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RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Nuclearcow — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:56:42 GMT

Side note. Its very interesting playing a small map and an era other than ancient when all I've played (until these GOTMs) were 'huge' maps and ancient era on marathon settings. Seems like you have less room for error or slow starts. If you're on marathon and have a slow start, you're okay... plenty of time to make up for it. It seems like if you make a dumb mistake or are slow on small maps (not on marathon), you really pay for it as time advanced quickly.

I'm rambling, huh? :unsure:

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Nuclearcow — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:52:53 GMT

I enjoyed July's GOTM so much that I went back and downloaded June's today and finished it in under 5 hours. :P

Yes, I realize I played it for fun, as the winner was decided in June as its June's GOTM and I'm too late.

But... I posted my highest score EVER in any CIV IV game, so I had to post it. hehehe

I don't know about you guys, but 29,528 dwarfed my prior-highest game by several thousand. I was so stoked about it, I thought I'd post the screen print anyways. :P

Simple formula. Go (nearly) straight for the tech that allowed Samurai and crank out Samurai. Lots of Samurai and a few trubuchets and then I went out and picked a fight and then another. I went almost straight for gunpowder and musketmen after that. The rest didn't matter. Monty was kind of tough. French, not so much. Both capitulated which resulted in a conquest victory in 1765.

Again, I'm posting it only for fun (*cough* bragging *cough*). ;)

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:00:15 GMT

YAY! Thanks :D

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:55:31 GMT

Oh.. to make this one all official-like...

Congrats to Agamemnon, champion of the June GOTM...

Preparing to post the July game now.:)

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:25:53 GMT

My, My.. aren't we all impatient... I'm not sure what the fuss is about. What usually happens is that I post it around this time and within 3 days of the game being posted, a save is submitted that turns out to be a winner because nobody else submits one in the remaining 2 and a half weeks of the month.

Everything is going to be okay. Please remain calm....

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

jerm — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:57:59 GMT

Heh, we could call it game of the month and a half GOTM1/2.

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:08:15 GMT

Perhaps if the winner had to submit the GOTnextM, it would not be such a burden on mongoose to get these going before half of the month has passed... It would also disable extremely talented people to win games back-to-back.[/self mockery]

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

jerm — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:13:46 GMT

If we ever do get real late in the month, here's a suggestion for a game. Set up a dual map and put another civ on pangea and see who can win fastest. Just a thought and only if we have like a week left.

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:06:02 GMT

Patience, what's that? I know not of this word. ;)

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:02:09 GMT

That's where the "or so" part comes in..... :P

Patience, Daniel-san... not much longer....

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:54:48 GMT

Dude... it's 3 days later. :P

Where's the new game? ;)

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:46:29 GMT

[quote][b]Agamemnon (7/2/2007)[/b][hr]I fell for that too, so don't feel bad! :)

*pokes mongoose* [u][i]fix that, would ya, bud?[/i][/u] :P[/quote]

Bah! details, details.....:cool:

Oh.. I'll make this little dog and pony show official in the next day or so and we'll come up with a suitable game for July...

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:54:37 GMT

I fell for that too, so don't feel bad! :)

*pokes mongoose* [u][i]fix that, would ya, bud?[/i][/u] :P

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

rgndvo — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:49:15 GMT

Okay, I guess that works then. Just got caught up a little with the part that says "PM your final save (hopefully one just before victory) to me"...

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:42:50 GMT

Attachments don't work in PM's, you would have to attach it here, after compressing it into a .zip file.

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

rgndvo — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:37:38 GMT

[quote][b]mongoose201 (6/29/2007)[/b][hr]Hello?...... Is anybody there?......

Time's running out... you guys don't want to let Agamemnon win this thing do ya?

:w00t:[/quote]

I tried sending a submission but cant get attachments to work in pms for whatever reason.

Not that I would have come close to winning or anything.

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:00:57 GMT

[quote][b]Leo (7/2/2007)[/b][hr]I tried!

