Out of all the guides out there for beginners, this one is my favourite. As a person who picked up the game a couple of days ago, I like how you slow it down, explain what things do and give your thought process. 10/10 take my upvote.
Me: I guess I'll watch this, but I'm not sure what he could possibly tell me that I don't already know after 300 hrs of this game... Also me: THERE'S AN EXPERIENCE BAR?!!
Really Really Really like the work you are doing. I just had a few friends that started playing and you making a tutorial is just perfect! PS: enjoy your holiday.
I'm not new to civilization, but I still really enjoyed this vid because it helps me understand how and why you make the decisions that you do. Love your videos, Potato. Keep it up!
Raven Shoe I still think city states should be able to steal settlers or conquer cities they just shouldn’t be able to produce settlers on their own. Would change the game a lot imo
This is such an awesome guide to the game it has to help even the player who played the game for quite some time. In my case I had NO IDEA that I could begin building a district and then switch to building anything else, yet have the cost locked in. Wow. Now it actually makes more sense to build Settlers earlier and generally adds more value to them
Nice guide. Been following you for a while but have yet to start playing Civ again. I haven’t played since Civ 3 and so much have changed. But this guide made me think I just found my entertainment for the weekend, and will start playing again.
Hey man, Just started watching your Emperor and Chill Spain series and I really enjoy your videos when I'm studying! Just wanted to say thanks for making these long hours before finals much more enjoyable!
I've played the Game since 2 Years, but I know ich will love these series :D Maybe I can beat the Game on Deity but in the Multiplayer it's so about Micro Management and a lot more difficult. So I hope these Series will help me to renew my Knowledge :)
Best series. Thank you so much for being so in depth even about small things like river defense , I love this game but on PS4 it's a little harder to get information on things.
that's right. Eagle warriors _cant_ make a builder out of an enemy who kills itself attacking you. nor can they make a builder out of a barbarian in any case They can, however, make a builder out of a free-state's unit.
I think Aztec is a mixed bag as a beginner civ for the same reasons you mentioned Rome. Having a really strong early UU encourages early aggression (which the Legion also does), but instead of extra culture Aztec is getting more combat strength off of luxuries, which lets you take fights that you might not normally want to take with a warrior. You know who I think a really good beginner civ is? Germany. Not so much because they're easy to win with compared to other civs, but because they're only slightly better at essential things like production/warfare and won't teach bad habits in the same way other simple civs might. New players aren't immediately going to get +6 Hansas up and running, but it leaves the potential for optimization there as you get better at the game. That said, played to their full potential, Germany IS one of the strongest civs in the game, so they can become a crutch on higher difficulties as you start dealing with powerful AI civs.
I wanted to avoud civs with non-straightforwars bonuses or ones that change how you play significantly. Aztecs bonuses are really straightforward even if they change how you play in the early game.
Rome would have been a better beginner civ, imo. The free monuments encourage players to settle many cities, a core strategy of Civ 6, and the Legion is versatile enough to focus on either aggression or defense (building a Fort to defend your territory) which is important since the AI is more likely to declare surprise wars in the early eras. Montezuma forces early game aggression in order to make the most out of your leader choice, while early game aggression isn't actually required to do well or win games.
just got done(before seeing this playthrough) w/a crazy good start. 3 different luxuries early so +3 to my warriors. just bumb rushed Rome and Egypt. Rome I didn't even have slingers or archers. Egypt was even easier. Slowed down after that b/c the others civs were on the other side of the map so went straight culture.
At timestamp 28:35, why did moving that eagle warrior put the city under siege? I thought your units needed to be next to the city to place them under siege. I'm reading a bit about units and zone of control and hoped someone could explain why in this specific situation. I've played Civ very casually for the past few iterations and have recently gotten much more into it(really excited for the Gathering Storm release) so trying to learn more about these intricate mechanics to better my gameplay.
Thanks for the Tips. I just got the game for Free from EPIC Games. Just the base game NO DLCs. Stay at Home orders. Now i discovered a game i like at my age of 62. Yeh i'm real old school.
I wish someone would make a comparison in graphics on Switch and on last model of iPhone (iPhone XS at the moment of writing) to spec of average to high PC. I predict it will end up being better on iPhones.
Quick question. Are there any big disadvantages to play the game on Quick or "multiplayer" speed? I mean, for that speed I know that the strategy for acquiring boosts for civics and science inspirations have to acquired with knowing which are speed related boosts. But are there other less obvious but important difference beetween playing standard and quick speeds?
in MP what's the difference between setting ourself in a difficulty and setting the AI in that same difficulty? example player 1 is king, 2 is emperor, bots are mix of the two. I understand bots get more starting stuff but what about players?
