May 2026 Monthly Challenge - Sydney, Rail SA & Trafalgar Bites

[chanakam2020]

Official Monthly Challenge for May 2026
Brought to you by the Community Team.

Sydney, Rail SA & Trafalgar Bites



A Sydney school invited a guest speaker to explain the South America railway network and the Battle of Trafalgar.

He began confidently. “The railway network connects distant places, just like ideas.”

Then he pointed to a tray of sandwiches and said, “And Trafalgar was a great naval battle.”

A student raised a hand. “Why are the sandwiches wearing paper hats?”

“Because,” said the speaker, “today’s lesson is interactive.”

Moments later, the hats blew off in the Sydney breeze, a toy locomotive rolled across the table, and the speaker saluted a cucumber sandwich like Admiral Nelson.

The class gave him a standing ovation for somehow making geography, history, and lunch seem equally dramatic.

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May 2026 - SCOREBOARD

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Settings - Classic Cities: Sydney

Maps: Classic Cities: Sydney
Players Per Game: 2 or 6
Game Type: Poly 3 or Triples
Initial Troops: Automatic
Play Order: Sequential
Spoils: Zombie
Reinforcements: Chained
FOG: YES
TRENCH: No
Round Limit: 20 or 30
Round Length: 24 Hours or 2 Minute Speed
Scored : Yes or No
Joinability: Public (except for specifically-designated tournaments)

Settings - Rail South America

Maps: Classic Cities: Rail South America
Players Per Game: 2 or 6
Game Type: Poly 3 or Triples
Initial Troops: Automatic
Play Order: Sequential
Spoils: No Spoils
Reinforcements: Chained
FOG: YES
TRENCH: No
Round Limit: 20 or 30
Round Length: 24 Hours or 2 Minute Speed
Scored : Yes or No
Joinability: Public (except for specifically-designated tournaments)

Settings - Trafalgar

Maps: Trafalgar
Players Per Game: 2 or 6
Game Type: Poly 3 or Triples
Initial Troops: Automatic
Play Order: Sequential
Spoils: Nuclear
Reinforcements: Chained
FOG: YES
TRENCH: No
Round Limit: 20 or 30
Round Length: 24 Hours or 2 Minute Speed
Scored : Yes or No
Joinability: Public (except for specifically-designated tournaments)


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Medal Criteria

• At least 6 games per each three settings and a score of at least 40% are required for a medal.
• You will receive Orange tokens upon Classic Cities: Sydney games start and Happy Orange tokens for wins.
• You will receive Indigo tokens upon Rail South America games start and Happy Indigo tokens for wins.
• You will receive Teal tokens upon Trafalgar games start and Happy Teal tokens for wins.

Score = [ (#.Happy Orange tokens/#.Orange tokens)% + (#.Happy Indigo tokens/#.Indigo tokens)% + (#.Happy Teal tokens/#.Teal tokens)% ] / 3


Notes

• Games must start between CC Time: 2026-05-01 09:00:00 and CC Time: 2026-05-31 23:59:59 to be considered for the challenge.
• Wins will count until CC Time: 2026-06-30 23:59:59.
• Any issues will be solved by chanakam2020 ,Kingm and groovysmurf , and their word is final.

[chanakam2020]

FAQs:

Who can play a Challenge?
Challenges are open to everyone!

How do I join?
No signups required. Join and/or create games that meet the given parameters for this month as found in the OP. Only public games count towards the challenge unless otherwise explicitly stated in the challenge OP. There is also a "join games" link in the OP to provide an easy list of qualifying games.

What are the prizes?
All players who meet or exceed the minimum number of required points for the month will earn a Challenge Achievement Medal. The point requirements change every month as we aim to provide a vast assortment of challenges which includes a varying level of difficulty.


Site Event Medals are awarded to the top three finishers on the challenge scoreboard.
1st: [img]http://www.conquerclub.com/static/medals/Event/Event/Medal_ribbon2-gold.png[/img]
2nd: [img]http://www.conquerclub.com/static/medals/Event/Event/Medal_ribbon2-sliver.png[/img]
3rd:

In addition to the medals, the first place finisher receives: 1 Green Conquer Star
[img]http://www.conquerclub.com/static/items/star2_S.png[/img]
And the 2nd-5th place finishers receive: 1 Blue Conquer Star
[img]http://www.conquerclub.com/static/items/star3_S.png[/img]

When do I get my prize?
In most cases prizes are awarded during the week following the completion of the event.

How do we deal with deadbeating?
Please report deadbeats in your games by sending a PM to groovysmurf and chanakam2020. We will evaluate the distribution of prizes to a violating player on a case by case basis.

Tiebreakers?
Ties are awarded to the player who reached the point threshold first, unless indicated otherwise.

A player has me foed and it is preventing me from joining a lot of challenge games. What can I do?
PM the player in question. Be courteous and non-accusatory, ask why you are foed. Do your best to resolve any issues with the other user in this manner. However, if they decided not to remove you from their foe list then you will need to join games without that player or start your own.

What if I want to run a parallel tournament to the challenge?
Okay, awesome! Individual tournaments can be added to the challenges so that those games drop tokens. Send us a PM and we will get it added for the month. Remember that games that do not complete by the allotted time, will not drop tokens!

Suggestions and Requests
Go here and post if you have any ideas or special requests for future events.

Rulings:
1. Deadbeats will have entry points stripped.
2. NO inviting opponents! (this includes rematch invites) More details can be viewed here.
3. Wins by round limit will drop tokens.
4. Inventory relating to the challenge will vanish at the end of the year.
5. Bot games do not drop tokens.
6. Any unforeseen abuse is still abuse. Don't take advantage of the system.

If you have any further questions or issues not covered here please either post in the active challenge thread or PM groovysmurf and Chanakam2020.

