Civ 5 AI Only Timelapse: Battle of Castles

[@falnica]

England embraces the theme of the episode by quickly building a wall of cities around London very early. Poland thought it could mess with Russia, but in all possible worlds Poland must suffer. Germany builds it's own wall of cities. Austria was biding its time, waiting, for its revenge. At the same time, Germany's fortress is destroyed by Russia. The Romans come out of nowhere and position themselves as a superpower. The battle of Amsterdam has been going on for generations. The british reconquista begins France comes out of nowhere, snipes a city form England and crushes Rome. The british reconquista is done, how long will it last? Not much, as England soon falls before France. Half the map belongs to each superpower, but France has the technological edge. Russia is using England as a buffer state to protect it's southern border, but the peace between the franch and the biriths will soon end. Russia is cruches and as the last englishman falls on his sword a cry can be heard: "Vive la France!"

[@psngaming3796]

Fernando Franco Félix more entertaining than the video jeez 😂😂

[@FF-ob7wl]

France doesn't come out of nowhere, their UI allowed them to get more food than anyone else. It was their game to lose from the start.

[@greenlego42]

Is this another Vox Populi game?

[@Sh1ranu1]

Berlin itself stood strong while surrounded and the rise and ottomans sat back and hid

[@Greenbee12964]

What about the ottoman alliance

[@Anonymos185]

One of the most entertaining games ive seen. Literally every nation had major wins and major losses. Even France was down to their last city when Russia had 7 and still things changed

[@xkieranxxx]

Poland getting invaded by germany and russia? I'm getting flashbacks here

[@MsJaro89]

Poland, when understood that it was in the middle, and next to it had Russia and Germany. "Ah Shit, Here We Go Again"

[@devantehoschette9021]

For the 3rd time, Germany decides to fight a 2 front war and loses

[@LastNRA]

Historically accurate poland

[@zarlg]

Pretty nice, especially considering how France spent the first 5000 years with a single city under constant invasion by Germany, but somehow holding out and eventually striking back.

[@damon22441]

Tradition is a hell of a policy tree.

[@ottovonbismarck5426]

At least this time Napoleon managed to conquer Moscow.

[@Mtech7752]

He did back in the time. But russians burnt their own capital, so Napoleon could not stay...

[@giantspiderproductions3356]

France defeats its main historical rivals -Germany -England -Russia And in the process becomes greater than the Roman Empire Wow this was definitely written by Napoleon wasn’t it?

[@josiptito9412]

the second rise of england was the most dramatic thing i've seen on this channel

[@michelvanderlinden8363]

My problem with this is that the civ at the center will ALWAYS have an insane disadvantage in terms of defense, with the odds of being assaulted by 8 civs from 8 different directions, while the others would only be assaulted from 3 possible directions. Id love to see this happen without a center civ.

[@maxireigl1919]

I love that even here, Russia and Germany split Poland.

[@PoliticRevolutionnaire]

I don't know how you consistently produce excellent work like this so often. This game was amazing from France's come back to the battle of Krakow...simply amazing

[@ozen3574]

2.25 France attacking Germany from the east while Russia attack from the west I think I already saw this one somewhere

[@UnitedIngvar]

Well, you've confused the directions, but I got the point

[@thegreatmoustachio]

4:10 was the moment France woke up and realized they were in a deathmatch.

[@dynamations318]

thegreatmoustachio france be like, "Oh were we fighting? Lets do this!"

[@zackbobby5550]

And even in this reality, Poland is trapped between con-questing superpowers and try as it might, is ultimately fucked.

[@noienzalbe9661]

A lesson of history: 1) the partition of Poland; 2) WWI; 3) Napoleonic wars; 4) War of 1812 (alternative ending).

[@ECasThat]

Very fitting that the big turning point for France (and especially Napoleon) is when they get a massive amount of cannons/artillery

[@greg1982fr]

Like always. Poland between Germany and Russia and betrayed by England :D

[@vekoma7427]

Lol this game was a stalemate.... and then France exploded and destroyed everyone in like 2 minutes

[@Jamaha5]

I think this video really shows the AI’s complete inability to handle Paratroopers.

