News: TSG181 announcement

[Knowtalent]

Civilization 5 - Game of the Month Training Series Game 181
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Welcome to the 180th 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 - TSG180 Details:

Player (You): Halie of Ethiopia
Victory Condition: Domination all other VCs are enabled, Difficulty: Prince
Civs/City-States (including player): 12/20
Map Type/Size: Hemispheres/huge
Game pace: Standard
Game options:
Start - Ancient Era
Enabled - Quick Combat, Quick Movement, No 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 DLC . Gods and Kings expansion, Brave New World Expansion.

Unique Abilities:

Spoiler :

UA: Spirit of Adwa - Combat bonus (+20%) when fighting units from a Civilization with more Cities than Ethiopia.

UB: Stele - This Ethiopian Unique building replaces the Monument and provides an additional +2 faith.

UU: Mehal Sefari - This Ethiopian Unique unit replaces the Rifleman and has the Drill I promotion plus a combat bonus when fighting near the capital.

Where you will start:

Information about threads associated with each individual TSG -- Must Read if you are new to our Game of the Month!

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Opening Actions thread: This thread is used to discuss the game's opening decisions and strategies through the first 100 or so turns. Here you can post questions related to the game and share your achievements/anger/frustration/victories while you play. We encourage players to use the spoiler tags for screenshot. During the time the game is active, please do not post any information concerning the game outside of the spoiler threads including screen shots, videos, or recorded/live-cast Let's Plays on other websites.
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Results and Congratulations thread: We will create a separate thread with the results at the end of the one month submission period (sorted by earliest date and highest score ). We will issue a medal to the top winner (based on earliest date finished for each VC). There are no long-term records kept for these results, they are just given out to top finishers to reward their efforts.

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This game runs for a month and ends April 15th, 2019.
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[socralynnek]

Nice starting location, nice UA for the first war or two, nice UB for the start...and that might be helpful regarding the huge map...

I guess, this one suits my skills better than the last one ;-)

 

[beetle]

I want to get that Copper in range and also unlock Stoneworks. So I think settle T1 on the dessert hill two hexes to NE. At Prince, I should be able to make HCA work.

Note: Raging Barbs / No Ruins

 

[zxcvbob]

Hmmm, settle in place and get another settler to that copper as quick as I can, or move to that other river-desert hill just to the north? Will probably SIP. I wonder what the turn limit is... Huge maps are huge.

@beetle, what is HCA?

 

[RHA_GTM]

Whats the catch? Domination win on Prince should be doable without too many obstacles, even on a huge map. Though Ethiopia wouldn't be my first pick, it's not bad either due to their UA.
I'm still pondering on the game plan. Take down your enemies as early as possible or run ahead in science and then strike with a massive army from the future? The last option seems more logical to me with Ethiopia.

 

[beetle]

…what is HCA?

Sorry, I must have missed the notification. Honor / Commerce / Autocracy (for the synergy).