Praetorian benefits from: base strength = 8, 0% city attack bonus, and 45 hammers to build (on normal speed). This compares with the Swordsman which has: base strength = 6, 10% city attack bonus, and 40 hammers to build (on normal speed).


Starting screenshot

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




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[High King J.J.]

I'd guess this is another Gotm with all female opposition. Hatty is an obvious ex and surprisingly there are exactly 5 female leaders in Vanilla. Some might argue that with all the raging barbs the raging women are unnecessary but mapmakers are by default. Maybe the raging barbs actually slow the women down a bit?
No razing means that every stupid barb city in the middle of a desert or ice is eternal? Mapmakers are .
Unless the scouting warrior sees something worthwhile while gazing east on the pig hill, I'll probably SIP.
Since mapmakers are we probably need to hunt for the iron or be destroyed by the raging barbs.

 

[Deckhand]

I'd guess this is another Gotm with all female opposition. Hatty is an obvious ex and surprisingly there are exactly 5 female leaders in Vanilla. Some might argue that with all the raging barbs the raging women are unnecessary but mapmakers are by default. Maybe the raging barbs actually slow the women down a bit?

No. The EXes just refers to the Xs that were drawn on the map. Dos Equis.

Spoiler :

Although there are two women with him. The most interesting man in the world - keeps good relations with his exes.

No razing means that every stupid barb city in the middle of a desert or ice is eternal? Mapmakers are .
Unless the scouting warrior sees something worthwhile while gazing east on the pig hill, I'll probably SIP.
Since mapmakers are we probably need to hunt for the iron or be destroyed by the raging barbs.

My only map edits were the equis.
I think there was iron near by. But I made the map over two weeks ago, don't recall, too lazy to look it up, and wouldn't tell you anyway.

 

[kcd_swede]

I'm guessing you mis-clicked and turned it to coal.

But it might be worth a beeline to IW in any case. On second thought, check the surroundings first, it could be a long hike on what was a Maze map, so perhaps BW, sailing if justified, and then IW if early conquest is still attractive.

 

[Dhoomstriker]

It's odd to see the Warrior on the same square as the Settler. While the starting location is acceptable, and Grassland Incense is nice, making it similar to Dyes, moving the Settler could be in order here, since Calendar for Incense is a while off.

That said, building The Great Lighthouse would be very feasible by settling in place--Organized for the cheaper Lighthouse, Fishing for the shorter research path to Sailing, and a map that sounds like it will have many Coastal settling locations.


Did the Desert get drawn over top of by the Grassland or are they both there, side-by-side?


I much prefer early Copper to Iron when playing as Rome, to give a reason to delay Iron Working until it can come in trade from an AI.

 

[Deckhand]

It's odd to see the Warrior on the same square as the Settler.

Agree, I thought it odd as well. "I didn't do it. Not my fault".

Did the Desert get drawn over top of by the Grassland or are they both there, side-by-side?

There is a desert X and a grassland X. Roughly, one in each hemisphere. Jules has the advantage of the grassland X. Thus the grassland incense. The tile W of settler was water.
You could discover all this by exploring. But what's the fun in that? (for me)