Last Updated: March 2025

[Swimmerdude99]

So you have to play 6 games of each type, or just 18 in total for minimum?

[Kingm]

So you have to play 6 games of each type, or just 18 in total for minimum?

6 on each minimum, you get a token when you start the games.

So to get the medal you have to atleast win 8 of 18, or 8 of 20 etc.

[xroads]

Boring!

Why do the monthly challenges always include some of the least popular maps on Cc?

[Kingm]

Boring!

Why do the monthly challenges always include some of the least popular maps on Cc?

After I read this post, I went straight to the suggestion post, since I wanted to check out all of the suggestion you had made, but I got a big surprise, there was nothing there.

So xroads, we really would appreciate some suggestions.
And the reason that the less pop maps are on MC's are since we try not to repeat maps that have been used in MC's earlier, atleast if there not a specific theme behind it.

[xroads]

Boring!

Why do the monthly challenges always include some of the least popular maps on Cc?

After I read this post, I went straight to the suggestion post, since I wanted to check out all of the suggestion you had made, but I got a big surprise, there was nothing there.

So xroads, we really would appreciate some suggestions.
And the reason that the less pop maps are on MC's are since we try not to repeat maps that have been used in MC's earlier, atleast if there not a specific theme behind it.

Wrong


https://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewt ... 6&start=25

I suggested this over a year ago, yet we continue to use boring seldom used maps.

I mean I dont think Baltic Crusades, Arms Race, or American Civil War have EVER been used, but all are in the top 10 of monthly games played. You want more participation, make it intersting for once.


Trafalgar is ranked #246 out of 260 maps player per month

BORING!!!!!!

[Kingm]

Boring!

Why do the monthly challenges always include some of the least popular maps on Cc?

After I read this post, I went straight to the suggestion post, since I wanted to check out all of the suggestion you had made, but I got a big surprise, there was nothing there.

So xroads, we really would appreciate some suggestions.
And the reason that the less pop maps are on MC's are since we try not to repeat maps that have been used in MC's earlier, atleast if there not a specific theme behind it.

Wrong


https://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewt ... 6&start=25

I suggested this over a year ago, yet we continue to use boring seldom used maps.

I mean I dont think Baltic Crusades, Arms Race, or American Civil War have EVER been used, but all are in the top 10 of monthly games played. You want more participation, make it intersting for once.


Trafalgar is ranked #246 out of 260 maps player per month

BORING!!!!!!

Damn, on the 5th time I looked at that post I found your one liner.
And fair enough, I have tons of ideas for MC, and how to make them way more fun (IMHO).
Because I get what you are saying, and I also kind of agree, but I do not agree that the may event is boring, I was not involved in making this one, but I wish I could take credit, because I the the one/once who did it, did a great job.

Ok Trafalgar is ranked low, so who cares, its a good map, its not like it a map that has some flaws with it, but please make some SPECIFIC suggestions, like what maps do you want us to use?

Like classic is the clear #1 most pop map, should we always have classic in the MC then??? Is that what you want.

[groovysmurf]

The entire reason for this challenge is that Chana went with the least played maps...that's why it's called a "challenge".

[xroads]

You chose boring maps, don't be surprised when you don't get much participation. Funny how that works.

Chose a popular map with realistic settings for once and see how many players participate.

Or keep using boring maps and have everyone ignore it.

April is a great example, you had a whole 37 players actually participate. 37 players out of what. 3500? You should be embarrassed 1% of players finding it worthy of their time, this month won't be much better.

[xroads]

Lol

Feb & Oct had less than 30 players.

At that point is it even worth it?

Tell you what, put up Baltic Crusades or Arms Race without stupid settings and see how many players actually want to play.

25 participants in a monthly challenge is nothing to be proud of.

[epic0002]

I kinda agree with xroads. 30 participants is low. I don’t think it’s boring maps..it’s more like too complicated for your recreational player and the added options make it worse. I wouldn’t use mastered maps like BC or AR, feudal anything, like he proposes though…those are tournament maps for one trick ponies that mastered them for points. Also, special gameplay options are getting a little crazy. At the same time…it’s called monthly CHALLENGE. It’s a great way to introduce or reintroduce underutilized maps but most of us participants have already been there. Also, the scoring has to keep it close otherwise if the top five run away in the first week by 180,000 points…why bother. Maybe classic is the way to go if you want participants. For June(Gemini Twins) do Doodle and Classic. Poly (2) and doubles (get it…twins) . 1 point Doodle poly, 2 point classic poly, 3 point doodle doubles, 4 point classic doubles. 4 wins in each required. No spoils-chained-fog….just roll the dice.Top ten awards. That’s IF participation is your goal.

[epic0002]

BTW…many moons ago I used to chase points…now I play for fun. I thank the people that put thought into the MCs…it does spike interest for players like me. Sidenote… MC dice are RIGGED! lol j/k

[Swimmerdude99]

I'm going to be honest. Anything is helpful to keep this site alive that takes some sort of thought. I personally take a look at the monthly challenges and decide if I think it's interesting or not. I'm okay with not being interested in all of them.

Being in absolute pain in the butt isn't going to be helpful to the site either. I wish more of the kind people chatted more in the forums.

Thanks for setting up the monthly challenge events. I enjoy about 1 out of three of them and that's enough for me.

I will point out that, if game requirements require me to play more than 6 or so at a time to make the challenge "completable" I'm unlikely to play. I think the high game count is a potential blocker to entry for some. I won't play if I look through the rules and can see it would take me 20+ games to do it, or require lots of 1v1s I'm not going to spend my time on it.

[epic0002]

Risk is an old school game. You don’t have people out there reminiscing about the good old Risk days and find this site. CC needs to be on on tik tok…any content to spark interest. Otherwise… call of duty is calling them.