For anyone asking it is now canon that James of St George once again showed his prowess in engineering by flattening a hill. No more questions. It’s part of the lore.
Wow imagine living for 1265 years, building a wall infrastructure for the greatest city, exploring the entire world, and only ended up dying off the coast of a frozen tundra. RIP James of St. George, you were the hero we deserved but not the one we needed right now
He didn't die. He was simply retired. He then sailed back to his home city and lived a peaceful life in the most sacred, technology and culturally advanced cities in the world.
Japan's really great with lucky hermetic order leylines. really gives you the ability to plan out some insane mega districts with large adjacency. I had one game with three leylines in a spread out triangle so there was a center tile that touched all three and a tile between them, touching two.
i love the new erosion mechanic in the new dlc that sometimes turns hills into flatlands, very realistic to how the real world is and in your case it came in clutch letting you build that spaceport!
18:23 You can see exactly which (and how much) Civs are influencing City States by clicking on the "Influenced By" header/button just to the left of where it says "6 Civilizations" at that timestamp.
That's why it is so good to watch these videos (in addition to them just being fun). The game is so complicated that no one knows it backwards and forwards. There are lots of little wrinkles that we can all learn from.
I tried my first one-city challenge yesterday. There’s something so fun about optimizing one city to the max and not having to worry about anything else
Hey Potato. I never played Civ until I started playing Civ 6 a couple months ago and I just earned my first deity victory going for culture with china. I managed to play the entire game with only one combat (random mid game barb attack on an auto-explore scout), and got a sub 300 turn win. I have to give you a lot of credit because I have learned so much about the game by watching you play. Thanks so much for the content.
HenSt1985 last time I used that pantheon was with Russia starting city next to a 3 or four tile wonder and had hildegard on I think a +19 or 20 faith bonus, had three cities early with all over +12 adjacency bonus. That was the first game I ever just focused on faith instead of science and gold.
Also as suzerain of Lahore. The units never have a cost increase, and by modern era they are stronger than infantry. And they can be Corps or armies, and they can be fed to volcanoes
"Well, dang, my show is over. Wonder if there's anything good on RUclips. OMG! New Potato video!" I literally jumped around yelling "Potato! Potato! 🥔!"
Thank you for doing this video. Was just able to complete the one city challenge for the first time because of this! One thing I did in the endgame was switch Pengala for Liang to protect myself against natural disasters. However, I found out real quick that Liang does NOT protect you from comet strikes!!! So I built a settler unit in case I lost my capital. I would have a settler hanging around in case I lost my capital. I would not "settle" the settler, just having it chill and avoid comet strikes. Luckily I kept my capital until my crew made it to the new planet.
Deity AI is brutal. I tried to play Bull Moose Teddy 3x, but the damned AI kept declaring a surprise war on me before I was even able to get my second city up and running. I gave up and went with Ethiopia instead.
It would be nice if diety AI meant they were actually smart instead of just hand3d a bunch of bonuses. (They start with 3 or 4 settlers and i swear half the ancient era techs) You can look up the actual bonuses they get but its really stuoid that "difficulty" is just a slider of handicapping or helping the AI with bonuses instead of a level playing field with smarter opponents. (Devs could steal strats from competitive multiplayer to build into the AI to make the harder AI levels)
Love your videos. This has been my favorite game for the past year and youve helped make it even more enjoyable. Congrats on the sponsor! You earned it man
There’s an easy solution to this. Max out the amount of faith one can get from the Great Bath. Like 10 faith per tile or something. But maybe at this point the developers like it.
The most ironic ending would have been not the one with a comet destroying the city, but the one with a comet destroying exactly those four floodplain tiles...
I really didn't think this would interest me. But the way you edited it to speed it up made it so much better to watch! Congrats on the win! It was fun to watch!
