For me Ursa's voice pitch is too high to lul me to sleep, and slowing down to 0.75x is still producing audible glitches (talking to you, YT), so it's not an option for me.
The thing I’m so appreciative of from your videos Ursa is: you suggest the non meta moves. Settle on turn 4 or 5? Why not! No scouts out the gate? There’s a reason for that! It’s so great for mastering deity. Yes, the meta gets you the beat deity. But, learning when to “break the rules” is how you consistently beat deity. You’re the best bear Sleepy… oh yeh and you too, Ursa. Thank you both for the wonderful videos.
One suggestion for options during combat, at 29:52 and 33:30 you could mention that crossing the river also provides a defensive strength, so even if the other tile is also a floodplain, it can often be advantageous to do so because it means the barbs won't have enough movement to attack you the same turn (unless it's a ranged barb). That, plus if the opposite shore is a hill and/or a forest, you can potentionally tank much stronger enemies.
I have nearly 400 hours in civ 6 but still my god this helps. I mostly play deity and can win if I can be bothered not to just play incredibly tall so this will be a pleasant help.
Even if I'm a seasoned player, I love these videos. Here is another tip for newer players: If you have this much of a low production start, it is okay to restart :D and also, it might not be a good idea to go for a religion when one of your neighbors is Spain (who is a civ which builds holy sites in every city) and the other one is rushing Stonehenge (you can see Shaka building it towards the end), you start spending so much faith just to defend your religion or go to war to kill their missionaries
Thank you, I have been so bored I was watching 'If Bethesda made Cyberpunk' videos, don't watch them, the first one is funny but true, but they do wear on you. This is a whole lot better!!!
So happy for this series! I've been struggling with slow starts as Arabia lately so I'm hoping to get some transferable skills from this (even tho I've beaten deity before, you're a much better player still)
I do enjoy your voice, it is delightful. I’ve beaten the game on Deity once but I don’t think that counts because I was using Hammurabi and he’s all kinds of broken. I deliberately went for science since that seems to be his weakest victory type and it was basically low diff at worst. His other advantages are so overwhelming that he can translate them into whatever victory he wants. Yong Li is a more literal representation of that strat but still… 😂
just picked up this game and have absolutely no idea on how to play it. i have experience on Crusader Kings (2&3) but other than that I'm really new. so this helped me out a lot! thanks!
You forgot (to mention) a delegation also gives diplomatic visibility, which is useful in many ways. And the AI will for some reason always accept a delegation the turn you meet them but will often be reluctant to afterwards.
I have recently come back to playing civ and i have been doing well on deity. I'm winning most of my games just not sub 200. My biggest piece of advice is you got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette. In my recent game I lost a few early units who had some levels ups. I was really annoyed, but then late game i had so much gold and production I just bought armies and armadas. Also don't always play pangaea there is more to just land warfare
How do you decide Warriors vs Slingers early game? You mentioned about Slinger spam strategy but then built mostly Warriors jw when to go for one or the other.
Looking at this start, I wonder if the playlists can sort games by genre, like if I want to look for games where Ursa had a tough time (the Nader Shah and new Saladin games), there will be a playlist for it. And other genres like tutorials, TSL specials, epic starts, and so on.
0:43 to the new players, you may think that this is a joke... it is not, the number of times I've actually reached 3am playing Civ has to be in the dozens (that's probably amateur hours as well) 15:45 ah yes, an Ethiopian's best friend. Every time I play Menelik I find myself muttering "are you a hill?" as I'm looking at potential settle spots
Hello, i really like your videos. You are making CIV 6 more understandable for players with less hours. You make quality content, keep it up! Also, I would like to ask a couple questions, please :) 1. I noticed you didn't focus your cities to prioritize food (automatically) while they are low on population. I do that to have 4-5 population and it's like a snowbal, later you will have much more production just by having more tiles worked. What do you thing of this strategy? It's a NO go or situational? If so, explain please :) also i noticed you didn't prioritize any focus in a first city, is that he best strategy? If so, why? 2. When you wanted to deal with barbarian camp, you bought another warrior. Is it better option in that situation than slinger? It can be upgraded to archer and as you said, range units can give damage without receiving, so I wonder why warriors. Is it because of higher health, more bulky? Thank you very much, I really learned a lot today and these questions are just to make the clarification more clear for me.