I feel bad because I've been trying several times to beat this game with a science victory on the settler difficulty and I keep losing! It's not like I'm getting attacked or anything, the game just doesn't isn't enough time to achieve the science victory! I guess I'm just managing too much instead of focusing on what's needed to get the science victory. It's frustrating I got the defeated screen twice now even after I thought everything was going well! Everything was booming and advancing… Then it just says game over! I guess I take too long! I'm also unsure about when I should build certain districts. Which one do I build first and where to build it? I don't know the locational benefits of various districts.
No, grassland hills won't give you the two production. Founding a city will give you a base 2 food 1 production. But the plains hills have 1 food 2 production. Because of this, when you found your city, it will raise the food output to 2 but retain the 2 production. Grassland hills will just stay at 2 food one production.
I can never get city states to do anything other than hide in their cities when I declare war... played 6 games and never once was able to churn out workers with the special unit..
@@sineporfa9053 exactly my point, new player need to learn how to play effectively and properly.. how to/ how not to use some exploit in the game, right?
Can I sale city what the best method to start with for every kind of win what building should I start with and how the average time and how many turn is take and a lot of other question lmao
Lol I don't understand your comment but for the things I understand I will answer. Most games end in around 400 or so turns. Choosing what to build first is up to you for the most part. Choose whether you want to be offensive or defensive. Best method to do any win is to pick a Civilization that has a special thing with that win. Most civilizations can't get every win so it is better to focus on one win a game. The average time depends on how long you spend on the game so there is no set amount of time a game takes.
I don't tend to decide my victory condition after a while into the game. The first step is to explore, and expand into good places, founding new cities. You can also expand aggresively, when you're out of space, by waging war into your neighbours. Now you have a good grab of land, try to develop your cities properly. Your victory condition will depend on your civilization bonuses, as well as the resources you have available (for example, if you managed to get some good locations for science districts and good production, you can try to win a science victory). That's almost it, although remember that if you want your civilization to have a religion (I always want, even if it is suboptimal) you have to start with Holy Sites early, in order to grab a Great Prophet to found a religion. If you don't have your own religion you can't win a religious victory. That would be the only exception, I think.
Got hundreds of hours in this game, still really refreshing to watch content like this. Thank you, this is really well made!
I love you, @LivingArtifice
Out of all the guides out there for beginners, this one is my favourite. As a person who picked up the game a couple of days ago, I like how you slow it down, explain what things do and give your thought process. 10/10 take my upvote.
Never a bad thing to reinforce the basics and remind ourselves of fine details we may have forgotten over time. Great idea doing this series!
I thought UA-cam was giving me sass, when it gave me a recommendation for a new player guide!!!
I mean
I'm still gonna watch it!
Nah man your phone listens to you at all times that's probably why it recommended that it probably heard you talking about civ
@@fs5miFi1dM4u5 More like it was watching me play lol!!!
Me: I guess I'll watch this, but I'm not sure what he could possibly tell me that I don't already know after 300 hrs of this game...
Also me: THERE'S AN EXPERIENCE BAR?!!
As a still-relatively-newcomer to Civ 6 (been stubbornly sticking to Civ 5 Vox Populi), I appreciate this effort and content greatly. Many thanks!
Really Really Really like the work you are doing.
I just had a few friends that started playing and you making a tutorial is just perfect!
PS: enjoy your holiday.
I'm not new to civilization, but I still really enjoyed this vid because it helps me understand how and why you make the decisions that you do. Love your videos, Potato. Keep it up!
Very helpful as I just picked up civ and rise and fall. Looking forward to more of this series
I miss being new to the game. I remember being so surprised when the AI warred me early and calling CIty States stupid for not settling more.
Raven Shoe I still think city states should be able to steal settlers or conquer cities they just shouldn’t be able to produce settlers on their own. Would change the game a lot imo
saw a post on reddit recommending this channel. Great tutorial! Been playing this game for awhile but never really learned about all the systems.
This is such an awesome guide to the game it has to help even the player who played the game for quite some time. In my case I had NO IDEA that I could begin building a district and then switch to building anything else, yet have the cost locked in. Wow. Now it actually makes more sense to build Settlers earlier and generally adds more value to them
Nice guide. Been following you for a while but have yet to start playing Civ again. I haven’t played since Civ 3 and so much have changed. But this guide made me think I just found my entertainment for the weekend, and will start playing again.
Thank you so much for taking the time to produce these tutorials. They are of great help!!
Hey man, Just started watching your Emperor and Chill Spain series and I really enjoy your videos when I'm studying! Just wanted to say thanks for making these long hours before finals much more enjoyable!
Waiting for the rest of the series. I would binge it. Got the cookies.
(Thank you for this!)
I like you vids, keep it up man!
