I quite enjoyed playing as Nzinga myself. The four new characters are all decent. Saladin's ability is easily the most conventional and boring, but it's incredibly powerful!
Reminds me of Bricky's latest video. Devs in general should put fun over balance when it comes to gameplay. Bonus points if they manage to balance both.
@@blaubeer8039 These devs, admittedly, probably should prioritise fun. The competitive multiplayer scene literally creates their own extensive "balance patch" mods 😂
Nzinga Mbande is truly so good. And with this start? I definitely need to try this, I've never won on Deity yet but this could be the game. Especially with that vintage AI play from Byzantium 😂
A thought regarding luxuries on different continents is that it's often possible to settle a city right on the edge of one continent while keeping it in range to claim luxury tiles from an adjacent continent. Otherwise, I'd treat the issue much the same as settling otherwise useless cities in snow or desert for the strategics, and you can usually buy luxuries from the AI sooner or later, so I'm not all that concerned about it.
LEADER PASS JUST DROPPED ON XBOX! SO hype! I’ve watched so many videos on civs I was never gonna get to play! I’ve just got home from work and am gonna squeeze in my first game and of course it’s Nzinga!
I went the housing and amenity on rivers made me have 5 cities over 20 pop was really good.And on top of the 3 sugar my city got like 20 pop really quick
Unsurprisingly, Kongo without the worst most detrimental and weakest leader ability in the game is actually pretty good. Would never have seen that one coming. Another thing I doubt I'll ever see again as well is Mvemba a Nzinga being played.
Don't count Mvemba a Nzinga out just yet - the ability to apostle spam is SO effective as a tactic. Not as well rounded gameplay but honestly he's still pretty good overall
@@UrsaRyan I've always found it counter-intuitive to Kongo's kit. They want to build tall, hence all the extra housing and food bonuses, yet you have to build wide with Mvemba to be able to spam the apostles since you won't get enough apostles to make a difference with only a few tall cities. Coupled with the Kongo's inability to achieve religious victories, since your apostles will all be from different religions unless you waste some of your apostle charges converting your own cities to the one religion you want to have, the fact that the main draw of the ability of getting founder beliefs from other religions is bugged and doesn't work, and the fact that like every civ making use of relics their success is heavily dependent on RNG or on building mount St Michel, Mvemba's Kongo really doesn't have anything going for it that Mbandi's Kongo doesn't just do better. Having access to founder beliefs and solid faith generation allows to spam apostles just as well as Mvemba's Kongo can, on top of getting extra yields on your cities thanks to a leader ability that actually incetivizes you to build tall.
This might only be available in civ blitz, but I just want to point out that the best leader imo for kongo is kristina. I was able to auto-theme relics in the old god obelisks when also playing heroes mode and stack it with reliquaries and it's just amazing. seriously way more fun than this new kongo leader which is just.. idk a little bit boring?
kristina kongo with the greek acropolis, build oracle, apadana, acropolis, go voidsingers so your old god obelisks can be themed(also with heroes mode), your palace has slots for 5 great works, you can construct the queen's bibliotheque in your capital which has 6 great work slots, then plug in pingala with grants and curator and... just glorious
@@excancerpoik yeah, so is Maya, brings nothing new to the table. Besides, what does it make of mveba the original Kongo leader? His ability is so detrimental and just straight up bad compared to hers and there's no reason to even play him anymore. So did this really "add" a new leader?
Kongo Kristina is indeed absolutely cracked. But speaking of Civ Blitz wombo combos... How about Nzinga Mbande Scotland? Go tall with bonuses to all yields in all your core cities, and as long as you can also crank out amenities (the Colosseum helps a lot and your early growth will help to build it), you can stack even more bonuses on top. Ideally paired with the Hansa for even more production and Great Engineers, then I'd pick a UU just for that civ's start bias - maybe the Warak'aq for mountains with strong Campuses, maybe De Zeven Provincien for the Dutch combination of rivers (for Hansa complexes) and coast (for a Mausoleum city).
