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RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Nuclearcow — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:10:54 GMT

Thanks, Mongoose!

I think people just wanted to call me Major Cow! Maybe use terms like, "he's having a Major Cow" and stuff like that. :D

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

mongoose201 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:10:15 GMT

After Submissions by only NC and Carlucas (who almost dethroned him this month), Nuclearcow is again the GOTM champion....

Are the rest of you guys asleep?

Congrats NC! If you keep this up, I'm going to have to work on more ranks...

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Konrad von Richtmark — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:28:34 GMT

Word has it that he is some kind of unopposed champion. Let's see about that.

*throws a stormtrooper boot onto the floor challengingly*

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

General Georges — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:48:50 GMT

yup - i think so

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Konrad von Richtmark — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:48:11 GMT

So, did Nuclearcow win this one too?

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

General Georges — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:56:48 GMT

[quote][b]mongoose201 (4/7/2008)[/b][hr]I know I'm behind... I'll try to get the new game up tommorow.[/quote]

u definately are

AND U BETTER

OR ELSE!!!!!!!!!!

...i dont know..ill think of something lol :P:w00t::hehe:

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Nuclearcow — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:01:06 GMT

Thanks for your efforts again, 'Goose. We appreciate the time you spend on this stuff. :)

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

mongoose201 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:57:06 GMT

I know I'm behind... I'll try to get the new game up tommorow.

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Carlucas — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:52:03 GMT

[quote][b]General Georges (4/6/2008)[/b][hr]...sorry to be a little bugger...but it's April alreay and no GOTM!!!! :w00t:[/quote]

That is true.......

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

General Georges — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:21:46 GMT

...sorry to be a little bugger...but it's April alreay and no GOTM!!!! :w00t:

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Nuclearcow — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:30:48 GMT

Yeah, please make me earn it. "BOO" on you guys these last two months. :P

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Artymus — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:11:19 GMT

Ok Captain, no more 'giving them to you'. April is the end of your reign of terror over the GOTM!! :D :P

Err... you other guys with me right? *looks over shoulder hoping to see angry mob shaking pitchforks and flaming torches* :alien:

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Nuclearcow — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:59:21 GMT

Mongoose, can we start bugging you for an April GOTM? :)

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Comedy Dave — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:49:07 GMT

I haven't had the time to get to this one... :(

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Nuclearcow — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:56:47 GMT

Its almost like you guys are giving them to me the last couple of months. ;) I had pretty good scores the last 2, but nothing outstanding.

Scipio, you could take this one! It could be you! :D

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Zigeuner — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:48:49 GMT

Gee, another victory for NC? Hopefully I'll have time to compete in April's (if I still know how the game goes :P)...

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

rgndvo — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:46:46 GMT

I gave it a long try. My early game strategy sucked. By the time I caught up the mali were closing in quick on cultural victory too fast for me to stop.

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Nuclearcow — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:18:48 GMT

Done.

Not a whole lot to spoil, so I'm not using the "spoiler" feature. :P Boring game. Finally had war late in the game and milked it until I got a domination victory. I was very ready for this one to end.

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

jerm — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:15:09 GMT

[quote]I started this game on Friday and played quite a bit of it (much to the frustration of my wife ). I'm up through about 1900 and I have to agree with Jerm. This is probably the most boring game of civ I've played. hehe.[/quote]

May I suggest we do a duel map with 5 or 6 rivals? I played one a week ago and it was [i]really[/i] fun. The end gets a bit nonchallenging but if we were all trying to get to the end before other players did, that would eliminate that problem. Perhaps taking domination off the table would give it an extra bit of challenge for the end as well. I played it in roughly 5 hours but it was at fast paced speed. Anyway, there was no shortage of action.

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Carlucas — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:45:37 GMT

ok, game finished.

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RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Nuclearcow — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:25:46 GMT

I started this game on Friday and played quite a bit of it (much to the frustration of my wife :P ). I'm up through about 1900 and I have to agree with Jerm. This is probably the most boring game of civ I've played. hehe.

My update
[spoiler]So, I'm at about 1900 A.D. For having a continent almost to myself, I sure didn't take much advantage of it. I was slow to spread out, but built wonders like mad. I'm actually about 10 points behind Mansu Mansa and now at war with the Vikings. I was so slow to expand that Mansu has quite a few cities on my continent.

The English were destroyed very very early on. I found their now-barbarian city in the 1800s.