Thank you for all of the awesome guides! I'd actually gotten my first deity win as Tokugawa the day before you posted this! Your last video really helped me with districts. I definitely still struggle to snowball, and I've only really gathered that monumentality settling and builders help so that. If at all possible, could anyone help with what districts, improvements, or trades help with snowballing?
Snowballing is going as wide as possibel really! Gold is great to focus on as the more of it you have, the more of it you can funnel into the places in your empire you need it = )
Never beaten deity since the game went live. Best i've done is immortal religious victory about 2 years ago, since then i only play prince cuz thats the most fair i find, 50/50 win loss.
In today's episode we get taught how to play Germany on deity difficulty by a bear. German chocolate makes an early appearance, Spain is a pain, and the Zulu also makes an appearance, and becomes an early trade partner. How will this game shake out, turn in next time, same Ursa time, same Ursa channel!
Am I the only one who first thought placing a commercial hub on a resource(rice) would give +3 adjacency? +1 for the resource, +2 for C-hub and 0,5 for district. Why isn't that the case? If you settle or district on a rice, you don't remove it like you do with woods. And if you place a district on a strategic resource it gives you both adjacencies to the regular Industrial zone. Also strange how districts with 4,5 adjacency combined with a +100% policy card are only 8 rather than 9.
Commercial hubs don't get adjacency from resources, only the Hansas do. And the 4.5 adjacency is rounded down to 4 before the 2x multiplier is applied... 0.5 adjacency (aka minor adjacencies) only take effect if you can get two of them to get the full 1 pt boost.
Great series! Obviously i like playing germany, but never finished a Ludwig game. so weird. I realize, that 99% of the times Ludwid will play better, it just seems too much somehow. hope this series will get me hot for Ludwig. Well, you know how i mean....
I just beat deity with wil the of leaders now i will start my journey with the civ6 dlc leaders.. which might be even easier because of the power creep
If military strength is just calculated from total melee strength, is that why the AI is sometimes very happy to just send all their units into an Archer meat grinder - because they think you're weak?
That's it! Stong melee units project power better than siege or ranged for that reason. It's also why your power level goes down if you corp or army troops up!
Hi Ursa, total novice when it comes to files etc. I downloaded the file from discord, what do I do with it on my computer? what do I open the file with?
steam deck player. not only i dont get keyboard shortcuts i also have to wrestle with onscreen keyboard every time i want to "quickly" look something up in civilopedia or set a price in trading with the ai
Ursa, toward the beginning you talk about a pantheon and religion for those who want to sort of "set and forget" but I think the way the game unfolds you never expand on that that I can find. What pantheon and religion were you talking about?
so a set and forget is something you don't have to actively plan around work ethic for instance is the opposite - every city needs a high adjacency holy site to make it work ftw or choral music is in the middle - any holy site will do but every city needs one set and forget is more like the amenity religion - spread to your cities and you get the passive bonuses without needing to do anything think more in terms of, does this religion change the way I play the game hugely or does it fit into my original strategy?
I have had the game for the past few years now with 900 hours, but I have not touched deity yet. Perhaps after this guide I will at least do immortal and then give deity a try. I'm smoking the emperor ai so it's probably time I stepped up in civ 6.
I can only play this on settler, I just can't understand how to lay out my cities. And I feel like I settle dead cities that do nothing just to try blocking the AI.
I am definitely one of your viewers whos more of a listener for sleepytime. But that just means i end up watching your videos twice at least. In my civ 6 o have defeated deity twice. First with Kupe, second with lizzie. I more or less stopped playing when the first dlc came out and it was just too much for my old pc to handle, despitr 32GB RAM ... I think the 970GTX was the achilles heel. Haha. Anyhoo. I watch a fair few civ youtubers and yours is definitely thrbsleepiest voice. 👍❤️ Never change, unless youre going to do audio books. I could listen to you read a thesaurus.