[@arlay3513]

Russia vs. France. Ah, what a nice confrontation to see.

[@alexjmiranda4719]

Me at 2:00: "poor France, just only one city!?" Me at 5:30: "Whaaaat!!??"

[@idontlikerome2744]

Man once Napoleon gets Artillery he just snowball, amazing

[@bandulad7695]

Not the first time Russia and Germany split up Poland.

[@BoneAppleTea]

First thing I noticed lol and Germany getting sandwiched between Russia and France

[@FakeCou]

I turned my eyes down for a moment to eat my cereal and france went from 3 cities to like 13, wtf. What a comeback!

[@mliong6046]

Poor Poland...it just happened again

[@Bertie_Ahern]

There were some great back-and-forth in that game. Lots of empires growing, falling, and then recovering, just like IRL.

[@BerserkHerk]

England - Maybe if I just trade with them then they won't attack me

[@phillipalman892]

Poor Nottingham in the middle of that

[@limeslayer5086]

Poland is split between Germany and Russia. *HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM*

[@Morisato4]

Matthew Hancock yeah, and later germany has been ate by russia and allied france... coinsidence? XD

[@azunkor422]

@@Morisato4 This was the best part xD

[@Morisato4]

True xD

[@ommsterlitz1805]

Don't worry Napoleon never forget Polish and will give them their country and Germany

[@RamNaima]

That was a fairly accurate representation of Poland throughout the ages.

[@Mtech7752]

Germans were on the edge of Paris but failed to take the city and ended up losing the war. That reminds me some WW1. That was epic. The spirit of Georges Clemenceau was there! "Ils ne passeront pas!"

[@Bumxaur]

Russia and Germany always divide Poland.

[@luminaryprism75]

Oh man! I thought we almost had the second coming of England there but the French had too many units. This was a really cool one! Side note: That French-Russian war was _super_ long.

[@Toghebon]

7:05 England : Guys don't move, their visual acuity is based on movement. *France attacks from the side*

[@geniemiki]

I'm impressed by how long London held for, really shows the importance of terrain.

[@WumboCorp]

Wow Fracne with that early game turtle to come back late game snowballing. I love how this actually seems synched with the music.

[@lovisjanvier5733]

It's the first I see my country win in this game I've never figured it

[@m.meintjens2207]

Even in an entirely different world Russia and Germany still partition Poland

[@caityreads8070]

Poland got divided up between Germany and Russia eh? Where have I heard that one before...

[@frisianmouve]

Well I guess Russia's going to win.. Napoleon: hold my baguette

[@thewingedone1172]

Well, France won only because Russia weakened German and french could take second city

[@Mtech7752]

@@thewingedone1172 France was in the worst position to win with two soldiers against the whole german army in the east and the roman empire burning their lands in the south. This is an epic come back.

[@WhatsLaughing]

One of the best timelapses out there, what an amazing comeback by France!

[@ShermanMark1]

When Napoleon comes back from his exile.

[@nicolas4062]

From terrible start to victory

[@FestusOmega]

This was the most preposterous AI battle I've ever seen. I thought England had it for sure... And sure enough, it did get second place. So many twists and turns. I can't believe it.

[@niruag8682]

Incredible French reconquista

[@johnroy5169]

France spent the whole game playing with themself until they decided it was time to win

[@RipJaws1]

smh none of y'all mentioning the mvp, that one dutch unit that survived for about 200 years after the fall of amsterdam

[@Chocolatnave123]

1:27 "Oh England is dominating now, they're probably gonna win. Let's just skip to the end and see who wins..." 6:40 "What. In. The. Blue. Baguette. Is. Going. On..."

[@wurstkonig3621]

i like how the germans immediately invaded france and poland.

[@Mr.H42]

Wurst König and i loved to see how France came back for invaded everyone begining with the germans

[@WelloBello]

The French comeback was glorious.

[@hc5862]

France with an all time comeback

[@iamstoopid3954]

This map has an unfair advantage for the corner civs. And the center civ has the worst location.

[@evenasgrimplass9411]

which is why poland is in the center, poland must always be invaded from all sides

[@Plazmatothemax]

Argument: Center civs can expand in many directions. I think the terrain used, desert, might be the thing to blame.

