Imagine sailing towards an island so small and insignificant it's barely worth traveling to, just to see the largest and greatest lighthouse in the known Universe shining into the heavens
@@maxfactrr8949 also their city is so big that it covers the entire island by now. They crave coffee without ever having seen it, and don't know what construction or wheels are.
Every time I see it, I have to stop to appreciate the art direction in Civ 5. The Art Deco inspired iconography and fonts are just perfection for a Civ game.
Its such a shame that after initial release each expansion downplayed the art deco more and more. The new main menus were just ingame art backgrounds instead of art deco statues of things like Atlas holding up the world. And as much as the leader/civ music got better and better, the main themes got so much worse. It became a frankenstein renaissance art deco mess by the end, and not even in a cool intentional way either
PotatoMcWhiskey: "I'm thinking about doing A. Here's why A is good. Here's another reason to do A. A would be good for this and for that. I'm definitely going to do A. Yeah, A is the play here. Actually, I'll just do B."
5:30 How the heck do they even know what coffee is?! Did a can of Folgers wash up on shore? EDIT: 7:34 A storm must have blown some plants from just across the water and they were like.... We need this. Build a great lighthouse to find it!
You should look up the process to make chocolate from cocoa beans. Like... who figured that out? Who came up with that process?! It's so convoluted and utterly insane.
@@TheZakhai I mean, some languages do pronounce it like that. I don't blame them. I am a Pole that lives in the Netherlands, and the Dutchies also say "Rock-claw". They're Germanics trying to pronounce a Slavic language, of course they will struggle. On the other hand, a lot of Poles are very lacking in their pronounciations of the Dutch language. Let's not even start on how we sound when we speak English.
I've imagined it makes good surf and turf with some mermaid fillets. Throw in some frites on the side with an Immortal Peach sorbet for dessert and it's golden. Of course, I have yet to locate a Dragon for the starter soup but it's a work in progress.
Travelling adventurers from unknown, far away civilizations would have swam over to the island and shown coffee to the inhabitants. That's how I pictured it lmao
I appreciate the variety of buildings in civ 5, even if the fact that every city can build them makes it feel a bit repetitive. Might have been cool in civ 6 to have given districts building options that push you one say or another. Kind of like the museums
Wizardry: Master of the Arcane did that a decade ago around Civ V's time, but unfortunately unlike today with Humankind and Old World gamers just werent interested in 4x civ style games outside official aaa 'sid meier' releases back then
@@dhk117rp I thought that too, but unless he had at least 10 production, then he would be getting less than 1 additional production a turn. I'd need to check but I'm not sure whether that would even shave a turn off the timer.
I think he should have built a worker boat right before he started pumping workers. Using it to make fishing boats would give him one extra food and production. The food would make it easier to put workers as unemployed for production, and adding even one production would be a 33% boost.
Yeah, I had something similar to that happen to me just yesterday except it was Shaka and not Polynesia and he spawned right next to me so I didn't even have time to build stuff like you did with the galleys and frigates. The harder difficulties of Civ 5 are basically "Hope I didn't spawn next to an aggressive early game Civ" which is arguably the same thing across most of the games but it goes hard in 4 & 5.
I honestly thought this was one of those one tile challenge maps that every civ player was spamming out in civ 6 like four years ago. Good to see its an actual game!
I have a lot more hours in Civ5 than 6. The modded civs were amazing and diverse. 2 of my favorites were New Vegas Mr. House one city and Little House on the Prairie.
Having not finished this video, I tuned out when you started to lose, I started your rewind and had humongous dejavu, I'll watch the whole thing now ^.^
I loved civ 5 with all addons it was great.. never thought i would love ut more than 4 next war.. but i did.. and this is a fun vid on what was possible with it
You can use "Fog-busting" with civilian units to see barbs in the fog of war. In essence, you hold right-click with a worker/settler and scroll all over the map. If the circle is red, there's a barb. Doesn't work for Terra Incognita though, fog of war only.
I like to think this city has a absolutely insanely deep mine underneath it, like if you fall into it you will die from screaming before you hit the ground levels of deep.
NGL, watching this at 6 AM having been up all night and it took me restarting the video 3 times to realize why Civ 6 looked so strange... it's not Civ 6. lol. I'm going to bed, now.
