Civ 6 | Random Civ, Random Map, A Deity ++ Masterclass (#1 Deity ++ Australia Civilization VI)

In this game of Civ 6, we’re taking on a random civ and shuffle map in an attempt to create a Deity ++ masterclass Civilization VI game.
I’ll be taking my time to go through all the strategy and thought process I have when taking on a random game on the hardest mode (plus 2!) I regularly play on, to show you how to improvise, to show you some strategies, and to talk through the chaos of my brain when playing civ.
Welcome to Deity ++ - a mode 2 harder than deity. If you can play this mode, you’ll be fine on Deity!
Find the full playlist here: • Random Civ, Random Map...
All maps, mods and tech support on getting these games to work are available on my discord, so swing by! If you want to help plan this series, consider becoming a channel supporter using the links below.
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00:00 - Intro And Game Explain
04:40 - Game Begins
12:00 - Turn 1 Analysis
19:28 - Three Attack Warrior Strat On Barb Camps
25:47 - Pros And Cons Of Pre-Placing Districts To Lock In Cost
32:36 - Intentional Classical Dark Age Strat
37:44 - Selling A City - An Insanely Good Strat You've Never Tried
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[@MH-hu5pi]

"I'm also moving my slingers... so that barbarians won't spawn" Excellent! First time I see you do it and it's also very important trick that civ players must learn. ... And then you completely bungled it up and barbarians spawned in the north east corner... great...

[@UrsaRyan]

Practice what I preach. Not what I do

[@58209]

viewer accessibility suggestion: for future uploads, please consider adding a link to the series playlist in the video description. i've been going through some of your older videos or starting a new series based on algorithm recommendations, and it's surprisingly difficult to hunt down the playlist so i can reliably auto-play to the next video. (and it's basically impossible to search for the right playlist on the mobile app.) i know it's a little extra work, but for me at least, ease of access to the playlist makes a huge difference in how much of your videos i watch.

[@UrsaRyan]

Yeah that's a great shout - never thought of that. Thank you!

[@58209]

@@UrsaRyan thank you for considering it! i'm disabled, so i can't always do the fine movement necessary to operate a computer, and loading up a long playlist of a strategy game is my favorite way to pass the time when i'm too tired to move. ;)

[@SourceOfBeing]

£123 - Lesson 1 of the Civ 6 Masterclass - University of Sankore is the best World Wonder.

[@58209]

i can't afford to go to the university of sankore, so i'm getting my trade certification at sankore community college.

[@UrsaRyan]

I studied at the Open Universankority

[@iwatchwithnoads7480]

Insert Mansa Musa laughter

[@widgetb]

... this is wild. It's never occurred to me to sell a city and then just loyalty it back. So many novel concepts in your videos!

[@shinydavidhowell]

I loved that principle, and the way it interacted with the pasture culture bomb in this instance was particularly amazing.

[@widgetb]

@@shinydavidhowell I forgot about the culture bomb! It was a brilliant play.

[@UrsaRyan]

Glad you all enjoyed! XD

[@mirandabee2323]

It's extra fun to do while being Eleanor. :3

[@t_xxic8814]

*takes the algorithm out on a fancy dinner to lobby for Ursa*

[@JohnnoBogan]

Mmmm, tasty.

[@UrsaRyan]

The algorithm does feel like the sort of thing that would be lobbiable IRL

[@jacobdhall]

My favorite kind of ursa video: another one

[@UrsaRyan]

My favourite kind of comment XD

[@SourceOfBeing]

With so much desert, people should keep in mind the 4 Desert Wonders: Best = University of Sankore Joint 2nd Best = Pyramids/Jebel Barkal 4th Best = Petra

[@UrsaRyan]

I have this on canvas in my office

[@gumbycat5226]

One of the points nobody talks about is how much easier it is to play with a small or huge number of other civs compared to 10-12. For instance: 4 civs = 3 religions; 6 civs = 4 religions; 8 civs = 5 religions, 10 civs = 6 religions... This is a mathematical progression of ratios that means a greater percent of civs miss out. Similarly all victory conditions are easier - for example, if you rush your religion with only 4 civs and then build just one missionary, chances are you will be able to snuff out one religion as soon as it is founded, so you only have to conquer two religions. As far as I can see, a Large * 2 map with 10 civs is pretty much apex challenge because, under deity they will spread to make maximum use of space. With a huge number of civs squashed into a map, none can really establish their deity advantage and thus, with the inbuilt terribleness of AI combat skills, the first Civ you conquer will make you unstoppable.

