Join the Resistance, Defend Humanity! - Terra Invicta (Part 1)

An alien ship has crash-landed on Earth in the year 2022! Unsure of the implications, humanity has split along ideological lines. Some are starry eyed and eager to learn from our new visitors... others recognize the threat that they pose. We are the Resistance, a supranational organization preparing humanity to defend our home if - or when - these unknown xenos show their true colors!
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[@maryjames8433]

All I'm going to say, is be patient. It can take multiple playthroughs to truly understand this game. On my second playthrough I only managed to build my first ship when the aliens had several destroyers parked around earth. Currently starting my third with more of an eye to grab up the best resource spots on luna as soon as lunar colonization is available.

[@argus0ia]

Be ready to adapt, random generation of resources can be a bitch, mars will be your friend probably and don't snob asteroids if you are lacking in a resource.

[@Archris17]

@@argus0ia A lack of rare earths I can stand, but water and volatiles are SO HEAVY to ship all the way to Mars!

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

just keep it below 100 MC

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

@@Archris17 mmm asteroids ;p

[@houstonhines9434]

12 hours in and i had no mats so i had to start again

[@MiniMackeroni]

Hello, Commander. In light of the recent extraterrestrial incursion, this Council of Nations has convened to approve the activation of the Resistance Project.

[@FonVegen]

I also started with the Resistance for a test run. It's amazing how different the start feels between this and my own experience uniting Europe under one starry banner.

[@magmakojote1663]

I chose India and am trying to create a slightly larger India with the unification tech. But it's taking extremely long to do that, the tech "Great Nations" alone has a cost of 25.000 and then you gotta do your own 20.000 project after it. I think I can finally unify India in November 2029, but it's probably way too late. And I am way behind tech. Atleast I was able to build up India along the way, making it almost as strong as the US or China :D And controlling such a large portion of humans is incredibly useful when boosting public opinion and then getting a lot of influence.

[@Archris17]

You CANNOT afford to ignore Russia and Kazakhstan. The Baikonur Launch Complex is the biggest source of boost at the start of the game, 50% more than the United States! If you want to win the space race, that is 110% VITAL to secure because if you don't, your enemies WILL. I have learned that the hard way...

[@hoffenwurdig1356]

For those who do not know, Terra Invicta is Latin for “Earth Unconquered” or “Earth the Undefeated."

[@cheesemcgee2323]

Cool

[@MN-jw7mm]

And Hoffenwrudig is YT for "Captain Obvious"

[@williamkenningtion628]

@@MN-jw7mm he is really not

[@duelo-hw8fo]

Its the second definition " undefeated"

[@robertlombardo8437]

​@@MN-jw7mm Dude. How many people speak Latin outside of the Vatican priesthood nowadays?

[@charlesajones77]

6:22 "Their problems come down to internal strife and polarization. If we can fix that, they'll be fine" Good luck with that :)

[@Basebidet0]

i come from the future to say it doesn't get better

[@NDO1998]

YES! I was really hoping this playthrough will happen. Thanks, Prav

[@cristianalbert6389]

SAME!

[@dimas3829]

Knowing what Protectorate tuirns into and their ending, while listening to his rant about how Servants si true menace that needeв to be fight with while Protectorate isn't - makes me giggle.

[@firstoffproductions1462]

7 human factions actually, the 8th faction are the aliens, so you only need to worry slightly less in the early game.

[@CrowMercury]

I want to point out, the game is very deceptive in how just different are the factions. Humanity First WILL nuke Alien aligned nations, and you should not hire councilors that have loyalty loss with atrocities, you will commit them even in events for example. Yes, MANY events have faction-exclusive answers, and some are good specificially for a faction and bad for others. I personally found it’s impossible to ally with another faction entirely, you will have an ideological or political conflict eventually. The Resistance is the best faction to start because just like the Academy they don’t have a great plan for humanity, but the Academy gets royally fucked up by the fact, no suprise, they are alien invaders.

[@LuaanTi]

@@CrowMercury Of course, in the end that just means that the Academy turns into the Resistance, effectively, it's just a bit more painful. On the other hand, that also means you can avoid much of the conflict with the more Alien-aligned factions for quite a while. On the gripping hand, the precarious balancing of that means the Servants will likely get _very_ strong. If they ever get control of the USA, humanity is in very hot water pretty much overnight.

