TSG 248 Announcement

[Nizef]

Civilization 5 - Game of the Month Training Series Game 248
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Welcome to the 248th game in the GOTM V Training Series! This Series allows new and old Civilization V fans to try out many 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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TSG248 Details:

Game Settings:
Player (You): Genghis Khan - Mongolia
Victory Condition: Domination (but all VCs are enabled)
Difficulty: Prince
Map Type/Size: Great Plains Plus / Large (10 Civs, 20 City-States)
Pace: Standard

Your Unique Characteristics:
UA: Mongol Terror: +30% combat strength against City States and their units. All mounted units recieve +1 movement point.
UGP: Khan (Great General): +150% movement (5 instead of 2), +15 HP healing per turn (also for adjacent units).
UU: Keshik (Knight): Ranged attack, no city attack penalty, melee defence -25% (15 instead of 20), +50% GG points, +50% faster XP generation

Required DLC: All DLCs.
Starting Era: Ancient
Required game options: None
Enabled game options: Quick Combat, Quick Movement (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.

Here is where you will start:

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The start file is attached below.

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We have a game file upload system you can find here. Please use it to upload your completed first attempt by saving the game on the turn after your victory or defeat. (by using the "lemme play one more turn" feature) Please note: you must submit your game on the turn following Victory. If you continue to play, the game overwrites the data and your submission could be rejected by the submission system.
This game runs through July 31st 2024.

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[The_Black_Vegetable]

From Camels to Keshkis , though from Deity to Prince should mean that victory is a matter of when and not if.

Great Plains is one of my favorite maps. You can get some really crazy cities with 5+ pastures, although the given start location looks a little more sedate (still decent with two wheat though). It's often quite a cramped map, and therefore hard to fit your 4 cities in, although that should not be applicable here anyway.

 

[Nizef]

Great Plains is one of my favorite maps. You can get some really crazy cities with 5+ pastures, although the given start location looks a little more sedate (still decent with two wheat though). It's often quite a cramped map, and therefore hard to fit your 4 cities in, although that should not be applicable here anyway.

Well, your Scouts will for sure tell you about the possibilities of the nearby lands

 

[Rhodro]

Thanks for posting like clockwork @Nizef! It's exciting every time
I'm thinking about the settling spot.
For early domination a river seems not that valuable, the only thing it gets you is water mill and garden. Endgame you lose hammers on the river, but this is very late game. I personally feel garden and water mill are also not that valuable for early domination.
Following this reasoning settling 1 west seems reasonable. Silver in ring 1 is nice for hammers and gives possibility for machu picchu.
But settling 1 NorthWest is also interesting, don't get to work 1 wheat, but 2 hills in first ring is very nice, border will grow to cows and river for long term value. Only thing is probably need some gold to buy out silver.

 

[Megalou]

Warrior 2NE to hill I think. No bonuses visible north of there means I settle in place. But I didn’t enjoy the last mid-difficulty pangea domination map (as the Huns IIRC) that much, so I might skip this one.

 

[raider980]

Yea, I'm checking out the hill to the north also. I'd like to settle on that cotton.

 

[Megalou]

Yea, I'm checking out the hill to the north also. I'd like to settle on that cotton.

Nizef liked your message but not mine, so now I’m thinking perhaps cotton rather than hill, too.

 

[Nizef]

Nizef liked your message but not mine, so now I’m thinking perhaps cotton rather than hill, too.

Sorry about that. Just a miss click.