[@UrsaRyan]

All these things are very true - saying that, I actually think Huge maps are easier. You get more space to settle and more (landmass / civs), more people to trade with for gold (one of the main ways the AI feeds you power), more luxuries to buy for more yields, and most importantly snowballing on large maps is insane as a strat. I'd say both are equal in difficulty but the skill set is very different. But as I say, your observations are very on point with how small maps work. I like to change it up for a very different feeling game! Dual maps are different again!

[@atsubbie8876]

Ahhh man, I really love this game! Love that you’re doing a normal game but also deity++! Amazing idea selling the city. Shows me how much more I have to learn. Best episode yet! I learnt a ton.

[@UrsaRyan]

Cheers, so glad it was helpful!

[@MFD8724]

Galaxy brain play with selling the city to her. With the extra gold per turn from difficulty it is taking the bonuses from the diety++ for your own!

[@UrsaRyan]

Fun huh? XD In all seriousness it works on any difficulty - it can sometimes be easier on lower ones as the AI won't have the pop to loyalty keep it

[@aidanabregov1412]

I love how the last time Ryan played Australia he started on the coast of a desert island

[@UrsaRyan]

Seems like a theme with Australia huh XD

[@paulgaofei]

Aus definitely belongs in the tier of civs that when assigned randomly, the feeling tends to be “yeah, I’ll play that”

[@UrsaRyan]

Such an underrated tier - casual satisfaction is a wonderful thing

[@shibagod1802]

I've been getting into civ these past few weeks cause I'm fairly new to it, but I've been watching alot of your videos and it's been a real joy watching them! Thanks for the videos, much love

[@neslor2694]

Welcome aboard the Jolly Ursa.

[@joeschmoe3963]

Ursa is GOATED

[@UrsaRyan]

Welcome aboard! Best of luck = )

[@PiotrDzialak]

I think the obvious settle here was the Cattle. It allows you to work 2-2-1 at the begining (and you are short on Production!), and improves the Harbour. You don't want to build Great Zimbabwe here, because it is a Coastal and Commercial Hub is a waste of district limit.

[@58209]

i love that you're using this series to explain all the mechanics and tricks that go unstated in your regular games. i've finally got a computer powerful enough to play civ 6, so i'm looking forward to being able to play soon (whenever it goes on sale next).

[@AnnaBurgess]

Get both steam and epic games. Epic has given away civ vi for free before. You will need to pay for expansion tho

[@58209]

@@AnnaBurgess thank you for the tip!

[@UrsaRyan]

First last - best of luck with your Civ 6 quest! Prepare for the one more turn issue - you can never stop pressing it

[@n8v_sonz941]

One thing that I'd like to see, if you conquer a city, then the unique districts and improvements should stay to effect culture

[@UrsaRyan]

I think mods do this, but yes totally agree! Seeing them disappear always feels weird

[@n8v_sonz941]

@@UrsaRyan and if something like that was in the base game, then the Theater square district should be plus 3 for building it next to another Civs unique

[@battsonbikes1919]

Love this , bravo. More please.

[@UrsaRyan]

Oh go on then

[@linsu9640]

Absolutely loved this, the thought behind the alpine upgrade was great (almost a bit annoyed I that I havn't taken that into consideration by my own lol)

[@linsu9640]

Oh, and selling the city to, such a sweet move

[@UrsaRyan]

Glad you're enjoying Linsu! = )

[@deitus1375]

It’s quite nice having a break from the big challenge even if it’s still random shenanigans!

[@UrsaRyan]

It sure is! I like to keep it varied

[@craig3895]

Just tuning in. You better dam go reeds and marshes this time.

[@UrsaRyan]

You're in for a treat

[@lawlussmusic]

You are now watching a master at work

[@UrsaRyan]

Ah man, that's ace - who is it? XD

[@Bezlonirslair]

This looks like a pretty tough start with all that desert and low production. I'm excited to see how you pull this off.

[@UrsaRyan]

Fingers crossed you enjoy!

