I honestly don’t know how you survived that. I would have died on King because I can never keep my units alive once they drop in health unless I have a massive army that it doesn’t matter if I lose heaps.
I love watching you stack the odds against yourself only to somehow crawl through a minefield of glass on your stomach until you somehow get to the finish line first, despite the AI having steel boots and laser guns to fight you with while you only have a couple sticks and a ball of dirt. That was a run-on sentence, but I will not apologize. It's endlessly entertaining to see unbeatable challenges be beaten, and you always seem to be able to pull cards out of an oracle or wherever.
Keep this up. I have no idea how you plan your attacks so we'll but dam I love it. You take a small advantage like Japan's +5 combat by coast and make it huge for you.
Me too I always feel like it's a more realistic start to a game, humans were barbaric In our early days, we shouldnt be peaceful and civilized in the ancient era, so I'm usually a bit of a warmonger in the early game, I always try to take a second capital if someone is in the way of my expansion.
Yes. That's almost 30% increase. That's huge! After 10 turns of just half that % increase he'd be at 18.5 20 turns he'd be at 64.7 100 turns he'd be well over 1.4 million science per turn.
Potato: "You know what? Forever war. I'm declaring war upon the world. I am public enemy number one. My birthright to be the world's enemy." Entire world: Declares war on Potato Potato: "OH GOD. OH GOD."
To be fair, from the perspective of Eleanor and Gitarja, your aggression was 100% unprovoked. Granted, Gitarja was probably going to merc you once she had the chance, but she had no way of knowing that.
this game is just a simulation of my normal living situation here in Los Angeles - no room anywhere and neighbors breathing down your neck also this game was just ridiculous to watch - at least we have BASED Cleopatra who would never declare war on you
4:15 the bonus applies on the tile where the fight goes. You're going on the warrior's tile which isn't a coastal tile sadly :(, you only have divine wind defensively
Damn, this makes sense but is also rough. edit; wait his slinger should have the bonus though cause he’s staying next to the coast and throwing projectile!
@@brandonkelbe slinger behavior is dumb. From the times I've used them, they seem to use a lot of melee unit logic to determine how they attack. I honestly hate slingers.
I really dislike that form of difficulty. It's the same issue with paradox games, they don't make the AI more skilled, they just pump them full of buffs and pump you full of maluses
@@australiananarchist480 yeah, it's just makes you catch up to AI for half of the game and the other half is just steamrolling them, cuz they are too stupid to improve.
"It's the year 2021, we have the internet and renewables coming online, space travel is becoming common place, and a global society is beginning to emerge. But you know what, fuck it, this unorganized tribe we just found in the jungle, they've got it figured out. Let's all of us, world wide, start to emulate the lifestyles of the potato chiefdom."
Omg yes I honestly want a civ 6 mod that makes you start further back civ should begin at monkey and go from there like literally start when we get down ot if the trees
"Maybe *culture* is the way I'll pull myself out of this game!" Says the guy with the highest military score by almost 100 points as he declares war on the entire continent...
Theater square and encampment would have been better swapped. Gives the theater square +1 adjacency. Edit: Nvm it ended up being better with the entertainment complex.
The no money thing is a bug happens to me all the time the only way to combat is to make a deal (make it equal) where the ai makes the deal snd change the money accordingly idk how to make it work during a peace deal tho
That monologue is legit anime villain levels of awesome. I can imagine a Gundam dictator saying right after he nukes earth and destroy the polar ice caps, not to torment his enemies, but because he can
12:32 I've been testing about it and notice that melee units fortifying in the city centre will never come out. I even try baiting with builder/settler. range units on the other hand will come out of the city centre if they have to.
Did the warrior lose to the city because of the chariot defending the city? I'd be curious to know if you would win in that situation if the city was ungarrisoned.
He did. Little known fact: in order to take a city the melee unit must have enough health to survive combat with the garrisoned unit, even if the city has no health left.
Got a challenge on Reddit: best bad start user wins. You get a bad start, or have an old bad start, make the best of it. Show us the start, show us the progress, show us the win! You got 5 swordmen and 3 horse archers surrounding your capital in the ancient era? Show us, and your way of destroying these barbarians...
I had a game recently where I started and almost immediately ran into Elizabeth. So I rushed her, took her out .. and Egypt appeared. So I rushed Egypt took it out .. and then discovered Persia and the Mayan just to the North on the other side of mountains with a small pass between the ranges. Weirdest dang game. Then the Mayn had no space to expand and they send a settler down the pass so war, took it, thank you very much. Then Persia did the same thing after I got peace with the Mayans. So there I am sitting with five cities (two enemy capitals, original capital, and two from stolen settlers) So I try to go around the mountains to attack Mayan from the sea and run into Mansu?! So I took him out as he was doing nothing and finished him off and *poof* there is Malaysia right next to him. All of these civs within a small portion of the map. It was freaking ridiculous. But I took so many temples I converted Mayans and Persia to my religion before they established anything .. and then as I tried exploring world ran into Germany. Quick rush of religious units and win before 1400. I would say a good 50% of the globe was still unexplored by any civs due to how everything got placed so weird.
