Do you want to go warpspeed through the tech tree and dominate with artillery vs archers? Get the Sid Meier's Civilization VI - New Frontier Pass on Steam: 2kgam.es/PotatoCivNFP
My random fun story from the first Babylon try: I finished an industrial wonder, unlocked flight in like 100 A.D.... and then I was like "Oh, that is a nice Island to the West, I should settle there..." just to find out, that my Units where like "Going on Water? Are you crazy? That's dangerous!"
I think Potato must be playing Babylon irl, he got the Eureka for the New Frontier Pass and got to Babylon before anyone else, smh 😤 I kid, this seems dope
Zachary Mangoba definitely domination. Late game techs take wayyy too long without boosts. It’d take your forever to get exoplanet expedition. In fact I think with Babylon you probably want to not even bother investing much in Campuses and invest more in culture where you don’t have a penalty as it allows you to get a lot of science boosts.
@@eyeborg3148 Do you think it's possible to play them as a fully cultural civ? Bonus shrine/ampitheatre can help with early important great people, and the ability to get good mid/late game techs without huge investment supports culture nicely. Free computers when you've got your t3 gov't could be powerful, as an example.
Hercules:*Spends most of his life working for someone else before dying.* *Brought back to life by Mcwhiskey to build more stuff for him* Hercules: Dammit
Yeah but in a serious note he is so wholesome since he teaches and replies or comments in videos that does bad stuff to pets, more specifically bunnies and he commented in a video, “Bunny Shower”
Alternate Titles: -Potato man commits war crimes that haven't been invented yet. -Irish lad destroys the fabric of reality. -Whiskey lover, loves to ruin careers.
@@vahagnyengibaryan4253 timing is important with eurekas. You can research too fast and have a eureka unfinishable because you can’t make the unit. Or you might forget to make forts and all the sudden your military engineer can only make airstrips. So it’s a little more than just reading what the eureka is.
He's an absurdly powerful domination civ early and midgame, but if you lose momentum you can fall behind, and if you fall behind you'll never make the ground up because of his science penalty.
this game is great early game and midgame kinda but its fragile cause if someone doesn't leave you alone you wont ever be able to get the tech boosts you need
@@KaizerKlash111 Yeah for that reason Babylon is definitely a domination civ because you can't steal tech boosts from allies so you don't want alliances.
just the idea of Hercules building a space port is already worth this video! i imagine he would be more of a guy that just pick up the port and launch it in orbit using his hands
The Civ's added later on in the game tend to be extremely OP. You've shown it with Babylon, but there's also the Gauls, Ethiopia, and don't even get me started on Gran Colombia. Civ V was like that, too. Brazil's tourism output doubled during golden ages, Indonesia had magic swordsmen, and Venice was, well, a beast.
The thing about pillaging as Babylon is that the -50% science penalty applies on the city level, so pillaging as Babylon is super important if you're struggling with science. So getting the raid policy can also help a great deal!
Fun fact: You can buy the heroic relics from other player's dead heroes, effectively reducing their culture, faith, and tourism production and increasing your own. I don't know what it does to their ability to resurrect the heroes, but you can't recruit theirs regardless. Still, if your goal is to do a tourism win, it is well worth it.
I thought Potato sounded sad today and was confused because this sponsorship is awesome (congratulations) but then I realised he sounds the same, I'm just watching on 1x instead of 1.25x 😅
The funniest part is that generaly you'd be strugling with barbs due to the AI beeing tecnologicaly moreadvanced, but this time was totally the opposite. Poor Scithya
Just went back and watched on of your earlier series and the improvement in quality is night and day. You’ve come a long way in editing and commentary to make more interesting videos!
Disney does Polynesian Maui justice, but not the narrastic, selfish prankster that is Maori Maui. Thus Disney did Maui bad and shouldn't have touched him.
So imagine Korea being in the game with thier agenda of science. All the great people boosts you'd get from great library would be crazy. Also the way they played out it seems like they are in practice a domination civ due to late game fizzle due to lack of practical boosts.
Actually befriending Korea is kind of a problem. Because of your commonly low science score they seem to hate you pretty much and even if they like you, they‘re not very likely to make friendship with you.
