Civ 5 AI Only Timelapse: Gates to Neverland

There are six giant death robots programmed to protect untouched nature from the wild tribes of human beings that swallow and destroy everything they touch, meanwhile, human beings are highly interested in this beautiful land with bizarre animals and oil fields that just sit and wait to be swallowed up. But every expedition is very expensive and requires resources that could help in the homeland and the worst part is even the most advanced expedition have a slight chance of success. So maybe the game is not worth the candle and it is more important to focus on the local problems, avoiding unnecessary risks. Time to find out if fortune favors the bold or smart.
I used Community Patch (global modification of AI and bug fix) forums.civfanatics.com/forums... for this battle.
Map Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1T8qA...
Music: Clark Powell - Full Moon

[@luminaryprism75]

I like how England and Sweden sort of mirrored each other for most of this game. England was the growing Titan in the West while Sweden was a defensive might in the East. It was also super cool to see how small the homeland capitals of the colonial nations were- like, you could just tell that the political situation would be divisive, all the power being in the capital when most of the wealth and people existed in the colonies. I could imagine the people calling cities like a Tokyo and Munich the Southern capitals or true capitals and such. This was a fun one!

[@11u510n15t]

England ended up with a tech advantage. Sweden was fending off artillery with trebs.

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[@yigitdemir3723]

That "would you be interested in a trade agreement with england" caught me off guard lol

[@Anonymos185]

Kamehameha: Ah yes. With my ability to embark my units from the start i alone can settle this new world and claim victory in this great clash of the ages! Giant Death Robot: No.

[@valerieprice1393]

I was paying attention to japan and germany in Neverland and then looked up and saw England had taken over the world lol

[@9IPbINCB3T]

it's unfortunate that barbarians could not take any city and just lost their robots

[@fastfo0d543]

Есть кстати настройка в игре агрессивные варвары и там вроде они могут города брать.

[@fabergefabulous5010]

Да, но даже с такой настройкой шансы 1 к 10 наверное. Варвары крайне безразличны к городам в этой игре.

[@johnroscoe2406]

The fucking comment was in English not slavaboo orc speak.

[@9IPbINCB3T]

@@johnroscoe2406 LGBT Ukraine support group wasn't asked anything, gtfo

[@johnroscoe2406]

lol KZbin deleted your ridiculous reply!

[@RhoninFire]

Hmm... the barbarians made it so costly to colonize that it made conquest the way more advantageous strategy. By the time the AI manage to get a settler in, the conquering nations was far too ahead for any benefit of colonization to balance it. The main value the colonies gave was a way to hide from England a little longer.

[@toxicpanda36]

Well, by the time cities were founded in the new world, England only conquered one or two cities, and countries like japan had a real chance of catching up to England had they been quicker and more aggressive with the expansion phase, same with Germany who should've focused oh taking out Denmark as soon add possible. One you have the coasts secure, it's only a matter of keeping reserve units in case of nukes and preventing units from disembarking

[@SmooviesTV]

England didn't give a fuck about the promised land. Damn. Just swept the map.

[@lisakassandra4222]

This was so awesome! Such an ingenious scenario! I love it!

[@MrLargeForce]

is anyone surprised england won the a game where everyones capital was on the coast??

[@ngossett75]

Ships of the line come out and five turns later they own half the capitals

[@falliathorne8123]

I guess they weren't interested in a trade agreement with England.

[@HuntMcD1]

Great concept for an AI battle!

[@JonatasAdoM]

The time I saw the ships of the line I knew England had won the game.

[@ForeverTheSickGamer]

This might be your most interesting scenario yet, good video as always

[@Kdrman345]

was watching the bottom for like 2 minutes and look up and britian had taken like 4-5 capitals.

[@LukeVilent]

1:05 Germans found Hamburg and destroy all AT-STs with sticks and stones. Satisfied Ewok sounds.

[@devinnbrown5765]

This was so epic with how there were two main battled between germany and Japan and england and sweden

[@toxicpanda36]

Yea, that dynamic of the naval focused warfare versus the land unit focused warfare with a more diverse set made this so interesting

[@dikkedamp3493]

damn if only the AI was smart Japan would have denied open borders with everyone and have all the lands in the South to themselves.

[@toxicpanda36]

Then they would've been conquered. Besides, they could use the open borders to extort money or resources, especially if there were colonies in the new world already

[@alexdeacon1884]

One of my favourites! Loved putting Giant Death Robots certainly made it interesting!

[@chanm01]

Shame to see that Japan's control of the tiles leading to the expansion in the lower half of the screen didn't seem to do much. It was a clever tactic. Would be interesting to see what would have happened on a similar map where the water was replaced by desert, for example, cutting off England's naval advantage.