[@Lyarrah]

I'm already not someone who tends to click away at the end of vids just because it's usually more effort to click skip when an outro starts than it is to just wait the 45 seconds or whatever but your channel supporters have given you a great gift in their crazy names that make me excited to hear the list XD anyway, that aside, I really like this concept and as someone who's been doing fine on Immortal but struggling to do deity, I'll be taking notes for sure. like I didn't know that the horses being nearby was what gave the barbs their horsies! nor had I thought about just selling cities I might be losing anyway. I noticed the barbs stopped spawning reinforcements before you actually took out the city, is there a limited amount they do or is it renewed by scouts making it back to them or something? also while I know you like to do the "check the discord for the mods", for this series it might have been worth mentioning your UI mods since some players might not know them. for example, early into watching Civ content, I know I got confused about where the quick deals was because I didn't even realize there were mods for the game. anyway, thanks again for this, it's gonna be grand!

[@UrsaRyan]

Cheers Lyarrah! Glad you're enjoying the series = ) Haha - I'll do a separate video on UI mods soon

[@l.p.7585]

if you look closely, you can see that canberra has cows, circular districting, and wetlands everywhere. this is of course entirely accurate

[@UrsaRyan]

In all seriousness Australian cattle ranches are a thing to behold

[@l.p.7585]

@@UrsaRyan thanks for blowing smoke for us, loving how you pronounce all the names. A lot of places here are named in the local country indigenous language, so no hurt feelings of you make a mess of it

[@joelpierce1453]

Settling on the Cattle would have been better imo, despite the culture bomb potential. You could still build Great Zimbabwe because the cattle would be preserved underneath the city and you would have had an extra production potential and a permanent boost to growth because of the 3-1 city base.

[@UrsaRyan]

That's a very fair point - I would have had far less land to work though. Auckland would have saved me but a huge capital and not much land to district or wonder can often be an issue. I'd always rather have an inland capital as my high pop city

[@joelpierce1453]

@@UrsaRyan well most of the marsh tiles would still be in the second ring and beyond that is just desert anyway, so I think the difference in growth potential would be pretty small.

[@gamergary2148]

I like this a lot.

[@UrsaRyan]

Cheers = )

[@archangeljmj6008]

I'm late again but thank you for master class vids, really helps alot ❤ also what is the mod that shows the district pluses when you put down pins?

[@UrsaRyan]

I don't remember on the mod name but pop along to discord - i use about 40 UI mods and they're all on there!

[@archangeljmj6008]

@@UrsaRyan yeah I got to do that , never did put up pics of my fucked up elanor game >

[@floern]

i love it!

[@UrsaRyan]

Cheers = )

[@orrrk1]

something i never understood, and it doesnt say in the wikipage ingame either, what is the purpose of a culture bomb and what does it do?

[@UrsaRyan]

Once you finish a district with a culture bomb - all surrounding tiles are moved to your city, as long as they are within 3 of your city (i.e. workable). Esentially you grab all the tiles around districts. Most culture bombs can steal land (at the cost of a diplo penalty with the AI if you steal from them) but some (like Gaul's mine bomb and preserve bombs) only claim neutral land

[@lucas4786]

when i choose my tech i always tend to try and work on the techs that i have eureka and inspiration for cause it felt to me like i’m wasting time if i have to full grind a tech down, is that a bad thing?

[@UrsaRyan]

No maximising eurekas and inspirations is a massive part of the game! A very good thing to practice

[@mtoy42twin]

Ryan, have you tried playing an Arabia domination game using the god of healing pantheon? Since your knights heal every turn, when you capture a city with a holy site they full heal in 2 turns.

[@UrsaRyan]

That sounds like a very powerful strat! Have you tried using Laying On Of Hands with Moksha as a governor? Insta heal, very fun!

[@chrizzie1]

I once sold a city to the AI for gold and eventually won it back through loyalty pressure. There was a mountain range between our civilisations, so I hadn't met them until founding the city and only then did I find out just how horrendous the loyalty pressure from population was (two or three 7-10 pop cities, yikes!). I sold the city the turn before it rebelled, and subsequently settled around it and got to work boosting my population. It also meant that the AI in question really, really liked me, so that was a nice bonus.