@@maxjahns9063 Oh I am not even saying to befriend them. But Korea does tend to run away with science and because of that they tend to get lots of great scientists. You grab the great library and it'd be an amazing way to keep up
You can always check the map type mid-game from the game menu, at the bottom. Game speed too, and others. Thanks for the awesome vids. We all love you very much too.
Potato, I think you may have missed the Great Library because you didn't fully understand it's power as Babylon - it gives you not only a free tech for each great scientist other civs recruit but it also gives you the Eureka for ALL TECHS in the Ancient and Classical Eras. And all you need to boost Recorded History is two campuses. Babylon needs to rush Recorded History. You could have definitely gotten Great Library if you rushed it harder, and I think you should have rushed it harder.
That’s definitely not the power of the Great Library for Babylon. By the time you need to build it, you basically have all the ancient and classic techs. I also had this misconception until I first played Babylon.
Jan Zizka of the Bohemian Empire Leader Ability: Kutna Hora Killing an Enemy Unit belonging to a Civilization following a different Religion provides Great General Points equal to 50% of its Combat Strength. Great Generals provide an extra +6 Combat Strength to Military Units within range when defending. Civilization Ability: Hussite Wars When at War with a Civilization of a different Religion, receive +25% Faith and Production in all Bohemian Cities. Enemy Religious Units in Bohemian Territory suffer a -20% Religious Strength Penalty. Unique Unit: Wagenburg Renaissance Unique Renaissance Era Anti-Cavalry Unit that replaces the Pike and Shot. No Combat Penalty against Melee Units. +8 Combat Strength when defending. Production Cost: 240 Gold Cost: 960 Gold Maintenance: 3 Movement Points: 2 Combat Strength: 55 Sight Range: 2 Unique Infrastructure: Hrad Bohemian Unique Improvement unlocked with Castles. Occupying Unit receives +4 Defense Strength and two turns of Fortification. +2 Production +2 Gold +1 Culture Provides +1 Gold to adjacent Improvements built on Bonus Resources, increasing to +2 Gold(with Steam Power) +2 Tourism(with Flight) Leader Agenda: Taborite Will try to maintain a large Army and try to keep Religions from other Civilizations away from his empire. Likes those with a large Army and respects his Religion, and dislikes those with a large army but try to spread their Religion into his Empire. Greeting: The lands of Bohemia welcome all who wish to see its lands, but only if they respect her religion. Agenda Approval: Too often, men of other religions have sought our demise. Thankfully, you are not one of them. Agenda Disapproval: Why do you wish destruction upon us? We have done nothing to attract your wrath, except that we are of different faiths. Attacked: Bohemia has resisted any threats to its freedom. You are not the first to have tried, but this will be your last attempt. Declares War on You: God, I ask of thee to bless us as we march to war. Bless our young men as they march against these enemies of ours. Defeated: You may have broken our armies, but it will be harder to break the will of the Bohemian people.
@@yougodk6181 It could make sense, considering the newest Civilizations can just obliterate the opposition in the game. But thanks for the compliment :)
@@harrisontait3379 There's a link on the bottom comment. There you should find some ideas from me. If you want more ideas, look up a thread under the same name, except it doesn't have a 2 in the title. Hope that helps. :)
Potato explains how to rush bombards Potato says I don't know what I'm gonna do this game Me, look at the title and heard the explanation Me, Yeah sure "you don't know" Lmao
I really love your videos! Even though I only have the base game and don't play a lot, it's fun to see you try these tactics and your thoughtful gameplay, has made me a better player, just by watching.
I love how enthusiatic you are. Your knowledge and thoughtful game narration is very enjoyable to watch. I have become a really big fan, as I play CIV as well. I'm not amaxing at the game but I have learned alot from you.
The fact you don't even need the prerequisite techs for your eurekas is hilarious and I love it, Hammurabi doesn't play by your rules! HE MAKES THE RULES.
Fun Fact: Sun Wukong is the chinese legendary hero that inspired Akira Toriyama to create Son Goku (Dragon Ball). So, basically you have a Super Sayan in your army! :-)
I'm so glad you got to do a video on this early, I tried watching the dev livestream but could only make it through 5 minutes because they don't have quick movement and quick battles on lol
I found in my Babylon play that a big "to do" is to get as much income as possible so that you can afford to upgrade your units through the massive tech jumps. Also getting the vampire units in secret societies is super strong because you can suddenly get multiple uber-powerful units just by getting a eureka and upgrading one unit. Bombard rush is handy, but so is pike and shot rush.