I'm trying the new Kongo leader using the Ursalocke challenge. With the added restriction that I can only settle my own continent.. Only 30 turns in, but good fun so far.. Playing Deity ++ (the one where the AI gets purely percentage bonuses and not extra settlers).. Its my first time trying Deity ++ and first time trying the Ursalocke challenge 😁
One issue i have is that tourism doesnt do anything in early game does it? Shouldnt it technically bring in more money for your city if people are visiting?
I can never remember whether the goody huts are saved at the point of spawning the map or when you're playing the game - either way, it's a fun game with an early relic like that!
Hey Ursa, would it have not been better to send a delegation the turn you meet the civ. This way you automatically get +3 opinion. Then you would not be in the situation you are in where no one is trading open borders. You have lost out on +5 gold per turn from just that alone, plus favourable trade deals for you. Secondly, I find that you don't place districts down when it's cheaper to build, even if you don't plan to keep building them. It's worth placing them to lock the production cost. Chop out what you are currently building, place the district, then finish previous build. I feel you lost a lot of tempo you got from the early relic by not doing this.
Delegations are only worth it if you are within a certain peramiter of "they just don't like you" - often a civ will start with a -8 penalty and honestly delegations are pointless then as you'll get denounced anyway. Once you unlock open borders you can get a bigger bonus so yes, then I would start sending them more often District placement, yes, locking it in is great, IF you know what you want. Often I like to let a game evolve for a bit before commiting to districts too early. I've lost a lot of government plazas and diplomatic squares from not having enough district slots. Or say I'm waiting for IZs for instance
@@UrsaRyan good points. Thank you for the explanation Ursa. And yes I actually do find I lose district spots for government plazas and diplomatic squares. Makes sense why now 😅
£211 - The kingdoms of Matamba and Portugal had been at war for over 25 years by the time Nzinga Ana de Sousa Mbande and the Portuguese negotiated a peace treaty. Previous peace talks faltered as Nzinga refused to pay the ransoms demanded for her sister Kabu. A term of the successful treaty was a land exchange. Nzinga was give up a part of her kingdom that lay along the Western border of Portugal, and the Portuguese would give up the Kituxela region which housed the University of Sankore.
That turn one start alone looks great, you're on a 2 food 2 pro tile with another three next to it AND BANANAS. Combine that with the relic and your tempo should be insane. Edit: didn't even see the spice tile.
during my game i went for a taller build and stacked amenities - river goddess, audience chamber, and colosseum was a crazy build. pumped out wonders like nobodys business
I'll do you slightly better. Playing as Abe. Spawned next to Cliffs of Dover. The warrior is going across flat areas and spots a goodie hut after and gets it on turn five. Beard of the Evangelist. Yep got the settler choice for the religion very very fast. And then ran into Menelik up a spit of land so he settled and had no where to go. I let him generate a settler, than attacked, took it and him and like that presto four cities chugging along with a large culture and faith reserve already lol.
Would suggest to get double xp for the scouts and change to +5 against barbs only when you really need it. Hitting barbs twice with a scout means you get the the hills promotion for the scouts really fast and it takes quite some time to really meet barbs ..
I absolutely must do a reliquary game with the Kongo, I’ve always had to do Poland for that knowing that Kongo couldn’t do religion but know there potential as the premier relic handlers are unleashed
I had to look up what the 'True Cross' was and why it isn't a bigger deal if a bit of the REAL cross of Jesus was found and... yeah Constantine 'found' it right when relics were becoming a huge thing and Christianity had literally just become super popular because of him... I can tell why it isn't taken a bit more seriously.
she makes monopolies absolutely ridiculous because of her preference for settling on her own continent. had fun with a 115 deity reliquaries win. she's definitely my fav of the new civs.
I get that Civ VI does not really punish wide play, but I really would like a rebalance that makes tall possible. Something about this game made me think of the possibilities of a four-city start in a game like this---but wider is always better, well into the midgame.
