Civilization 5: Deity Let's Play as Siam - Part 1

[@Normonaut]

- Wants to focus on culture. - Declares war on Atilla on turn 22. gotta love Marbozir

[@sqliqbild]

I can hear Attila's thoughts when he meets you : "Oh Gods, Trollface again ? He's going to be a pasive-aggressive scumbag AGAIN this entire game ! Screw this, I'll send my ravenous bloodthirsty horde on the opposite direction to get as far away from him as possible. - Hi friend, I'm Amehd Al-Mansour, we come in pea.. - CHARGE !"

[@ramkhamhaeng3133]

It is highly satisfying to see you spread my humble, pleasant ways. Let us build a civilization that will stand the test of time!

[@thurmanmerman1316]

I just got back from a 3 day backpacking trip, and last night I couldn't sleep at all. I remember thinking at some point in the darkness, "I hope there's new Marbozir Civ 5 when I get back." I am not disappointed. Woot, more Marbles Here!

[@NapalmKid]

salt city is going to be huge once you grab marble. That little spot your scout dropped into at 18:25 into was perfect for artillery.

[@romanklingenberg4507]

I never thought I'd see the day when you play as Rhamkhang-Trollface. Thumbs up!

[@LinusPlays]

I rarely watch other KZbinrs' Civ videos, but yours are just so helpful I can't ignore them :)

[@rolandgroenintwoud7482]

omfg its linus

[@wholcikedme]

hi linus

[@LinusPlays]

Wholickedme hey

[@TCCflow]

Marb. No one takes your videos for granted. I love them.

[@Hairyskinback]

As always Marb your easy way to explain as you play makes all your let's play a pleasure to watch. LA

[@nfzeta128]

So far so good, looks like it could definitely be a good series

[@TheChazza18]

One of the better starts I've seen in your games for a while looks very promising!

[@Smoke96x]

Excited for this series Marbozir, good luck.

[@linminhtoo]

8 years already but really enjoy your playthroughs

[@Marbozir]

[@luminator911]

thanks

[@paracasmo]

I recommend settling a fourth city as close as possible to Attila's Court and then denouncing him. Get a bit of role-playing started

[@jdstibbs4242]

Marbozir is such a cool guy. A lot of videos are tutorials for how to get the deity victory achievement and this guy just hops in and usually does quite well.

[@SpankyNek]

Always love your LPs.

[@dusanmoraca7703]

love your LP videos! Keep the great work my friend

[@savednorwegian]

took Marbozir 6min to start trolling haha xD

[@chrisbrooks9938]

Was thinking the same thing

[@Aqualightnin]

Marbozir quite a while ago i made some comments about how i wanted to see you steal opponent's workers early on, and you replied saying you didnt do it hardly at all before and would consider it more often. lately you've done it in a large number of your games, and i just wanted to say thanks! im glad to see it! :)

[@TTAgostinos]

just wanted to drop a thank you for your great series, marbozir! The civ series (all of them) with quill are fantastic as is your long war lp

[@BallisticMunky]

Since playing as trollface, it would be cool if you channeled that inner-troll and make it your mission to troll the AI as much as possible this series, lol.

[@darthbranski]

I listen to the ramkamtrollface part like 30 times.

[@adrianklasson8915]

You are clearly the most entertaining civ 5 player on KZbin:) Keep it like that and don't stop doing what you do, you're awesome!

[@jaeplee]

As always, I appreciate your effort uploading awesome videos. Hope to see epic battles against Attila.

[@mattj1737]

Looking forward to watching the rest of this series! Keep up the great work Marbozir!

[@forgottensaves]

So excited for this series! It'll be interesting to see you deal with Atilla, especially since the potential fourth city location you pointed out would be ripe for him to attack. In any case, I'll be avidly following :)

[@inatsuki]

I learned alot about playing Civ5 on higher difficulties from watching your let's play series. Very enjoyable commentary. Keep it up!

[@timerickson87]

I began playing civilization II as a kid and you helped me rediscover how awesome this game is. Hopefully soon I'll be good enough to take on diety. I'm getting close.

[@edpistemic]

Hi Marbozir, I found this LP via your XCOM stuff. I really enjoy your commentary and your choice of games. I haven't played Civilisation since about 1993 when I had the first game. I would love to hear a tiny bit more explanation of why you are making the decisions you are making as the details of Civ 5 is completely unknown to me. Keep up the great work with all your LP and be well!

[@TheNordicfrost]

Really like your civ5 content Marb. Keep em coming!