I never moved on to civ 6, but civ 5 wasn't quite enough either. Highly recommend the civ 5 vox populi community mod is so good despite some problems with running it. Would make a great video watching someone have a go at VP for the first time around tbh.
when your land is incredibly shit, there's actually a strong case for liberty. what use would growing the capital even be when all you have is 2 food tiles. Could have invested those cargo ship in exponentially better cities
one thing i have to say: during your settler production in your cap, you could have just put your ppl back onto food, because, iirc, in Civ 5 half your food production is used into producing settler, with the counter to that that you will not get growth, though it might be change in the mods you were running
Polish person here, you pronounce Wroclaw pretty well. In Polish the ł in Wrocław makes the same sound as w does in water. The rest of the pronunciation is correct.
Hmm.. I definitely like workers in Civ5 more than 6, in the fact that they don't die from usage. But the slow build is definitely a drawback, but the instabuild civ 6 is also absurd. I think worker should be like civ5, but much more powerful, and they cost 1 citizen. Maybe they can also stack up to 3 to work on a single tile.
This is such a Poland start I swear "hmmm yes wow I cannot wait to play one of the most powerful civs in the game, hopefully my start has at least some pastures" The start:
Hi potato, I wanted to ask if you could play Hungary in Civ 6. Because I think it is possible to win a domination victory in under 100 turns on a tiny terra map
Rough start, interesting game. In un modded civ 5 pledging to protect a city state will make you lose influence at a slower rate and doesn't decline to 0 but a little more. Like always not sure about lekmod maybe they changed this mechanic.
surprised you didnt go exploration for the extra production on cities settled on the coast. (unless lek mod removes that part, I dont play with it so Idk if it does)
Piety would actually be a better option here. Apo ideally. Tradition is best for exploiting strong starts, rather than tall-by-necessity starts. I actually got a start like this, minus the fish, in a game with one of my friends, and in retrospect I'm so sad I told him and restarted, would've been hillarious to play it.
Also 100% Explo on this start. It's already great on coast, but here, you need that +3 production in the cap, better settles for catch up, and all but one of your capital's tiles will be getting +1 food, production and gold from Treasure Fleets.
He's very hung up on using vanilla strategies on the entirely revamped, much more balanced lekmod. But even on native you shouldn't go tradition here, the tradition bonuses to the capital is trying to polish a turd.
@@superguy911 yeah, trad gives you practically nothing here except 2 food, a turn off great lighthouse and a free amphitheatre. The food % is tiny, the hammer % is tiny and used very little, the per pop stuff is pointless with a low pop. It's been a while since I played vanilla BNW, but in terms of LEK on that start you need to be rushing religion. Salat, Haiji or Jizya alone is more valuable than all of Trad on that start, let alone 2 of those, devout, feed and APO.
Imagine sailing towards an island so small and insignificant it's barely worth traveling to, just to see the largest and greatest lighthouse in the known Universe shining into the heavens
@@maxfactrr8949 also their city is so big that it covers the entire island by now. They crave coffee without ever having seen it, and don't know what construction or wheels are.
Ah yes... its a wonder called The Tower of Bable.
That's some warhammer 40k shit
And we shall call it... Rapture.
Bro made Numenor from Lord of the Rings
Potato was so preoccupied With whether or not he could, He didn't stop to think If he should
I'm glad he did, this is a fun challenge start
Every time I see it, I have to stop to appreciate the art direction in Civ 5. The Art Deco inspired iconography and fonts are just perfection for a Civ game.
Agreed🎉
From art-style perspective, civ5 beats 6 at any time of the day
Its such a shame that after initial release each expansion downplayed the art deco more and more.
The new main menus were just ingame art backgrounds instead of art deco statues of things like Atlas holding up the world.
And as much as the leader/civ music got better and better, the main themes got so much worse.
It became a frankenstein renaissance art deco mess by the end, and not even in a cool intentional way either
Definitely the best art of any civ game
@@RynewulfThe main themes got worse? Wdym? Maybe I’m biased because of nostalgia from listening to it for 9 years but BNW’s theme is beautiful imo.
PotatoMcWhiskey: "I'm thinking about doing A. Here's why A is good. Here's another reason to do A. A would be good for this and for that. I'm definitely going to do A. Yeah, A is the play here. Actually, I'll just do B."
Subvert expectations.
average potato
5:30 How the heck do they even know what coffee is?! Did a can of Folgers wash up on shore?
EDIT: 7:34 A storm must have blown some plants from just across the water and they were like.... We need this. Build a great lighthouse to find it!
Birds.
Ate plants and...deposited seed on the island?
Ahh yes, bird poop coffee.
