Sponsor: Sirian
Opening Date: Monday, November 28, 2005
Duration: Three Weeks
Map Script: Pangaea
Map Edits: None

Difficulty: Prince
Civilization: France
Leader: Louis XIV
World Size: Standard
Opponents: Five
Sea Level: Low
Climate: Tropical
Shoreline: Natural
Rules: Standard
Victory: Any

Version: Civ4 v1.09

Scenario: What was old is new again. This is a replay of the original Civ3 Epic!

You are charged with leading the glorious French civilization to an Honorable(TM) victory.

The Rules: Please review the Tournament Rules before you begin! Also, please observe the variant rules for this event with some care. You are expected to obey all of the rules.

Special Reminder: ABSOLUTELY NO SPOILERS! Do not screw this up, or we will remove your head. (Figuratively, of course.) It will be the guillotine for you!

Variant Rules:

These rules constitute the "Honorable" variant rule set. (You will see them again!)

1. Every civ has a right to defend itself. A just war is one in which you are not the aggressor. If any civ attacks you unprovoked, you are entitled to remain at war with them and to take retaliatory action upon their units and lands for as long as you wish, up to and including their unconditional surrender. (You may conquer that civ if you please. This is known as the "You Have Chosen Unwisely"™ rule!)

2. You are not allowed to become a Police State, a Vassalage, or a Theocracy. You must adopt Emancipation (and stay there) once you have the option.

3. You are allowed to refuse tribute demands. You are not allowed to issue demands of your own.

4. You are allowed to sign Defense Pacts.

5. If a friendly civ requests your aid in time of war, you are allowed to join them in the war.

6. If you joined an ally in a war, and they have made peace with the enemy, then you must also make peace with that enemy if the enemy requests peace (unless they are demanding compensation for peace -- you do not ever have to submit to tribute demands.)

7. You may not choose to raze a captured city that the game would allow you to keep. (This includes barbarian cities!)

8. Giving away captured cities is only honorable if they are given to an ally who owned them when the war began. (If you "liberate" an ally's city, you MUST offer to give it back!)

9. You must do all in your power (within reason) to feed the people under your care. No forced starvation!

10. Your Spies are only allowed to observe or conduct counter-espionage, not to sabotage or carry out other aggressive missions.

11. Pillaging land improvements in neutral territory, to deny them to a rival or enemy, is dastardly. No bandits on the highways, please.

12. You are not allowed to fire first with nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons may only be used honorably in retaliation vs a civ who has launched a "First Strike" nuclear attack, and then only with a "proportional response": you may honorably return fire with as many shots as were launched by the enemy, but no more.

Copy the Rules!

We strongly urge you to copy and paste the variant rule set to your local machine, to a text file in a location where you can access it while playing, if you need to check the rules.

Scoring:

Victories will be categorized per victory condition, fastest finishers listed first.

Losses or Incomplete Games will be ranked according to time, latest dates listed first. (The longer you lasted, the better you did!)

Original Civ3 Epic One players will receive Epic Hero status just for participating!

Closing Day: Monday, December 19, 2005. Reports due by December 20.

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