He done beated me. *salutes Agamemnon*[/quote]

*Snappy salute back* The offer to play pbem's with you and help you with your game still stands, General Leo. :)

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Leo — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:21:10 GMT

I tried!

He done beated me. *salutes Agamemnon*

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:08:12 GMT

Someone has to shake up the status quo around here. :D

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:03:05 GMT

Well, the good thing about it is that I wouldn't have to toil for whole minutes to create another morphing badge for another multiple GOTM winner...

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:24:25 GMT

[quote][b]mongoose201 (6/29/2007)[/b][hr]Hello?...... Is anybody there?......

Time's running out... you guys don't want to let Agamemnon win this thing do ya?

:w00t:[/quote]

And how, precisely, would that be wrong? :P

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:32:25 GMT

Hello?...... Is anybody there?......

Time's running out... you guys don't want to let Agamemnon win this thing do ya?

:w00t:

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:12:03 GMT

Leo, Zig's offer goes for me as well. I'd be happy to partner with you and help you, if you want. :)

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:08:42 GMT

I'm sorry to hear about your woes, Leo. If you want we can play a team pbem (for as long as you think it's fun anyway) so you can see what I build when, what I research when, stuff like that. I'm by no means a superstar at civ4, but I think it's a very entertaining game. I'll play at least one turn a day, no pressure, no worries, and all that. :)

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:43:19 GMT

C'mon, Leo. Don't give up, man. cIV has a high learning curve. You have to observe and micromanage to be a really good player, and ruthless to boot. I suggest you read the articles in the War Academy provided by CivFanatics. You'll improve the more you read and study.

For the record, I hate arty too. I won't use it unless I absolutely *need* to. Now, if they had some horse mounted arty, I'd produce more, but it's so frickin' slow in the middle to late stages, it's useless.

Take a break for a bit and read. That'll help. :)

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Leo — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:35:22 GMT

Once again, I must ask myself why I put myself through playing Games of the Month, or even thinking I'm any good at these stupid games.

I hate this game, I really do. I may never play it again, I'm so tired of it.

And I've only played like 8 times (unless you count this scenario). I played Civ 1, 2, and 3 until I could do it in my sleep.

Yes I understand that this is not the same game. I know how to play this game...but not well. How you can get scores like this, I will never understand.

I got a conquest at 2046. For a total of 6,321. It's not even worth doing the work to get a screenshot or zip the save.

I was disgusted...figure, okay, let me try and do what these guys did.

So I played this scenario over

...and over.

.......and over.

You get the idea.

If I try a builder game, it's okay. I have a good time, sort of. I do the whole game and get ahead in tech (like I did) and eventually crush them...but even here with TWO civs...the French were, at one time 15 techs ahead of me. They didn't have that good an empire. The game abysmally cheats at even lord level. There is no way they could get that high in tech and be able to defend against the barbarians unless they're all heading my way.

So, one time I tried being the mayor of Raving (rooster)opolis and not only could I not get enough soldiers to get clear of the barbarians, when I finally did get to the Aztecs (which of course, I knew where they were), I got totally smoked.

Either the luck all goes your way or I am the suckiest player ever. I pay attention to terrain...I pay attention to odds...I didn't have any artillery because God help me, that would put another 1000 years on the clock.

I give up. Hopefully you'll find other people that are as ruthlessly bloodthirsty and with dice as loaded as you guys. I'm no competition.

Maybe I'll go play newb for a million times....get the bicycle at 2050 and rule the world with my kriegscycle corp

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Zigeuner — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:34:22 GMT

I was toying around a bit after disposing of the Aztecs and most of the French, to see if barbarians could pose a threat later in the game if they had half the world at their disposal, but alas, no such luck. They never got beyond longbows. I got bored and snuffed out the French for a leisurely conquest victory (leisurely meaning it was past 1900AD). If anyone wants to look at my .sav, then um, whatever. :)

[IMG]http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s175/solarsinned/GOTM_June2.jpg[/IMG]

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:51:58 GMT

[quote][b]Leo (6/19/2007)[/b][hr]

But I'm giving it a shot! You will NOT win unopposed! Grr! Bark!

