Civ 5 AI Only Timelapse: Trench Warfare

Strongest militaristic late-game civs (with modern/atomic era unique units) from Steam Workshop will cover the entire continent with an infernal flame, and the living will envy the dead. Millions of men with their dreams and hopes were fated to be smashed by an industrial death machine that requires blood, oil and new territories. And only when cities will be in ruins, trenches will be filled with corpses and the survivors will lose all faith and hope, ages of hatred will end, and the long-awaited peace will come until new psychopaths lead new generations to the last slaughter.
In this battle tech tree ends in the Atomic era.
Civs:
Hideki Tojo - The Empire of Japan (steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...)
Joseph Stalin - The Soviet Union (steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...)
Winston Churchill - The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...)
Charles de Gaulle - The Republic of France (steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...)
Adolf Hitler - Empire of Germany (steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...)
Franklin D. Roosevelt - The United States of America (steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...)
Benito Mussolini - The Kingdom of Italy (steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...)
Zhou Enlai - Republic of China (steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...)
Other mods:
- Community Patch forums.civfanatics.com/forums...
- Eras - Atomic Age steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
- One City Civs steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Music: Rupert Gregson-Williams - Nato Final, Shiro Sagisu - Fade To Black B14

[@kamilkowalczyk7195]

In the grim darkness of 20th century there is only war. No but seriously, Jesus Christ, look at this: - Turn 457, 1915AD, 225 pops ("225 milion people") - Turn 1010, 1961 AD, 161 pops ("161 milion people") This game was SUCH SLAUGHTER for people living in this world that after FIVE HUNDRED TURNS there is 64 LESS pops than before, despite constant demographic explosion and new people being born at mass rate all this time... - Washington in 1961 AD has smaller population than Washington in 523BC, 2500 years earlier - I actually tried to count how many pops die from war in 1914-1961 period and I gave up after 300 pops. Let's assume it's 300. 300. 300 pops killed from city nuking, taking and starving. Among only 8 cities. The worst slaughterhouse I have ever seen in civ5. 300 milions people killed in 40 years; I tried to estimate how much % of all people that lived in this period died in War, but realized it's pointless because we don't know how many died from natural reasons and how many births were. So, you may choose your lore: either 60 or 300 milions people were killed.

[@mattmurray6125]

van der Heist that’s just attritional and nuclear warfare for ya

[@KrolKaz]

China slaughtered over 100 million people within a few decades simply by starvation, its possible.

[@kosiak10851]

fuck you capitalist bee

[@cooltwittertag]

That's actually not how population works in Civ, but ok...

[@barnabus7851]

van der Heist 1 pop does not equal 1 million though, the amount of people that died was less but still a lot.

[@TheDarkMarioAndSonic]

Holy shit, that was intense. Even with the americans dominating the whole south, somehow the other three managed to fight them back until it was a perfect stalemate between the four, at which point Italy’s and Germany’s combined efforts took down America, leaving themselves weakened enough to be overtaken by the french. Beautiful game.

[@MarioandPokemongamer]

One of the most exciting and gut-wrenching battles i've ever watched! The SOLE difference in this battle was the last second fail in the siege of Paris by the Germans! Crazy match!

[@MrCordycep]

Yeesh, were the French being led by Charles de Gandhi? They certainly weren't shy about using nukes everywhere.

[@thibs2837]

"François" instead of Charles would have been even better

[@N0obWithaGunUK]

What the fuck just happened... That had more tension in it than my arse tryna hold a fart in during an interview

[@theyoshi202]

Germany! What did I tell you about two front wars?

[@endrizalsvensonsonson8494]

One of the best ones yet. The winner didn't become apparent until very late, and more than once I thought a civ would have it in the bag, only for them to lose a war badly a few minutes later. Also, did I miss a moment, or did Paris manage to never fall?

[@animewarrior3]

If the French dont surrender immediately....