Really informative video! I've been playing a while, but I'm continuously amazed at how much I still have to learn! Love the builder milking strategy!
Ah, I'm so happy there's a new vid up today.
I've played the Game since 2 Years, but I know ich will love these series :D Maybe I can beat the Game on Deity but in the Multiplayer it's so about Micro Management and a lot more difficult. So I hope these Series will help me to renew my Knowledge :)
Thank you for this, really helped me get into the game, I'll see the whole series and hopefully win my first game
I beat deity in 21 turns in a duel thanks for the tips brother!
And I only had to reroll the map once!
Finally my favorite youtuber is back on track with the Civ, also cant wait to watch you play Civ 6: GS on twitch (if you do)
Best series. Thank you so much for being so in depth even about small things like river defense , I love this game but on PS4 it's a little harder to get information on things.
Great video! Thanks so much for making these series
"Warriors!" "Come out to Playyy!" 😆
Love that movie CLASSIC!
Is it bad that I watched this regardless of playing since release.
You might enjoy it/learn some things!
@@PotatoMcWhiskey I'm supper exited to see what you can do wit the Gathering Storm DLC. You've definitely helped me in the past and present for sure.
Same, I hope the studio fixes Spain I loved them in civ v but the new Spain sucks lol I downloaded the civ V Isabella mod for civ vi
Pericles was a good starter leader for me, now I'm looking at Montezuma and Kublai.
that's right. Eagle warriors _cant_ make a builder out of an enemy who kills itself attacking you.
nor can they make a builder out of a barbarian in any case
They can, however, make a builder out of a free-state's unit.
Izzy Evie great tip!
I think Aztec is a mixed bag as a beginner civ for the same reasons you mentioned Rome. Having a really strong early UU encourages early aggression (which the Legion also does), but instead of extra culture Aztec is getting more combat strength off of luxuries, which lets you take fights that you might not normally want to take with a warrior.
You know who I think a really good beginner civ is? Germany. Not so much because they're easy to win with compared to other civs, but because they're only slightly better at essential things like production/warfare and won't teach bad habits in the same way other simple civs might. New players aren't immediately going to get +6 Hansas up and running, but it leaves the potential for optimization there as you get better at the game. That said, played to their full potential, Germany IS one of the strongest civs in the game, so they can become a crutch on higher difficulties as you start dealing with powerful AI civs.
I think America's pretty good too.
I wanted to avoud civs with non-straightforwars bonuses or ones that change how you play significantly. Aztecs bonuses are really straightforward even if they change how you play in the early game.
Rome would have been a better beginner civ, imo. The free monuments encourage players to settle many cities, a core strategy of Civ 6, and the Legion is versatile enough to focus on either aggression or defense (building a Fort to defend your territory) which is important since the AI is more likely to declare surprise wars in the early eras. Montezuma forces early game aggression in order to make the most out of your leader choice, while early game aggression isn't actually required to do well or win games.
the best beginner civ is actually Norway. The reason is because they get literally no usable bonuses, so, you get a very basic feel for the game.
Finally the potato famine is over! Was that a bad joke? I think it is.Yeah I’m sorry. 😐 BUT FINALLY!!!
Damn this guy struggling to breath lol made it hard to listen to but appreciate the content
Great video! Thanks for the insight!
just got done(before seeing this playthrough) w/a crazy good start. 3 different luxuries early so +3 to my warriors. just bumb rushed Rome and Egypt. Rome I didn't even have slingers or archers. Egypt was even easier. Slowed down after that b/c the others civs were on the other side of the map so went straight culture.
At timestamp 28:35, why did moving that eagle warrior put the city under siege? I thought your units needed to be next to the city to place them under siege. I'm reading a bit about units and zone of control and hoped someone could explain why in this specific situation. I've played Civ very casually for the past few iterations and have recently gotten much more into it(really excited for the Gathering Storm release) so trying to learn more about these intricate mechanics to better my gameplay.
Good guide, how did you become so good at this game?
By hating myself and playing it on UA-cam for 2 years
Thanks for the Tips. I just got the game for Free from EPIC Games. Just the base game NO DLCs. Stay at Home orders. Now i discovered a game i like at my age of 62.
Yeh i'm real old school.
will you film something like this for gathering storm?
This is pretty useful however I would suggest adding some kind of noise gate to your mic or something. Every inhale and mucus clearing can be heard.
I'm sick buddy, sorry!
Great video! Keep it up!!
7:45 Why did you manually assign the worker instead of telling the city to prioritize food?
I am a new player thanks for that and I have a lot of question
I wish someone would make a comparison in graphics on Switch and on last model of iPhone (iPhone XS at the moment of writing) to spec of average to high PC. I predict it will end up being better on iPhones.