[/quote]

Good doggy. *pets on head*

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Leo — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:40:38 GMT

I'm SO not going to win...I think I've only ever won ONE single GotM and that was millennia ago.

But I'm giving it a shot! You will NOT win unopposed! Grr! Bark!

[quote]You will not be able to build the Great Wall[/quote]

(boo!)

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:12:29 GMT

[quote][b]mongoose201 (6/14/2007)[/b][hr][b]Submission Accepted:[/b] [i]Agamemnon[/i]Conquest in1420AD [red]Score: 19534[/red]

Excellent Score! :)[/quote]

Thank you!

Well, come on, you scurry lot. That's the mark to beat. :P

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:03:25 GMT

[b]Submission Accepted:[/b] [i]Agamemnon[/i] Conquest in 1420AD [red]Score: 19534[/red]

Excellent Score! :)

RE: June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

Agamemnon — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:54:19 GMT

Here is my screenshot. Zip file PM'd to Mongoose.
Edit: Apparently there's a problem with doing that. It states an "unexpected error" without giving details. Save is therefore attached to this.

1420 AD Conquest victory. Those bloody barbs were murder.

Score: 19534.

Pity we can't replay. I can think of several ways to shave time off that.

Monty was easy. Louie, well, a tad harder.

But, dang, I had fun. It's been a while since I've gotten into a game that's just a messy hackfest. I *really* enjoyed myself. Pity my knights arrived too late to do any effective help. Samurai's are extremely valuable here. :)

June 2007 CivIV Warlords GOTM

mongoose201 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:20:28 GMT

[b]Champion[/b] [i]Agamemnon[/i] Conquest in 1420AD [red]Score: 19534[/red]

Greetings all... A bit late again, but a smaller map for your enjoyment.. This Game was submitted by May Champion Zigeuner:D

This game is for CivIV Warlords expansion

Version: 2.08

Civ:

2 AI Rivals

Start:

Special Conditions

This game begins in the classical era. You will not be able to build the Great Wall. With 3 civs on a small pangaea with raging barbs, the barbarians are going to be a problem. You begin the game with a Settler, Scout, Worker, and Archer.

Victory Conditions

All Victories have been enabled and all will be allowed.

Highest Normalized Score in any of the Victory Conditions will be declared GOTM Champion for June.

When you complete the game, take a screenshot of the Victory screen where it lists your leadership counterpart in history. You may post the screenshot in the GOTM thread and then PM your final save (hopefully one just before victory) to me. Saves should be named as follows: [username]June2007GOTM.CivWarlordsSave (in a zip file)

What are the rules?
The rules are fairly simple: Play fairly.

This means that you play within the spirit of the competition. As it is a friendly competition, we like to believe that there is no real incentive to cheat - but unfortunately, people do. Any persons found to be cheating will have their games removed, and there is a strong possibility that they will be banned from participating in the future.

Cheating includes (and is not limited to):

Playing the game multiple times and submitting the best effort (or even playing to get knowledge of the map, the replaying then starting the game again).
Using any sort of programs to edit the game or save files.
Altering the XML or using other mods that give you an unfair advantage.
Reloading an earlier save-file and replaying turns in a different way. The only time you may reload a save file is to start a new play session, and you must use the save file from the end of your previous session.

Also, if in doubt, ask. If you think you have found a new loop-hole or exploit, then we strongly suggest that you ask as to its legallity before you use it. The aim of the competition is not to see who can exploit the rules, and as such, we reserve the right to disqualify submissions based on exploits that are discovered later.

Good Luck all...

Note: The Forum software doesn't allow file extensions of the length of the Civ4 Warlords save file. For this reason, the start save is in a zip file and your submissions will need to be as well. If you are not sure how to accomplish this or how to unzip the start save, please post here and someone will help you or email it to me at (my username)@1bcciv.com :)