[@CrowMercury]

@@LuaanTi I don'r want to discuss strategies that will feel like I'm crouch playing with Pravus, but the best play is usually to choose one of the strong start ( I approve of USA ) and get someon with good Crackdown/Purge to make sure Servants/Protectorate don't get nukes. Do note Project Exodus tends to turns hostile at the beginning if you take USA because they want all the boost. I like that little bit of programming, even if they annoyingly keep trying to sway the nation.

[@jacksmith-vs4ct]

@@LuaanTi not quite lol and everyone still hates them XD

[@KaiTheKool]

@@CrowMercury HEY HEY FUCKING SPOILERS

[@simpeldisaster4533]

"Serve the aliens in all ways possible." I don't like the sound of that.

[@BrockyB91]

Hyped for you to play this Pravus.

[@PerunGamingAU]

Great to see you playing this Pravus

[@Thatonepersonyouheard]

Your series spoiled my, you knew what to do, you cut a lot of tiny things pravus doesn't, and you don't explain every mechanic lol. Humanity first was a great watch

[@samueltrusik3251]

RISE UP, BROTHERS AND SISTERS! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOOSE BUT YOUR CHAINS, AND YOU HAVE NOTHING TO GAIN BUT THE STARS THEMSELVES! GLORY TO PRAVUS!

[@tigeriussvarne177]

PRAISE PRAVUS!

[@snotrag96]

I am so glad you picked up this game. I saw Potato McWhiskey play it and thought it would be a perfect game for you.

[@kinagrill]

That main menu theme is just GREAT.

[@RayLerenton]

Oh wow I didn't expect you to play this game, but this is great! Very much looking forward to the series... and how far you'll get! This game takes time, and is quite difficult I found. This is going to be a good one!

[@mrgopnik5964]

Your description for America really sounds like real life XD

[@tomx_pl7760]

I really like this game. I'm happy to see you play it. Tip: Kazachstan has Baikonur space program, which is one of the best to have, and the country is rather easy for grabs

[@Ryukuro]

It's also difficult to hold. You might want to integrate it into Eurasia if you're going for a Russia strategy.

[@danhammond9066]

I love your play through. It explains a lot of the thought that goes into every decision and what is important points to consider when playing this game. After playing it myself several times, I have come to the conclusion that the single greatest early game ability for your counselors, is to have hostile take over ability with a high admin score and a person that can investigate other councilors. You need to identify them first before you can steal their orgs. But this does multiple very powerful things. it makes your team stronger stealing their orgs and it makes them weaker. And if you steal orgs that improve your admin it allows you to steal easier plus it improves your sides control points. And you target orgs that can improve your team the most which gives you a significant boost in your teams ability to always complete there mission every turn while destroying the other teams ability to do the same. All of this is some of the largest early game boost you can do for your side. While also significantly hurting your opposition.

[@Enchanted_Gaming]

Now I have to keep track of 3 series of this game. All of them great!

[@gabiballetje]

Holy spreadsheets Batman, this is complicated !!!

[@djohnnyemaus]

this is so cool! thank you for sharing :) can't wait to see more of the series!!🖤

[@nutpirom8462]

I've been waiting for this!

[@garr_inc]

Now this is what I wanted to see! As much as I enjoy seeing Perun and his extremely calculated playthrough, seeing someone both strategically good AND relatively blind is what I craved for a good while.

[@solwilkinson8551]

woooooooooooo I've been waiting for this!

[@brianprintzlau3780]

im so happy, i had hoped that you would play this game ... and here we are

[@Titanblade17]

YASS I was hoping you would play terra invicta! Let’s go!

[@bificommander7472]

31:30 "We can take over Israel, it's easy to control." I guess the game can't be perfectly realistic.

[@stevewinkleburg5300]

I was literally just commenting asking for this, but clearly Pravus was way ahead

[@Luzgan]

I already did put many hours into that game, also by watching others, and oh boy I know that there will be many things for you to learn. Good luck with the series!

[@ThomasG1971]

Enjoying the playthrough... and if you ask me the jump cuts are fine the way you are doing them right now

[@buchan448]

deffo going to buy this on pay day looks awesome will watch this whole playlist

[@nohands7126]

Dude I’m back, and so glad that I am! Thank you for playing this game! You a great job of explaining everything.

[@nPcDrone]

Crash landing. Heck no. More like crash invasion!

[@RemoraDFC343]

Tip: your counselor actions can gain bonus if you have control point in adjacent countries. Example: if you have CP in Canada or Mexico you get bonus to your rolls in USA.

[@tigeriussvarne177]

PRAISE PRAVUS!