[@smocozaur]

Loving all your LPs, Marbs. Keep it up! Also, can't wait for you to do Beyond Earth. Should be epic :D

[@JonnyTuba]

Sweet! Been lookin forward for this LP! Keep em comming!

[@ShadowPhoenix1408]

Loving all the content man. Really appreciate your work, keep it up :)

[@sandrahall9030]

On with the trolling, Marbozir. Love to see your Let's Plays.

[@dasnickx]

Hey Marbozir, really enjoy watching you play Civilization. I think the Deity Twins series you did with Quill18 was also great because I learned tons of stuff by listening to your discussion. Keep up the good work!

[@Jodlauspc]

Gonna be a busy week with catching up XCOM series and this, but definately worth it!

[@ToastyMcGrath]

Heh, when you said "we need to research Drama and Poetry," I misheard it as "we need to research German poetry." It struck me as an oddly specific tech...

[@MovingTargetOne]

Toasty McGrath Never underestimate the element of surprise. A German Poetry ambush is a lethal tactic to demoralise and scatter your enemies.

[@billpecoraro8421]

awesome series Marbozir! Nice city locations... excited to see if you can keep the southern one out of Attila's hands/hooves

[@qdunker]

Watching your game starts is fascinating.

[@robotetanus]

Very nice start. You should consider yourself lucky that Atilla picked Morocco over you as his first target. I'm willing to bet that Morocco traded embassies with him, which is basically painting a target on your own forehead when it comes to the Huns. Well played as always!

[@snwboardn21]

Really enjoy your vids. I like the accent too, your expressions in your voice make me chuckle time to time. "well this is annoying" lol love it man keep up the great work and here's liking forward to a proper civ 6!

[@niklasthorn]

Hi Marbozir. This looks like a promising new LP. I really like the map! I never though I would see you play as Ramkhangtrollface but it will be fun to watch you crush Attila with your war elephants :-)

[@paulelderson934]

Here, have my support. I've been subscribed for almost 3 years now and after all those Civilization V games, I'm still not done watching them. You actually make them very enjoyable with your commentary and Marbozirisms ("That would be a poor life choice" and "Oh, dammit, that's not what I wanted to do.") Not to mention the strategic mind behind all of this. I have yet to see you fail because of your own actions and decisions. You play an A-game every game. Don't stop the things you love because of some (very) inconsiderate comments. (Yes, the XCOM Let's Play in particular)

[@chaosvii]

Looking forward to the wars & the city-state shenanigans!

[@ichibanb]

As always I really enjoy your Civ 5 games Marbozir. Keep up the great work!

[@asafkatz9984]

NOOOO why isn't it Cuba?! I hate you, Marb. No. I can't hate you. Sorry.

[@gwelengu]

Siam trolled all of us this time, including Marbozir!

[@asafkatz9984]

So what?! A series with Cuba will be much more interesting! 1. Mod! This mod is a twist, and it will be more interesting. 2. He had a super bad city location start with Cuba, then it'll be more interesting to watch Marb suffers when the AI goes after him and he doesn't have a good cities with production to defend with :P

[@Marbozir]

I might still play Cuba after this, since I quite like it.

[@gilless429]

Marbozir Frankly, although I voted Cuba myself, as long as you're the one playing and commentating, I feel I have nothing to complain about.

[@AxisandAllies42]

I think it would be a good idea recycling the second-place map (or at least the second-place civ) into the next poll.

[@iptf]

I could see that barbarian capture of his settler coming a mile away.

[@Danimop]

Just got through all the Japan videos, really looking forward to these new ones, keep them coming :)

[@shadesofgray123]

Was earth mother (faith from copper, iron, salt) already taken? Faith from all that copper in your capital and the salt in your third city seems great.

[@harrywhittaker8717]

I know i was thinking the same

[@edenra8734]

Have a nice one Marbozir, great vid as always!

[@mcelroyian]

I appreciate the unique opener customized for siam even though it might not be optimal. It makes for diverse and interesting play.. I'm sure getting the settler stolen tempted to rage quit and restart too

[@AJBfc]

Nice, finally I will get to see how religion can be used in upper level plays ... Marbozir doesn't get a religion often, so it's nice to see it this time.

[@AvengerAtIlipa]

I would argue that this is a better start than your Norway Fractal Madness.

[@Heranara]

is it me or does the ai always go for the godess of protection? like that's almost always the first one to be taken.

[@KJeIdoran]

Thanks Marbs :)

[@Bluesquidify]

Nice recovery snagging back your settler.