0:08 The answer: Play as Russia, limit turns to 1, settle a city, hit next turn! It might take a few times but it's easier than other ways! ;)
Ooo, that’s smart
It’s patched I think. I tried it some time ago to no avail
@@Achilles053 It's definitely still possible, I did it a couple of weeks ago. It does take a a few tries and you have to be playing Russia.
@@inputsh ah ok. Might have to go again
I have nearly 2k hours in this game but still look forward to all of your videos as I am guaranteed to learn something new each time. Thanks Ursa!
I feel the same and I have 2k+ on 3 different machines
I like that you acknowledge that some of us like to put you on in the background so that you can CIV us to sleep 😴
I still find it super weird but sure!!
We are the Hibernating Bears, cousins to the Early Bears@@UrsaRyan
For me Ursa's voice pitch is too high to lul me to sleep, and slowing down to 0.75x is still producing audible glitches (talking to you, YT), so it's not an option for me.
I watch him all the time on the way to sleep. But I really don't watch TV so I wouldn't take it personally.
I’ve been playing civ for around 15 years and I still use your videos too fall asleep! 😂
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As much as i love spuddy and boes, ursa is emerging as the civ6 king. Ahaha i love this guy, and i hope 2024 civ give ursa achieves his goal ;)
Cheers = ) We have big goals!
Man. I’ve been here since
A pleasure to have you watching!
The thing I’m so appreciative of from your videos Ursa is: you suggest the non meta moves. Settle on turn 4 or 5? Why not! No scouts out the gate? There’s a reason for that! It’s so great for mastering deity. Yes, the meta gets you the beat deity. But, learning when to “break the rules” is how you consistently beat deity. You’re the best bear Sleepy… oh yeh and you too, Ursa. Thank you both for the wonderful videos.
Huzzah! Thank you for the kind words = ) Yes, knowing when to go off track is always an important lesson I think!
One suggestion for options during combat, at 29:52 and 33:30 you could mention that crossing the river also provides a defensive strength, so even if the other tile is also a floodplain, it can often be advantageous to do so because it means the barbs won't have enough movement to attack you the same turn (unless it's a ranged barb). That, plus if the opposite shore is a hill and/or a forest, you can potentionally tank much stronger enemies.
Great as ever. With the stresses of real life. I love nothing more than to watch an episode of Ursa. Really gives me something to look forward to. 👍👍
Very sweet to read = )
"Civ 6 is a brilliant game! You will lose your life to it. Run now."
Yeah... I got 900 hours on it, oof
I'm almost at 6,000 now, oh dear
I have nearly 400 hours in civ 6 but still my god this helps. I mostly play deity and can win if I can be bothered not to just play incredibly tall so this will be a pleasant help.
Fingers crossed!!!
Thanks
When I started watching your channel I was usually playing emperor and now I can consistently beat deity.
That's awesome! Huzzah!!!
Thanks for this Ursa, I am not up to Deity yet and these videos are super useful!
Huzzah! Good to hear = )
I think this is more like an compassing guide for all difficulties, not just diety. Great vid, fun and learned lots
Hopefully so! Deity is a bit more agressive but the fundamentals will remain = )
Even if I'm a seasoned player, I love these videos.
Here is another tip for newer players: If you have this much of a low production start, it is okay to restart :D and also, it might not be a good idea to go for a religion when one of your neighbors is Spain (who is a civ which builds holy sites in every city) and the other one is rushing Stonehenge (you can see Shaka building it towards the end), you start spending so much faith just to defend your religion or go to war to kill their missionaries
This is indeed a good take! XD Never restart though, always play through I say!!
Thank you, I have been so bored I was watching 'If Bethesda made Cyberpunk' videos, don't watch them, the first one is funny but true, but they do wear on you. This is a whole lot better!!!
Thats funny i did too
So happy for this series! I've been struggling with slow starts as Arabia lately so I'm hoping to get some transferable skills from this (even tho I've beaten deity before, you're a much better player still)
Arabia is a hard one to crack to be fair - hold out till the medieval and you'll be fine!
Huzzah! Finally another in depth game!
