News: GOTM83 Pre-Game Discussion

[civ_steve]

GOTM 83 Pre-Game Discussion

This will be our quarterly difficult game! Deity level and you get to use the Berzerk playing as the Vikings!


Civilization: Scandinavia
Rivals: 7, preset
Barbarians: Raging
Difficulty: Deity
Land Form: Archipelago, 60% ocean, Standard map.
Geology: 3 billion years old, Normal, Cold

Conquest-Class Bonuses:

1. Free Alphabet
2. Bonus Settler and Worker
3. 100 extra Gold
4. A Bonus Luxury

Open-Class Bonuses:

1. A Bonus Luxury

Predator-Class Challenges:

1. No Pottery
2. No Bonus Luxury
3. Berzerk doesn't start Golden Age

A reminder: do not post any game information to this thread after you have downloaded the save file. Absolutely no spoiler information for this or any GOTM is to be posted in this thread!

 

[AutomatedTeller]

Wasn;t there just recently a viking gotm?

Damn - that's a tough predator bonus - no GA from the berserker - means you have to actually build at least one wonder.

 

[Spoonwood]

Which traits do the Vikings have in PTW/Vanilla?

 

[civ_steve]

They are Expansionistic and Militaristic.

Yes, we played PTW Vikings in January. I'm sure they'll do the job this month as well!

And ... the saves are up!

 

[Paul#42]

At least from the conquest class bonus it's save to assume that we're all alone...

Anybody try to win this one without using zerks?

 

[Chamnix]

All alone with an expansionist tribe again?

I've never cared much for 'zerks - they just seem too expensive. I'll probably use a few, but I think most of the damage will be done with cavalry.

Scout to the mountain, worker to the cow, probably settle in place. Research Pottery (or Alphabet if open or Writing if conquest).

 

[axehaxe]

I found out that Vikings in PTW are far down-powered compared to C3C Vikings. I would REALLY prefer the seafaring trait instead of the expansionist trait. This won't stop me from playing but I just hope the berserk will help me win the game if I can make it that far. I'm doing a couple of practice game samples before I start this one and if the feel is too unfamiliar still, I'll probably go conquest class.