So tall play is absolutely possible and I'd reccomend having a practice! 4 cities or even 6 cities is what you should be aiming for. Try to settle 7 tiles away to let you cities grow, focus on buildings like hanging gardens, audience chamber to get the housing and amenities for your cities - colloseum to get that benefit as well - watch your amenities essentially, all cities should get to +5 as soon as you can. It's absolutely doable and it's very strong, especially on MP. Think high pop, think lots of districts!
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"Splinter of the True Cross aka the cross that Christ died on, found 3880 years before Christ"
Turn 8: be the first civ met Kandy :)
Turn 9: hit a tribal village give 1 governor title :)
Godlike haha
Kandy would have been the only thing to make this run even better!
I quite enjoyed playing as Nzinga myself. The four new characters are all decent. Saladin's ability is easily the most conventional and boring, but it's incredibly powerful!
Yeah its really strong but not the most fun
I was surprised there werent any achievements for the new leaders
Reminds me of Bricky's latest video. Devs in general should put fun over balance when it comes to gameplay. Bonus points if they manage to balance both.
@@excancerpoik Speak for yourself :)
@@blaubeer8039 These devs, admittedly, probably should prioritise fun. The competitive multiplayer scene literally creates their own extensive "balance patch" mods 😂
"Oh, India has tea! I like tea!"
Ladies and gentlemen, he truly is British. Such a Spiffing Brit.
Quick, we must conquer!
Nzinga Mbande is truly so good. And with this start? I definitely need to try this, I've never won on Deity yet but this could be the game. Especially with that vintage AI play from Byzantium 😂
A thought regarding luxuries on different continents is that it's often possible to settle a city right on the edge of one continent while keeping it in range to claim luxury tiles from an adjacent continent. Otherwise, I'd treat the issue much the same as settling otherwise useless cities in snow or desert for the strategics, and you can usually buy luxuries from the AI sooner or later, so I'm not all that concerned about it.
Loving the hanging stables of Kongo
title: turn 6 relic god start
turn 4: am I a joke to you?
No one:
Mbeme: Bongo bongo, get the fuck out of the Kongo.
"Africa is huge, we can go anywhere. The only problem is fresh water." - Love when the game accidently mimicks life.
That title, oh man if you played hearthstone. That line line forever in my mind
Tavern patron with his massive stache
@@aa-ut9ni Yup!
Just pointing out... that super easy early war was a perfect opportunity to get a level 3 slinger.
Even og kobgo was busted now this id on another level
That visual glitch when you selected scout messed with my head (around 3:30)
What you could do - is place cities on the border of the continent and send border appendages to grab exotic luxuries.
I saw the thumbnail and started singing it to the tune of the finale of "Six" the musical.
awesome videos Ursa!!!
Cheers!
congrats on the recent channel success!
Thanks so much, it's amazing to watch!
thirty eight turns and zero barb combats - five scout start and no recon card ;)
Tis the Ursa way - you know as soon as I switched card they would have all died XD
It’s about time I see a play through of her!
Worth trying the save file if you're able!
Oh man. On one hand I'm not into diety, but on the other hand I want that damn save. This looks Tasty.
This is the perfect game to get into Deity, give it a try!
could have gone river goddess as well for the housing and amenities, if you plan giant cities anyway.
Yeah both would have been good choices - I love that pantheon
LEADER PASS JUST DROPPED ON XBOX! SO hype! I’ve watched so many videos on civs I was never gonna get to play! I’ve just got home from work and am gonna squeeze in my first game and of course it’s Nzinga!
hope you enjoy! Huzzah!
I love relic starts that you get from tribal huts. Had one game where I got 2 in the first 20 turns.
Wow you crank these out! Just finished up the Caesar series and delighted to see another new leader ready to roll
We try and keep the good stuff flowing!
I had to pause when you got the relic. This start is just insane.
IKR, it was so much fun!
I went the housing and amenity on rivers made me have 5 cities over 20 pop was really good.And on top of the 3 sugar my city got like 20 pop really quick
Today I played a pangea game with this congo, I easly won the game on turn 210 without any effort... lots of relics, wonders, writers, etc...
A very fun civ to play!
the hanging garden provides fresh water in all cities
No, just 2 housing in the city you build it in
Ooohhh you saucy discord temptress. I’ve never loaded a save file but this start is just too juicy 😂
It's so worth it, do it!
