Challenge #6: Return of the King

Bill and I have tried a King difficulty game only once before - during our single-city challenge.  In retrospect, that was a bad place to start since all of the other Civs could run amok while we were artificially constraining ourselves.

I'm not sure why we dropped back to Prince difficulty after that debacle, but it's time to ramp things back up.

Challenge creator: Andrew

Culture: Ottoman Empire
Map size: Small
Map type: Archipelagos
Difficulty level: King

Link to the game start:  Suleiman_0000 BC-4000.Civ5Save

Admittedly, this set up is a little like having training wheels, since the AIs are generally crappy naval officers, but we have to start somewhere, and this seems the best way to get our feet wet with the idea of King difficulty.

Challenge #5: Young World

Challenge Creator: Bill

Culture: Incans
Map size: Standard
Other map settings: young wet world with low sea level
Difficulty level: Prince

Link to the game start: Pachacuti_0000 BC-4000.Civ5Save



The Incans have a lot of synergy with a young world given that the terrace farm they have is most effective when there is a lot of hilly terrain around.

Want to see if you can do better than us?  Feel free to join in and try the challenge as well. Simply dump the file into your Civ5 save folder (C:\Users\[name]\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\Saves\single), and then selected from the Load dialog in the game.

 If you email us your results we'll post them here. Contact emails: Andrew, Bill