[@kamilkowalczyk7195]

Paris never fell (probably as the only city on the map) but it was nuked several times... As every other place.

[@brandondellafave1124]

Ironically Japan was almost the only country that wasn't nuked in this game

[@filipweber8438]

Literally thought Washington had this match in the bag till Rome sniped it’s capital

[@Beenevolence]

I always thought it was going to be france

[@NinjaBusCow]

Germany fought its freaking heart out! France also kicked some serious ass. Awesome video! Sneaky sneaky Romans.

[@Fulgrim88]

Absolutely intense. In other AI battles it usually ended up with one guy snowballing and winning, but this was so...even. Everyone almost had their capital captured at some point, some then reclaimed them

[@currently7886]

Spoiler: NUKES EVERYWHERE America had such an advantage. I never thought they were going to fall to Italy. The biggest upset was when France took Berlin, they had a few surprise captures like when they took Moscow the first time. I did not think they were going to end up with it, sure they didn't hold it long, but they still took it first. In the end, France, of all the civs yo win, it was France... I was on the edge of my seat with this one, fantastic job AIBattle

[@ommsterlitz1805]

France is literally the god of war of course they won

[@freyafanboy]

Jesus, here I thought America was going to win but then Rome comes in as the underdog and fucking breaks them and that gives France time to recover and pull off a surprise win, this was a great match.

[@Kastor774]

It was a crazy ride, the last cities to fall were Washington, Germany and Beijing, Italy. The play of the game for me was the french killsteal on moscow.

[@Adam-km2vf]

That was amazing, I thought America got it then I did a double take when the colour seemed off

[@Zesprit15]

Same. Rewound looking for the French unit.

[@Toghebon]

Ah WW2. I'll remember that beautiful pincer move from France, when they managed to circle the Italian capital, Beijing, by taking Washington and Tokyo first. Those were the good old days.

[@MsDbib]

First think to do if you rule France: Build the Maginot line of course!

[@equilintogo5378]

Was going to comment this the moment i saw France build it

[@johnnyrico7104]

This was probably the most viscous one of these games I've ever seen

[@malcaniscsm5184]

Yeah there were some sticky situations there

[@Hassan-vr3tr]

@@malcaniscsm5184 saw what you did there

[@jeffstut55]

Tokyo is owned by 6 different Civs throughout the whole thing. Also shoutout to the Romans for doing nothing the first half and still coming in 2nd.

[@orionlopez8707]

That moment when they're not interested in the trade agreement.

[@bry756]

The Roman Praetorian, The French Legionnaire and the German Sturmtruppen face each other. "Ah, it seems we're destined to do this forever, yes?" says the Roman to his Gallic foe. "Right, you know the rules, he kills me then you kill him". "And make sure he doesn't come back this time, he's nastier every time he does"

[@CatCap409]

That Rome comeback! Almost did it!

[@noegerardin4931]

So good ! So much tension ! Definitely one of your best. I am amazed how 2 cities civs were able to defend after being nuked on the capital.

[@wrobbee7478]

honestly insane comeback from france, thought they were lost after they failed to take berlin early game

[@herveglandu4847]

LOL, thx to the allies for sure.... ;)

[@6slade]

Honestly wasn’t expecting France to pull it out considering how all their tiles had been burning in fallout hell most of the time. They learned a thing or two and decided to continue nuking others themselves.

[@bineverlast]

French launched surprise attack on Germany's and Roman's capitols while the 2 forces were fighting. Strategic move.

[@josephspencer6375]

Holy shit, France and Rome's comebacks gave me whiplash

[@golsie3771]

This is the most insane battle ive seen. so much back and forward

[@cumbriannationalist5475]

Everyone keeping track of Moscow and I'm just here watching that Italian musician walk around the map.

[@MISTAKEWASMADE4live]

Best game I have ever seen.

[@4WordGaming]

I love how France built the great wall (aka maginot)

[@herveglandu4847]

Excellent :D

[@RAClaus3]

Congratulations, France now reigns over an irradiated wasteland.

