An incredibly PAINFUL START as Persia - CIV 6 Persia TSL

[@Very_Okay]

these struggle starts are great bc they help me understand what i’m supposed to do when i’m being overrun in one way or another. thanks

[@TurtleLover69527]

Sometimes there is nothing to be done but ride out the pain :)

[@NickSteffen]

Yea, when he adds a bunch of extra ai civs it dials up the early game difficulty 10x and makes everything much more interesting.

[@eileenwellings]

Agreed - Potato is teaching how and why not to give up on tough Deity starts. So much to learn on *every* turn!

[@Deathsinger99]

There’s nothing we can do…

[@Ajax6116j]

Thank you for suffering, so I know how to reflect pain on my enemies

[@OvertlyEsoteric]

a map mod I like is shuffle++ It basically stitches a bunch of random maps together, so you could get a big chunk of highlands, then a sea filled with islands, then a swampy wetland. it's cool, particularly with larger map sizes

[@PearlHarbor1941]

I’ve been wanting something like this for a while now, I’ll have to check it out

[@rayriv14]

Warding this comment. Will probably get into PC Civ 6 soon

[@Szczuriusz]

Pretty sure he played with that type of map previously

[@brendenjones5858]

Commenting for later

[@limitates6319]

Plays with true start location - "We are actually as much to the east as possible"

[@TedSCSI]

Yeah, since I love domination Persia is always my primary pick, I feel at home really watching this game. The thing that I always do in Ancient era is a double scout and trying to find some preferably far away civ's just for a sake of declaring war on them, this 2 hex boost to movement is a bargain it works so well with lowered penalty for surprise war. This helps in exploration snowball having 2 scouts with 5 movement I can find next civ's for war declarations with added bonus of quickly finding tribal villages etc. Usually I can cycle the war / peace between 2 or 3 such a distant civs all the time to keep this boost alive. Try it, and you will love it!

[@jenkinsuu]

@@TedSCSI My fav strategy with JFD’s Hitler as well, you get +1 mov and +15% prod for military units while at war with a major civ so I just declare on someone miles away quickly spam a ton of units and roll over whoevers closest

[@ElliottBelser]

War has always been my weak point in Civ so watching you casually deflect Tamar going all in is fascinating

[@snomcultist189]

Tamar is the most aggressive civ

[@RMCbreezy]

War is my favorite part of civ other than exploration and seeing the story unfold

[@cherrydragon3120]

Here is a MASSIVE trick to war. If YOU are attacked. Place ranged units in your cities/encampments. They can get a + attack buff from a promotion when in districts (city center counts as district too) And have walls in every city. Then you can have 2 shots at your enemies without taking damage. If you got the gobernour victor you van even hit 3 times. 😂 Then just have some melee units to surround enemy units and finish them off easily. When ur in the attack, your front line must be infantry and cavalry. Have ranged units and siege units behind them. You can increase siege unit range even later on with observation balloons and drones. 😂😂 to the point cities can't even hit your artillery units late game.😅 its good fun. Early game tips on siege weapons: Catapults, bombards, canons: these are used to destroy the city walls and lower city HP. Battering rams: theyare for walls, link with mellee units. Siege tower: link with mellee units (infantry like man at arms) and allow them to ignore the wall fortification and directly hit city HP. (HAS NO USE IF THE CITY IS NOT BESIEGED. AS IT WILL HEAL EVERY TURN IF NOT UNDER SIEGE.) [To siege a city you need to place several units around the city. Make sure at minimum all tiles adjacent ro the city are covered by your mellee units. This will usualy take around 3/4 units around the city. 😊😊 Defensive buffs for mellee units: fortify on hills and forest tiles. (Stacks on forest hills) Fortress buildings, encampments and city centers. And at the other side of a river. Attack debuff: being on marshes and floodplains as well as being embarked on water as a Not Navy unit. 😊 Having units next to each other can give support bonus on damage. Surrounding enemy units can give flankong bonus (some units gain more flanking or support bonuses based on unit and/or civ) And fcourse Intel on enemy units. By having higher intel on the civ by having embassies and/or spies in their capital. Ur welcome.

[@cursed9019]

@@cherrydragon3120 actually really helpful war guide thanks stranger

[@birdiemcchicken1471]

McWhiskey on Turn 1: Well, I'm screwed McWhiskey on Turn 83: Well, my enemies are screwed

[@infladead9879]

I highly respect seeing the struggle on your side. Seeing your expertise work through it is a massive teacher in all of our games. Thank you.