[@unfetteredparacosmian]

If they'd won the battle of Aarhus sooner they might have lasted longer

[@brendonian4097]

Figures England would win. Never land was an English story in the first place. This was a plot

[@crazynotstupid1]

Wow, three nations made it down there, this will be interesting. *Finally looks up at about the 3:30 mark. *God save the queen intensifies*

[@fine1298]

Lol change blindness

[@railguy2518]

Japan was really strong there for a while but I think what did them in was their failure to conquer all of neverland. As soon as England finished off Sweden with Japan still dealing with Germany and Denmark it was over.

[@TheWalpurgisnacht]

The German also should have taken the Denmark city first to win the war against Japan. Although Denmark became a some kind of buffer state after Japan took Munich, the distance between their two cities make them lose momentum against Japan

[@kakerake6018]

True if Japan had focused on taking Neverland the English would've had a very hard time dealing with them

[@TheWalpurgisnacht]

Hydrogen Peroxide indeed, Japan already had the advantage of two connected cities in Neverland, but the German's defence is too strong I think. If Japan commited more to the conquest of Neverland and able to conquer Munich much more early, they could have much more easier time controlling Neverland and perhaps stopping the British onslaught.

[@kakerake6018]

Studio Walker I wonder how this would play out with human players

[@TheWalpurgisnacht]

Hydrogen Peroxide a brutal gameplay, most likely. Although we can't rule out the same scenario as shown above will not happen.

[@tommyvercetti9434]

Spain: Ah! A sea conquer scenario! We undoubtly will do nice here! Carthago: *NO*

[@OverClover]

Would you be interested in a trade agreement with England?

[@kkp01140]

“The Influence of Naval Power Upon History” - Sid Meier, 2018

[@billwithers7457]

The moment I saw the Ships of the Line, I knew England was about to steamroll through the west.

[@lordie5892]

Barbarians walking around with Giant Death Robots in the Ancient Era bloody hell.

[@Pseudiom]

"And we're off to Never Never-land" (Settler captured by Barbarian)

[@sethyboy0]

Status of the waves: Fucking ruled.

[@hawkscaper7773]

6:22 lol

[@bachpham6862]

They all refused her trade agreement, so she decide to conquer all and trade with herself.

[@Bertie_Ahern]

Very clever set-up! Well done. I can see how this idea could change the dynamic and open up for civs making interesting growth spurts once the land is finally cleared, making the latter half of the game less predictable and more interesting.

[@HenriRegnaultUserpage]

I was like" wow london and stockolm are fucked they got the worst position instead of berlin and beijing who have only one opponent at their border" well i was absolutely wrong.

[@tigermunky]

The thing that's always annoyed me about Civ games is the AI. You'd expect harder difficulties to increase the skill and intelligence of the AI. But all it increases is the cheaty bonuses they get and the penalties you get. The AI remains as stupid on Deity as it is on Settler.

[@nobodyishereandnothingwill]

A Civ game is a state space with an incredibly high branching-factor. Designing good AI using classical methods is difficult for a grand strategy game like that, especially if you want decisions to be made relatively quickly. I suspect they could make some better heuristics for the AI, but that's about it.

[@javierpowell4705]

I loved how the Old World and New World developed their own Personality, the New- much more spread out and wars were slower, while in the north you had the Opposite.

[@internetfriend6701]

If only the Neverlanders had united. They had access to enough resources that they could have overtook the outsiders' technology easily. Sadly they squandered their time and resources fighting amongst themselves.

[@avgVar]

Did you just describe humanity

[@michaelleue7594]

Seems like the biggest advantage in this wasn't land or cities, but managing to limit the size of your front. Both England and Sweden were positioned in a way that made it easy for them to defend their holdings, and it made an enormous difference for them. Ultimately, nothing else mattered.

[@9IPbINCB3T]

Barbarains when enter the city dont capture it, insteast the just die. This ruins the concept unfortunately

[@Cthight]

This happens when you dont be interessted in a tradeaggrement with england.

[@loganmcgee18]

You choose such great music, I especially enjoy how it allows sped up of the video and retains coherence

[@redoxam]

the coolest thing was when the old colonial powers got stuck in their own colonies.

[@ruserification742]

Very cool idea, this one. Barbarian giant death robots, now i've seen it all.

[@milton1969able]

When I first saw this I was under the impression that the Giant death robots would kick complete arse but however...it appears that early medieval weapons can take them down hmmm

[@CalebShimomura]

lol if you think about it it's essentially a barbarian with a giant mech. He might be able to operate it, but the smallest amounts of damage will compound since he'll never repair it.

[@Beastinvader]

Very interesting concept for the game. Having a bunch of barbarians defend the riches was a nice touch.

[@lekaiev]

5:50 *God saves the Queen intensifies*

[@JonatasAdoM]

This is one of your best maps/scenarios so far.

