Difficulty: Emperor
Civilization: France
World Size: Small
Opponents: Five
Terrain: Random
Climate: Standard
Barbarians: Restless
Rules: Standard
Victory: All enabled

Variant Rules: None

Epic Goal: An Honorable Victory: try to win without using any Dastardly moves.

Scoring: Fastest Honorable finish "wins" for each victory condition. Honorable victories place higher than victories involving any dastardly moves, but victory of any sort scores higher than a defeat, so do what you must to come out ahead, but remember you are obliged to stay away from all of the listed Exploits.

Closing Day: Monday, June 10. Reports due on June 10 or 11. Reports should be posted to the Civilization Forum.

Click Here for the list of Honorable, Dastardly, and Exploitive moves.

Here is a quick peek at the start position:

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Read Epic One results

You have three weeks in which to play and write your report. Your report may contain as much or as little detail as you like, but should at least cover the basics: win/loss, date, method, and at least a few highlights of turning points in your game. The more detail you include, the more that others can know about your results. Also, for this game, you need to include whether or not stuck to the list of Honorable tactics, or dug into the bag of dastardly tricks and to what degree.

I urge you to write your report either as you go, or to take notes, or to handle it while the details are fresh in your mind, instead of waiting until the deadline approaches.

I'd also like you to post a brief note in this thread saying you're participating (to help us gauge interest as well as let others know who all they are "up against" in the event, although this is not required. You may also post a notice of "game completed" or "report written" at the appropriate times, but must refrain from ALL spoilers of any sort, no exceptions.

For example, in the RBD23 SG competition, there was some joking and minor spoilers back and forth across the threads. Zero tolerance for that here, no info whatsoever about the game until the game is Closed. I can't overemphasize this: don't get yourself disqualified or wear out your welcome in the Epics by being unable to hold your tongue until Report Day. OK?

If you have any questions or conflicts about the rules, DO NOT ASK if it will give away any spoiler information whatsoever about the game! Make your best judgement based on the rules, detail this in your report, and we'll address the matter later if any rules need to be clarified or revised.

Finally, this is an Emperor game and that may be up there for some of you in terms of challenge factor, but I urge you to give it your all, stick to it, and play it out to the end even if things go badly. In my first game of Civ III, I lost, but I stuck in there and had a lot of fun in the process.

Good luck and looking forward to comparing notes with you in three weeks!