@@jakalder Spies wind up being almost worthless, save for the ability to restock the treasury every few turns. Babylon gets so far ahead on the tech, that there simply aren't any techs to steal from other civs. Every once in a great while one might pop up, but it is likely one Babylon could still get to first if it actually wanted it.
After some thinking, I realized that with good luck, Babylon can get 3 techs on turn 1. If you settle on a coast, discover another civ, and discover a natural wonder, you get Writing, Sailing, and Astrology on your first turn!
Interesting note: Gilgamesh gains another ability when playing the Heroes Mode. Instead of the shared xp, pillage, and Alliance points, you gain +25% production towards recruiting heroes, and they gain 20% increase in lifespan.
Potato, have you played around with "infinite" vampire castles and making super cities? Once you can build vamp castles, your first castle will use one build charge, but your second build charge won't disappear until you've built around 8 or 9 castles. Then when you get your third vampire unlocked the whole thing starts all over again. The amount of food and production and gold you can get just running your second vampire around building castles is insane. Get the second vamp as soon as the era starts and immediately set out to building castles and your city will be able to one turn build practically anything. You will have so much food that the 25% modifier won't matter, you'll still be growing every 4 or 5 turns until you finally get the 0% modifier.
@@alex2005z as far as I can tell it's just broken and you don't have to do anything to trigger it other than get your second vampire and then you make the vampire castle printer go brrrrrr.
Potato if you’re having a hard time pronouncing Xbalanque and Hunahpu you can call them the “Mayan Hero twins” or just the “Hero Twins” since that’s the more common name
You're playthrough just made me realize something. Barbarians are going to be insanely strong whenever Babylon is in the game. Oh you just unlocked Musketmen? Here is a swarm of Barbarian Musketmen while you still only have Archers. Babylon...what have you done?!
So I'm playing babylon on deity and am currently building an army of riflemen and battleships in 800 AZ. My capital has like 150 production. Using Herc for early industrial zones saves you so much construction time. I found it best to focus on production and gold because construction and upkeep of this stuff is so high. I spammed monumentality to keep up with building improvements because improvements are insane when you you have the advanced techs that increase the yields.
The one thing I love about Hammurabi is that you can skip over a lot of prerequisite techs if you want. You can unlock techs no matter where you are in the tech tree and advance from there.
I like babylon's science victory because of instead science just being you sitting around with campus'. Its like, you learn about(eurakas) every aspect of technology and thats how you achieve victory, since you have to dip into everything to get eureka progress. Feels much more like a scientific victory
I personally love rushing early industrial zones with harbors/commercial hubs. The gold and production combo while you play the multi headed strategy to get through tech tree early game makes them super powerful if you can Sim city long enough
i remember tinkering around with a civ vi trainer and one of the cheats was instantly getting science techs when u got eurekas which was super fun to play with, super glad its in the game now
Do you want to go warpspeed through the tech tree and dominate with artillery vs archers? Get the Sid Meier's Civilization VI - New Frontier Pass on Steam: 2kgam.es/PotatoCivNFP
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Potato pog
Ultra super potato pog
potato can you do an all tribal village map as babylon?
Warp speed is too slow. You're going into...
LUDICROUS SPEED!
My random fun story from the first Babylon try: I finished an industrial wonder, unlocked flight in like 100 A.D.... and then I was like "Oh, that is a nice Island to the West, I should settle there..." just to find out, that my Units where like "Going on Water? Are you crazy? That's dangerous!"
That feeling when you can fly but have no idea what a boat is
😂
"There are krakens in the deep ocean. Krakens can't fly, though." - OP's civ, probably
I see why God destroyed Babylon in the Ancient Era.
but at the same time, the era of God also ended with it.
@@HenSt-gz7qj *cough* Judaism *cough* *cough* Christianity *cough*
@@HenSt-gz7qj *cough* every religion and belief in the world *cough*
@@HenSt-gz7qj was that a FGO ref?
@@sh4rk535 You're only proving his point lol
3:40 "peacefull game"
read title : "bombard rush"
why do i feel something is wrong here
How to have world peace. Step 1) Destroy all enemies. Step 2) Peace.