[@Ascisana]

Well Persia's bonus"Fall of Babylon" is a fitting name for this scenario

[@dionhoekstra3560]

I played on this map with Babylon just yesterday. The fertile rivers work AMAZING with the palgum.

[@MagnusInternals]

Can’t believe I played 3000+ hours and never seen Akkad/Immortal combo 😂

[@andrewklang809]

I wanted to scream at him when he talked about razing Akkad in a conquest game. Akkad and Kabul are so strong for warmongers the presence of either nearby can shift an entire game's strategy.

[@arkadiuszrenc1498]

Yeah playing ottomans or Zulu with Akad just hits different

[@rotomfan63]

I've played a simular amount and still have yet to see a nuke or use one, although my PC is slow as hell so a lot more time spend loading then others and still so bad at war I ain't won a domination victory yet

[@BigPurpleCarrot]

​@@rotomfan63Domination is the easiest victory though

[@exotic7597]

@@BigPurpleCarrot honestly diplo victory is the easiest but in a non dlc game religion and domination are the easiest

[@masterofgreymog5751]

Part of me was really hoping he'd save the tile next to the iron for an IZ - but the encampment was a solid decision without spending gold on a 3rd ring tile to put it one tile further out.

[@hesseldekraai]

26:57 wow you managed to bait another warrior with your builder?? You truly are a master baiter

[@RandomGuyTalking]

6:23 "Do a little, yoinkage" is now my new favorite phrase! 😂😂😂😂

[@blaircfleming]

Nice Mesopotamian start - Sargon (Akkad), Hammurabi, and Gilgamesh! All that's missing is Civ 5's Ashurbanipal and you'd have the set!

[@Imperial_stroopwafel]

Yeah, it's true start location after all

[@maxwelljohnson2588]

Thanks!

[@MalucoDaBomba]

My man, I just wanted to say that I love your videos. I found your channel a few years ago and you were the one that got me into this kind of game, but I gave up on trying to learn it because it's just too complicated for me. It would take a lot of time and dedication to learn and I just don't have neither. I even watched your beginner series but it simply did not work! Despite that, it's always so much fun watching you play. Keep it up!

[@Chris_Tootoo]

In this episode of Civ 6, you get to see Potato’s Awkward Sausage.

[@hakonandreasolaussen1949]

Nere's Seven Seas is a map script tweak that makes seven seas, in my opinion, the absolute perfect balance between land and sea, with islands, lots of canal potential, etc

[@FanFive5]

“A path of destruction is before us and we will leave the world burning in the wake of our footsteps” -Potato McWhiskey, 2023

[@aaroncruze4638]

These types of games are always my favorite to play. Mediterranean world's are so fun.

[@gungho8180]

Pretty sure Potato mostly always talks to himself like this...but I enjoy listening in on his thought processes. Learning from these vids gives me hope to stop my scum saving ways and finally play a true game of CIV VI! Thanks, Potato!

[@pep_fof]

this helps me with my self esteem so much, i talk to myself like this as well and always worry that im going insane or sth, then see this clearly well-off guy do the same thing and think yeah, im not crazy (or atleast not the only one) :)

[@peterkang6677]

Potato: Akkad is eating up too much land, I would probably raize it Akkad: But I help melee units smash cities Potato: understandable have a nice day

[@whydoievenneedone]

Potato (on Diety): 3 cities founded. and one of them lost in 17 turns. Me (on chieftan): It's turn 50 maybe I should found my second city, awww.... I got forward settled? better restart.

[@PeterR444]

With Akkad’s bonus you honestly don’t even need catapults anymore lol

[@richy497]

Love to see a TSL start. Often I find that they're seen as annoying because of the clutter but it's cool to see you turning the machine of war to expand your empire in the early game

[@TheHuffmanator]

Not TSL for Persia though...

[@smiegto]

lets build a militairy. procedes to turn all cities away from militairy. love your vids, what a classic.

[@sirso8422]

Potato i watch all your civ 6 contents but, TBH with you what i enjoy the most is to watch you suffer through a game, that's my favorite. And yeah i know choice of content is brokem lmao..

[@-KFirefly]

Love ya. Can’t wait till the next episode

[@HoshoLegacy]

Been a while since I watched a potato video and I legit thought I had youtube set to 1.5x speed. Turns out he just talks that fast.

