News TSG166 Announcement

[Knowtalent]

Welcome to the 166th game in the GOTM V Training Series! This Series will allow new and old GOTM fans to try out these features from Civ5's expansions and DLCs in a friendly environment. Participants are encouraged to post questions, stories, advice, tricks and failures in the dedicated game threads (described below). Each game will specify the Civ you will play and the Victory Condition to strive for. You can read more about the GOTM and Training Series concept in this thread.
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Civ V BNW - TSG166 Details:

Player (You): Pedro of Brazil
Victory Condition: Culture all other VCs are enabled, Difficulty: Prince
Civs/City-States (including player): 8/16
Map Type/Size: Rainforest/Standard
Game pace: Standard

Game options:
Start - Anceint Era
Enabled - Quick Combat, Quick Movement,
(Regardless of starting options, you may turn on/off Quick Combat/Quick Movement using the game options menu at any time during gameplay.)
Game Version: This game was created in Civ5 Brave New World version 1.0.3.279.
Game Requirements: Korea and Wonders of the Ancient World DLC. Gods and Kings expansion, Brave New World Expansion.

Dutch Unique Abilities:

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UA:Carnival - Tourism output is +100% during Brazil's Golden Ages. Earn Great Artists, Musicians and Writers 50% faster during their Golden Ages.
UUracinha - Replaces the Infantry and earns points towards a Golden Age by defeating enemy units. Requires the discovery of the technology of Plastics to build but does not require a resource.
UB: Brazilwood Camp -Can only be built on a jungle tile and provides additional commerce when worked. With the discovery of the technology of Acoustics, it also generates culture as well. Requires the discovery of the technology of Machinery and requires a jungle tile to build it.

This is where you will start:

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This game runs for a month and ends Feb 1 2018.
Game will posted later this evening PST[/QUOTE]

 

[raider980]

This'll be a nice change at Prince after that fun but very hard Dutch Diety game. Although I always expect Prince games to be easy and then get surprised by an AI rush when I fail to pay attention to the basics. Hubris has been the downfall of many a civilization.

Looks like a good start. Some jungle but not too much. I think I'll settle in place since its on a river. I'll first move the warrior to the hill to see what's around but I don't think there will be any reason to move to settle.

 

[YomoKimyata]

Long time lurker, first time contributor. Looking forward to this.

 

[beetle]

I cannot [tell] if the hill is on a river, if so, that is where I will settle.
No policy exclusions this time, so I will try Liberty/Piety mix and Sacred Sites. Then turtle until the UU comes online and DOW the world.

 

[Knowtalent]

@YomoKimyata Welcome to CivFanatics and the GotM

 

[jrwh]

I cannot if the hill is on a river, if so, that is where I will settle.
No policy exclusions this time, so I will try Liberty/Piety mix and Sacred Sites. Then turtle until the UU comes online and DOW the world.

FYI the Rainforest map doesn't necessarily generate one Pangaea-like landmass. I tried a practice game with the strategy you had in mind (any cultural game is Sacred Sites or bust for me, all-or-nothing), and was surprised to discover I had a continent with only 3 other civs on it.

I don't see how it would be possible to pull off a SS strategy when you need to tech Astronomy in order to meet all the civs. You skip on so much infrastructure and population (and therefore science) that it would take ages to reach the tech. Then you gotta build caravels and actually meet people. But hey, if you can do it I'll be super impressed. Or maybe you get lucky and this particular map is not split into continents.

 

[beetle]

@jrwh, reply is in the AAR thread.