[@Foos56]

Marb this was a really engrossing gameplay. There were some minor mistakes throughout (delay working stone at capital, delay buying Sri Pada, unaccompanied settler). I think these oversights added some drama to your otherwise technical and fearless play-style which kept me watching closely. I haven't even beaten Emperor yet so who am I to criticize? Great work!

[@hoodsamurai3330]

How many turns before Rome declares war? ;). He has been circulating Marbs cities for a while. Althou the cities have very good defensive locations

[@veggiefish4017]

really awesome start, I hope he settles the second natural wonder

[@rhetta16]

You were so lucky to get such a good star,especially on sparse resources.

[@TheTyme99]

Good series, I bought civ 5 because of you

[@КириллГринько-ч7е]

Ramcham bited Marb and he became Marbotrollface. He even trolled Attila by stealing his worker. What next? "Cities-two-tiles-away-from-capital"?

[@RealPunkie]

Getting trolled while trolling with Ramkhamtrollface. Already like the series!

[@brandoan95]

Good starting locations for your cities, just going to take some time to develop

[@ankco4921]

Great series, looking forward to it

[@vesmolol9185]

I would've taken earth mother pantheon for this start definitely. So much copper and salt, and probably a few iron resources as well.

[@Alvarin_IL]

Interesting start, hope for a game as intense as most of them!

[@aidanpl1]

Agree Rome could be very dangerous but others could easily snowball as well. Suspect this might be a defensive game for a long time. Looking forward to seeing how Marbozir plays this out

[@salamandersm]

Great series start! You might want to get Si Satchanalai in growth soon :)

[@mortenrolsing7137]

Perfect, a new series, looking forward to next episode :-)

[@gaudiumtempus]

Marb, let the merciful and kind side of that trollface shine - raze all the cities this time other than capitals of course.

[@gitgit1995]

Great start as always Marbz :) !

[@Mechanicallyincleyend]

Very good bro sorry for your settler that sucked

[@pug9431]

Anyone else hear the Darth Vader theme music when they saw this episode in their sub box? Welcome to the Dark Side, Marbozir.

[@b1llb3llamy]

do you find its ever worth it to buy a tile very very early on with ruin+city state gold? i was just thinking about how the earlier you have an advantage, the more of an impact it has over the course of the game. so for instance, on turn 4 here you got a +75 gold ruin. maybe its worth it to buy that stone tile ASAP? its something i never do but maybe its worth it some times

[@japphan]

Really like that you are changing your standard policy progression to play this specific civ. Will you prioritise city states differently this game? It seems every type of city state is very useful for Siam, so maybe it's worth bribing cultured ones over militaristic for example.

[@starsnmuffins]

What have we done?! Marbozir has become a trolling abomination! Starting the first episode off by trolling Attila! ... Very fitting. :3 Who's next? =evil cackle= Woaaah, your capital will have MONSTROUS science with all those jungles and an observatory on top of that! O_O This is some map. Those are the most elaborate river systems I have seen so far. =whistles= I can't wait to see who the next victim of trolling will be!

[@wati1992]

cant wait til u start playing civ beyond earth

[@billfred5206]

This is gonna be a good game, I can tell

[@compubon]

Where are all the city states? Bummer that Geneva is the only one close, considering Siam's UA. I have never played with Siam, but it seems that you could have a HUGE capital with a few allied maritime city states and the requisite happiness. With that in mind, once you have astronomy getting some caravels out to meet them, makes sense. You might even get 2 triremes and send them in opposite directions, if you can get OB with US and Rome. I think maritime CS's are always coastal. Great work, looking forward to this LP.

[@KitnKiller]

Hey Marb, do you have a turn 0 save for this game? I'd be interested in playing it out with Earth Mother instead of Sacred Path. (And great videos as always!)

[@nelly2103]

Marbozir will you do a game as Venice?

[@MultiMS97]

That would be nice :)

[@bamaedward6717]

Venice is a boring lets play. Venice won a poll once I believe, but Marb decided against it because it would be boring.

[@nelly2103]

I think it would be the opposite, I would like to see how Marbozir overcomes Venice's one city limit on deity.

[@AxisandAllies42]

I think Maddjinn's game as Venice proves Venice (especially domination Venice) can be fun.

