What has been your favorite GOTM?

[SirJethro]

I haven't played a GOTM yet, but now that I'm beating Regent I'm ready to start. I'm not so crazy about jumping into this month's Emperor game, so I figure I'll dig in the archives and compare my score against the final result.

Given that....the question: Which one was your favorite?

 

[Lucky]

The Deity one!!!
Definitely the most interesting, most fun and greatest game of Civ3 I played so far, with real suspense in each turn to the end.

Closely followed by the first Emperor game as the English.

But the Germans are great, too.


P.S.: IIRC this months GOTM is on Emperor level, not Monarch. So your number 9 is incorrect.

 

[skaternate]

Defenitly 7! The mosy challenging, and enjoying GOM for me yet.

 

[GenMarshall]

Although it is my first time playing GOTM. Since it is hard for me to decide (On the poll) of the favorite GOTM. I have started playing it today. I have decided based on the Barbarian activity (On personal games I usualy have them at the highest active level.) "Civ Barbarians" bring them on" :ripper: .

 

[Sullla]

GOTM5 was awesome; in many ways it was more difficult for me than GOTM7's Deity challenge. I've never been so close to defeat only to pull out an improbable win from behind as I was in that game.

 

[Matrix]

Nice poll, SirJethro. Only this GOTM is emperor, not monarch, so I changed it.

My favorite is actually the current one. The previous one as Germans was also fun, but definitely not the deity game! That's just impossible. I was too small and it was simlpy waiting for another Civ to launch the space ship.

The GOTM 1, 2, 3 and 5 went terribly for me. And 4 and 6 had a too obvious destiny; there was no way to go to.

 

[SirJethro]

Something I didn't consider......the archive games don't start using patch 1.21f until the 6th or 7th game. Does that mean they won't load with the latest patch?

I definatley don't plan on stepping my version back to the Dark Ages.

 

[Jove]

GOTMVII, definitely. It honed my CivIII skills more than the others so far. But I'm looking forward to this emporer archipelago challenge!

 

[Lucky]

SirJethro,
Save games are backward compatible, you´ll have no problems loading them with the current patch.

But since the patches changed the gameplay rather drastically, it is unlikely that you can achieve similar results as in the first ones. (That doesn´t mean you will do worse. )

 

[Phillip_martin]

GOTM 8 as it had several factors I enjoy in a CIV game:
1. A fair chance to grow
2. Constant updating of strategy (This keeps my interest)
3. A stiff challenge (No early archer rushes for me)
4. A brilliant snatch of victory from the jaws of defeat (albeit by nuking a stack of 60 Russian armour pieces on the mountains west of Berlin:ak47: )
5. Use of all tactics (Trade/Diplomacy/war) to achieve goals.
6. Excellent discussions in the forum (that includes blowing open the term "gambit" )
7. I acheived a victory

As a "several hours every now and then" player I tend to lose interest after the middle ages as the games variations and surprises die down.

Not in the last game.

 

[Scientia]

# 8

I got off to a slow start, expanding into the jungle instead of towards the north where the more fertile food plains lay. As a result, I didn't end up with enough cities to overcome the initial gap with the AI. I was behind in tech (at one point, 8 techs behind, maybe more) the entire game, had no saltpeter, no coal, and no oil.

I was lucky to squeak by with a diplomatic victory in 1788. It was me vs. Mao in the vote, and the only vote Mao received was his own!

This was my first game of Civ3 without war . . . and I even had
an MPP with Russia for nearly 30 turns. Of course later, when
Japan went on a rampage, I was the only civ not involved in the war.

I've only played two so far (#6, #8), but this one was by far the most fun even though I made mistakes early on in the game. I'm still tweaking my general strategy, and this game helped out a lot in that regard.