[@Doubloons]

I'd like to see an AI battle on a map like this one, but with civs on either side, and a row of mountains through the middle of the ocean, but with the gap smaller, and witha place to settle a city to control the passage. I would love to see how that plays out

[@roullemaskin]

i love watching your vids, so relaxing.

[@douglasquaid7550]

Very exciting, more like these please.

[@jacksonburns2662]

Soooo the strategy was just to not go to neverland? Nice

[@mixi9992]

The polinesians had a massive advantage at the beggining because they could embark right away and send settlers.

[@Zesprit15]

Well, I see those mechs did almost nothing once a city or two was established.

[@michealcrossan9302]

England won that in the end so fast I didn't even see it happen. Thought he called it a draw for a few seconds

[@mokkingbird]

If you watch closely, it was because England built up a huge air force/missile arsenal before anyone else had so much as an AA Gun. Things ended in the blink of an eye after that.

[@dancrowdus]

The tech lead was overwhelming

[@waffles6280]

Japan lost their chance to win by failing to take Aarhus and Hamburg. If they managed it they would have more production, wealth, and resource than the English, but they lost to the Danish and lost their chance to win.

[@toxicpanda36]

Same with Germany with their two cities and Denmark separating them like a sore thumb, preventing Germany from gaining the advantage over japan and racing England for production/technology

[@waffles6280]

toxicpanda36 I didn't really think of that but yeah, Denmark died but decided that game

[@WumboCorp]

I think if Japan could have taken the rest of the south they would have stood a chance.

[@wongnigel1158]

Nah England's population was high from the start

[@Gamerblam]

England and Sweden: WAR!! Germany and Japan: Uhhh ok Denmark: Don’t mind me, just hanging out

[@ScruffysServo]

Are we not going to talk about barbarians having giant death robots?

[@natin3125]

Nahh

[@hatsue2112]

The description

[@Greggery]

Watching the gameplay, I legit thought Germany was going to win. If he was smart about capturing barbarian forts, he might have built an army in the southern region before anyone could settle since the barbarians had such a strong presence on the coastline. The moment he settled on the coast tho, he opened up the south for other nations to settle, and that was his downfall.

[@MrCh0o]

But the only thing that removed those giant death robots in his way was his city. I'm not really sure he'd be able to deal with them otherwise anytime soon

[@Jack-me3oz]

Video from 2 years ago appearing in my recommended in 2020. Nice

[@stefanwalicord2512]

Needs more death robots lol. Serisouly though it was interesting how England invested in conquering the homeland, and then only struck Neverland later.

[@m.z.671]

England had no other choice - it had to fight, or meke deals with at least two other nations. Same with Sweden. I think, that number of cities decided the game - England had more cities than others somewhere from the middle of the video.

[@Cristatachad]

Japan takes a barbarian settler, but never uses it, even though it seemed to have area to settle?

[@xXdnerstxleXx]

damn if germany would’ve captured a robot

[@GruzdovOfficial]

what robot

[@Scottx125Productions]

Would you like a trade agreement? No?! *Instantly declares war*

[@VindicatorAalun]

Oh my! despite being so far back in tech, Sweden put up a good fight against England!

[@toxicpanda36]

Yup. Sweden made Britain pay for every inch of land

[@wellshit2554]

England could've wiped out Sweden much earlier but they held most of their navy back for some reason and prolonged it

[@RoseAbrams]

As a Swede, this was a rollercoaster of emotions

[@JA-xq6ti]

Hahah samma hoppades in i det sista på Gustav Adolf!

[@encycl07pedia-]

I was mad when they took Copenhagen. Such bullies. I was glad when England took them out just for that... although England could have taken them out a lot earlier. They had submarines against wooden ships and didn't take out Sweden until later.

[@tlsgrz6194]

And that is Ship of the Line for you ^^

[@OnionCultist]

Those ships of the line though. THOSE SHIPS OF THE LINE THOUGH. holy shit this is why I like England

[@JirkaGasik]

oh yeah, that was satisfying to watch. Pity they aren't in Civ6

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@JirkaGasik IMO, Civ 5 > Civ 6

[@hdckighfkvhvgmk]

6:22 GOD FUCKING DAMMIT XDXDXD

[@shouzhengtang2692]

Giant death robots dont work, the moment they attack a city, they die because they cant capture it and since the city is how hp their ai will keep attacking it

[@AweEmperorofChickenKilling]

wait really? that kind of sucks

[@alaa0khallouf]

i cant understand how the death robots were killed

[@robertbrown9309]

Watching the foxes animation on time lapse is mega trippy

[@williamnoxon825]

Imagine if Carthage was next to the mountains and crossed over

[@lheng2474]

Yeah the mountain range was only 3 tiles thick (4 would have been impossible for 2-move units). I'm thinking he intended it

[@Kobaneko2005]

Japan was holding out for a good bit there...