Dude your pretty much savant with civ (but socially adequate at the same time) and I've been around since square unit placeholders; ty for the content, Respect:)
An entertaining video. James did an excellent job of flattening that hill so you could build a spaceport. I've been thinking about what kind of videos I'd like see while watching the assorted Lets Play series, and I've come up with a couple of ideas. 1) A video (or series of videos) on what to do to keep yourself competitive in your non-primary resources. I mean I know if I'm doing a science victory I need to build campuses (campi?), but what should I do to maintain a reasonable culture/gold/etc., outside of building theatre squares, commercial hubs/harbors, etc. Policy cards, pillaging, stealing with spies, etc. 2) A video (or series of videos) on the different map types and how they change the world. Land/water ratios, distribution of land types, land vs coast, etc. The one sentence description that the map selection screen gives you is pretty unhelpful.
Nice! Speaking of God-like starts, I've had two games spawn my next to the Paititi natural wonder. That thing is incredible. I'd love to see you cover that. 😁
Cool video, Ethiopia is indeed awesome, have been playing it for a while and while I am not as Civ-savvy as you, it has been doing wonders. I should try the OCC with them, it was my favorite challenge in Civ 5, and one I have done on a consistent basis.
Had so much fun trying this. Tried it on Prince and 1 roll had 5 tiles earning faith. Blundered my way though and ended up with a meteorite assisted domination win Lmao. Great video
Watching you geek out over the insane luck you're experiencing is giving me life Balance wise though, civ 6 would do well to not let multipliers stack. Only apply the highest multiplier.
One of the most fun games I ever had in Civ V was a game as Spain where I designed a single base location that had every single Natural Wonder. Cue 4500 gold on round one, growing to two population and an additional 12 production on round three, growing to three population on round six and starting to generate 10 faith per turn, got my pantheon on round ten... It was so much fun
So, a few tips if you try something like this ever again: 1) even though you can't WORK tiles farther than 3 from your city, you still gain amenities from improved luxuries and strategic resources 2) everything else in those tiles can be chopped and so you at least get something out of those tiles 3) You can troll the enemies who attack your city-states by levying the city state units and making a ring around the city, then replace those units with something cheap of your own near the end of the levy. They can attack the city with ranged units, but never capture it. Works particularly well when the one attacking is your ally so there's no chance he declares war on you.
@@krishnakamal7795 Cities could always expand past the 3 tile mark, even in the base game. It's just that you cannot buy tiles, or work tiles, or build districts/wonders outside the 3rd ring. However, even if you don't work Luxuries you still get the amenities in the empire for the improvement, and even if you don't work strategic resources, you still get them added to the empire's stocks. So you can only expand to those tiles naturally trough a cities' culture production, and can only make any use of them trough passive means, or by chopping features.
8:20 I don't know exactly how optimal it is, but if you had saved your soothsayers with one charge left, when the Appease the Gods rolls around you could get all your soothsayers promoted which gives them all at least one extra charge and allows you to really start going ham if you continue holding on to your collection of soothsayers the second time Appease the Gods rolls around.
I just finished a similar game with Khmer. Basically mass settle along all rivers, building the holy site and fully upgrading and it allowed the cities to grow really fast. Then got the belief that converts faith into science, buying great people and units with faith all over the place!
So voidsingers make for some crazy gameplay. Try out a peace only domination culture game as Eleanor of aquatine. Once you get cultists, you can easily take over the world without ever going to war (well if you play on pangea anyways)
Potato spends the entire game worshiping the Great Ones, flooding his city, throwing people into volcanoes, and generally causing the end of the world, and then is surprised when meteors start falling from the sky. (I know that there's actually no in-game connection between those things, I just thought it was funny)
I can't believe the Old Gods heard your cries and gave you that flat land tile. Super cool bros, those tentacled overlords.
The Old Gods are a pathway to many abilities some consider to be, unnatural.
Have you heard the tragedy of perfectly balanced, the game?
I assume the old gods are like a Lovecraft reference right?
slap em hills back to flat land
probably because of the power of tentacles overlords that do the stuff
To be frank, land shaping should've been part of the game. Nah, have totally realistic Death Robots.
21:09 Well, there you go. Faith CAN move mountains... or at least hills.
Who knows the name of the mod he used?