[@iamstoopid3954]

Plazmatothemax It's better to be safe in the corner, horde up army counts, let others fight their wars, and strike when neighboring civs are weak. Center civ is most probable to be engaged in a war, since it neighbors ALL civs, and due to frequent wars, troop counts will be diminished for defense and cities will constantly have to be building units, rather than progressing in buildings and tech. Center civ is also the target of all neighboring cities' religious influence, deeming it hard to sustain its own religion. Being able to expand in many directions is not an advantage. When you take over cities, you're focusing one at a time, not 5 different cities at once. This scheme is also applicable for corner civs, so being able to attack in many directions is not an advantage. Also, center civ could have troops focusing on a city that's on one side of the map, which opens up an opportunity for attack by another civ on the opposite side of the map.

[@Plazmatothemax]

Well, 2 things to respond. Safety in a corner can become a tomb, if you're killed off first, as I have seen in some other Civ V ai battles, since they only have 1 city, whilst the other had 3, and took the only city the civ had. the second thing, this is AI we're talking about. Yes, being in a multiple front war is bad, but depending on the civ there, it actually benefits them to have multiple options to attack, as the need for gold and new luxuries arise. Problem with my second part is, we never see the economy they have, or know who controls the luxuries. Yes, the religion argument is valid, except it isn't when you don't care about religion in a domination victory, as you can allow someone else's religion be yours. I always found the religion aspect in this game a bit lacking. Inquisitors, Missionaries, and Prophets, are a bit...misused. You should be able to kill other missionaries with inquisitors without starting a war with the civ. and you should be able to remove enemy religions with your own, or replace, since that makes the certain enhancements actually USEFUL in more situations than the simple ones. Casus Belli and other things could have added a lot to the game. but...it didn't end that way.

[@iamstoopid3954]

1) I don't understand by corner can be a tomb "if you're killed off first." Are you talking about a 1v1 or 1v2 interaction from lateral neighbors? Center would be having a 1v8 interaction with lateral + diagonal neighbors. When I say that corner civs have advantages over center civ, I'm talking about a statistical advantage with RNG involved, since this is AI. I am not saying that it's 100% impossible to win as a center. 2) Being in a multiple front war is terrible, as you have no option but to spam produce units just to be able to survive, as I have already said. While corner civs *HAVE the option* to become tech giants, center civ will be stuck in stone age. 3) You clearly have not enough practice or comprehension of the depth and utility of religion. If you decide to uptake an enemy's religion, you ONLY take their "Follower Beliefs." You are missing out on the most important buffs which are in "Founder Beliefs" and "Enhancer Beliefs". The most competitive in Founder Belief is "Tithe" which provides 1 gold for every 4 followers, which is more applicable in standard matches, not in this mosh pit. The most OP Enhancer Belief for this tiny map is "Defender of the Faith" and "Just War" for instant 20% damage for basically anywhere on this entire small map. Watch a youtuber named "filthyrobot." He is hands down THE best civ 5 player on youtube, and he is famous for ranking Civs and wonders. He has a really good game using the Piety tree for 1v5 Deity AI, permanent war ON (link: watch?v=SQaYywetOLs&t=3s). Every unit he killed provided massive culture, gold, and faith. This guy is the GOD of min/maxing everything at a microscopic scale. He is overflowing with information. 4) Like I said, this is RNG. Certain civs ALSO have advantages over other civs, just based on civ bonuses. For example, Shoshones will basically cover all of the other civs' lands at the start of the game. Same religious war strats applies. And civs like Venice will basically be screwed, since they cannot capture any cities. Also Vienna would be at a disadvantage because their civ bonus is nonexistent, since there are no city states. Also, wtf is Polynesia gonna do. There's no continents. Some civs have OP military units. Etc, etc. 5) If this were humans playing on this map, it would be even more evident that center civs have a disadvantage. AI combat in civ 5, even in Deity, is terrible, making the corner advantage seem less evident. The reason why deity is hard is because AIs have super buffs. They construct and train twice as fast, take only 60% of the unhappiness, start with a settler and 2 workers, and etc.