[@herveglandu4847]

You right, like said in the "wargame" movie 1983: Curious game where to win is not to play..... :)

[@Novusod]

Age of radioactive half man half frogs.

[@ommsterlitz1805]

@@Novusod Bro they eat frogs legs a swampy creature that live in humid environnement is purely british lmao not French

[@nathanschmick9681]

America had it in the bag for half the game then people started taking cities and I had no idea who would win. Then France out of the fucking blue sweeps the map clean. GG

[@howareyoumoreofaclownthanme]

I honestly expected America or Rome to win considering how fucking stubborn they were. Then France took Rome and that was the beginning of the end.

[@ddmalarkey]

Moscow being taken by France caught me off guard!

[@nikolaynovichkov166]

At least it was historical! But stealing it from under the Germans' nose was a brilliant Napoleonic move.

[@ommsterlitz1805]

1812 begs to differ

[@aaaagamedev3524]

This fucking scares me. AI is relentless, it wont stop to take a break because its tired of producing the same units for hundreds of turns, doing same repetitive tasks over and over again on such scale that you would be exhausted if you attempted that. And with the advent of neural networks and their use in network centric warfare im fucking scared.

[@JonatasAdoM]

You get it.

[@_Dovar_]

EMP.

[@ottovonbismarck5426]

When the French built their Maginot line in 578 BC. I'm asking WHERE IS BELGIUM?

[@ommsterlitz1805]

Well yeah no Belgium so the Maginot line was actually entirely made and not stopped by belgians refusal

[@joakim3101]

Knewed it! Great video.

[@grrstr7473]

The entire time watching this I was so certain it would end up between America and Germany because of their early game expansions. I was even a little ticked off at how predictable the outcome was and wondered why civs like France and Italy were even included because it was so obvious they wouldn't capture anything and just sit in one city to wait for a large empire to gobble them up. I dum.

[@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642]

Good job, de Gaulle!

[@Wh1tesammy]

I am still bothered by the countries not being the right colors...

[@Chazred]

France was tired of being laughed at.

[@Glazzoff]

Never would have guessed the winner, though

[@minrominro9986]

the french snipe of moscow, lol

[@markokuchapin2130]

Germany in this timelapse: "Almost"

[@junewife]

I almost thought this was going to be Italy's game. Almost.

[@DarkHarlequin]

Jesus someone needed to outlaw nukes that game... so many reversals! Also lesson to the US: don't go to war with EVERYONE!

[@LordProteus]

Japan still using Tiremes when everyone else has guns.

[@bry756]

the honorabu wae

[@JonatasAdoM]

I had a game like that, no idea what happened but in the middle of the map the aztecs were surrounded with one city full of Jaguar warriors; that's right before Persia achieved a space victory mind you.

[@Fulgrim88]

Germany fighting and exhausting the entire world and America swooping in to profit from it. So far, so accurate. Not so much what happened after that :P

[@equilintogo5378]

US made the same mistake there. Stretched too thin and ganged

[@Livasuk]

I like how Beijing survived EXACTLY 1000 turns :D1000 years old empire has fallen, a one could say.

[@Bertie_Ahern]

Very interesting game, great back and forth and totally unpredictable

[@ommsterlitz1805]

5:30 1066 in a nutshell Frankish mad lad coming from boats making England into the First French colony

[@lakdav]

The first I see where victory is not immedietly decided once a side drops the first A-bomb. A map where not a single city survived without being nuked at least once. And to end it, France wins with their radioactive wasteland of a hinterland to call their capital.

[@Koellenburg]

8:30 funny how Washington is the Capital of Germany, and Bejing is the Capital of Rome :D

[@filipwolffs]

To some extent it feels like Washington's early lead kept most of the other nations occupied and tired them out while Paris could take its time duking it out with London and then taking over the rest of the map.

[@tinchosabala]

Hey, the French built the Great Wall! Kind of like the Maginot Line, actually....