"The only way to have absolute peace is to wipe out all oppositions."
Peace through superior firepower.
As Bender said "The world must learn of our peacuful ways ... By Force!"
Called peace enforcement!
I think Potato must be playing Babylon irl, he got the Eureka for the New Frontier Pass and got to Babylon before anyone else, smh 😤 I kid, this seems dope
Do you think of Babylon as a science or domination civ?
@@zacharymangoba3128 ... yes
Zachary Mangoba definitely domination. Late game techs take wayyy too long without boosts. It’d take your forever to get exoplanet expedition.
In fact I think with Babylon you probably want to not even bother investing much in Campuses and invest more in culture where you don’t have a penalty as it allows you to get a lot of science boosts.
@@eyeborg3148 Do you think it's possible to play them as a fully cultural civ? Bonus shrine/ampitheatre can help with early important great people, and the ability to get good mid/late game techs without huge investment supports culture nicely. Free computers when you've got your t3 gov't could be powerful, as an example.
@@eyeborg3148 ... just capture cities that already have them built. If you own half the world, the 50% reduction in science isn't as painful :P
Hercules:*Spends most of his life working for someone else before dying.*
*Brought back to life by Mcwhiskey to build more stuff for him*
Hercules: Dammit
You perform twelve labors and what do you get?
@@nathaniellindner313 Another era older and deeper in debt? :)
@@winoodlesnoodles1984 Charon don't you call me 'cause I can't go
@@nathaniellindner313
I sold my soul at the great kings door
@@nathaniellindner313 , I owe my soul to the Acropolis.
Imagine getting paid to do something you’d already love to do for free. That’s the dream taters.
Imagine getting paid for something you got for free and also be able to make a video content and get paid also from YT...
*stonks*
The danger is that it can stop being fun and ruin what was once a hobby for you 😢
When the world needed him most.. Potato returns 😄
Whether you need Civ exploits or potassium, Potato is there for you.
I've missed my daily dose of Potato.
But sadly after 1 hour he vanished😂
Yeah but in a serious note he is so wholesome since he teaches and replies or comments in videos that does bad stuff to pets, more specifically bunnies and he commented in a video, “Bunny Shower”
"it feels like im playing the game, but im like 50 turns ahead of everyone" Isn't that how it always is in these videos?
Oh please try the "tribal villages everywhere" thingy with Babylon, it's gonna be stupidly OP
This
YES!!!
Only thing is I don’t think tribal villages can give tech boosts past the current era.
@@eyeborg3148 they gave the entire tech tree to potato before classical age I think
Oh no...
Potato: I'm pillaging everything, so my economy is pretty much based entirely on being at war
USA: hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
"sun wukong is just pillaging gold behind the lines" that is LITTERALY what his character from the story would do, it is WORRYINGLY fitting
Alternate Titles:
-Potato man commits war crimes that haven't been invented yet.
-Irish lad destroys the fabric of reality.
-Whiskey lover, loves to ruin careers.
"commits war crimes that haven't been invented yet" is my new favourite phrase
Canadians be like @@theasianthatsbetterthanyou8324
Babylon is a Civ that really rewards knowing the game but punishes you very harshly if you don't.
So real life babylon
I mean if you can read the names of eurekas that’s really all you need to win with Babylon
@@vahagnyengibaryan4253 Wait I don’t know how to read D:
not really its simple if youre in settler just rush whatever is available then start killing everyone
@@vahagnyengibaryan4253 timing is important with eurekas. You can research too fast and have a eureka unfinishable because you can’t make the unit. Or you might forget to make forts and all the sudden your military engineer can only make airstrips. So it’s a little more than just reading what the eureka is.
Scientifically speaking, Babylon seems to be balanced, actually. The people who claimed this was a strong domination civ were right.
He's an absurdly powerful domination civ early and midgame, but if you lose momentum you can fall behind, and if you fall behind you'll never make the ground up because of his science penalty.
this game is great early game and midgame kinda but its fragile cause if someone doesn't leave you alone you wont ever be able to get the tech boosts you need
Spies will be able to steal full techs, which could serve as a bit of a comeback mechanism.
@@jothki spies with the card from nuclear program civic means spies steal 2 tech boosts every time too
@@KaizerKlash111 Yeah for that reason Babylon is definitely a domination civ because you can't steal tech boosts from allies so you don't want alliances.