[@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870]

Artillery changes everything? I will not say that phrase, but you know what must be said.

[@CarthagoMike]

Quite the comeback France made there

[@Sage-hxc]

The corner teams never seem to fail.

[@rixille]

For obvious reasons, they have less flanks to worry about.

[@clearsingularity]

Its all fun and games until the artillery comes..

[@anedark]

That was a long battle between russia and france. I enjoed watching it.

[@terrysalava6981]

This cant be right, Napoleon invading Russia... AND WINNING.

[@okebel3280]

Corner civ with the most land land military advantage was gonna win. Germany might have taken France out if it wasn't distracted by Rome and Russia around 1:58. That gave Paris with it's 22 population the breather they needed to take over Germany with the technological advantage of having such and high population.

[@ceiling_cat]

Oh look! Poland got divided by Russia and Germany! Again...

[@masterofnova]

omg did i just witness poland getting split up by russia and germany again?!

[@klobiforpresident2254]

There is no other way.

[@bosephinterton95]

Literally just a rush to get artillery first, and france got it first, love you civ 5 very cool

[@captainx5246]

Poland never stood a chance, only one with enemies to all sides

[@thewingedone1172]

Germany too lol

[@MrCordycep]

Poland divided between Germany and Russia eh? 🤔

[@MsJaro89]

Of course :D

[@Morisato4]

No, for sure its not coisidence xD

[@AidanWR]

Shout-out to that French settler at 5:04 that can't settle anywhere, so it just sits there

[@nathanbailey7038]

As soon as artillery comes in its a bloodbath

[@TS-kt3nf]

I woudln't have thought that the French win this. They looked so weak at the start of the game. What a surprise!

[@TheJumpinJr]

With their neighbors being German and Rome I was thinking they'd be screwed by quality of units.

[@nn6404]

France won because they were the first to artillery.

[@Running_Colours]

Well the growth of Paris was Pretty impressive though

[@LeanardoDaVinci711]

i wonder if poland is at a bit of a disadvantage from the beginning because it has near-immediate borders with 4 different civs while all the others has either 2 or 3. maybe thats why the two last remaining civs are the ones in the corner. although that wouldn't explain england lasting so long. eh, civ ai is weird

[@felixw19]

*Start of the Video: ok lets see which Civ is dumb enough to build a navy

[@aaroneus5479]

Felix W. None apparently, I think it may be because the water is counted as lakes

[@mkim721]

It's pretty predictable if you focus on the population. France stayed in the corner and was ahead in population this whole time. No wonder why France had superior tech, production.

[@meaningGPT]

Corner advantage.

[@damon22441]

The first civ to get Arty is usually the victor.

[@aethercosm]

France only had a chance because it sniped Hamburg from Rom'es attack at 2:00. Without it, they would have been surrounded by Rome and probably killed.

[@flyingcookie5639]

Who knows ? If you check battle of trench it is the same : France almost never lose population when going to war, unlike the other countries.That's the only explanation to that gluttony.

[@QuadLamb]

@@flyingcookie5639 Have you played civ before? France IN THE GAME is garbage compared to other civs.

[@flyingcookie5639]

@@QuadLamb Battle of trench is another video :) And in that video too, France was always in deep shit. So : who knows ? Magic of history ^^ Oh, and that big population of it was an advantage, undoubtedly.

[@QuadLamb]

@@flyingcookie5639 It's not a huge advantage, working improved tiles doesn't win you the war

[@QuadLamb]

@@flyingcookie5639 Every other nation had the same number of troops. Edit: and France didn't lose pop cause they didn't get conquered. If you played the game you'd know that pop nearly halfs when a city is conquered. The other civs didn't need a large population in their main city.

[@gothik33]

The moment I saw France with military units 2 tier ahead of everyone else I figured Napo would have a blast, and a blast he had indeed.

[@tsgmatthew2975]

Holy shit the French made everyone else surrender

[@thibaultlpx7420]

tsgmatthew we have the best victory/ defeat ratio in Europe and maybe in world

[@ATEG8374]

what a twist!