@@Mr.Prince_Tunmise cheat map editor I believe, I'm not sure though as I play mostly civ 5
MR. PRINCE Ajire cheat map editor
Although, is that flatland next to the Mausolem? Or am I just seeing things?
Nope, I'm drunk
For anyone asking it is now canon that James of St George once again showed his prowess in engineering by flattening a hill. No more questions. It’s part of the lore.
Its a canon event
"This video is sponsored by feraxis!"
LITERALLY CHEATS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME
how?
yeah thats what i thought xD
He warped in a Civ2 Engineer unit to terraform the hills into a plains.
I might be wrong but I think potato was mistaken - next to the mausoleum there are woods on flat land that just had to be chopped?
@@gabrielmullins8083 you can only build and work first 3 ring tiles in a city.. what you mention is 4th ring
"ANYBODY WANT ME TO BUILD THEM SOME WALLS!?" -James of St. George of Ethiopia, renowned explorer and one time engineer
Wow imagine living for 1265 years, building a wall infrastructure for the greatest city, exploring the entire world, and only ended up dying off the coast of a frozen tundra.
RIP James of St. George, you were the hero we deserved but not the one we needed right now
He didn't die. He was simply retired. He then sailed back to his home city and lived a peaceful life in the most sacred, technology and culturally advanced cities in the world.
First City on Earth...
Second City On Mars...
And the rest of the Universe left to be Conquered!
one city per planet man
Getting Great Bath on Deity not as China
The AI: "My Lord, is that legal?"
Potato: "I will make it legal."
There's no limit to what you can achieve when you reroll 200 times
I want to like but it’s at 727 so I legally can’t sorry
*Chariot falls from the sky in a fireball*
Potato: I know what I'll do with this!
*Throws chariot into fiery pit*
"I gotta put my legs between my head and pray"
Potato - 2020
Potato is slowly turning into the Spiffing Brit.
Get this man a lovely cup of Yorkshire tea
ENGLAND WILL NEVER CONQUER IRELAND! FREE EIRE FOREVER! ÓRÓ SÉ DO BHEATHA BHAILE!
James Richmond umm...ok
The only difference is that The Spiffing Brit won without any cities.
@@williamtoccijr9579 Potato tea is all they can afford in Ireland.
Potato: "Let us pray using a bath that prevents floods"
God: "I'm sending you my location"
"please grant us the power to launch big metal tubes of fire into space"
"np there you go :)"
I imagine that the Ethiopian people just prayed that hill away with their amazing faith.
Or they declared the hill a Holy site and sold scoops of dirt to the faithful until it was gone.
Civ VI, a perfectly balanced game
With NO exploits
Make sure you grab some Yorkshire tea, and sit back and relax.
I assume we are all members of spiffco?
@@lovesosa3837 im only subbed, but watching every video
What’s that symbol
Imagine if the city-states acted like this.
AI civs when great bath is done-"wait a minute this isnt allowed!"
"Why is the meteor landing so close to the other one?" Simple... they're walking their shots towards your capital!
He bemoaned the loss of four citizens when the meteor struck north of the failed volcano. If it had landed two tiles south...
Me: How tall are you gonna go this game?
Potato: Yes
It's only like a size 20 city and he's got what, 2 trade routes? Could have been a lot taller.
Sacrificing Modern Armors in a volcano for faith and science. Is this enlightenment or the dark ages ...? Oh man, I thought I'd seen it all!
Secret Societies are incredibly OP, and this expansion is so absurdly fun. There's so many variables and angles to play now!
Japan's really great with lucky hermetic order leylines. really gives you the ability to plan out some insane mega districts with large adjacency. I had one game with three leylines in a spread out triangle so there was a center tile that touched all three and a tile between them, touching two.
Have you seen the newest updates! Im so hyped. New barb mode on the 25th!
i love the new erosion mechanic in the new dlc that sometimes turns hills into flatlands, very realistic to how the real world is and in your case it came in clutch letting you build that spaceport!
Wait Potato with sponsors? When did the world change so much? I don't know if this means the world is gonna end or we have reached the heavens.