I'm pretty sure with ranged units and the Divine Wind bonus you have to be attacking into the coastal tile. Vietnam works the same way, with ranged units sitting in forests attacking a featureless tile getting no bonus, but getting one if they attack into a forest. It's weird, but it still means your archers/slingers will be stronger defending.
This is one of your most instructive videos (next to the Arabia overexplained). After that I grasped the tactics behind the national parks and hit a culture win in 252 turns on immortal (my personal record).
'Ok everyone we might have a chance to win this war as long as no one does anything stupid' - Italy 1941 GERMANY HAS DECLARED WAR ON THE UNITED STATES 41:32
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I honestly don’t know how you survived that. I would have died on King because I can never keep my units alive once they drop in health unless I have a massive army that it doesn’t matter if I lose heaps.
I love watching you stack the odds against yourself only to somehow crawl through a minefield of glass on your stomach until you somehow get to the finish line first, despite the AI having steel boots and laser guns to fight you with while you only have a couple sticks and a ball of dirt. That was a run-on sentence, but I will not apologize. It's endlessly entertaining to see unbeatable challenges be beaten, and you always seem to be able to pull cards out of an oracle or wherever.
Keep this up. I have no idea how you plan your attacks so we'll but dam I love it. You take a small advantage like Japan's +5 combat by coast and make it huge for you.
If only turn speed was always that quick.
@@mellon3891 I feel your pain. I need to sell a kidney to upgrade my video card.
Turning barbs off then role-playing as them, very nice
Turn 0 - "we're in trouble"
This is my kinda game. War in the first 10 turns. Early game chaos is ALWAYS my favorite start to a game.
Me too I always feel like it's a more realistic start to a game, humans were barbaric In our early days, we shouldnt be peaceful and civilized in the ancient era, so I'm usually a bit of a warmonger in the early game, I always try to take a second capital if someone is in the way of my expansion.
Maybe that's why our ancestors did it too
19:48 it's so weird that the city with 1 population has such low loyalty. That one guy REALLY hates you.
Lol, probably the old dude that is yelling at the clouds
potato was skateboarding on his side walk
"my science is already starting to recover" literally went from 6 to 7.6
Yes. That's almost 30% increase. That's huge! After 10 turns of just half that % increase he'd be at 18.5
20 turns he'd be at 64.7
100 turns he'd be well over 1.4 million science per turn.
@@andrewsercer9538 Stonks
Potato: "You know what? Forever war. I'm declaring war upon the world. I am public enemy number one. My birthright to be the world's enemy."
Entire world: Declares war on Potato
Potato: "OH GOD. OH GOD."
To be fair, from the perspective of Eleanor and Gitarja, your aggression was 100% unprovoked. Granted, Gitarja was probably going to merc you once she had the chance, but she had no way of knowing that.
Naw, Potato was just role-playing the AI better than the AI.
Me in this situation: "Oh god Indonesia spawned literally right next to me I hope they ignore me or something"
Potato: "So anyway, I started blasting"
Potato at setup: "Let's turn off the barbs."
Potato when heat builds up: "Lets use discipline against non-existing barbs."
Bro just, that double formal war OUT OF NOWHERE had me absolutely rolling.
Brutal Deity is back! Old school Potato.
Potato did NOT have to go that hard, but he did, and we all appreciate him for it.
this game is just a simulation of my normal living situation here in Los Angeles - no room anywhere and neighbors breathing down your neck
also this game was just ridiculous to watch - at least we have BASED Cleopatra who would never declare war on you
Oh you too have surprised war both neighboors and took their bedroom and living room in one fell swoop?
@@parrot1442 only on Wednesdays
Great cliff hanger. Your whole system of streaming/edited videos has really come a LONG way. Thanks for uploading!
4:15 the bonus applies on the tile where the fight goes. You're going on the warrior's tile which isn't a coastal tile sadly :(, you only have divine wind defensively
Damn, this makes sense but is also rough.
edit; wait his slinger should have the bonus though cause he’s staying next to the coast and throwing projectile!
@@brandonkelbe slinger behavior is dumb. From the times I've used them, they seem to use a lot of melee unit logic to determine how they attack. I honestly hate slingers.