You should look up the process to make chocolate from cocoa beans. Like... who figured that out? Who came up with that process?! It's so convoluted and utterly insane.
I feel like this entire video was made solely for the Boat Mormonisum joke.
And let me just say, WORTH IT
Shameful that Potato turned his back on the one true faith, Denouncing Venice.
But have you heard of Yoloism? We have Pagodas.
Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior... of Boats?
@@beeinablanket i denounce Venice
SOAK AND ROCK
Coming from a Pole, Your pronounciation of Łódź is dead on. Congrats!
well it was in the first half lol
had a good effort on Wrocław as well - hampered by civ 5 not showing diacritics
Turning from nearly spot on "Vrot-suave" on the beginning to literally "Rock-claw" in the middle of the video. Sadge
Mean time Wroclaw - "Raw claw" xD
I believe considering English phonetics it would be like Vrotz-wav, the first syllable is stressed
@@TheZakhai I mean, some languages do pronounce it like that. I don't blame them. I am a Pole that lives in the Netherlands, and the Dutchies also say "Rock-claw". They're Germanics trying to pronounce a Slavic language, of course they will struggle. On the other hand, a lot of Poles are very lacking in their pronounciations of the Dutch language. Let's not even start on how we sound when we speak English.
5:30
how the heck do they even know what coffee is? it would be like me demanding unicorn meat!
I've imagined it makes good surf and turf with some mermaid fillets. Throw in some frites on the side with an Immortal Peach sorbet for dessert and it's golden. Of course, I have yet to locate a Dragon for the starter soup but it's a work in progress.
Travelling adventurers from unknown, far away civilizations would have swam over to the island and shown coffee to the inhabitants. That's how I pictured it lmao
By that logic..because coffee did actually exist despite them not knowing about it…. Where the unicorns at?
@@sheepwshotguns42 I demand Unicorn meat!
When Civ 8 releases, you'll have to go back to playing Civ 4
@@BoliceOccifer good luck getting it to run lol, I cannot for the life of me get civ4 to work on modern hardware (Civ3 runs perfectly fine tho)
made me chuckle seeing the massive army amassing around Wroclaw yet potato not acknowledging it
You mean, the city state troops ? actually a great buffer unless their ally declares war on you, then the city state will hammer you lol.
Sometimes I think the games know when they're being played by a streamer and intentionally create these kind of starts.
I appreciate the variety of buildings in civ 5, even if the fact that every city can build them makes it feel a bit repetitive. Might have been cool in civ 6 to have given districts building options that push you one say or another. Kind of like the museums
Wizardry: Master of the Arcane did that a decade ago around Civ V's time, but unfortunately unlike today with Humankind and Old World gamers just werent interested in 4x civ style games outside official aaa 'sid meier' releases back then
Love the civ 5 content Potato, keep the good stuff flowing!
Next episode could be an hour of pure suffering and copium, or it could all end in 5 minutes
Me when potato doesn't take 15% wonder production :/
@@dhk117rp I thought that too, but unless he had at least 10 production, then he would be getting less than 1 additional production a turn. I'd need to check but I'm not sure whether that would even shave a turn off the timer.
I think he should have built a worker boat right before he started pumping workers. Using it to make fishing boats would give him one extra food and production. The food would make it easier to put workers as unemployed for production, and adding even one production would be a 33% boost.
@@cmdrwilmot2696 work boats don't exist in this mod, workers improve sea resourses
I appreciate the city pronunciations. They might not be perfect, but they are a lot closer than most English speaking people would say
Honestly, this is the god spot for if this was Civ 6 with the zombies turned on
Yeah, I had something similar to that happen to me just yesterday except it was Shaka and not Polynesia and he spawned right next to me so I didn't even have time to build stuff like you did with the galleys and frigates. The harder difficulties of Civ 5 are basically "Hope I didn't spawn next to an aggressive early game Civ" which is arguably the same thing across most of the games but it goes hard in 4 & 5.
I honestly thought this was one of those one tile challenge maps that every civ player was spamming out in civ 6 like four years ago. Good to see its an actual game!
Bro gets the Saint Helena starting point
I have a lot more hours in Civ5 than 6. The modded civs were amazing and diverse. 2 of my favorites were New Vegas Mr. House one city and Little House on the Prairie.
The yuri civ was peak
"Save 15% or more when you switch to Aristocracy." -Some sort of Lizard maybe
Having not finished this video, I tuned out when you started to lose, I started your rewind and had humongous dejavu, I'll watch the whole thing now ^.^
The most cursed Spawn in civilization history.