[@woomy8971]

TSL mediterannean is one of my favorite maps! playing it on a very slow speed like marathon is pretty goofy too since the map is so big you have time to grow a lot in the early periods (as can the enemy civs)

[@bigfudge2031]

Love the auto subtitles for the intro "Hey buddies Potato MC here"

[@andreasfery]

fantastic video, really love the "against all odds" starts 🙂

[@leshamas_]

Potato: wages double-front wars with two cities Meanwhile Didona: 6+ cities and chillin'

[@LazyVanny]

That is ALWAYS WHY I FRIEND GREG! He gets my back like a chad, and he got you as well. Good luck on this cramped start.

[@BlobZ_AK]

I never clicked on a video faster before

[@Daisemiin]

I like you Potato. I just cant get excited about Civ VI. Its all so complicated listening to you and I dont understand it all and cant be bothered to learn this edition to the degree that you have, but I like your love of this game and how each game us different so keep watching. Have loved Civ since it first came out.

[@Coconut-br3jt]

I really thought I knew how to play civ but after watching your videos. I absolutely don't know how to play 😂

[@jdavis.fw303]

Have you done a deity++ game yet? Ursa has done some of those and its amusing to see pros still struggle 😅

[@msmith42001]

I always have issues with loyalty on cities I take. Even with my religion and a gov in place; I seem to lose a city a few times before I can keep it.

[@dominickfekete3458]

Ayyooo I've been waiting for you to upload

[@BeastTheNinja]

I started playing this a year ago where I did the tutorial which took me 8 hours as I never understood I gave up on the game now watching it again seems easier to understand

[@andrewklang809]

This video: Can't expand, can barely defend my own cities, having to deal with wave after wave and wave of troops. There is literally nothing else I can do except lose. Next video: My infantry can fire arrows with dynamite on them. Everyone else's walls are useless and I'm unstoppable.

[@gavinpower2020]

Thanks gilgabro

[@wifeofanacrobat3654]

Walls in Susa will help a lot in iron mines protection

[@kowclipth727]

dude Immortal + Akkad combo is so nasty and I love it

[@psychorabbitt]

Potato going to war with Babylon just... seems par for the course at this point.

[@IANF126]

owls is my favorite of the societies

[@gumbycat5226]

If I had been playing this, I would have put both those encampments one away from each enemy city centre. That way I could have fired on them endlessly and both cities would have been guaranteed to fall with minimum effort. The iron would be protected by the cities' fall. It's my lazy way of playing because, with the AI as an enemy, those cities are pretty much guaranteed to fall any way.

[@marvinellis7221]

I know I'm late but you hurt me a little bit when you picked Victor and didn't take Defensive Logistics. So much more Iron

[@hatchhermit77]

Georgians, Ottomans, Sumerians, Phoenicians : "Then we'll fight in the shade."

[@Dutch_is_a_Weird_Language]

I think I would have used a Governor title to recruit Amani and place her in Akkad. But holy crap that's a thight spot!

[@markescareno7584]

Man I’d really love for you to go deep in the technical aspects of Humankind.

[@hanksoandso8778]

Thanks For the vids Potato!

[@willjolivette6800]

Potato suffering is good content ngl

[@1977Futre]

I would be having palpitations at the start you had. War all around you by tun 13. Cities falling, cities flipping. People settling in your backyard. Basically 3 opponents all squeezed together with seemingly no where to expand to. Not to mention the random warriors walking past your open city. Honestly, that's a reroll for me.

[@TooniverseCentrum]

Does setting Abundant Resources (in Settings) actually affect Ley Lines from Hermetic Order?

[@eberlchl]

Declaring surprise war on Georgia probably would have been the move for the movement since she was obviously going to war dec anyway

[@Cat_vs_Jad]

Left clicking units is a setting you can toggle I think

[@alexadamsky]

This looks like a really fun game

[@alexvenick8999]

Age of Wonder 4

[@SoCoMss]

Troops in city give loyalty, that's why you didn't lose 2nd city

[@Slokingseba]

I look forward to the games so much man

[@wifeofanacrobat3654]

Regarding maps, i'd suggest to try maps from Alternate Cartography mod like Fjord, Boreal etc

[@TrevorHoelting]

What an ending 😊

[@MrOpc51]

Potato! When you play Civ I play Civ!

[@dankebabco134]

Why not settle on the dyes??

[@nowtherearetwo404]

Can you still get achivements with the mods you use?

[@1977Futre]

How did that CS appear? Surely there wasn't time for it to become one.

[@maxkirk944]

Love tsl nice to see it

[@samueltrusik3251]

Oh boy, I LOVE when you suffer! More, please!