I'm pretty sure it's that the *Combat* Strength of the Slinger is higher, but the *Ranged* Strength is unchanged?
classic discipline policy in a no barbs game, we've all done it
(granted neither one mattered but I like pointing it out anyway)
Just in case, you know.
Turn 34, and Gitarja already has city walls built. Friggin AI bonuses are absurd.
its idiotic that you can build walls when your city is taking damage..
I really dislike that form of difficulty. It's the same issue with paradox games, they don't make the AI more skilled, they just pump them full of buffs and pump you full of maluses
@@australiananarchist480 yeah, it's just makes you catch up to AI for half of the game and the other half is just steamrolling them, cuz they are too stupid to improve.
@@australiananarchist480 at some point it gets too difficult to code good AI. Ai that would compete with pros is an entire project in itself
@@khalilrahme5227 eh, not really with modern day machine learning. Crazy what you can accomplish in a few hours with enough processing power
Plugs in discipline when there are no barbs. I mean, you don't have a scout either, but at least Recon has a potential to be useful.
When I get into situations like this, I usually just raze everything. Its the only way to deal with the loyalty bullcrap.
Can't raze capitals
Here’s an idea for a challenge: never change your government. (And if you’re REALLY crazy try and win a culture game too)
"It's the year 2021, we have the internet and renewables coming online, space travel is becoming common place, and a global society is beginning to emerge. But you know what, fuck it, this unorganized tribe we just found in the jungle, they've got it figured out. Let's all of us, world wide, start to emulate the lifestyles of the potato chiefdom."
Omg yes
I honestly want a civ 6 mod that makes you start further back civ should begin at monkey and go from there like literally start when we get down ot if the trees
@@Da_Shark In that kind of a game you should get to pick a hominid species instead of a Civ at the start of a game.
colonize mars as a chiefdom tribe
@@Da_Shark have you played Spore?
These are my favorite types of Civ "scenarios" to play. It's one of the only ways I can feel anything anymore.
Majapahit was a literal hellscape for a very long time there
*Denies a Trade of Horses*
Potato Immediately after : I could probably sell my Horses to someone
“Lemme tell you boys about the Samurai: I’m not gonna build it because it’s fucking useless.” 🤣
1:02 ... I'm not ok with that callout mr potato
Dude, I haven't seen such a brutal start such as this. I hope the upgrades of your units transfer over when you eventually upgrade them.
I like the map over your face, thank you.
I have to say Potato, the quality of your content has really improved a lot. Keep up the great work and major props to your editor as well!
Lol, that "Fuck it dude we're in" was perfect.
26:00 approximately, PM snaps. "No more Mr Nice Potato". I'm hurting.
This episode shall be placed in the hall of fame!
"...unless you just play on Prince and don't build a military for the first 40 turns and get overrun by barbarians."
I'm in this quote and I hate it.
Ah Terra maps. The choice for people who really want a crap tonne of land for themselves.
It reminds me when Japan was in a forever war with you in the last game, now the tables turned.
He’s playing Japan’s POV this time around
I think legendary start would make captured cities worth keeping.
3:06 discipline while there's no barbs in the game lol
Even just watching you play this game gave me high blood pressure
As a bonus, the government plaza gives an extra +8 loyalty to Indonesia's former capital, making it that much easier to keep.
This is the best ending for a Civ video you've ever had.
"Maybe *culture* is the way I'll pull myself out of this game!" Says the guy with the highest military score by almost 100 points as he declares war on the entire continent...
This was the most insane early game I’ve ever seen. I honestly thought you’d re-roll 50 turns in cause of how insanely behind you were
Soo glad this is just audio!!!!
"You don't build any units until turn 40 and your capital gets overrun by barbarian horsemen." HEY. I resemble that remark.
"Fuck it dude we're in" are words to live by
This is the most exciting thing I’ve watched in a long time. And it ended in a cliffhanger!
this is exactly the type of game we want to see.
That ending...oh dear...The AI really wants to make mashed potatoes...
Theater square and encampment would have been better swapped. Gives the theater square +1 adjacency.
Edit: Nvm it ended up being better with the entertainment complex.
Combat bonuses based on terrain go with the terrain of the defender
damn what a ride lol brilliant stuff vodka mcgrainmash
What a cliffie!
Just imagine how much more intense this video would've been with barbarians! :D
I loved the part where he turned of barbs and then also used discipline.
The no money thing is a bug happens to me all the time the only way to combat is to make a deal (make it equal) where the ai makes the deal snd change the money accordingly idk how to make it work during a peace deal tho
Seriosly, coolest game of Civ I've seen in a while. Well played mr. potatow
Never gets old. So satisfying to watch this
Discipline policy with no barbs? Sure!
Yay!! We got the minimap back!!
Prince?
No military units for the first 40 turns?