;)
yup that came in as a meteor strike...
18:23 You can see exactly which (and how much) Civs are influencing City States by clicking on the "Influenced By" header/button just to the left of where it says "6 Civilizations" at that timestamp.
I just can't understand that Potatoe, with all the knowledge he has achieved, didn't know this 😐
@@rodrimelendez6911 he could have forgotten or just not known. Does a lawyer know all laws? Its ok if you don’t know something
That's why it is so good to watch these videos (in addition to them just being fun). The game is so complicated that no one knows it backwards and forwards. There are lots of little wrinkles that we can all learn from.
I tried my first one-city challenge yesterday. There’s something so fun about optimizing one city to the max and not having to worry about anything else
Hey Potato. I never played Civ until I started playing Civ 6 a couple months ago and I just earned my first deity victory going for culture with china. I managed to play the entire game with only one combat (random mid game barb attack on an auto-explore scout), and got a sub 300 turn win. I have to give you a lot of credit because I have learned so much about the game by watching you play. Thanks so much for the content.
"I wanna put my legs between my head.."
You okay, buddy..?
He's generating gold like this
recently won a Deity game with Ethiopia. Rock hewn churches are OP.
Religion or culture my dude?
I don't know if op. Definitely strong. Had a really fun game with them for a cultural victory
I just dominated a game with Ethiopia voidsingers diety game and it was pretty amazing because of the faith.
it got even crazier when I pick up the tundra pantheon because I spawned on tundra area. The faith is so high!
HenSt1985 last time I used that pantheon was with Russia starting city next to a 3 or four tile wonder and had hildegard on I think a +19 or 20 faith bonus, had three cities early with all over +12 adjacency bonus. That was the first game I ever just focused on faith instead of science and gold.
Congrats on the sponsorship for the video spuddy!
"I've got this game on lockdown"
The literal world and god: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?
Ethiopia is so op with the right policy cards and the voidsinger society
And a mod that changes the terrain ;)
@@RemingtonDean And map editor to setup start. And probably few other cheats. We all restarted to get good starting location, it never works.
Also as suzerain of Lahore. The units never have a cost increase, and by modern era they are stronger than infantry. And they can be Corps or armies, and they can be fed to volcanoes
You didn't put the save file in the description? Tragic
POTATO YOU LIKED THE COMMENT AND STILL DIDNT UPLOAD IT AFAGDHDJSGSNAB
He generally has the details in his discord server
We also need the seed
@@jamesgors6650 I also want Potatos's seed
@@rneumann7229 Where on his discord is it? I only see the save file for Norway and China!
"Well, dang, my show is over. Wonder if there's anything good on RUclips. OMG! New Potato video!" I literally jumped around yelling "Potato! Potato! 🥔!"
Boil em, mash em, put em in a stew
Never been this early, just want to say how much I love your content!
That's really weird about the AI hating Great Writers for you, in my games they always hate Great Admirals :/
On my games they hate Great Prophets
Luckily by the medieval era I already have my religion
I've been playing with Monopolies lately and they keep shutting down my Great Merchants at just the wrong time.
For me it's always writers if I'm playing culture or scientist if I'm playing scientist. I think they're coded to screw the player.
Kudos to Firaxis for paying you! Your content had me having so much more fun with Civ 6. Thats how "influencer" shit should be.
Just love re-watching this one... I've done this so many times since and love it. So much fun.
*You unlocked the boost to the I WILL END THIS MAN'S CIV GAME tech.*
27:34 First satellite.
"Beep... beep.... beep... beep..."
I still read this in Leonard Nimoy voice.
Thank you for doing this video. Was just able to complete the one city challenge for the first time because of this! One thing I did in the endgame was switch Pengala for Liang to protect myself against natural disasters. However, I found out real quick that Liang does NOT protect you from comet strikes!!! So I built a settler unit in case I lost my capital. I would have a settler hanging around in case I lost my capital. I would not "settle" the settler, just having it chill and avoid comet strikes. Luckily I kept my capital until my crew made it to the new planet.
