TSG 159 Announcement

[Knowtalent]

Civilization 5 - Game of the Month Training Series Game 159
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Welcome to the 159th 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 - TSG159 Details:

Player (You): Gandhi of India
Victory Condition: Domination all other VCs are enabled, Difficulty: Emperor
Civs/City-States (including player): 8/16
Map Type/Size: Earth/standard
Game pace: quick

Game options:
Start - Atomic Era
Enabled - Quick Combat, Quick Movement, Complete Kills, No Barbarians
(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, mongolia . Gods and Kings expansion, Brave New World Expansion.

India Unique Abilities:

Spoiler :

UA: Population growth unhappiness from cities is doubled. unhappiness from population is halved
UU: War Elephant. - a Unique unit that replaces the chariot Archer it is stronger but slower than the chariot archer. it doesn't require horses
UB Mughal Fort -replaces the castle. provides 2 culture per turn .

This is where you will start:

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This game runs for a month and ends June 16th, 2017.

The save will be available for download on 5/16/17 midnight Central Standard time (UTC -6:00) in the US.
The Save can be found here.

 

[Knowtalent]

I know it has only been 9 months since we had an India Dom game, but I figured he truly deserves an Atomic start for you to play him in traditional fashion I will be disappointed if I don't see endgame posts with lots of fallout

 

[flairin]

What happened to TSG158?

 

[leif erikson]

Hammer Rabbi has retired from game development. Knowtalent missed the number and so 158 was skipped by accident.

If you wish to discuss this, please start a separate thread as this is not the place. Thanks.

 

[aafritz17]

Hey, I'm playing a practice game or two. My setup menu gives me two "earth" map options. Looks like maybe one of them wraps, so I'm guessing the other doesn't. For this game - what planet are we on?

 

[Knowtalent]

Wrapping.

 

[beetle]

Very interesting settings! I will try a test game to get the feel. I will miss the UU (and religion).

NE setter to SIP. Everyone spreads out, but prolly the other settler heads N.

From my other advance start games, Workshops first then Settlers. 4-city Tradition working the trees just like usual.

In half my dom games I end turtling until the Nuclear Missiles come online, so it will be interesting to try and make a point of that (so as to keep @Knowtalent happy)! Usually AI India is more nuke happy than I ever am. Since India does poorly with lots of small cities, and wastelands do not promote growth, I will see if I cannot use nukes to erase cities. I love that effect!

 

[aafritz17]

Workshops are already there. To get factories quickly, one of your Settlers needs to find coal.

 

[Great General]

I have recently came back to Civ5 and just joined this forum. GOTM is an interesting idea. I will participate in this one.

 

[leif erikson]

Welcome to CivFanatics and Game of the Month.

Best of luck in your games.

 

[beetle]

I do not think I picked the right Earth map, but here is what my test game showed me about the Atomic Era start:

• Cities start at size 4 with several buildings: Monument, Granary, Library, Colosseum, Market, Barracks, Workshop, Amphitheater, and Lighthouse (if on the Coast). If you plant on Iron, you get a forge. I do not know about Stables and Stoneworks.
• You start with 5 policies. I think Tradition remains OP: Free Opera Houses and Aqueducts, and India is all about Growth.
• On the 2nd turn, you will first to Ideologies, but you do not get free Tenets.

My build order in cap was Watermill, then Ironworks, Settler, and then Statue of Liberty. I am trying a Freedom dom game because Freedom does not need many policies to warmonger. I am waiting on Rocket Launchers. For the GotM I will probably go with Autocracy. I am skipping Rationalism.

Pro Tip: Build the Musicians Guild early (I did not) so you can theme SOH. I used Oxford for Satellites and was in the Information age before I knew it. I hard build Eiffel Tower and bulbed Hubble and GFW.

I hand-picked opponents so they get at least one UU: Bismarck, Casimir, Gustavus, Oda, Pedro, Suleiman, Washington.

 

[zxcvbob]

I played a practice game last night because I've never played an Earth map or an atomic-era start. I did a mix of Tradition, Exploration, Patronage, and Freedom. I did not open Honor because I thought there would be no barbarians, but there were barbs. I mostly turtled for a while, beelining Ecology (recycling centers), then worked my way down the tech tree for Satellites, Nanotech, and Stealth, and built up my military (was building xcoms and stealth bombers in one turn) and got my warmonger on. But about 60 turns in, I had to build the space ship really quick and got a science victory because Suleiman was just one part away. Then I just one more turned and went back to warring. (then it was 2:00 in the morning)

There's no need to finish any of the tech trees with an Atomic era start, the finisher bonuses are nerfed because no faith.