Unless I go crushing dudes asap, I don't know if I can pull off a high score. I will resume playing this game this next weekend, but I don't expect a super-high score this month.[/spoiler]

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

jerm — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:13:14 GMT

[quote]There were 4 civs total.[/quote]

Wow, then the first civ must have died really early. On the first "ranking" screen, there was me and two unknown civs. Too bad the third rival didn't get smashed too, that would have been a massive score ;).

[quote]The early game on large map with
few civs and no raging barbs is pretty
much a builder's game with little combat
until Astronomy. It seemed to be
all about city placement, city screen
micromanagement, and smart use of
slavery and workers to beat the AI with
wonders as opposed to military manuevers.
And we all know wonders= Great people =
tech in this style game.

Not a warmonger playstyle early game..

(nothing wrong with that.. all skills are
good)

It is good to know both sides...

[/quote]

It was just so slow and I kept hitting the space bar that I probably missed out on that aspect. I just wish there was a civ somewhere I could smash early on.

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

green1 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:18:22 GMT

The early game on large map with
few civs and no raging barbs is pretty
much a builder's game with little combat
until Astronomy. It seemed to be
all about city placement, city screen
micromanagement, and smart use of
slavery and workers to beat the AI with
wonders as opposed to military manuevers.
And we all know wonders= Great people =
tech in this style game.

Not a warmonger playstyle early game..

(nothing wrong with that.. all skills are
good)

It is good to know both sides...

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

mongoose201 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:40:52 GMT

[quote][b]jerm (3/4/2008)[/b][hr]Garrison, with that avatar, you are a perfect match for team Omega :P.

I played this one but lost a boredom defeat. First of all, it's not 3 rivals, it's 3 civs, including ours. Secondly, I got an early message saying that one of the civs was destroyed really early on. Barbs must have blitzed him. It was me against a civ I never met. They were kicking my butt in tech and I kept just missing Wonders. I finally just gave up in the 1300's AD when there were no barb cities to be found. Can we have another March Madness GOTM please :D.

How 'bout 6 civs on a duel map? :w00t:[/quote]

There were 4 civs total.

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

General Georges — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:04:10 GMT

[quote][b]jerm (3/4/2008)[/b][hr]How 'bout 6 civs on a duel map? :w00t:[/quote]

I would prefer that much more!! :w00t::hehe:

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

jerm — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:15:34 GMT

Garrison, with that avatar, you are a perfect match for team Omega :P.

How 'bout 6 civs on a duel map? :w00t:

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

GarrisonFord — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:46:50 GMT

[quote][b]General Georges (3/3/2008)[/b][hr]WowGarrison! Is it just me or have you been away for a while??!?!? :hehe::w00t:[/quote]

Tis true. I was away for an age, then returned, then had account issue's and lurked for a while. Thankfully, 'Goose sorted me out and here I am:alien:

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Nuclearcow — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:26:18 GMT

Garrison AND Zone!? Its like a family reunion around here. :D

[quote]This one looks fun. With all that room, I'm gonna try my darndest to construct the Great Wall [Wink] [/quote]
That sounds like a good plan if there's a lot of room. Those barbs could be nasty.

I should start this game this weekend.

It'll be nice to play a GOTM with a leader who matches his historical country. The mixed leader/civ option is kinda fun to play with, but sometimes I find it confusing. Like trying to remember which color civilization Ragnar of the French is. What the?

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Scipio Africanus — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:33:45 GMT

Wish I could play. But since I've actually loaded Mods! (perish the thought!) onto my machine, the fantastic "protect assets" function in this wonderful game won't let me load the frickin' save files . . . grumble grumble grumble

Couldn't we switch to using the Civ Fanatics HOF Mod for our GOTMs? :D

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

Zone — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:18:18 GMT

Heh, Thought I know, I'll grab the latest GOTM and see how I fare having been away from civ for a while.

I'd have to get BTS first...:hehe:

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

General Georges — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:19:32 GMT

Wow Garrison! Is it just me or have you been away for a while??!?!? :hehe::w00t:

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

GarrisonFord — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:59:16 GMT

This one looks fun. With all that room, I'm gonna try my darndest to construct the Great Wall ;)

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

green1 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:58:32 GMT

[quote]i lost this one alrdy was top in almost everything that mattered even tho i hadn't met anyone yet i was beaten by random events wiping out improvements upsetting my population an the killer after stopping a lot of barbs in my borders i had an uprising outside Washington with my units to far to come to her aid as soon as it beat my merger defense of 2 units i just gave [/quote]

I love how when one event sometimes pops up.. It
is usually in the middle of a build phase when I
try to tech Priesthood and. neglect archery early
on. Then all of the sudden you have a stack of 4
axemen or spearmen comming at your cities gaurded
with a STR 2 warrior or two. Best case.. you lose
any tiny bit of infrastructure you may have had
before you can get archers out. Worst case.. you
lose a city.. and are in a very deep hole.. or
even lose outright. I have seen that happen.