What do you call an angry archer?
A crossbowman
*ba-dum-tss*
i dont get it
@@yooo1940 a crossbowman is the unit but it also can be read as a cross as in angry bowman
You just made me uncontrollably sneeze...
Entirely out of proportion to the funniness of the joke.
Congrats.
Friendship ended with Hercules. Now Sindbad is Potatoes best friend!
Edit: nevermind xD
This is going to be a lot of fun. It basically makes the tech tree a fun puzzle.
just the idea of Hercules building a space port is already worth this video! i imagine he would be more of a guy that just pick up the port and launch it in orbit using his hands
The Civ's added later on in the game tend to be extremely OP. You've shown it with Babylon, but there's also the Gauls, Ethiopia, and don't even get me started on Gran Colombia.
Civ V was like that, too. Brazil's tourism output doubled during golden ages, Indonesia had magic swordsmen, and Venice was, well, a beast.
Yes, Babylon with Hercules is overpowered but...
Where’s the Venetian Arsenal?
Deja vu
"I also did something a little bit sneaky and basically teleported some artillery up into Krakow"
Hey, I've seen this one before!
Just so you know. The hero Xbalanque’s name is pronounced like “Shi-bal-ahn-kay”
Yes, mayan x is the equivalent of english s
The thing about pillaging as Babylon is that the -50% science penalty applies on the city level, so pillaging as Babylon is super important if you're struggling with science. So getting the raid policy can also help a great deal!
If you’re still not in awe over how fast he accelerated scientifically he had drones at turn 216
23:09 That's another side-effect from having a civ in the game that techs like an absolute madman. Barbarians scale off it aswell.
Fun fact: You can buy the heroic relics from other player's dead heroes, effectively reducing their culture, faith, and tourism production and increasing your own. I don't know what it does to their ability to resurrect the heroes, but you can't recruit theirs regardless. Still, if your goal is to do a tourism win, it is well worth it.
Potato: this is going to be a relatively peaceful game
Also potato: proceeds to win domination victory
I thought Potato sounded sad today and was confused because this sponsorship is awesome (congratulations) but then I realised he sounds the same, I'm just watching on 1x instead of 1.25x 😅
The funniest part is that generaly you'd be strugling with barbs due to the AI beeing tecnologicaly moreadvanced, but this time was totally the opposite. Poor Scithya
Dlc comes out:I'm still waiting
Pack installed: Still not there
Ten mins later:Bruh
yeah i installed it but it wont show up any ideas on how to get it to work
I have this issue as well and don’t lnow how to fix it :(
@@wilmer9777 yeah I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it and restarting my of i don’t know what else to do
Restart your Steam/Epic Games Launcher and disable any Civ based mods like Civilization Expanded and any other mods you can go without
You have to manually update the game. I had the same problem.
Paying Potato to play Civ6 is like paying me to drink beer.
Dad?
for me, it'll be like paying me to laze around all day.
As soon as I saw their abilities I knew this civ was gonna be bonkers to good players
Babylon is the first civilization to reach the Industrial Era(15:37) BEFORE reaching the Renaissance(16:21)
Just went back and watched on of your earlier series and the improvement in quality is night and day. You’ve come a long way in editing and commentary to make more interesting videos!
Oh good god a scientific victory with Maui this sounds like a Disney movie
Disney does Polynesian Maui justice, but not the narrastic, selfish prankster that is Maori Maui. Thus Disney did Maui bad and shouldn't have touched him.
@@PandoraKin564 Aren't Maori also Polynesian?
@@principetnomusic Yes but are fairly divergent and have 600 years of isolation from other Polynesian civilizations.
So imagine Korea being in the game with thier agenda of science. All the great people boosts you'd get from great library would be crazy. Also the way they played out it seems like they are in practice a domination civ due to late game fizzle due to lack of practical boosts.
Actually befriending Korea is kind of a problem. Because of your commonly low science score they seem to hate you pretty much and even if they like you, they‘re not very likely to make friendship with you.
@@maxjahns9063 Oh I am not even saying to befriend them. But Korea does tend to run away with science and because of that they tend to get lots of great scientists. You grab the great library and it'd be an amazing way to keep up
Potatoes impression of the spiffing Brit is the best thing I’ve ever heard and I’ve just realized I need a collab.