I can't play the new leaders since I play on xbox but the new Kongo looks like the one that I'd enjoy the most.
Unsurprisingly, Kongo without the worst most detrimental and weakest leader ability in the game is actually pretty good. Would never have seen that one coming. Another thing I doubt I'll ever see again as well is Mvemba a Nzinga being played.
Don't count Mvemba a Nzinga out just yet - the ability to apostle spam is SO effective as a tactic. Not as well rounded gameplay but honestly he's still pretty good overall
@@UrsaRyan I've always found it counter-intuitive to Kongo's kit. They want to build tall, hence all the extra housing and food bonuses, yet you have to build wide with Mvemba to be able to spam the apostles since you won't get enough apostles to make a difference with only a few tall cities. Coupled with the Kongo's inability to achieve religious victories, since your apostles will all be from different religions unless you waste some of your apostle charges converting your own cities to the one religion you want to have, the fact that the main draw of the ability of getting founder beliefs from other religions is bugged and doesn't work, and the fact that like every civ making use of relics their success is heavily dependent on RNG or on building mount St Michel, Mvemba's Kongo really doesn't have anything going for it that Mbandi's Kongo doesn't just do better. Having access to founder beliefs and solid faith generation allows to spam apostles just as well as Mvemba's Kongo can, on top of getting extra yields on your cities thanks to a leader ability that actually incetivizes you to build tall.
Hah! Use the "Goody Huts" mod and snag a goody hut on turn 2 that awards 100 Faith. Turn 3 Religious Settlements? Don't mind if I doooooo!
Someone's been drinking their Um Bongo.
This might only be available in civ blitz, but I just want to point out that the best leader imo for kongo is kristina. I was able to auto-theme relics in the old god obelisks when also playing heroes mode and stack it with reliquaries and it's just amazing. seriously way more fun than this new kongo leader which is just.. idk a little bit boring?
kristina kongo with the greek acropolis, build oracle, apadana, acropolis, go voidsingers so your old god obelisks can be themed(also with heroes mode), your palace has slots for 5 great works, you can construct the queen's bibliotheque in your capital which has 6 great work slots, then plug in pingala with grants and curator and... just glorious
I think nzinga mbande is pretty fun
@@excancerpoik yeah, so is Maya, brings nothing new to the table. Besides, what does it make of mveba the original Kongo leader? His ability is so detrimental and just straight up bad compared to hers and there's no reason to even play him anymore. So did this really "add" a new leader?
Kongo Kristina is indeed absolutely cracked. But speaking of Civ Blitz wombo combos... How about Nzinga Mbande Scotland? Go tall with bonuses to all yields in all your core cities, and as long as you can also crank out amenities (the Colosseum helps a lot and your early growth will help to build it), you can stack even more bonuses on top. Ideally paired with the Hansa for even more production and Great Engineers, then I'd pick a UU just for that civ's start bias - maybe the Warak'aq for mountains with strong Campuses, maybe De Zeven Provincien for the Dutch combination of rivers (for Hansa complexes) and coast (for a Mausoleum city).
I'm trying the new Kongo leader using the Ursalocke challenge. With the added restriction that I can only settle my own continent.. Only 30 turns in, but good fun so far.. Playing Deity ++ (the one where the AI gets purely percentage bonuses and not extra settlers).. Its my first time trying Deity ++ and first time trying the Ursalocke challenge 😁
Good luck, I believe in you!
The whole world shall learn our peaceful ways by force -Ursa probably
Everyone will be at peace when dead XD
This is going to be one very FAT civ, can't wait to see a swing into religion victory.....?
you could have waited to actually found the religion to get the era score next era :D just a little optimisation i thought of
Absolutely! I didn't want to wait though XD
I really enjoy your content, but always forget to actually 'like' the videos until you remind me!
5:15, YOU’RE SUSPECT! 🤪
I wish that Reliquaries tripled all yields, that would be awesome.
so much food!
I believe you.
Huzzah!