Deity AI is brutal. I tried to play Bull Moose Teddy 3x, but the damned AI kept declaring a surprise war on me before I was even able to get my second city up and running. I gave up and went with Ethiopia instead.
It would be nice if diety AI meant they were actually smart instead of just hand3d a bunch of bonuses. (They start with 3 or 4 settlers and i swear half the ancient era techs)
You can look up the actual bonuses they get but its really stuoid that "difficulty" is just a slider of handicapping or helping the AI with bonuses instead of a level playing field with smarter opponents. (Devs could steal strats from competitive multiplayer to build into the AI to make the harder AI levels)
The fact that you never once said, 'I want Kandy" is killing my soul
Love your videos. This has been my favorite game for the past year and youve helped make it even more enjoyable. Congrats on the sponsor! You earned it man
You convinced me to buy the frontier pass so excited for these updates!
There’s an easy solution to this. Max out the amount of faith one can get from the Great Bath. Like 10 faith per tile or something. But maybe at this point the developers like it.
You started recording around 16:00 ended around 21:00
That is a lot of effort for one video
The most ironic ending would have been not the one with a comet destroying the city, but the one with a comet destroying exactly those four floodplain tiles...
I really didn't think this would interest me. But the way you edited it to speed it up made it so much better to watch! Congrats on the win! It was fun to watch!
Good on Firaxis for supporting you! If you ever contact them, tell them to get the updates onto iPad version!
Dude your pretty much savant with civ (but socially adequate at the same time) and I've been around since square unit placeholders; ty for the content, Respect:)
Nice, he was just complaining about a lack of sponsors. I mean I'm broke so jokes on Firaxis but whatever.
In this world there are people on Mars in the 18th century, while we are in 2020 fighting over Karen not wearing a mask.
An entertaining video. James did an excellent job of flattening that hill so you could build a spaceport.
I've been thinking about what kind of videos I'd like see while watching the assorted Lets Play series, and I've come up with a couple of ideas.
1) A video (or series of videos) on what to do to keep yourself competitive in your non-primary resources. I mean I know if I'm doing a science victory I need to build campuses (campi?), but what should I do to maintain a reasonable culture/gold/etc., outside of building theatre squares, commercial hubs/harbors, etc. Policy cards, pillaging, stealing with spies, etc.
2) A video (or series of videos) on the different map types and how they change the world. Land/water ratios, distribution of land types, land vs coast, etc. The one sentence description that the map selection screen gives you is pretty unhelpful.
I just watched Potato do the Desert Canada run, and I think that is the Monkey's Paw curling for this start haha.
LoL, i was screaming aince beginning, keep a spot for Spaceport! 😂😂😂
Nice! Speaking of God-like starts, I've had two games spawn my next to the Paititi natural wonder. That thing is incredible. I'd love to see you cover that. 😁
Grats on the sponsorship. Well deserved.
Thank you for teaching us about this game!
Cool video, Ethiopia is indeed awesome, have been playing it for a while and while I am not as Civ-savvy as you, it has been doing wonders. I should try the OCC with them, it was my favorite challenge in Civ 5, and one I have done on a consistent basis.
I love your content, so impressed that you were able to pull this off on deity
Had so much fun trying this. Tried it on Prince and 1 roll had 5 tiles earning faith. Blundered my way though and ended up with a meteorite assisted domination win Lmao. Great video
Goddamn. You turned Addis Ababa into a mega Troy, one that is truly impregnable and glorious. Its just insane to watch it relentlessly thrive.
The sheer joy that radiates from this video :-) Watching this already made my day at 9am.
Just finished Luetin’s latest lore video and jumped right into Potato making a literal hive city in Civ6. Is this you, Tzeentch?
This was such a fun video to watch!! Keep up the good work!!
Watching you geek out over the insane luck you're experiencing is giving me life
Balance wise though, civ 6 would do well to not let multipliers stack. Only apply the highest multiplier.
Man when I watched your video I felt how much you love trowing things into a volcano. Looks like it was your hobby when you were young.