[@piousmuffin5285]

SimplySimple There's not much to overcome about that. The sheer number of money you can get more than makes up for that. Not to mention that national wonders will be super easy and fast to build and policies cost less. Then there's the fact that puppeting city states as Venice or Austria on deity gives massive bonuses, ranging from buildings that you might not even be able to build yet to instant 20+ unit armies, not to mention you might be able to grab a really good natural wonder while at it. I'd say that the only downsides Venice has are loss of science due to not being able to optimize specialists, not being able to settle potentially great city spots, thus leaving you at the whims of the AI's lack of logic when choosing city spots if you intend to conquer that spot from them later, and not being able to make your puppet cities contribute to World Congress projects. Considering that diplomatic and domination are the primary victory types for Venice, most of the above isn't really a huge issue. Not having the most modern military can hurt, but Venice is more of a "We'll drown you in carpets of doom" kind of a civilization anyway, as opposed to the typical "I'll take over the world with 10 rocket artillery and a couple of paratroopers/XCOM squads, and the occasional nuke" Marbozir style".

[@darkether]

Really nice starting locations. I think if you settled that 4th location it would get attacked by Attila right away unless you can keep him busy with America and Morocco.

[@LHKKKing]

The starting location has really low food potential, no fish as well. It will slow him down quite a lot.

[@MadScientist3000]

Kender meh.... potayto, potahto....

[@LHKKKing]

MadScientist3000 continue watching, Marbozir himself admit it as well in the later episode.

[@MadScientist3000]

Kender i did....and?

[@LHKKKing]

MadScientist3000 lmao, If you really 'did', you still asking here for an 'and'?

[@MKWStar1]

Great part, but I have one question: You passed a road from Sweden that was not in their border, why didn't you pillage it? Would yield a bit of gold you normally wouldn't recieve and it would slow the AI down a bit.

[@marekbrytan2725]

why did you not settle in place/next to the river and a mountain since you would have gotten cattle, and an extra copy of copper to work early on. You also already have a coastal city which you can use for trade? Just a little question

[@danielcochran224]

Matthewx777:"I can never get tired of your accent."

[@toxikwaste289]

I'm a little bit worried about the delay of tradition, because it might hurt you. But, it's always interesting seeing new stuff.

[@EasyMemesEasyLife]

Great as always, by the way will be next episode of Divinity coming up soon? :-)

[@Domekisan18]

My only change would be faith by copper and salt from pantheon but what a great start.

[@paragon5186]

I almost cried when I heard I'm going to cut the video see you all next time

[@DocSardo]

You could take the free worker (and faster tile improvement speed) before Legalism. That would allow you to build more amphitheaters. Delaying Landed Elite would not be too bad IF you expand to more cities first; however, you are surrounded by very aggressive AI so that would also require a much larger military - probably not a good idea. BTW - Rome looks like it is going to be your biggest worry. They have room to expand and are uncontested. They are likely plotting their attack already. I would be very scared of their UU's showing up on your doorstep in the next 20-30 turns.

[@IvanDogovich]

Nice to see your comments, as always, Doc! Cheers, Ivan :D

[@xxxxxrandom]

If Attila had freed the captured settler would he have given it back, being BFF and all? I've never countered a situation where my captured unit has been freed by an AI so I don't know if they ever return the units or always keep them as slaves?

[@udaysethi]

Hey Marb, I dont know if anyones mentioned this or not, but DO THE ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE!!!! :D Also, thank you for starting the Ram-Kham-Trollface campaign. I know what ill be watching for the next few weeks. :D:D

[@michaelmcgrath4309]

In the beginning, Ramkhamhaeng formed the Siamese empire and started his exploration around the world. During that time, Ramkhamhaeng found new civilizations different from his own and made trading agreements with them. However, Ramkhamhaeng became paranoid of the Huns, which lead to the first Siamese-Hunic war. Though the Siamese lost their first battle against the Huns, the war eventually stopped and both become friends. Although, Ramkhamhaeng still fears for the day that the Huns will backstab them. Centuries passed and after creating 2 new cities, Ramkhamhaeng found a new enemy, Morocco. Siam took the defensive position and successfully defended the workers against the Saharan warriors. End of chapter 1

[@clearspira]

This is a very nicely balanced collection of civ's - could be interesting in the late game if they all survive :-)

[@gaudiumtempus]

Handled that settler issue like a boss:)

[@Littleberryman]

With this map type I have noticed the bulk of city states are on a different continent, you should explore it before the rest of the AI , and try to make use of the X2 bonuses , you also rename the capital Trollopolis :P

[@cmoned8828]

thank you for playing civ5 again :)

[@milamberpuc7059]

I believe Siam has culture boosts but what are those other things what it's good for? isn't it better to have more city's to have massive culture built-up?