I once got a turn 4 relic.
If you started a game in the Future Era, how difficult would it be to win a Tourism Victory?
If you can get biosphere easy, otherwise hard! Diplo victories are tricky to avoid in that era!
One issue i have is that tourism doesnt do anything in early game does it? Shouldnt it technically bring in more money for your city if people are visiting?
I'd like that as a mechanic yeah - or even that loyalty played up a bit more if you were influential with the civ next to you, that would be cool
Wasn’t she advertised as Angolan? I know that Angola and Zaire have a border, but still…
are barbarians disabled in ur match?
Nope - we're just keeping them under control quite well!
By far my fav civ fron the new pack! Opens up new options for Kongo. Abe and Julius are lack lusting and Saladin is plain old boring
Give the other three time, lots of fun!
Please tell me you're going to build Kilwa for +30% yields on top of your +10%
Maybe XD
What's the mod that allows u to see a summary of the city state requests?
Come to discord I keep a full list of mods!
Where is Julius Caesar? What am I missing why can’t I find him?
did you link your 2k account with steam / epic?
@@UrsaRyan ok thank you. Still working on getting him
how do you highlight the tribal villages blue?
Better lenses mod - come to discord, I keep a full list
GUYS SOMETHING IS OFF I GOT THE EXACT SAME RELIC THREE TURNS IN!?
I can never remember whether the goody huts are saved at the point of spawning the map or when you're playing the game - either way, it's a fun game with an early relic like that!
Hey Ursa, would it have not been better to send a delegation the turn you meet the civ. This way you automatically get
+3 opinion. Then you would not be in the situation you are in where no one is trading open borders. You have lost out on +5 gold per turn from just that alone, plus favourable trade deals for you.
Secondly, I find that you don't place districts down when it's cheaper to build, even if you don't plan to keep building them. It's worth placing them to lock the production cost. Chop out what you are currently building, place the district, then finish previous build. I feel you lost a lot of tempo you got from the early relic by not doing this.
Delegations are only worth it if you are within a certain peramiter of "they just don't like you" - often a civ will start with a -8 penalty and honestly delegations are pointless then as you'll get denounced anyway. Once you unlock open borders you can get a bigger bonus so yes, then I would start sending them more often
District placement, yes, locking it in is great, IF you know what you want. Often I like to let a game evolve for a bit before commiting to districts too early. I've lost a lot of government plazas and diplomatic squares from not having enough district slots. Or say I'm waiting for IZs for instance
@@UrsaRyan good points. Thank you for the explanation Ursa. And yes I actually do find I lose district spots for government plazas and diplomatic squares. Makes sense why now 😅
Algorithm 32
I really want to keep watching but every one more turn just means I'm less likely to play this turn 6 save file...... 😭
Play it anyway!!
Stop 🛑 it Babylon 😂
I don't know do I want to say rigged or blessed for that relic 😅 such a lucky start!
Haha - I have the save file on discord so you can see for yourself!
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Please tell me to like the video because I definitely won’t if you don’t say it😂😂
That's fair, I'll do my best!
Scripted start. 😉
I knew noone would believe me! I cut out so much laughing from the edit I literally couldn't believe it myself
£211 - The kingdoms of Matamba and Portugal had been at war for over 25 years by the time Nzinga Ana de Sousa Mbande and the Portuguese negotiated a peace treaty. Previous peace talks faltered as Nzinga refused to pay the ransoms demanded for her sister Kabu. A term of the successful treaty was a land exchange. Nzinga was give up a part of her kingdom that lay along the Western border of Portugal, and the Portuguese would give up the Kituxela region which housed the University of Sankore.
You really should consider starting a wiki with these in
That turn one start alone looks great, you're on a 2 food 2 pro tile with another three next to it AND BANANAS. Combine that with the relic and your tempo should be insane.
Edit: didn't even see the spice tile.
It's a mad start - anyone with rainforest bias can get these more often than you think!
during my game i went for a taller build and stacked amenities - river goddess, audience chamber, and colosseum was a crazy build. pumped out wonders like nobodys business
Fun isn't it!