[@tugsan5190]

Yeah they were going to win but the ship of the line is too damn op

[@thehoff3189]

The sun doesn't set upon the English empire.

[@Sofspot1]

And the blood never dries

[@gnarlyweinstein8155]

The Empire is still strong, I see.

[@justrecentlyi5444]

Wow. I was cheering for England, but when I saw their borders get closed off so early I thought that was it, and then Japan managed to cordon off the whole straight, which made me think it was a slam dunk for them. I wonder how this map would play out with humans playing.

[@StopFear]

It feels kind of wrong that the early game Barbarians do not change enough except getting more advanced tech and only attacking. I don't mean they should be a civ but they should at least multiply and spread based on how many and how long they're left alone.

[@khazinthedark6180]

*sips tea *

[@MrZZ-py4pq]

This is a super cool idea do more like it.

[@steven1716]

Having not started the video, predicting England is going to win because ships of the line.

[@Scottx125Productions]

Problem is if England doesn't get to SOTL with enough production capacity to make them matter. They are pretty much dead.

[@Gelondil]

I would love to see this map done again to see what happens if the south is properly colonized/conquered by a single civ. In this game, "Neverland" was inconsequential. Japan only got access to those oil reserves a few turns before the game ended.

[@snowisthebestweather]

Or maybe just start in a much later age.

[@JarthenGreenmeadow]

Istanbul and Constantinople eh?

[@KaungThetHan]

Man. I was rooting for Japan.

[@user-jl5rt9nv8u]

Same map again plz

[@Daxrash]

At the shortest area the "gate" is just 2 hexagons wide. Couldn't a single civ just rush there with 2 ships and seal the area? the only way to cross would be to declare war. Then, the civ who sealed the gate could pump settlers through it, completely taking over the neverland, and by then it will be too late for anyone else to stop them.

[@colecovington7318]

Daxrash one word two letters:ai

[@Kozia123]

OI MATE! TIME FOR TEA!

[@wpw8570]

AI game with a big ocean? Sure hope you like Britain v. Japan!

[@Liimeyyy]

@Soma Néo Saki What they gonna do row at them? lmao

[@pikapika9405]

Hey pls dont forget about us, this job is just amazing. Keep aploading more videos pls

[@googane7755]

This just shows how broken ship of the lines are

[@CaesarsLegion1]

Historically accurate

[@MsJaro89]

Japan would probably win if the Germans did not block the sea at the last moment

[@khalilkhaya9086]

Same goes for the germans they were the first to settle but got blocked

[@Chewy427]

RULE BRITANNIA BRITANNIA RULE THE WAVES

[@Leon-wx3zs]

I am all for the barbarians, hope they can wreck as much havoc as possible

[@encycl07pedia-]

wreak*

[@johnroscoe2406]

@@encycl07pedia- both have been used and both have been considered correct use

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@johnroscoe2406 No. It's "wreak havoc." "Wreck havoc" is not correct. Just because a bunch of people use "literally" to mean its antonym "figuratively" doesn't make it right.

[@johnroscoe2406]

@@encycl07pedia- Regardless, both have been used and both have been considered correct. It's not a blatant error like literal and figurative with Gen Z kids. Spare me your attitude. I am much, much more educated in this language than you are. And I am much older and more worldly than you. You're just a self absorbed ass on social media giving himself cringey names like a 20something kid would do.

[@encycl07pedia-]

​@@johnroscoe2406 They're not. They're really not. "cringey names like a 20something kid would do." You can't say you're educated at all in English when you don't know that 20-something requires a hyphen. If you're older than me, you sure as heck don't act like it. And I'm not a 20-something, either. If you're trying to look like a fool, you're doing a fine job. cringeworthy*

[@fabergefabulous5010]

I was really cheering for Japan, they could really won in this game.

[@DoccyStars]

Shit pop

[@mwplaylist2890]

I know this video is old, but perhaps try this setup again using the Barbarians Evolved mod? With the GDRs not being able to take cities, they dissappeared after sacking the colonial cities. But with Barbs Evolved they could take the cities instead, causing them to be a real threat for longer in the Neverlands.

[@dsch772]

I cried when the robots died :(

[@PoliticRevolutionnaire]

Could you consider a setup with the barbarian white walkers and all those other mods which make barbarians incredibly OP?

[@hollowremmu164]

If tokyo had just took arhaus and hamburg it woulda stood a chance. Stupid ai

[@caior5377]

Congratulations for the criativity!

[@randompieguy3449]

Polynesia completely wasted their ability to have settlers in the water from the start. If only they had managed to capitalize on it then they would have won.

[@kaikart123]

They tried but got rekt by barbarians

[@kartoffsun]

So basically they succeeded in settling because the AI loves suiciding in the cities.

[@12staunton1]

Well its not too much of suicide. When barbarians capture a city they ransom it meaning Germany would of lost tons of money by being the first to settle.