[@chrisboyer2195]

Oh boy, I’m ready for this 30+ part series

[@PaxIesus]

Pravus: "Controlling Israel: A very small, easy nation to control" Entire Middle East: "Doubt."

[@shadowzking101]

This looks interesting, the concept is like a reverse Alpha Centauri

[@CrowMercury]

Honestly I would judge this game in the middle between the most complex paradox game and…aurora 4x. Which is like saying the middle distance between the Earth and the Sun to have a fair comparison. I do hope this is not your first playthrough and you are ready for some repeats, because I honestly wish this game would be easier to learn and approach, and I’m gonna just tip everyone reading this to ignore the tutorial, it will teach you basic commands but will also put you in a difficult situation and 99% for a reset. It doesn’t even explain very important stuff like how to properly plan your colonies or federation gameplay.

[@delphy2478]

i love this game and love seeing everyone starting to play it. good luck with your campaign

[@raiden602]

Yessss!!!! I’m sooo glad you are doing this play through!

[@magmakojote1663]

In my playthrough I recruited a kingpin and gave her several cartel orgs, now she's making me more money than all my controlled nations combined. My resistance is basically funded by a world-wide criminal network :D This game is amazing, there are so many different ways to play it.

[@RealSkoolmaster]

well, I didnt expect you to be down from near where I am. Neat. I am looking forward to this. When Potato started his series, I knew there would be a Pravus one soon.

[@arakhel2989]

Yeshhhhh praise pravus!

[@veikkomultivitamiini4858]

This is one of the most exciting games to come out in while.

[@malarkthemad4300]

I stop playing Terra Invicta to eat my dinner. Look for something to watch. See Pravus has uploaded a T-I playthrough. Prepare myself to be educated by someone way better at 4X than me

[@ronstoppable5198]

3:24. I agree completely.

[@alan2142]

Pravus starting up X-com (Pravus style).

[@immaculate5784]

Was hoping you would jump into this game and Resistance to boot!

[@georgetherat3345]

Just bought the game. This helped me quite a lot. Thanks.

[@joshuavaillancourt3140]

The Exodus: Guys I have an idea Minecraft chat : The Exodus has left the game

[@LuaanTi]

I love that many of the factions are in fact quite reasonable. Only the Initiative are straight-up villains. Well, and Humanity First are _extreme_ extremists, routinely committing atrocities, of course :D

[@eyeofsauron1502]

Humanity First are definitely villains, going by their fascist aesthetic and especially their ending. They are also one of three factions that can work with terrorists, the others are the Initiative and Servants.

[@The-Muslim-Samurai]

More of this please

[@AllenYCLau]

Pravus fixing / building countries better while playing as a (no-longer-)shadow organization than while actually playing as a nation! Praise Gimli!!

[@YungGaucho]

Really like this game and I’m enjoying the series! Can’t wait to see more!

[@DreamApostle128]

awesome video looking forward to seeing more of this

[@JaiAlaiJedi]

Playthroughs like this make me wish I was better at long time strategy games.

[@kevinkong2398]

I know what you mean.

[@LuaanTi]

This game is brilliant for role-playing. Just do your best and don't worry about things going sideways - that's just part of the story. Being on the losing end is still incredible fun and the rush to try and salvage things is wonderful. Enjoy it while you can still avoid "guides" and "tips" that ruin the whole magic of the game :D

[@twangyflame0969]

I am so happy that you are playing this. I hope you make more than one play through of this.

[@RalfSiegesmund]

thx, looks interesting. Thx for the video. Will watch 2nd part right away.

[@danielhenby8370]

Anyone else notice the Resistance's narrator is Dominique Tipper, "Naomi Nagata" from The Expanse. FOR DA BELT!

[@stylesrj]

Yes Bossmang! Beltaloada!

[@eiusus1421]

Heyya Pravus, I enjoyed watching this one, I'll be looking forward to the next episode. Thank you for making this video! :D

[@WaitedBadger9428]

This looks good m8 and long but seems worth it.

[@ZeroCGR2]

Well This is going to be interesting. Im considering getting Terra Invicta myself. On a side note I heared that the country you start in (USA here) is the country you are actually playing from.

[@Ryukuro]

I think that's confirmed.

[@magmakojote1663]

The game recognizes where you are playing from and then gives one of your councillors that same background. I personally always get a german councillor, Pravus will always get an american and so on.

[@ruukinen]

You don't "start" in a country. It just rolls one of the council members nationality as what it can figure out from your IP. Minor effect in terms of gameplay.