Huzzah!
loving this! thank you for the videos. you're amazing and always learn a lot from them!
Huzzah! Very welcome = )
Lots of good tips in this video that i hadnt thought of!
Huzzah!
Always a pleasure to watch your videos, very light and entertaining
Huzzah! Thank you for watching = )
Even though I've played over 1k hours between civ 5 and 6 it's still really nice to hear your rationale behind some of your decisions.
Glad you're enjoying!
I appreciate this video. I often struggle playing deity, so I usually play emperor difficulty. More in my comfort zone.
The way he exposed me for listening to his voice to sleep 💀. That was creepy 😨 1:42
I do enjoy your voice, it is delightful. I’ve beaten the game on Deity once but I don’t think that counts because I was using Hammurabi and he’s all kinds of broken. I deliberately went for science since that seems to be his weakest victory type and it was basically low diff at worst. His other advantages are so overwhelming that he can translate them into whatever victory he wants. Yong Li is a more literal representation of that strat but still… 😂
Very late bear, but looking forward to this in depth series! I always learn so much.
This is incredible useful... Even though I already beat deity once, I used domination Hungary so it doesn't count cause that's how broken it is.
The only time I lose on Deity is when the AI beats me to space.
I have more science coming in and they are way ahead of me.
You'll get there. Just gotta try to get to space around T250 or faster. I've rarely, if ever, seen the AI do it faster than that.
I picked up the game over the steam sale. thanks for all the vids!
Very welcome!!
The crabs will surface again or carapace’s will be the last thing humanity sees, just you wait.
I can't wait to see what this series turns into!
just picked up this game and have absolutely no idea on how to play it. i have experience on Crusader Kings (2&3) but other than that I'm really new. so this helped me out a lot! thanks!
I can't play CK3 at all so we should trade notes XD
You forgot (to mention) a delegation also gives diplomatic visibility, which is useful in many ways. And the AI will for some reason always accept a delegation the turn you meet them but will often be reluctant to afterwards.
Always good tips to be had in these...
"I wouldn't normally do this" == "I do this a lot actually, because tempo is everything"
Haha - what I should have said was "this is against standard build order, but here is why I'm ignoring that today!"
one of these for tech shuffle is very niche but very appreciated
I never play civ vi anymore and yet still look forward to ursa's video. Haha.
Huzzah!
This looks like the dream etemenanki start 😂
I know right??? Another time...!
I have recently come back to playing civ and i have been doing well on deity. I'm winning most of my games just not sub 200. My biggest piece of advice is you got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette. In my recent game I lost a few early units who had some levels ups. I was really annoyed, but then late game i had so much gold and production I just bought armies and armadas. Also don't always play pangaea there is more to just land warfare
Love it! Just beat deity with Eleanor with inland sea after your last video.
That sounds like fun!
Forget about the guide and build Great Bath and Etemenanki :)
Haha, it is tempting
No joke. I actually watch your vids to fall asleep
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How do you decide Warriors vs Slingers early game? You mentioned about Slinger spam strategy but then built mostly Warriors jw when to go for one or the other.
no joke though your voice makes me sleep like a bear
That is the greatest Dutch start ever devised
1:46 😳😳 Didn't expect to get called out!
Looking at this start, I wonder if the playlists can sort games by genre, like if I want to look for games where Ursa had a tough time (the Nader Shah and new Saladin games), there will be a playlist for it. And other genres like tutorials, TSL specials, epic starts, and so on.
I do have series for guides and how tos!
There is a 4th group! We cant afford civ and watch through others and i greatly appreciate every streamer of it!
0:43 to the new players, you may think that this is a joke... it is not, the number of times I've actually reached 3am playing Civ has to be in the dozens (that's probably amateur hours as well)
15:45 ah yes, an Ethiopian's best friend. Every time I play Menelik I find myself muttering "are you a hill?" as I'm looking at potential settle spots
Brass epilets I think.
Hello, i really like your videos. You are making CIV 6 more understandable for players with less hours. You make quality content, keep it up!