....sounds about right....
This is looking to be a hilarious series.
I did this once with Georgia, so I could colonize the second continent and then win a domination victory for the Georgia memes
That monologue is legit anime villain levels of awesome. I can imagine a Gundam dictator saying right after he nukes earth and destroy the polar ice caps, not to torment his enemies, but because he can
Lol. Amazing cliff hanger cut at the end. Well played.
Your vids always rope me back to the game
You know, I really like watching you "struggle"
12:32 I've been testing about it and notice that melee units fortifying in the city centre will never come out. I even try baiting with builder/settler. range units on the other hand will come out of the city centre if they have to.
35:43 That was really good German.... 😂😁
By far the most entertaining game I've seen so far, kuddos for keeping it alive !
Did the warrior lose to the city because of the chariot defending the city? I'd be curious to know if you would win in that situation if the city was ungarrisoned.
He did. Little known fact: in order to take a city the melee unit must have enough health to survive combat with the garrisoned unit, even if the city has no health left.
This would be the God game for Nubia
Dido be looking powerful in this game lol
I was so confused as to why he was struggling so much with loyalty, but then i remembered that he was in a dark age
That's the first game of yours I have seen with QUITE such a desperate start!
i love the way you narrate your actions and thoughts its very entertaining
Boy what an ending for that episode. Nails bitten!
That was an amazing start. Love it
Got a challenge on Reddit: best bad start user wins. You get a bad start, or have an old bad start, make the best of it. Show us the start, show us the progress, show us the win! You got 5 swordmen and 3 horse archers surrounding your capital in the ancient era? Show us, and your way of destroying these barbarians...
You literally went like: i rather betray the world then have the world betray me
“Unless you play in prince…”
Deity is just too hard for me to play 😂
I had a game recently where I started and almost immediately ran into Elizabeth. So I rushed her, took her out .. and Egypt appeared. So I rushed Egypt took it out .. and then discovered Persia and the Mayan just to the North on the other side of mountains with a small pass between the ranges. Weirdest dang game. Then the Mayn had no space to expand and they send a settler down the pass so war, took it, thank you very much. Then Persia did the same thing after I got peace with the Mayans. So there I am sitting with five cities (two enemy capitals, original capital, and two from stolen settlers) So I try to go around the mountains to attack Mayan from the sea and run into Mansu?! So I took him out as he was doing nothing and finished him off and *poof* there is Malaysia right next to him. All of these civs within a small portion of the map. It was freaking ridiculous. But I took so many temples I converted Mayans and Persia to my religion before they established anything .. and then as I tried exploring world ran into Germany. Quick rush of religious units and win before 1400. I would say a good 50% of the globe was still unexplored by any civs due to how everything got placed so weird.
I'm pretty sure with ranged units and the Divine Wind bonus you have to be attacking into the coastal tile. Vietnam works the same way, with ranged units sitting in forests attacking a featureless tile getting no bonus, but getting one if they attack into a forest. It's weird, but it still means your archers/slingers will be stronger defending.
This is one of your most instructive videos (next to the Arabia overexplained). After that I grasped the tactics behind the national parks and hit a culture win in 252 turns on immortal (my personal record).
In this episode: Potato turns into Count von Count multiple times. Also, shit is going down.
"What we can do is have a can-do attitude. And do the best we can...do." -Hojo Tokimune
Nuking a city with archers to get exp super early game is one of the most satisfying things in Civ 6
Wait, wasn't swapping out god king one turn before the pantheon kinda counter-productive ?
yes
Chad
lol hilarious game. Cant wait for next episode.
This was the most entertaining Civ video I've ever seen.
Now that volcano never being active in the early game is damn shame.
19:36
Am I the only one hearing the chaos in the background?
The Unification of Terra, Chapter 1. God Emperor Potato see's another civilization existing. He is infuriated.
LMAO the music at the end. Give your editor a bonus please
19:00, didn't need to declare war on Eleonor, since the city was going to flip away again anyway
'Ok everyone we might have a chance to win this war as long as no one does anything stupid' - Italy 1941
GERMANY HAS DECLARED WAR ON THE UNITED STATES 41:32
THEY DID WHAT
I liked this game so much that I watched the vods and Now I am watching the series
Love the cliffhanger at the end
“If I kill the slinger, Oh how’s it going Eleanor”
This is probably the most CURSED starts I have ever seen played until completion. It's a real testament to your ability as a player.
This is one of the funniest videos I have seen so far 😂😂😂😂
If you have a unit which can shoot twice, you can shoot once and then promote. Therefore only losing half a turn for promotion.
Wow really called me out on the playing on prince and being ran over by barbarians.
Now that's how you do a cliffhanger ending!