[@danielberger1176]

fitting that while playing persia, you're located in the east. making war against the west. reminiscent of 300.

[@Newvirtues]

I'm listening at 0.75 speed because you speak so fast. It helps me keep up. I tried half speed, but it makes you sound drunk...

[@grantshearer5615]

The thing I HATE about TSL Mediterranean is that there is a dirth of production. Almost every tile in Europe has 0 production

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

Hey potato! Pairidaez nuts!

[@seattlekarim964]

Yes! TSL is so difficult

[@internalfugue16]

ooooh this is so exciting!

[@raymondgreen9379]

Where would someone DL map scripts from?

[@nubifix]

Cant wait to see this war =D

[@pharaohmedjaylawofmedjay2680]

He Loves Potatoes 😂😂

[@bitsa94]

Hey @potato! Long time fan first time commenter. Would you ever consider doing a zombie defence game?

[@chrisbarr1990]

Shameless old world undo move plug ; P

[@TrippyDonut193]

Me hearing “let’s chop out this stone”: 🥴

[@nickfromtipp]

Bring it on 🗡

[@drjonritz]

Akkad is super helpful for taking cities...very lucky to spawn next to it.

[@helltanuki]

Well, in this case, it's Akkad that spawned next to him haha.

[@troyjacobs8530]

Didn't even look at my other watch recommendations

[@BegaMetaZone]

Pasar-god , Suza , Pardis ( Paradise ) , more Persia games pls , thank u

[@FiauraTheTankGirlGamer]

Can you play an unmodded game on Epic and show us how to do a slower paced game?

[@carrandgillfamily8901]

12:59 It would be fun if in Civ 7 there was a mechanic for you to use a military unit (like your slinger there) to capture a settler or builder without having to declare a full war. Perhaps in the response there's a way for the other civ to declare a retaliation war, and maybe their chances of knowing who took their civilian unit is based on their own espionage skill level and diplomatic knowledge (or whatever system is in place).

[@T0tenkampf]

seems unrealistic, in what world would a leader allow civilians to be enslaved without retaliation?

[@carrandgillfamily8901]

Think of it like an abduction, it's a clandestine operation, it's secret. Perhaps like siphoning gold works, there's a dice roll involved. When not at war, each time you have a military unit move onto a foreign settler or builder, a warning screen could pop up and indicate the chance of success, perhaps a dice roll based on each of the civ's related tech or civics. If you win, you get the unit, if not, the opposing civ is alerted to the abduction and has a chance to formally accuse you of the theft (on the world stage, it could trigger an emergency, but if no one else joins it the emergency can still go through, just it'll be a 1 on 1 emergency. Idk, maybe it's overpowered, maybe it's stupid. But it'd be fun, I think. @@T0tenkampf

[@JakoBvB94]

@@T0tenkampf in a world where they dont know who took the civilians, and they can still decide to retaliate. Warfare always has been information warfare, and people getting abducted into slavery was (sadly) part of the ancient and classical reality

[@AUTvillacherboyAUT]

damn clicked faster than a junky

[@ClockworkOuroborous]

Commenting to feed the algorithm gods

[@zoulogist9171]

@@ClockworkOuroborous Algorithm for the algorithm god!

[@Blandge]

Why don't you ever go for Diplo or Religious victory? I would love to see one

[@RobertR19]

It's so ugly!!! I LOVE IT!

[@andrewnewell8217]

When Babylon settles Kutaisi, the game looked like a total mess. I’d have given up in disgust. Marvelous to see how Potato turns it around.

[@WlatPziupp]

Left clicking doing the same as right clicking some times is the most annoying thing in this game. If I wanted to right click I would have right clicked

[@nitricoxidegod]

🎉

[@trolley7947]

How does Babylon have 3 cities in 12 turns?

[@philmo9667]

Turns out early churn is a thing ...

[@Siege181]

Potato, please double episode for Friday nights!

[@GeneralOdium]

How TF the AI have three cities in 9 turns?!?

[@edwardcollins8102]

Hey Potato. I have a challenge for you. Win a diplomatic victory. That's it. You can do that right? When's the last time you DID a diplomatic win series? It's all been boring cultural victories with maybe the occasional exception of science. Hell, a domination victory seems to fallen off as well. But let's face it, you seem to avoid religious and diplomatic victories like the plague. And I get not being a fan of religious victories. But you've done more of them than you've done Diplomatic victories. Can you even NAME the last series that was a diplomatic victory?