Potato, why didn't you spawn on a snow tile? You're making it too easy for yourself
*_Maybe the real Polish One-Tile Island is the friends we made along the way._* -Sacagawea
mate, your prenounciation is spot on. well done!
edit: spoke to early I guess...
polish is confusing but we have only one K :) rest was spot on
@@lesnicus pretty much one letter - one sound mostly, but also W = V confuses people sometimes.
@@Blackwing2345635 Yeah, Potato got it right though. I like to describe it as Ł=W and W=V and we have no V
RIP the hundreds (if not thousands) of gold that was lost because Potato refused to build harbours. Also Boat Mormanism pog
I loved civ 5 with all addons it was great.. never thought i would love ut more than 4 next war.. but i did.. and this is a fun vid on what was possible with it
Back to watching Potatoes videos because
1) They're great
and
2) Civ 5 refuses to launch on my PC 😢
glad to see people are still playing civ 5, great vid!
Haven't discovered horses yet. The enemy is entering the era with spies. Imagine that in FFA.
that crabs joke got me pretty hard, thank you for that
Apparently the Swedish king is supposed to be Gustav II Adolf. But he looks more like Erik XIV. Doesn't matter, they both fought Poland :)
You can use "Fog-busting" with civilian units to see barbs in the fog of war. In essence, you hold right-click with a worker/settler and scroll all over the map. If the circle is red, there's a barb. Doesn't work for Terra Incognita though, fog of war only.
I like to think this city has a absolutely insanely deep mine underneath it, like if you fall into it you will die from screaming before you hit the ground levels of deep.
it's awesome that you went ahead and rolled with the cursed start - makes for a really interesting game!
The epdisodes where you struggle are the most entertaining. But super interesting at the same time.
NGL, watching this at 6 AM having been up all night and it took me restarting the video 3 times to realize why Civ 6 looked so strange... it's not Civ 6. lol. I'm going to bed, now.
Potato: "Sorry not sure how to pronounce this."
Half of Poles: Shaking heads in disbelief.
Second half: "No one knows."
Potato is an absolute demon for calling it "Vrotswav" 50% of the time and "Rawww claww" the other 50%
I never moved on to civ 6, but civ 5 wasn't quite enough either. Highly recommend the civ 5 vox populi community mod is so good despite some problems with running it.
Would make a great video watching someone have a go at VP for the first time around tbh.
I like that you pronounce Lodz as "woodge," like it's supposed to be.
Such a cool start! Glad you decided to roll with it and make a video on this.
In one tile civilization, nobody jumps for the tile improvements.
got to give you crazy props for trying to pull that start out from oblivion. Didnt think it was even possible at first
when your land is incredibly shit, there's actually a strong case for liberty. what use would growing the capital even be when all you have is 2 food tiles. Could have invested those cargo ship in exponentially better cities
Ah yes the Halloween video. Scary shit, no joke.
Pronunciation of Łódź is amazing, Wrocław is basically vrotsuav, we don't do weird stuff with c. C is always ts. ;)
Unless it a part of "ch". Or "cz". Digraphs my beloved :3
Also, try rushing for workshops ASAP, before or right after libraries - this might help vs. deity. Loving your videos :)
You'd think after 100 hours, I would've at least tried to improve a water tile with a worker. I've been using workboats exclusively this entire time
He's playing with LEKMOD which removes workboats and gives their job to workers. It's a major overhaul of vanilla civ 5.
@@JesseAnderson It isn't a real thing, potato is playing with several mods that you and I both are very unfamiliar with
11:42 potato discovers what renting property is like
I had a similar start once. It was big enough for three cities and when I wanted to settle more, I couldn't due to ocean surrounding me.
"The Polish One Tile Island" sounds like something i read on urban dictionary
one thing i have to say: during your settler production in your cap, you could have just put your ppl back onto food, because, iirc, in Civ 5 half your food production is used into producing settler, with the counter to that that you will not get growth, though it might be change in the mods you were running
Always love some fresh Civ challenge content!
Polish person here, you pronounce Wroclaw pretty well. In Polish the ł in Wrocław makes the same sound as w does in water. The rest of the pronunciation is correct.
Instead of squeaking out 1 GPT with open borders, you can ask for it when mutually trading accept embassy (just saves you making an extra trade)
Oh hey, finally forced to go tradition. Lets go!
10:50 New Patreon tier unlocked: Potato's home address
A lighthouse...and a library...built right by the seashore...seems weirdly familiar.