I'm learning to hate all references to that guy.
NOOO YOU CANT RUSH ME SUPER EARLY!!!
Babylon: haha wall go boom
You can always check the map type mid-game from the game menu, at the bottom. Game speed too, and others. Thanks for the awesome vids. We all love you very much too.
I like to think Babylon's tech discovery goes something like this:
"Hey, Chezzak?"
"Yeah?"
"What if... Stick Launcher!"
*You have discovered Archery*
I'm calling Spiffing Brit on you for impersonating his Todd Howard impersonation
Potato, I think you may have missed the Great Library because you didn't fully understand it's power as Babylon - it gives you not only a free tech for each great scientist other civs recruit but it also gives you the Eureka for ALL TECHS in the Ancient and Classical Eras. And all you need to boost Recorded History is two campuses.
Babylon needs to rush Recorded History. You could have definitely gotten Great Library if you rushed it harder, and I think you should have rushed it harder.
That’s definitely not the power of the Great Library for Babylon.
By the time you need to build it, you basically have all the ancient and classic techs.
I also had this misconception until I first played Babylon.
Its not like boosting civics gives you the civic.
@@jakalder oh yeah...oops
1160 BC: Hammurabi invented Rifling.
Jan Zizka of the Bohemian Empire
Leader Ability: Kutna Hora
Killing an Enemy Unit belonging to a Civilization following a different Religion provides Great General Points equal to 50% of its Combat Strength.
Great Generals provide an extra +6 Combat Strength to Military Units within range when defending.
Civilization Ability: Hussite Wars
When at War with a Civilization of a different Religion, receive +25% Faith and Production in all Bohemian Cities.
Enemy Religious Units in Bohemian Territory suffer a -20% Religious Strength Penalty.
Unique Unit: Wagenburg
Renaissance Unique Renaissance Era Anti-Cavalry Unit that replaces the Pike and Shot.
No Combat Penalty against Melee Units. +8 Combat Strength when defending.
Production Cost: 240
Gold Cost: 960
Gold Maintenance: 3
Movement Points: 2
Combat Strength: 55
Sight Range: 2
Unique Infrastructure: Hrad
Bohemian Unique Improvement unlocked with Castles.
Occupying Unit receives +4 Defense Strength and two turns of Fortification.
+2 Production
+2 Gold
+1 Culture
Provides +1 Gold to adjacent Improvements built on Bonus Resources,
increasing to +2 Gold(with Steam Power)
+2 Tourism(with Flight)
Leader Agenda: Taborite
Will try to maintain a large Army and try to keep Religions from other Civilizations away from his empire.
Likes those with a large Army and respects his Religion, and dislikes those with a large army but try to spread their Religion into his Empire.
Greeting: The lands of Bohemia welcome all who wish to see its lands, but only if they respect her religion.
Agenda Approval: Too often, men of other religions have sought our demise. Thankfully, you are not one of them.
Agenda Disapproval: Why do you wish destruction upon us? We have done nothing to attract your wrath, except that we are of different faiths.
Attacked: Bohemia has resisted any threats to its freedom. You are not the first to have tried, but this will be your last attempt.
Declares War on You: God, I ask of thee to bless us as we march to war. Bless our young men as they march against these enemies of ours.
Defeated: You may have broken our armies, but it will be harder to break the will of the Bohemian people.
Really nice but the +25% production when at war is a little overpowered
I'm sorry I don't see a Bohemian Rhapsody reference here
@@yougodk6181 It could make sense, considering the newest Civilizations can just obliterate the opposition in the game. But thanks for the compliment :)
Do you have a place where all these civ ideas are listed? Like a Civ Fanatics forum?
@@harrisontait3379 There's a link on the bottom comment. There you should find some ideas from me. If you want more ideas, look up a thread under the same name, except it doesn't have a 2 in the title. Hope that helps. :)
I fell for the Spiffing Brit title again, it gets me every time
Yorkshire Tea slurping intensifies with intensity.
Has anyone actually seen Potato and Spiff in the same place together??? What if they are one and the same???