[@jomo3564]

But in the south this time...

[@Mtech7752]

You cant beat France on Trench warfare :D

[@willoakley847]

maxime kerdraon you cant beat France on surrendering

[@Mtech7752]

@@willoakley847 France = World record of military victories. Take that.

[@goodymcgood6101]

@@Mtech7752 but most of those battles were from weak nations

[@leburrito8678]

@@goodymcgood6101 didnt know that whole of Europe were weak nations

[@cpp3221]

@@goodymcgood6101 Ah yes, Britain, Spain, Germans States, Austria, Russia... These famous weak nations.

[@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870]

I have a question: was Rome's civ Italy? And either way I didn't expect it lasting until the end and being the last civ to fall. For most of the video it had only Rome, while being surrounded by the giant nations that was America first and later Germany in the East and by England and later France in the North. At 4:21 it was just a turn away from getting conquered by England, but it survived and even conquered the American Empire. But not before Washington started switching side each turn between Italy and America.

[@thesmm2311]

Yes , Rome's civ was Italy.

[@valeskanovikov8705]

You should do an AI Only WWII mod idk if that's possible but I'd watch that over and over again

[@gabrielferrer3205]

The French won the Trench warfare.

[@thegreatmoustachio]

It would suck to live pretty much anywhere in this world, but I think Tokyo may be the worst of all. The city was under siege for about half of the game. It was the front line for multiple major wars (multiple major wars between the U.S. and Russia, the U.S. and Germany, Germany and Rome, and Rome and France). The city was also nuked multiple times, and it fell at least 9 times. Washington would also be a pretty bad city to live in, but I think Tokyo wins the award for worst city overall.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Poland's scouting so good, that I thought they were barbarians.

[@_Dovar_]

That's Hitler's Germany, from a mod.

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

Well, this particular leader did, for a time, control Polish territory.

[@PhoenixStriker1]

The French, Italians, and Germans had some 1984 bull going on for a few turns

[@anotherberg1582]

Epic battle, thanks. Would be cool to see the nukes in real time

[@mc.builder8267]

How tf did US lose, it had three cities when everyone else had one, what happened? Where did it’s armies go? Why did others have nukes? What the hell was going on?

[@mackienzykahl]

It just attacked Rome and Germany back and forth and peaced out before taking their city. Very dumb.

[@Moritz19081980]

@@mackienzykahl "Very dumb"..quite realistic though..

[@encycl07pedia-]

​@@Moritz19081980 IDK. Is starting two massive wars you couldn't possibly win not st.p.der than anything the US has done?

[@CatCap409]

Best game of September. So intense

[@Reggro1264]

In the end le Baguette was the mastermind behind all of this? So it's like that, huh? Might as well start learning french.

[@nubcake67]

Man, I haven't listened to the Battlefield Modern Combat soundtrack in a long time. What a classic.

[@iMorands]

Dope match!

[@holygramatha4978]

Daaaaang. The entire game France sucked and I thought it was between America (towards the end they were screwed), Rome or Germany... China has a small chance at the start but France? They came outta NOwhere!!!

[@literallyamelon9776]

Lethal Edits not really, they had the tech advantage all game long

[@samthegreatestpickle1632]

nobody expects the french Inquisition

[@Rafagenus]

It's not correct. France took Moscow in front of germans for a minute, gyuu

[@tommyvercetti9434]

6:52 America: oof

[@enochstrickland3267]

If I lived in this world, live in the middle were no countries claim

[@wojtor13]

All armies would still steal your food and stuff like that. I'd rather live in the mountains beyond the lake

[@Zheuzhik_Jezelle]

How do you get this new colors of civilizations?

[@magnificentgoldie2893]

anyone know name of map?please share,would like to play on it

[@brandonpham9077]

When you don’t even know what’s happening

[@joh9493]

Holy shit I thought America is going to win, but France perveiled!!!!

[@nobodybroda3826]

Beijing, the graveyard of empires for some reason. Must be one of them Curses!