Watching this made me realize I have no idea how to play Civ despite playing all of them since Civ 3.
10:55 Potato basically explaining how social media works.
You actually pronouncing Łódź correctly!
Mindblown,jpg
The world enters the Medieval period in 920BC. Potato invents the wheel in 260AD.
Wow ...Notre Dame built on turn 66.....AI is on another level this game :)
We're spending most our lives on an Easter Island Paradise.
- The early game.
I wold have laughed so hard if the great lighthouse got ninja'd out from under you with 1 turn left.
Discovers the wheel in 260 AD?? This civilization can't possibly fail!
You should have settled on gold. Better city, and you would have been happy.
Gold for crabs is such a legit trade 🤣
I can't wait to see @PotatoMcWhiskey demolish Civ VII diety mode when it comes out or whatever the hardest mode will be!
lol you had the same idea of playing 5 to refresh your memory for 7 civ 5 is so much fun I forgot how good it is
Łódź perfectly fits your start since it means "boat" in polish
Man, i must have got knocked back 10 years with the boat mormon religion name
Your proununciation of Nicosia made me cry.
wow, you're saying the polish names in the (mostly) correct way😮
Me: rolls 1 tile island, eyeroll and reroll.
Also me: sees Potato rolled 1 tile island, grabs popcorn
Your pronounciation of Łódź was so good I thought maybe you know some Polish, but then I heard "Wrokław"
Hmm.. I definitely like workers in Civ5 more than 6, in the fact that they don't die from usage.
But the slow build is definitely a drawback, but the instabuild civ 6 is also absurd.
I think worker should be like civ5, but much more powerful, and they cost 1 citizen. Maybe they can also stack up to 3 to work on a single tile.
Great pronunciation of "Łódź" ;)
This is such a Poland start I swear
"hmmm yes wow I cannot wait to play one of the most powerful civs in the game, hopefully my start has at least some pastures"
The start:
What a cliffhanger, hopefully you make it out of that war
Cursed start. Can't believe you're making it work
Venice: This is gonna be the most Equitable Society ever!
Hi potato, I wanted to ask if you could play Hungary in Civ 6. Because I think it is possible to win a domination victory in under 100 turns on a tiny terra map
I’m falling asleep to this tonight!
"I'll wait two turns to grow and then I'll pull two workers off"
Hey, however you find best motivates them is OK.
Respect for pronouncing “Łódź” correctly
Rough start, interesting game. In un modded civ 5 pledging to protect a city state will make you lose influence at a slower rate and doesn't decline to 0 but a little more. Like always not sure about lekmod maybe they changed this mechanic.
4:53 bro is basically making O'Hara from one piece.
Wow, that cliffhanger, tho.
I was like "wait why does the game look so weird but so familiar in the same time" and boom it's good ol' Civ V not VI
Keep the civ5 content coming! Civ5 is the superior civ game!
as a saint the boat mormons make me happy lol 😂
You've prononce Wrocław and Łódź perfectly onthe beginning, and later it goes strangely wrong ;)
But good play :)
Finally! Warsaw that actually have a "shore". Now "Warsaw Shore" won't be massive jo... scratch that.
NAVAL POLSKA STRONK!
surprised you didnt go exploration for the extra production on cities settled on the coast. (unless lek mod removes that part, I dont play with it so Idk if it does)
Nice game, I would restart that :-)
Tell me please what mods u used?
TY and continue such videos pls!
Piety would actually be a better option here. Apo ideally. Tradition is best for exploiting strong starts, rather than tall-by-necessity starts.
I actually got a start like this, minus the fish, in a game with one of my friends, and in retrospect I'm so sad I told him and restarted, would've been hillarious to play it.
Also 100% Explo on this start. It's already great on coast, but here, you need that +3 production in the cap, better settles for catch up, and all but one of your capital's tiles will be getting +1 food, production and gold from Treasure Fleets.
He's very hung up on using vanilla strategies on the entirely revamped, much more balanced lekmod.
But even on native you shouldn't go tradition here, the tradition bonuses to the capital is trying to polish a turd.
@@superguy911 yeah, trad gives you practically nothing here except 2 food, a turn off great lighthouse and a free amphitheatre. The food % is tiny, the hammer % is tiny and used very little, the per pop stuff is pointless with a low pop.
It's been a while since I played vanilla BNW, but in terms of LEK on that start you need to be rushing religion. Salat, Haiji or Jizya alone is more valuable than all of Trad on that start, let alone 2 of those, devout, feed and APO.