[@UrsaRyan]

It's actually a strat I'm using more and more recently - great shout, very clever! This works extra well with Eleanor XD

[@goldengamers1592]

The people’s champion has returned

[@UrsaRyan]

Oh great! Who was that again? XD

[@mikavituhandle]

Im not very good at civ myself, mostly just playing prince or the one right above it, but Australia is one of the few civs i can go few difficulties above normal and still be very successful at it.

[@UrsaRyan]

That's totally fine btw! If you ever want to step up check out my deity guides - alternatively, try naval / island maps. Having a bit more space and some sea between civs gives you much more chance to grow and expand!

[@0_Body]

Ryan: Could have no money and my city captured or I can have 3 money and a new city

[@UrsaRyan]

Thought it was a fun strat people might not have seen before = )

[@looseproduce]

galactic brain ursa

[@UrsaRyan]

Wearing hats is tricky

[@NineNotNumber]

Ursa, you should do a viewer game file, where you try to win their impossible to win save file

[@UrsaRyan]

If people left me files on discord I would take a look!

[@NineNotNumber]

@@UrsaRyan You can do a community post to let people know

[@NineNotNumber]

@@UrsaRyan it would be fun to see you struggle lol

[@drdumpenstein4868]

Expectation "Deity ++ is going to give the AI insane pace. Probably turn 25 Stonehenge, every other civ will get a religion before the classical era or when they take their inevitable classical era golden age, maybe science is the way." Reality "it's turn 66, I've gotten the first religion, and there are precisely 0 other great prophet points being earned in the entire world."

[@07JaK92]

does Real Strategy work with Deity++?

[@JohnnoBogan]

It sure does. They are a good combo to make the AI a decent challenge.

[@UrsaRyan]

Yeah it really steps it up. Makes a sub 300 turn victory the target to aim for, much more fun!

[@07JaK92]

@@UrsaRyan cool! I was curious because you mentioned Deity++ was your only mod in this game & I thought that was a lost opportunity. but godspeed :D

[@iPokemonAi]

Hey Ursa!

[@jdavidwhitfield4827]

28 min - move the scout! 🙃

[@UrsaRyan]

I actually can't control the scout. They lost espect for me 500 years into the game and now we don't talk.

[@tippyc2]

I'm doing a random leader game at the moment. I rolled Gran Columbia. Made me realize I have no clue what I'm doing without a religion.

[@redpiller]

Build units, go kill closest neighbor. Their extra movement is crazy good

[@tippyc2]

@@redpiller Unfortunately that neighbor is Gorgo.

[@UrsaRyan]

Best of luck Tippy! Remember Gran Columbias best feature - 3 movement siege weapons mean they can all move and fire - makes for some very easy wars!

[@tippyc2]

@@UrsaRyan Thanks. Yeah I totally underestimated the extra movement, it's nice. Now I'm just hoping I can finish my dom run before I lose to science. Killing Greece took forever.

[@MSheepdog]

Nice selling off Geelong and then culture-bombing it's closest tiles. Also the G in Geelong has a J sound, it's like - Jillong.

[@gustavinus]

Etemetanki or Etemenanki? 🤨

[@iPokemonAi]

I can not find part 2!!!

[@UrsaRyan]

Playlist is in the description of this video :P

[@nanogalactic6016]

Classical you say? Why are you not on classical start then hmm?

[@UrsaRyan]

Gulp

[@vasilispapadopoulos4397]

Magnus had a pretty long vacation as it seems ..

[@UrsaRyan]

You have to appreciate the hussle - it's what I would do if I was a governor

[@sleepysofabear]

Engagement boosting comment :)

[@UrsaRyan]

Cheers! XD

[@clarkkent7049]

Petra Petra Petra

[@SourceOfBeing]

That's an odd way to spell University of Sankore.

[@JohnnoBogan]

And here was me thinking it's spelt Pyramids.

[@SweenyMarc]

What are you going to do? ~ Ursa Ryan 2022

[@UrsaRyan]

Famous last words huh

[@eduardo3652]

Daily comment.

[@thyandyr7369]

First

[@t_xxic8814]

Well done, sir!

[@marvinsean]

factual

[@marcusrichmond8206]

Titles video "Masterclass". Forgets to assign Magnus to his city before harvesting wheat smh.

[@UrsaRyan]

Is the extra resource worth the governor slot? Rushing pingala out was the way here I think!

[@Dawsonsincedawsonstaken]

Day 62 of commenting to beat the algorithm