EARLY BEARS ASSEMBLE!! new civ content with ursa!!!
Huzzah!!
a little late but reporting for duty
With all the chaos around the dlc, can't wait to look at some actual gameplay
It's very good when you break through it all!
I'll do you slightly better. Playing as Abe. Spawned next to Cliffs of Dover. The warrior is going across flat areas and spots a goodie hut after and gets it on turn five. Beard of the Evangelist. Yep got the settler choice for the religion very very fast. And then ran into Menelik up a spit of land so he settled and had no where to go. I let him generate a settler, than attacked, took it and him and like that presto four cities chugging along with a large culture and faith reserve already lol.
looking forward to this one for sure, she looks like lots of fun
Would suggest to get double xp for the scouts and change to +5 against barbs only when you really need it. Hitting barbs twice with a scout means you get the the hills promotion for the scouts really fast and it takes quite some time to really meet barbs ..
I know you're right but every time I try this my scouts die
ydopnt worry about asking for a like on the video PLz I dont mind the reminder,
Haha, I always forget tbf!
dude chill just finishing a slay the spire run and then it's your turn bro
I can wait!
@@UrsaRyan both super satisfying =D
I absolutely must do a reliquary game with the Kongo, I’ve always had to do Poland for that knowing that Kongo couldn’t do religion but know there potential as the premier relic handlers are unleashed
It's worth it, I would recommend!
my prediction for the next Era: Exodous...apostles..."strategery."
For the algo
Huzzah!
No barbarian encounter at all? And get eureka on smithing? How?
should use african warlord voice for Kongo bro, you sound funny omg i cant focus on the content
Great video but the way you say amenity and agoge makes me mad no hate tho keep up the video
100 population by turn 100. Here it comes
Such a lucky start.
I literally couldn't believe it! So much fun!
Why 16 relics with St Michel?
I had to look up what the 'True Cross' was and why it isn't a bigger deal if a bit of the REAL cross of Jesus was found and... yeah Constantine 'found' it right when relics were becoming a huge thing and Christianity had literally just become super popular because of him... I can tell why it isn't taken a bit more seriously.
Haha - most relics have some very interesting stories that often start very dubiously!
she makes monopolies absolutely ridiculous because of her preference for settling on her own continent. had fun with a 115 deity reliquaries win. she's definitely my fav of the new civs.
So much fun! I miss the monopolies mode, it's great!
Belated daily comment.
Wow, such an awesome start. Must admit I like the look of this variant.
Way more fun to play than I was expecting!
He got potato luck
What about Oracle and 100% Great People Pingala for your capital?
If you can get it, yep, amazing!
I’m playing her right now and i spawned next to Mount Everest.
nice!!! get those apostles out!
I played her and she's super good. Got Kandy and scored like 5 relics
Kandy is a great spawn for Kongo!
Achievement unlocked - addicted to Ursa’s content
That's an achievement that will cost you a lot of time!
If anyone here were to buff Mvemba, how would would you do so?
I dunno . . . apostles have martyr by default? Perhaps trade routes with other civs give increased yields?
Of course feed the world is an option when Ursa has other plans
literally it always happens!!
I started six times and every one was right on a continent split! Glad to see that it was simply bad luck.
Congrats on getting the DLC to work 😅
It was an interesting experience !!!
38:16 Chadragupta remembers what happened when they let enter a brit into their lands the last time.
Thank you, Ursa!
Any time!
I get that Civ VI does not really punish wide play, but I really would like a rebalance that makes tall possible. Something about this game made me think of the possibilities of a four-city start in a game like this---but wider is always better, well into the midgame.
So tall play is absolutely possible and I'd reccomend having a practice! 4 cities or even 6 cities is what you should be aiming for. Try to settle 7 tiles away to let you cities grow, focus on buildings like hanging gardens, audience chamber to get the housing and amenities for your cities - colloseum to get that benefit as well - watch your amenities essentially, all cities should get to +5 as soon as you can.
It's absolutely doable and it's very strong, especially on MP. Think high pop, think lots of districts!
its fake