5th Apolyton Civ3 Tournament : 1-21/Feb/2002

[MarkG]

Theme: It's a small, cold scientific world
Size: Small Map
Ocean coverage: 60%
Land form: Continents
Climate: Wet
Temperature: Cool
Age: 3 billion years
Barbarians: Villages only
Civilization: Zulus
Level: Monarch
Opponents: the five scientific civs (Babylonians, Persians, Germans, Greeks, Russians)
Huts: Removed
Victory types allowed: All
Version: 1.16f

[MarkG]

this time you have a decent starting location

[MarkG]

if you have problem downloading it see below

[MarkG]

alternative download

http://apolyton.net/civ3/tournaments/Apolyton-Tournament-5.zip

rules:
- no re-loading
- no use of external programs
- use autosave
- submit the last saved game, zipped
- name the saved game and the zip file as your login

- if you want to replay the game, feel free to do so and post a game here, but state it clearly! such submissions will not qualify for the final results.

[godinex]

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OK. I will be back.

[King of Rasslin]

Decent?

That is like a perfect starting location

Poor science civs die very quickly to the impi. Spearmen are so overpowered anyway, making so horses can't run from them is úber.

Looks fun, il check it out sometime.

[SanPellegrino]

A Civ I wouldn't pick, a map I wouldn't pick, opponents I wouldn't pick, if I would pick them I'll give it a try

[AJ Corp. The FAIR]

" Quickie"?

It's the year 420 AD.

It was written in the stars that the manlike warriors of our great ancestors, the zulu people, were meant to flourish after founding new cities to the appealing southern regions under the proudest city of them all ... Zimbabwe!

By the year 1250 BC the Zulu population outnumbered the neighbouring Persians in the north by two to one. Our great ruler by then had already set its ambitions on a small and mysterious but attractive piece of land in the West. For the time being the Persians were tolerated as their scientists seemed usefull from time to time. However, after the 6 cities on the mother continent had soon after settlement become religiously voodoo-nized, our leaders set primary goals on settling and dominating the apparently large continent on the west, the place were our oldest ancestors once used to live, so tell our druids.

Meanwhile the Zimbabwean built Colossus in 1000 BC and Great Library in 310 AD, after galleying in on the German and the Babylonian, whose empires were told to flourish behind large water masses to the East. After trading maps, our Wise Ruler of the Zulu saw no danger coming from those scary white and stinking humanlikes who had never before appeared so pale and unhealthy in our eyes.

Now, in the year 420 AD, our Great Inspiror has summoned me to start writing on an autobiography that He described as 'one that will stand the test of time' and 'inspire generations to come'.
He decided that the Zulu should rule the Old Worlds, obsoleting the policy of tolerance toward the Persian.

I, Justitia et Audacias, hereby officially declare that we Zulu outmaster the other civilizations, temporarely counting 500 points versus 400 for the German. We aim to build up our horseman armies and upgrade our warriors as for the first time in our existence, Our Trueest Leader will direct us to WAR!

We should have conquered them rather ...

quick!?

(no babs, no fights, fast expansion, easy building, easy and early winning? easy tournament? our druids will let you know ... asap)

[MarkG]

yeah, even i have survived up to 1200ad

since this is a small map, i'll be starting the 6th tournament next week...

[Sirian]

Mark: I see you liked PART of my scenerio suggestion. Just about everything except the map size and land formations. I had in mind a large, underpopulated map and forcing the militaristic Zulu to have to build well... a small, overcrowded map sounds more like it plays right into their hands! And you think this will compare to the last game? Hmm. Well... nothing to do but try it and see how it goes.

- Sirian

[dadacp]

Is using the no capital exploit allowed? Use the starting city to build an attack force and disband the starting city just before conquering a city. This results in not having any capital. Having no capital means zero corruption, even during anarchy, and no culture flipping.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by dadacp
Is using the no capital exploit allowed? Use the starting city to build an attack force and disband the starting city just before conquering a city. This results in not having any capital. Having no capital means zero corruption, even during anarchy, and no culture flipping.

yeap, all such exploits are not allowed

[Duncan Idaho]

Space race victory 1888AD 2954pts

Too sleepy at the moment to recount the whole story. The condensed version would go something like this:

Starting location is excellent. With the Persians scrambling for survival, I managed to expand much faster than the AI's. Grabbed a few more continents. At the beginning of medieval times, I had all the luxuries, more cities than any AI. I beelined for democracy and spent the rest of the game peacefully consolidating my advantage.

The hardest part was figuring out a good spot to build the Forbidden Palace in. I decided on some remote town called Umfolozi. Quite surprised me how well placed that one was; two continents in range!

Most of the middle- and endgame I spent waiting for techs to be researched. Even though I researched every tech in 4 turns, things seemed to pass slowly without warfare. The AIs weren't much use either. Not one of the AIs researched a tech after ancient era; they all bought every single tech from me.

This game was easy. I'd almost say 'too easy', but I can't spell that yet

P.S. I think OCC victory is in reach on this starting location. Zimbabwe had 13000 culture when I finished, I'm sure a dedicated player will be able to make it.

Luck to all who haven't started yet (why are you reading this).

[Bloodaxe]

Histogram 1900pts

This is the first game I've played in 6 weeks, and boy am I out of practice. Its now 2:30am Monday (I've played this one straight through) and I got to go to work in a few hours, as they say s#!t happens. Been on holidays and got lots of cool new games for chrissy if you're wondering why I haven't played civ.

What a strange game its been, my first histogram win, and let me tell you it takes some time. the main problemmo was fighting the Russians straight after pounding the Persians (they respawned too). I should have put my resources into expansion instead of getting into a long protracted war.

Been musing on the save/reload issue. Commandos 2 has a counter in the end game summery that tells you how many times the game has been reloaded. If someone could make something similar for civ and the tourneys gave say 10 reloads for sleep/work/crashes etc then the problem would be solved.

Anyhow time for sleep, here's my game... Damn I thought I'd be the first to post one this time but I guess I wasn't fast enough.

[Alkis]

Marko, what's the goal, fastest victory or highest score?

It's funny to have to write in English, don't you think?