* Gets sponsored by firaxes *
RNGesus: you are blessed
What I do with units : Attack and defend
What Potato do with units : THROW them into Volcano !!!
Spiffing Brit is furiously downing his tea while he venerates your faith tile yields.
Another one city challenge by potato mcwhiskey awesome 😎
Btw love ur content it's absolutely banging
And ur content is so helpful for new players
Glad you had fun.
Potato! We, your lovely fans, politely demand the seed info for this start!
This isn't even exponential growth. It's logarithmic. You don't understand how much more terrifying that actually is.
One of the most fun games I ever had in Civ V was a game as Spain where I designed a single base location that had every single Natural Wonder. Cue 4500 gold on round one, growing to two population and an additional 12 production on round three, growing to three population on round six and starting to generate 10 faith per turn, got my pantheon on round ten... It was so much fun
So, a few tips if you try something like this ever again:
1) even though you can't WORK tiles farther than 3 from your city, you still gain amenities from improved luxuries and strategic resources
2) everything else in those tiles can be chopped and so you at least get something out of those tiles
3) You can troll the enemies who attack your city-states by levying the city state units and making a ring around the city, then replace those units with something cheap of your own near the end of the levy. They can attack the city with ranged units, but never capture it. Works particularly well when the one attacking is your ally so there's no chance he declares war on you.
I thought max range of a city was 3 tiles? How does it increase without the great merchant? New expansion or something?
@@krishnakamal7795 Cities could always expand past the 3 tile mark, even in the base game. It's just that you cannot buy tiles, or work tiles, or build districts/wonders outside the 3rd ring. However, even if you don't work Luxuries you still get the amenities in the empire for the improvement, and even if you don't work strategic resources, you still get them added to the empire's stocks. So you can only expand to those tiles naturally trough a cities' culture production, and can only make any use of them trough passive means, or by chopping features.
"I do not want to hear a word of this in the comments", Famous last words there Potato XD
You play this game like Garry Kasparov while I play it like Forest Gump. Love the play-throughs though.
8:20 I don't know exactly how optimal it is, but if you had saved your soothsayers with one charge left, when the Appease the Gods rolls around you could get all your soothsayers promoted which gives them all at least one extra charge and allows you to really start going ham if you continue holding on to your collection of soothsayers the second time Appease the Gods rolls around.
That was truly insane. Great video
30:18 Greatest lines of this channel
No one tell potato that he could have erupted his vulcano and won a free promotion.
30:25 - this summary is just terrific
Years of horrible Potato luck has all been saving up for this ONE video.
i like the edited games/ series way more than streams. The constant donation sound drives me insane.
If he takes that "one more turn" watch a yeeteor come crashing down to tell him it's time to stop. lol
21:08 forsenCD - It's good that you were transparent about that.
You angered the gods by sacrificing tanks. They tried to smite you with a meteor 😂
At this point we need a Firaxis sponsored multiplayer game between spiffing brit and potato
Glad to see you having fun 😊
"Perfectly balanced" Hmm.... Seems like there's gonna be a bit of a potato-tea war comming soon.
A game between Potato, The Spiffing Brit, and the Saxy Gamer would be so epic
Amazing hive city reference to 40K!! You rock sir.
“A word of this”
-PotatoMcWhiskey 2020
I just finished a similar game with Khmer. Basically mass settle along all rivers, building the holy site and fully upgrading and it allowed the cities to grow really fast. Then got the belief that converts faith into science, buying great people and units with faith all over the place!
Even though this clip is at the beginning more like a commercial .. beautiful challenge
Oh my God that Petra area at 6:48. Could probably never be pulled off, but could you just imagine?
So voidsingers make for some crazy gameplay. Try out a peace only domination culture game as Eleanor of aquatine. Once you get cultists, you can easily take over the world without ever going to war (well if you play on pangea anyways)
Potato spends the entire game worshiping the Great Ones, flooding his city, throwing people into volcanoes, and generally causing the end of the world, and then is surprised when meteors start falling from the sky.
(I know that there's actually no in-game connection between those things, I just thought it was funny)