Also, I would like to ask a couple questions, please :)
1. I noticed you didn't focus your cities to prioritize food (automatically) while they are low on population. I do that to have 4-5 population and it's like a snowbal, later you will have much more production just by having more tiles worked. What do you thing of this strategy? It's a NO go or situational? If so, explain please :) also i noticed you didn't prioritize any focus in a first city, is that he best strategy? If so, why?
2. When you wanted to deal with barbarian camp, you bought another warrior. Is it better option in that situation than slinger? It can be upgraded to archer and as you said, range units can give damage without receiving, so I wonder why warriors. Is it because of higher health, more bulky?
Thank you very much, I really learned a lot today and these questions are just to make the clarification more clear for me.
Thank you for all of the awesome guides! I'd actually gotten my first deity win as Tokugawa the day before you posted this! Your last video really helped me with districts.
I definitely still struggle to snowball, and I've only really gathered that monumentality settling and builders help so that. If at all possible, could anyone help with what districts, improvements, or trades help with snowballing?
Snowballing is going as wide as possibel really! Gold is great to focus on as the more of it you have, the more of it you can funnel into the places in your empire you need it = )
@@UrsaRyan thank you! I'll have to try it in my next game
I started less than a month ago. Have liked your videos
Huzzah! Thank you = )
I feel called out with that fall asleep comment
Never beaten deity since the game went live. Best i've done is immortal religious victory about 2 years ago, since then i only play prince cuz thats the most fair i find, 50/50 win loss.
In today's episode we get taught how to play Germany on deity difficulty by a bear. German chocolate makes an early appearance, Spain is a pain, and the Zulu also makes an appearance, and becomes an early trade partner. How will this game shake out, turn in next time, same Ursa time, same Ursa channel!
I'm really enjoying these outros XD
Am I the only one who first thought placing a commercial hub on a resource(rice) would give +3 adjacency? +1 for the resource, +2 for C-hub and 0,5 for district. Why isn't that the case? If you settle or district on a rice, you don't remove it like you do with woods. And if you place a district on a strategic resource it gives you both adjacencies to the regular Industrial zone. Also strange how districts with 4,5 adjacency combined with a +100% policy card are only 8 rather than 9.
Commercial hubs don't get adjacency from resources, only the Hansas do. And the 4.5 adjacency is rounded down to 4 before the 2x multiplier is applied... 0.5 adjacency (aka minor adjacencies) only take effect if you can get two of them to get the full 1 pt boost.
13:38 🥲 thank you Ursa for your consolations, we've struggled for a long time but it's been worth it now.
£569 - I assume the University of Sankore wasn't mentioned for that desert as it's being saved for the relevant era.
Is this worth it to watch for beginner to intermediate? I have played halfway through the game. I have some decent understanding.
I'm here for the binaural gamma waves from your voice. You're like Civ's David Attenborough.
Flattery indeed!
Fingers crossed that this time next year will be the "How To Beat Civ7 Deity"
Fingers crossed!
Great series! Obviously i like playing germany, but never finished a Ludwig game. so weird. I realize, that 99% of the times Ludwid will play better, it just seems too much somehow. hope this series will get me hot for Ludwig. Well, you know how i mean....
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Video starts at 6:00 for anyone wondering
"Let's get going!"
"Turn one"
Wait, he just started. No, this isn't the script. Ursa, keep to the script!
hehe
The "brass shoulder pads" are called Epaulettes :-)
Sneaking Paul in there, I see you Nikola...!
I just beat deity with wil the of leaders now i will start my journey with the civ6 dlc leaders.. which might be even easier because of the power creep
You're in for a load of fun!
@UrsaRyan oh my I meant with all the old leaders.
If military strength is just calculated from total melee strength, is that why the AI is sometimes very happy to just send all their units into an Archer meat grinder - because they think you're weak?
That's it! Stong melee units project power better than siege or ranged for that reason. It's also why your power level goes down if you corp or army troops up!
I just started Deity and I just get embroiled in wars with whatever jerk neighbor meets me first.
Welcome to Deity!
Hopefully today I show you how that isn't always a bad thing!