Quick question. Are there any big disadvantages to play the game on Quick or "multiplayer" speed? I mean, for that speed I know that the strategy for acquiring boosts for civics and science inspirations have to acquired with knowing which are speed related boosts. But are there other less obvious but important difference beetween playing standard and quick speeds?
It changes a few things with AI diplomacy (making it harder) but nothing major
Super cool and usefull
in MP what's the difference between setting ourself in a difficulty and setting the AI in that same difficulty? example player 1 is king, 2 is emperor, bots are mix of the two. I understand bots get more starting stuff but what about players?
Can you get a builder from killing the barbarians?
No
I feel bad because I've been trying several times to beat this game with a science victory on the settler difficulty and I keep losing! It's not like I'm getting attacked or anything, the game just doesn't isn't enough time to achieve the science victory! I guess I'm just managing too much instead of focusing on what's needed to get the science victory. It's frustrating I got the defeated screen twice now even after I thought everything was going well! Everything was booming and advancing… Then it just says game over! I guess I take too long! I'm also unsure about when I should build certain districts. Which one do I build first and where to build it? I don't know the locational benefits of various districts.
Have fun in Texas :)
Are players able to purchase Aztecs or are they limited to people who pre-ordered?
Thank you for this. So are Grassland Hills same as Plains Hills?
No, grassland hills won't give you the two production. Founding a city will give you a base 2 food 1 production. But the plains hills have 1 food 2 production. Because of this, when you found your city, it will raise the food output to 2 but retain the 2 production. Grassland hills will just stay at 2 food one production.
You really sound like Dara O'Briain, did anyone told you that? (It's cool, don't take it the wrong way...) :)
Them's fighting words
This is probably just me but I hate score victory and always turn it off. Not that I can’t win like that but I like my games very long
Sensei Po-tae-toe!
Why dont I get the era score banner in my games?
Mics a little raspy compared to usual. Great vid btw.
I can never get city states to do anything other than hide in their cities when I declare war... played 6 games and never once was able to churn out workers with the special unit..
shouldn't you wait for gathering strom to do a tutorial?
The tutorial was planned in advance of Gathering storm, and I would need some experience with the expansion to do a tutorial on it
I see. Anyway, it's always nice to get more information about the game, keep up the great work!
how much effort did it take you to not talk at 1 million miles per hour?? Long time player, but this is still cool to see!
Deity strategy?
First we must beat prince my friend, most strategies in here are applicable in a general sense to Deity
since you play prince difficulty can you finish the game in 150 turn or less?
Of course he can. But it would be ill-advised in a series called "new player tutorial".
@@sineporfa9053 exactly my point, new player need to learn how to play effectively and properly.. how to/ how not to use some exploit in the game, right?
Fave leader?
I do not have one
I liked the video.. but how long is the sniffling/snotswallowing going to continue? Cant watch this if it continues :/
I'm sick sorry
@@PotatoMcWhiskey well.. I hope you get better :)
I might check some of your other stuff out then
Please buy a handkerchief, otherwise very good.
Handkerchief wont help allergies
Can I sale city what the best method to start with for every kind of win what building should I start with and how the average time and how many turn is take and a lot of other question lmao
Lol I don't understand your comment but for the things I understand I will answer. Most games end in around 400 or so turns. Choosing what to build first is up to you for the most part. Choose whether you want to be offensive or defensive. Best method to do any win is to pick a Civilization that has a special thing with that win. Most civilizations can't get every win so it is better to focus on one win a game. The average time depends on how long you spend on the game so there is no set amount of time a game takes.
There is a lot of variables the decide how fast you win the game so this is not a simple question to answer.
I am from Africa that's why my English is shi*** and I have hard time playing this game but I love it
I don't tend to decide my victory condition after a while into the game.
The first step is to explore, and expand into good places, founding new cities. You can also expand aggresively, when you're out of space, by waging war into your neighbours.
Now you have a good grab of land, try to develop your cities properly. Your victory condition will depend on your civilization bonuses, as well as the resources you have available (for example, if you managed to get some good locations for science districts and good production, you can try to win a science victory).
That's almost it, although remember that if you want your civilization to have a religion (I always want, even if it is suboptimal) you have to start with Holy Sites early, in order to grab a Great Prophet to found a religion. If you don't have your own religion you can't win a religious victory. That would be the only exception, I think.
Aztecs need a buff
I get my ass kicked all the time. Shit I can't even tell what difficultly I'm on. 😖😅
i love u too
You could also show the noobs how to reroll a terrible start to a new map.
Watching this for the first time now and man, what a terrible starting location
God it’s hard to watch when you’re swallowing and sniffing and just making mouth noises 🤮🤮
U are making me angry with ur commentry