[@cfytdavid1673]

Victorius Lpx which is obviously why you have such a thriving econo... oh wait. Well atleast you have a commonwealth of conquered nat... oh wait. You guys definitely make nice bread and pastries. Thats something.

[@thibaultlpx7420]

CFYT David where are u from?

[@95DreadLord]

This looks like a fun map for 1 city challenge

[@givikap120]

-POWER OF SCIENCE!!! France, Civilzation 5.

[@borderlandsgamer9001]

The Russians focused on improving their infantry while the French focused on developing their artillery. Artillery is already usually quite important in Civ. Doubly so on a map like this.

[@twocows360]

Russia squandered a huge advantage by sitting around while France pushed England hard virtually unopposed. Look at all those units, Russia! What are you doing?

[@spasoldatin6258]

Yeah no, now I'm thoroughly convinced that Germany's AI is coded to always lose against other AI.

[@kamilkowalczyk7195]

In my games Germany is consistently one of the strongest AIs, AIBattle channel has less than 43 battles and Germany isn't even in all of them... Just probability and bad luck. Almost all civ won only once so far.

[@spasoldatin6258]

AIBattle is also not the only channel that uploads such battles, and Germany has won one out of probably hundreds at this point.

[@devinnbrown5765]

Man one day this channel will start blowing up

[@dumptruck5138]

Am I the only one who would build the great Wall in this map just to make my city look more like a castle?

[@corruptedpickaxe5848]

ikr

[@douglasquaid7550]

The fan favorite Germany never wins, lol, sad but true.

[@Livasuk]

That looks cool! And looking at the number and behaviour of these units, I finally understand why most of Civilizations usually make fun out of my army, then attack me (even though I want to play peacefully), then they are getting kicked...They have much more army than me, so they think they are better and start the war, but it's spread across maps regions and they attack only with part of it, or they stretch and scatter it too much, so I end up annihilating them with proper tactical play... I heard people saying that with "big army" I can prevent them from attacking me, but if 10-15 good units I am usually going for (and eventually increase it, if needed) is not enough to prevent them from attacking me, then I think I will just save my gold and production for improving my cities and stuff, while fighting strategically with smaller army, if they attack... I still can't win peacefully :-(

[@flakgun153]

hell of a comeback

[@Big_Pants_]

Is it just me... or does this remind you of the 2018 World Cup?

[@cfytdavid1673]

Pie Napel no. Not even slightly. Theres a distinct lack of croatia wrecking england before France got a chance

[@АнтонАндреевских-л9с]

У Франции неожиданно появляются мушкетёры,стрелки и всё вокруг становится Францией. Потом штурмовая пехота. Артиллерия. Авиация. ПВО. РСЗО. А Россия снова хотела улететь в космос.

[@oomzer]

Video could also be named 'France shows strength of rushing artillery'

[@joshuaburnett7643]

oomzer Yep, as soon as I saw france start to roll out artillery, I looked at the other civs, saw they had none, and knew how this would end immediately. Artillery are definitely one of the biggest game changers, with battleships coupled with destroyers being a similar game changer on water maps

[@tuxedo_productions]

England brings the cities down to like 5 health France takes them

[@aes-256e]

Napoleon marching through Berlin and Poland to burn Moscow a second time.

[@dikkedamp3493]

I love Napoleon and his unit spamming

[@aaroneus5479]

This just reminds me of the World Cup, England was doing so well but then France won

[@fortunaaudacesiuvat]

French artillery made all the difference...

[@nanli1708]

Is there a simulation on the actual European/Earth map? I would like to see how these countries would go with their own geographic conditions.

[@benking4194]

Drew durnil has done loads

[@nanli1708]

@@benking4194 Thanks for information. I searched his channel and found the videos. I appreciate his work. But I think there is too much talk in his videos and no animation for the battle process, which prevents me enjoying them...

[@baaler3953]

Wow can I get an amen for that brave Dutch settler?

[@tomboura8951]

We France is resist, Vive la France et Vive la République !

[@vincentrabajoie748]

CHAMPION DU MONDE !!!

[@certifiedbingchilling7125]

tom boura vive le roi !

[@lyndonstorm]

Dutch great admiral MVP