Wish you luck next time.

-edit

Imagine if this map wouldve had raging barbs... nasty..

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

green1 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:38:37 GMT

Unfortunately losing cultural victory
in 1996

[spoiler]Started off well with alot of early wonders
including the Pyramids, Great Wall, Oracle, ect.
If I had to do it again, however, I wish I would
have placed my third city in a different spot for
better production and micro-managed the GP
production a little better. I really could have
used more engineers and less priests. Past
those opening hills.. there really is nothing but
food resources for miles. Even so, I managed
to found 4 religions..which always makes going into
mid-game much easier.

I was also the first to discover liberalism and
suprisingly kept neck to neck with techs.
A very close culture race between myself and
everybody's favorite tech-whore, Masu Masu was at mid-game.However..
I probably should have had a bit more discipline
to shift out of build mode when I spied Ragnar
with tons of scary Calvary and the Viking
homeland not far from my shores. And as fate
would have it, Monties' long lost cousin planted
a nice stack of artillery, rifles, and legions
of calvary right on American shores. While I repelled
this invasion and took back the city he had
captured as a beach head, I never recovered
the culture loss.. as I had to switch to
war mode for quite a few turns until ol'
hornhead would let me buy him off to leave me alone.

Late game, as I got Industrialism, hornhead went
after Masu.. and was doing a good job sacking cities
right and left. However.. he had Apostle Palace and
managed to get Churchill to stop the war. If the
war would have continued.. I might have stood a chance.

Still, live and learn... fun game.[/spoiler]

Had fun killing a few hours on my day off, though..

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

ontrial — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:18:19 GMT

i lost this one alrdy was top in almost everything that mattered even tho i hadn't met anyone yet i was beaten by random events wiping out improvements upsetting my population an the killer after stopping a lot of barbs in my borders i had an uprising outside Washington with my units to far to come to her aid :( as soon as it beat my merger defense of 2 units i just gave :(

242 score late BCs

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

mongoose201 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:53:26 GMT

Always good to have new blood playing.. :)

Good Luck:cool:

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

green1 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:38:28 GMT

Greetings. I have lurking in the
shadows for a bit just reading topics.

I think I will try this one out. At the
prince level, however.. I usually only
have a 30% victory ratio as not falling
behind on techs takes alot of care and planning
as I continue to develop my skills.

(the strategy on this game is amazingly complex)

The start looks pretty good. I like all those hills
and the corn right there. Copper or Steel would
be even sexier if it turns out to be there.

With the huge room available on this map..
I am believing cultural or space race will
be the way to go.

Wish a newb some luck :)

RE: March 2008 BTS GOTM

mongoose201 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:29:44 GMT

Oh... almost forgot..

I have already played this one and won a cultural victory in July, 1978. The score is about what you would expect from a cultural victory in '78, but with these settings any victory is acceptable:

I also had the Top 4 Cities:

I'll post details later when people have had a chance to get into the game.

March 2008 BTS GOTM

mongoose201 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:43:43 GMT

Greetings all.. this game for the Beyond the Sword CivIV expansion...

Version: 3.13

Large map with [red]ONLY 3[/red] rivals. Expand to your hearts content.... of course, expansion has its burdens.. :)

Your Civ is America... Your Leader is:

Settings:

Note the "No Tech Brokering"

Traits:

Start Position:

Victory Conditions

All Victories have been enabled and all will be accepted

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

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 Email your final save (hopefully one just before victory) to me. Saves should be named as follows: [username]March08BTS.CivBeyondSwordSave

The Email address to send the GOTM is my username @1bcciv.com ... Of course, instead of "my username" of course I mean the name I post with here at 1bc.

Submissions will be accepted until the end of March.

Everyone please follow the instructions above: Post your score screenshot here in this thread and email the save to me. This makes it easier to determine how everyone stands and what the current standard is scorewise if I get held up in the verification of save files. Thanks.

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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).
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Good Luck all...