I think Krakow is pronounced craw know
Wrong spot
Potato explains how to rush bombards
Potato says I don't know what I'm gonna do this game
Me, look at the title and heard the explanation
Me, Yeah sure "you don't know"
Lmao
I really love your videos! Even though I only have the base game and don't play a lot, it's fun to see you try these tactics and your thoughtful gameplay, has made me a better player, just by watching.
I love how enthusiatic you are. Your knowledge and thoughtful game narration is very enjoyable to watch. I have become a really big fan, as I play CIV as well. I'm not amaxing at the game but I have learned alot from you.
The fact you don't even need the prerequisite techs for your eurekas is hilarious and I love it, Hammurabi doesn't play by your rules! HE MAKES THE RULES.
Fun Fact: Sun Wukong is the chinese legendary hero that inspired Akira Toriyama to create Son Goku (Dragon Ball). So, basically you have a Super Sayan in your army! :-)
I’m imagining Hercules in glasses and a lab coat, hammering away at a massive spaceport all by himself.
I love the full game in an hour. Been doing killer with the vids man!
Simultaneously having 12 science per turn AND 2+ bombards on turn 110. Feelsweirdman
Watching this video and seeing potato get bombards so early the war with scythia was like a colonial conflict
I can tell when Potato gets excited; he sounds more Irish. Lovely accent
How will YOU play Babylon?
-Will you enlighten the world with science??
-Or will you darken it with tyranny??
WE SHALL BRING THE WORLD INTO THE LIGHT BY SHOWING THEM THE TRUE MEANING OF HAMMURABI'S CODE!
3:36 "This is gonna be a kind of peaceful game" - PotatoMcWhiskey 20/11/2020 on the early stages of a game he won by Domination.
Yeah... kind of...
Oh wow, the palgum is SO much better than I though. When I saw +1 food on ever fresh water tile, I though that mean lakes get +1 food and that's it.
I'm so glad you got to do a video on this early, I tried watching the dev livestream but could only make it through 5 minutes because they don't have quick movement and quick battles on lol
Me waiting for Potato to notice how broken the Maui hero is when you have the Temple of Artemis...
I found in my Babylon play that a big "to do" is to get as much income as possible so that you can afford to upgrade your units through the massive tech jumps. Also getting the vampire units in secret societies is super strong because you can suddenly get multiple uber-powerful units just by getting a eureka and upgrading one unit. Bombard rush is handy, but so is pike and shot rush.
Spies and the Great Library would have made the late-game techs a bit easier, imo.
spies don't work when you're are far ahead
@@theexaminer4906 But they will allow babylon to keep up and not fall behind.
@@jakalder Spies wind up being almost worthless, save for the ability to restock the treasury every few turns. Babylon gets so far ahead on the tech, that there simply aren't any techs to steal from other civs. Every once in a great while one might pop up, but it is likely one Babylon could still get to first if it actually wanted it.
Thank you for this wonderful edited video thats encapsulates the pluses and minuses of Babylon in a succinct hour
Excited to play as Babylon!
By the way, my channel is dedicated to piano arrangements of civ music!
That is absolutely nuts! Good video.
I like the hour long (or less) videos to watch on my lunch break.
Thank you, Potato!
Another firaxis sponsored video?
Paidtato McWhiskey in the house!
Thanks PotatoMcWhiskey, you made my life better, your accent/speaking impairment actually made me look for a speaking coach
FINALLY! I’ve been waiting all week for this
So imagine a 2 player team. Mali and Babylon. Mali uses their bonuses to make as much gold as possible and trades it to babylon to alley-oop eurekas.
After some thinking, I realized that with good luck, Babylon can get 3 techs on turn 1. If you settle on a coast, discover another civ, and discover a natural wonder, you get Writing, Sailing, and Astrology on your first turn!
"Discover new Civ" and "luck" aren't fitting together
Interesting note: Gilgamesh gains another ability when playing the Heroes Mode. Instead of the shared xp, pillage, and Alliance points, you gain +25% production towards recruiting heroes, and they gain 20% increase in lifespan.
Some Wonders changed as well. Great Bath makes heroes lifespan 10% longer for instance.
Holy Cow, the Oracle lowers hero recall cost! As if it wasn't already super powerful!
This civ is insane. Even crazier gameplay on tech shuffle. I have 2 different classical era techs on turn 12. I have 3 science..lol
Found your channel after that vid with u and Spiffing Brit playing Civ 6. Watching your playthrough really helps me with Civ 6.
