News TSG179 Announcement

[Knowtalent]

Civilization 5 - Game of the Month Training Series Game 179
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Welcome to the 179th 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 - TSG179 Details:

Player (You): Pachacuti of the Inca
Victory Condition: open you are free to seek your own path. All VCs are enabled, Difficulty: Immortal
Civs/City-States (including player): 8/16
Map Type/Size: Continents+/ Standard
Game pace: standard

Game options:
Start - Ancient Era, World age 3 billion years, sea level low, abundant resources
Enabled - Quick Combat, Quick Movement, RAGING BARBARIANS, NO ANCIENT RUINS
(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: all leader dlc, Explorers maps, Wonders of the Ancient World DLC. Gods and Kings expansion, Brave New World Expansion.

Incan Unique Abilities:

Spoiler :

UA: Great Andean Road -units pay no movement costs to enter hill, no maintenance costs on improvements in hills. Half cost elsewhere.
UU: Slinger - a Unique unit that replaces the Archer. It weaker than the archer but has a promotion that allows it to retreat in the face of a melee attack
UI: Terrace farm - a special farm that may only be built in hills it produces one extra food for each mountain that it is adjacent to

This is where you will start:

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This game runs for a month and ends march 15th, 2019.

 

[jrwh]

Hi, the save attached is actually TSG139 and its different than the start picture above (3 gems and marble)

 

[Xaviers Crown]

Note - There's two distinct game files that have been linked:

TSG179_Start.Civ5Save (516.9kb) (529kb)

• Epic
• Raging Barbarians
• No Ancient Runes
• Emperor
• Start is the same as image posted in the opening Thread

The Save can be found here. TSG139_Start (1).civ5save (543kb)

• Emperor
• Standard
• Raging Barbarians
• No Ancient Ruins
• Science Victory
• Has 3 Gems
• I believe this was GOTM 139

 

[Knowtalent]

I have replaced both files with a new file please use the file from 2-17 edit

 

[InnocentBystander]

SIP seems to be the way here...but hard to know where the mountain range is. I think I'll SIP and beeline Petra and hope that works!

 

[Nizef]

Since it is Continents plus, staying on the coast seems logical, but the early game production seems horrifying with SIP. With RB turned on, I will likely open up Honor.

 

[raider980]

It does seem like SiP is the way to go. But yea, there will be a serious lack of hammers. And you probably won't even want to use a Terrace Farm on those two visible hills because you'll need mines there.

Maybe move west and settle on the coastal hill next to the mountain. You'd still get some flood plains and likely have better production to the west. Then also build the second city to the NW to get the marble and rest of the flood plains.

But with the second plan you lose out on desert folklore, which is possible on Immortal and would be awesome. I don't think Petra is worth it either way because it doesn't work on floodplains.

You can't even move the warrior anywhere that will be of help. I guess I'll move him NW and then decide where to settle. Maybe even wait a turn and move the warrior twice.

 

[zxcvbob]

Is the game pace standard or epic? (it's been listed both ways; I haven't downloaded it yet to check) If it's epic, it doesn't hurt too bad to explore for a turn or two before settling. SIP is almost good, but I think the lack of hammers could be fatal at Immortal. I will probably move my settler west and and warrior east and see what they can see.

I build Petra recently when most of my desert tiles were flood plains. I forgot Petra doesn't work on them. The extra trade route and the free caravan were still nice, but the extra hammer and food only affected a couple of tiles. It was still worth it, but that was an Emperor game where I had a high production start, unlike here.

Edit: It is standard pace. Also I didn't notice before, it's Continents Plus.

 

[jrwh]

It's a weird looking start.

I think I have to SIP, but as mentioned, it looks horrible with hammers - plus I see tundra to the SE. I'll want to buy the 2 hills to the west before I build settlers, but with no ancient ruins where is the gold going to come from? On that note, I'll prob go Monument first and then open Honor before moving into Tradition. 2 chops to the SE will help with settlers and I guess a lumber mill on that third forest tile to the S/SW eventually.

 

[beetle]

Less mountain hills than with earlier shot, that is for sure!
SIP. Maybe Slingers instead of Scouts? Raging barbs, so they level up easily, and the UA lets them move pretty well.

 

[socralynnek]

Never played the Inca before. Doesn't soud like an easy win for me...

I also see no argument for some other location than to SIP.

 

[choraltrickster]

Yikes, that's an ugly start location. Tempted to check out the coastal hill, but I'll grudgingly settle in place. Excited to play this open win standard/standard game.

 

[Jelloholic]

I assume I'm not the first person to get the "Configuring Game Data" issue when trying to load the save attached, and then getting the runtime error crash? It's only when trying to load the GOTM saves (I've tried previous editions also).

Is there any known solutions to this?

 

[leif erikson]

The first question is whether you have all the dlc and are using the same version of the game in which it was created?

Game Version: This game was created in Civ5 Brave New World version 1.0.3.279.
Game Requirements: all leader dlc, Explorers maps, Wonders of the Ancient World DLC. Gods and Kings expansion, Brave New World Expansion.

The second is whether you are using any mods? We do not use mods in GOTM and some may conflict with the game save.

It is an older thread, but this may also help.

 

[zxcvbob]

I've been having trouble with the game starting lately; not always but sometimes. I go into the task manager (Control+Shift+Escape) and kill the Steam bootstrapper task (that ends all the Steam stuff in one shot) and then it will start. HTH.

 

[Jelloholic]

The first question is whether you have all the dlc and are using the same version of the game in which it was created?

The second is whether you are using any mods? We do not use mods in GOTM and some may conflict with the game save.

It is an older thread, but this may also help.

I'm using the same version, have all the dlc, and don't have any miss installed. The only thing I haven't tried is reinstall - wanted to check here before going through the trouble.

I'll check out the link too - thanks.