[@pardn]

So how many times did Washington change hands? I lost count.

[@FluffeeSMASH]

13 times by my count.

[@JSs586]

What is the image at the very end?

[@herveglandu4847]

"take my Freedom, my Equality and my Fraternity in the face" says the french (and my baguette too at least...). First time i see French victorious in timelapse. ;)

[@PoliticRevolutionnaire]

Just wondering what is the background music? Sounds really good.

[@Oiltuber]

Try reading the description.

[@assassincraft2]

And the yellow jacket wins

[@miroheiskanen4811]

mfw France didn’t surrender

[@ommsterlitz1805]

Because they never surrender they are French and not coward brits lmao

[@eliaslundback6354]

For people who dont know, these are mainly modded civs by JFD except from china

[@lepetitsuissepseudo4772]

Hands down the closest battle of this channel. And as always, Japan doesn't last long even if this nation has the best passive (for war) in the game and France wins (the devs probably made them win a WW because they always lost...)

[@kamilkowalczyk7195]

Well France actually performed good during WW1, being capable of stopping German invasion (Germany had much bigger population and thus economy and army back then) and having many heroic sacrifices on the way. Its heroism in WW1 bled nation so badly it was unwilling to go into WW2, and lost legitimate invasion, only to come back with allies anyway (who survived because they were safe behind seas).

[@lautregarsfaitdesvideos3236]

Dixit "lepetitsuisse"

[@pmbartoli919]

Some should go back to their history books...

[@swahiliranger1022]

America- 3 cities Still loses Classic America

[@LiquidDIO]

Yeah, that AI was TRASH. Rome should have been wiped out multiple times.

[@Greggery]

Why does Berlin have the swastika? what mod is this lol

[@phorskinwindfury]

They're all WW2 era recreations of the Civs. All on workshop. I've used them and they're great!

[@Stefan-vz4pm]

The JFD hitler mod is my favourite faction

[@matteobordais9215]

Its a "trench map"... What happen if you put french soldiers in trenches ? They won wars

[@MoreImbaThanYou]

If being historically accurate, you'd have to say that french people manage to drag on the war long enough until help arrives when you put them in trenches :D

[@AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange]

MoreImbaThanYou Technically speaking, they were the most powerful defensive nation in trench warfare. No one could outclass the turtling tanks.

[@ommsterlitz1805]

@@MoreImbaThanYou what help ? France won ww1 with the thousands tanks they built and surely not americans or the 50 sluggish Mark 1 british tanks that run half of the time

[@Luckydobb]

baguet removes you

[@shadowmarshal5417]

Music name used in the vid?

[@kononets7381]

The video description says: "Music: Rupert Gregson-Williams - Nato Final, Shiro Sagisu - Fade To Black B14"

[@user-ft3jq5vi2l]

I think they could of saved themselves a lot of hazle if they had used their navies more

[@davidradysyuk638]

What was USA doing the whole time? They could have won so easy

[@Robotron2084psn]

Stretched thin.

[@whysojeether]

Glory to Big Blue Blob!

[@vitoscaletta121111]

Make an AI only battle starting straight in moder era pls

[@mr.indieperson1413]

Do labyrinth war with mountains as walls, corridors have 1 tyle width

[@literallyamelon9776]

I guess this shows the advantages of playing y’all and not wide

[@alexandermishev6897]

WTF??? That was totally... LOL!!! :)))

[@superresistant8041]

dat come back

[@fredericroman5104]

+ 1 abonnées de la France !

[@syx3s]

that didn't play out at all as I was expecting.... those fucking paratroopers at the end.... it was like fallout if the nations hadn't floundered tbh.

[@alcor3372]

What’s up with the colors?

[@azunkor422]

These are civilizations from the Workshop

[@mousecop3696]

Civ V AI placing down Citadels?

[@diewahrheit6626]

Germany +25% bonus to units... ki programmed so that it does not win?