Funny, how you were able to enter the industrial era before entering the renaissance era
Potato, have you played around with "infinite" vampire castles and making super cities? Once you can build vamp castles, your first castle will use one build charge, but your second build charge won't disappear until you've built around 8 or 9 castles. Then when you get your third vampire unlocked the whole thing starts all over again. The amount of food and production and gold you can get just running your second vampire around building castles is insane. Get the second vamp as soon as the era starts and immediately set out to building castles and your city will be able to one turn build practically anything. You will have so much food that the 25% modifier won't matter, you'll still be growing every 4 or 5 turns until you finally get the 0% modifier.
I thought that was one of the things they were patching here?
@@artemi7 oh I had not heard. Just finished my most recent campaign that already had a bunch built. Maybe on my next campaign it will no longer work.
@@alex2005z as far as I can tell it's just broken and you don't have to do anything to trigger it other than get your second vampire and then you make the vampire castle printer go brrrrrr.
@@artemi7 I just read the update notes for November and nothing about vampire castles was mentioned.
Potato if you’re having a hard time pronouncing Xbalanque and Hunahpu you can call them the “Mayan Hero twins” or just the “Hero Twins” since that’s the more common name
You pronounce them: “Hunapu” and “Ikzbalankee”
Space Race or Domination Victory?
Potato: A space race against my domination victory
Maui could be so good when playing with aztec, so you can maybe get some extra luxury for your bonus damage
I will watch every second of this multiple times thank you potato
babilon is essencially the math girl confusion meme on steroids
Potato: 'Wow Hercules is so amazing, he destroyed this Nubian city!'
Hercules: 'Heh.'
Boil em, mash em. Stick em in a stew !!
You're playthrough just made me realize something. Barbarians are going to be insanely strong whenever Babylon is in the game. Oh you just unlocked Musketmen? Here is a swarm of Barbarian Musketmen while you still only have Archers.
Babylon...what have you done?!
I don't think the AI will be able to use Babylon very well, so shouldn't be a problem unless a human player is Babylon.
Potato, you know the rules... And so do I.
BUILD A VENETIAN ARSENAL!!!
An Arsenal is what I’m thinking of, you wouldn’t get this while playing any other civ.
I just want to tell you what wonder I’m building...
So I'm playing babylon on deity and am currently building an army of riflemen and battleships in 800 AZ. My capital has like 150 production. Using Herc for early industrial zones saves you so much construction time. I found it best to focus on production and gold because construction and upkeep of this stuff is so high. I spammed monumentality to keep up with building improvements because improvements are insane when you you have the advanced techs that increase the yields.
Also, Maui seems good for lake/coastal tiles.
Wasn't hoping for your video to be today but I'm really glad it is.
Sweet the dlc was released c:
I'll have to play when i get off work!
It's not, he must have got early-access for this
Is it later today then?
@@reval1989 I just got the update 2 minutes ago
@@jamiefinnigan884 All part of my plan. Checkmate Firaxis
The one thing I love about Hammurabi is that you can skip over a lot of prerequisite techs if you want. You can unlock techs no matter where you are in the tech tree and advance from there.
Lmao Guayaquil is one of the cities i've lived in here in Ecuador. It's pronounced gua-(as in guacamole) ya(as in told ya) - quil (as in kill)
I like babylon's science victory because of instead science just being you sitting around with campus'. Its like, you learn about(eurakas) every aspect of technology and thats how you achieve victory, since you have to dip into everything to get eureka progress. Feels much more like a scientific victory
The video just came out. But the title sounds amazing
"I was so thrilled to be sponsored to make this video. I mean, I was gonna make it anyway so free money"
Crap, forgot this was today and now I'm stuck at work.
Love the Spiff impression...it just works ladies and gentlemen
Can't wait for the spiffing brit to make a video about this in a week😂
I personally love rushing early industrial zones with harbors/commercial hubs. The gold and production combo while you play the multi headed strategy to get through tech tree early game makes them super powerful if you can Sim city long enough
You should redo the all tribal village game with Babylon!
i remember tinkering around with a civ vi trainer and one of the cheats was instantly getting science techs when u got eurekas which was super fun to play with, super glad its in the game now