Hi Ursa, total novice when it comes to files etc. I downloaded the file from discord, what do I do with it on my computer? what do I open the file with?
steam deck player. not only i dont get keyboard shortcuts i also have to wrestle with onscreen keyboard every time i want to "quickly" look something up in civilopedia or set a price in trading with the ai
13:33 Console user here, what menu is the "F" button in?
Not sure alas - come to discord and ask, lot's of console users there!
@Ursa Ryan; City and district planning id really difficult. How to do that?
Watch guides like this and practice! XD
It's a scout but it shows the depiction of a cat. Is that a scat? No, nevermind lol
Ty mr. Ursa 🙏
Ursa, toward the beginning you talk about a pantheon and religion for those who want to sort of "set and forget" but I think the way the game unfolds you never expand on that that I can find. What pantheon and religion were you talking about?
so a set and forget is something you don't have to actively plan around
work ethic for instance is the opposite - every city needs a high adjacency holy site to make it work
ftw or choral music is in the middle - any holy site will do but every city needs one
set and forget is more like the amenity religion - spread to your cities and you get the passive bonuses without needing to do anything
think more in terms of, does this religion change the way I play the game hugely or does it fit into my original strategy?
How to win against Deity (Barbarians) by Ursa Ryan
It's always the barbs!
I have had the game for the past few years now with 900 hours, but I have not touched deity yet. Perhaps after this guide I will at least do immortal and then give deity a try. I'm smoking the emperor ai so it's probably time I stepped up in civ 6.
Try playing along with this game! You never know!!
@@UrsaRyan having a no production start is pretty intimidating. Bruh! I don't know how you do it,
I can only play this on settler, I just can't understand how to lay out my cities. And I feel like I settle dead cities that do nothing just to try blocking the AI.
he knows I go to sleep with his videos...
Pro tips if you meet hungry,,monty, Rome,zulu restart
I dont play civ, iguess i could, but i watch ursa vids most days of the week
Thank you so much!!
I have all the dlc's but ludwig is not showingup. anyone has got an idea? google is not helping either
Pop along to discord and ask there, you might get an answer!
I am definitely one of your viewers whos more of a listener for sleepytime. But that just means i end up watching your videos twice at least.
In my civ 6 o have defeated deity twice. First with Kupe, second with lizzie. I more or less stopped playing when the first dlc came out and it was just too much for my old pc to handle, despitr 32GB RAM ... I think the 970GTX was the achilles heel. Haha.
Anyhoo. I watch a fair few civ youtubers and yours is definitely thrbsleepiest voice. 👍❤️
Never change, unless youre going to do audio books. I could listen to you read a thesaurus.
What UI mods are you using? What do you recommend?
All mods & save files available for fere on my discord if you need them!
so iv checked and i have all the leader pack (coming back after a break) and no ludwig?
Sounds like the DLC might not have installed properly, try a reinstall = )
ur probably right, amature mistake first thing i shoulda done lol@@UrsaRyan
whole time i thought your scout is a horse. it is a cat :O
Hehe - it is indeed a cat!
Ludwig!
Huzzah!
Does changing a city preference change the tile acquisition preference? I doubt it does but it would be nice if it did.
It seems like it at least focuses tiles with resources.
I believe it does not but yes, I also agree that would be cool!
Console user here, the lack of UI and quick interaction mods makes me so sad
😥
Hello. Do you have a mod list anywhere?
Yep - discord!!
@@UrsaRyan thanks my dude
Was this a standard or small map?
do u stream on twitch?
Nope! But I will be streaming on YT live soon
I've only won on deity twice after around 500 hours.
That is twice more than most people! Well done!
hi iam new on your channel and i struggle pretty hard with culture victory so i hope i find help in your videos :)
abo is in ^^
Thank you for watching!
GOAT
I'd really really really like you to use a kinda bad civ with a kinda bad start next time. That would be so much more useful as a guide.
new record, 11min-1sec to settle...
Can’t believe you shouted out the insomniacs in bed right now…!
I’m guilty!
Hehehe
i am not playing civ6 anymore, cause i am waiting for civ7
You can do both! It's what Im doing