[@yuriSY.]

I am from damascus, the last thing we need is aliens invading our country lol.

[@zoobs1970]

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[@franklinhadick2866]

Very well explained, thankyou for the effort put into these videos.

[@percyjackson386]

for the glory of Terra and Pravus

[@unseenkng]

I've been waiting for you to run through this game. Today is a good day

[@sephritine5481]

Just got this and it’s so good u can tell they really love this game just by how much they have put into it there is so much going on all the time it’s really a micromanager of u trying too save humanity it’s amazing

[@damagingthebrand7387]

I have not seen many of your videos, but I wanted to say that you do an excellent video for someone following along. I love the zoom ins, enough explanation/description, etc.

[@maxpower8549]

this reminds me of xcom, i was just waitung for the turnbased groundbattles to start

[@austinneece7853]

The people that made this game originally made the Long War mod's for XCOM

[@enzuki]

This seems like a fun game. Hopefully this turns into a recurring series

[@mitchelllatchaw4079]

Rimmy down under has been streaming it for a bit, he might have some pointers

[@laretor771]

I've found that mexico can be a fairly valuable country to control, it has a decent number of investment points (every point takes a LOT more GDP than the previous one). I just focused it completely on space program to start, once that was going just invested some more in welfare to stabilize before moving on to other priorities

[@matthewsvat7901]

I was looking forward to see some gameplay of this. Really interesting game, politics and space related, love this kind of stuff. Really glad it's actually Pravus that took interest in this.

[@deoxnirvi8542]

I can't wait for 25< episodes with possibly of failure after failure and reset Good luck!

[@nickbartels1244]

Like I'm playing this game too! I couldn't find a video wich explained to me what do I do? But you did perfectly! Thank you so much!!!!!!! I have learend allot!

[@Oyniii]

The UI sounds make me wanna tear my ears off.

[@TheTrueGamur]

The fact that this will likely get 100k views makes me happy

[@CommissarMoody1]

Pretty cool. I have been thinking about this game..but have yet to pick it up

[@yiannchrst]

This game is so cool!

[@DavidtheDoom]

Yes, this is the playthrough I was looking for!

[@dirtbikeryzz]

They should of made some kind of geopolitical simulator because what they have going on doesn't mix at all.

[@Mynamejeff2-if2dk]

Should have chosen Sweden as it has never been successful invaded

[@whoopontrose2517]

So this is kind of Xcom style gameplay with lots of Phoenix Point in it and then some mroe stuff on top

[@marchouston5788]

I like the concept & depth of this game.

[@emperorlewd]

I think the most funny thing to do would be Pravus reaction to the movie Avatar k ( and the second one that's coming )

[@gamingpanther5209]

This is going to be a big series

[@Niriik]

This reminds me a little bit to the rpg mega board game that shut up and sit down showed.

[@TheTrueGamur]

A grand strategy I never seen before? POGGERS

[@Misterj4]

Love this game haven’t stopped playing since I bought it

[@pauljurgens3390]

I was waiting for you to cover this game. This 4 D chess is definitly someting for you ^^

[@mattpants6178]

GREAT JOB, don't worry so much about not knowing what to do long term, I think that will become clear as you play more. I'm hoping you'll include this game in your normal cycle.,

[@sparrow9663]

So Project Exodus isnt quite just run away, they also are of the opinion that if humanity does win, then they have given them a first start, but they do not believe that humanity has a good chance of winning.

[@justinthompson6364]

I was wondering when someone I watch was going to put out a video on this one. Can't wait to see more!

[@PantherCat64]

I want a game like this but also with a classic RTS element, you have to persuade countries to join your faction to gain a military and you have to use that military to fight the other factions or if you're something like the resistance you'll have to fight the aliens directly in battles you command. First because that would be awesome, and two because I'm okay at grand strategy games but not even close to great and I'm okay at regular RTS games but not even close to great, but give me both and I can hold on slightly longer. I know someone made a mod for Crusader Kings 3 where it can turn into Mount and Blade style combat, which is the only reason I'm willing to buy that game now. So maybe if a dedicated game doesn't happen some miracle worker could do something similar.

[@Scott-yf1zn]

Looking forward to the next vid

[@TheTrueGamur]

I love how much support this has gotten

[@mimameta]

I was hoping Pravus played this game! So excited

[@RhombonianKnight]

Praise Pravus! He is surely on the way to further American hegemony in order to save humanity from the xenos!

[@TheRojo387]

Hegemony, or empire?