Licking my Wounds after a horrible start - Civ 6 Ottoman

[@shaneduquette6104]

"I think my empire is through the recovery" he says. Then another empire-wide weather disaster outbreak scatters his hopes....

[@jamster5322]

He set the natural disaster intensity to 4 tho :D 😀

[@shaneduquette6104]

@@jamster5322 It goes along the lines of most of Potato's videos, especially when he begins building Dam districts, he almost ALWAYS gets hit with a massive flood just before he completes the district.

[@Artie_Fufkin]

that was one of the worst weather disasters i've ever seen happen. I once had some tornadoes just rip the core of my empire to shreds. But the bad timing just couldn't match the Potato McWhiskey Blizzard of 820.

[@florians9949]

I think i ahd one that was even worst than that. I was still in the ancient era and went for an early kill on macedonia. I was abbout to assault his capital with like 4 wariors and 7 archers when he had basically no military, so easy win. Except, and I am not kidding, the game spawn TWO FUCKING BLIZZARDS back to back on my army, wipping it out in one go. I rage quite.

[@The_Crab_Whisperer]

I've been very ill for over a month. I've been in hospital since early boxing day morning. Christmas and the two weeks before it were just not a thing. Should be out on Monday. Your videos have been a huge boon man! You seriously helped me get through it. Absolute legend. Love from York, England man!

[@Beach_Boomer]

Get well soon mate 👊

[@justinumali8618]

Say it with me my dudes: A POTATO A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY ❤ Get well!

[@The_Crab_Whisperer]

@@justinumali8618 🤣🤣🤣

[@bengalbrown2834]

Potato you should do a series where ppl send in the worst starts and you have to win a specified victory on deity. I’d be hilarious to watch you struggle and it would be very cool if you pulled it off.

[@cooolbigguy]

He has some videos similar to that in the past. Played some really bad saves from fans, but the game was already started

[@AeonQuasar]

Streamers have been able to win in the most hopeless ways possible so far. One (RA) managed to win when surrounded his capitol with 2 rows of volcanos. A few have managed to win when starting on a only snow tile seperated with sea to the mainland. And one managed to win when starting two ages behind the deity AI. I struggle how random player maps can make it worse.

[@voyeur4youtubers264]

I think the biggest thing is too limit the exploits that can be used. Most streamers beat these challenges using some broken shenanigans

[@Indeciferable]

@@voyeur4youtubers264 To be fair some games are completely unwinnable without that shenanigans lol

[@pdraggy]

@@Indeciferable In my current game 99% of the strat res spawned in the desert (and tundra) so yeah, it was pretty bad :/. Ever see 3 oil spawn in a perfect diamond?

[@ABrick945]

Props for not immediately closing the game after losing 9 pop to a blizzard. That would have been my breaking point lmao

[@CornBredCrusader]

9:15 I really hope that in civ 7 there is a way with the trading system for a city to actually "feed" your empire. Like atm there is no way for cities to generate a surplus of food and then send that somewhere else, which is in contrast to what happened historically, with large urban centers being supplied with food and natural resources from smaller cities/towns. The closest way to do that atm is by having equally large cities (# of districts) which give okay trade routes for food/production.

[@galgramax6713]

It's funny, because you can kind of do the opposite of that. Districts give extra food and production to domestic trade routes, but only give the yields to the place the trader is sent from. So you can have this gargantuan city with tons of districts give _other_ cities great yields from trades, but anything you send from the city itself is way worse.

[@uwua6509]

5:58 that synced perfectly with the hand movements

[@chriscampbell2670]

Sets Disaster Intensity at 4/4 then acts surprised about blizzards and volcanoes blowing up his empire so epic.

[@jameshall1300]

Gotta love watching Potato unlock his cards to plug in Raid, get distracted by a blizzard and government change, and completely forget 😂

[@marcusbenjilake]

It occurs to me that I may be a sadist. I really enjoy watching PW struggle.

[@hurgcat]

i was cheering for disaster but that blizard made me cringe. I played teddy game where i did only preserves and natural parks and i got absoultely detroyed by a never ending wildfire that just bounced back and forth and killed every worker i tried to chop forest to stop it

[@ValunarTonix]

I wanna see a marathon speed zombie survival game sometime, see how big the zombies get before getting overrun.

[@EuropaChronicles]

Did I somehow miss Episode 2? The videos in the playlist go from Episode 1 to this. I’m confused. Potato: Please ask your video editor to add episode numbers so it’s easier to follow along. Thanks!

[@Logan0503]

This has been a really fun game to watch, and I really enjoy watching you take an empire that was so utterly destroyed and start building into a powerhouse.

[@ItsHaldun]

"Little bit of Gods' sauce, right, on my empire." -Suleiman the Magnificent, 600 AD, upon hearing the news about volcanic eruption in his city

[@deveus1]

I'm totally enjoying this playthrough showing how you claw your way back out of a bad situation

[@RemiiiW]

best of best of videos of u is just hilarious start like this and make it something genuine gameplay of it trying to recover/win do something or just have fun, 100% better than just normal/gigachad spawns

[@forrestwatley6678]

Potato, I love your content. Honestly it's great. I love seeing someone win out of failure and maximise success. There's only one thing I want from you... I want a count of how many times you say "Oh, well, this wonder is absolutely a lost cause better not try for it", and then by the numbers absolutely be able to build it before the AI.

[@Chakeis]

The juicy volcano tile with 4 food, 5 production & 3 science is making my brain go oonga boonga

[@johnperish]

You know the hate is real when Potate kills him off screen. 😂

[@Jawu523]

I struggle with those bad start all the time lol. I love watching other suffering as well.

[@sam1111979]

I think at 25 minutes what you were saying is "I get knocked down, then I get up again, you're never going to keep me down, I get knocked down, then I get up again, you're never going to keep me down"

[@Esgarpen]

Some nations have been at war for decades, or even centuries... meanwhile, Potato is working on that millenia of continuous wars

[@robjohnson3095]

This is the funnest kind of game, terrible things happen, but you overcome it and become victorious! Probably...

[@villekorpi714]

I think what you were trying to say was that you get knocked down, but you get up again. They are never gonna keep you down.

[@TheMightyQtip]

3:14 That sh*t has sailed indeed Potato.

[@aidanabregov1412]

I’m grinding my teeth to nubs wondering when Potato will put Liang into Rhodes and just print builders

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

I'll put me into your mom and printer builders

[@aidanabregov1412]

💀 She doesn’t do well in CRIPPLING BLIZZARDS

[@georgesteffey8375]

I've been loving this series

[@glados_tc]

Really been enjoying a series where the AI hands you your butt in a hat. It's been interesting to see what you do to overcome the terrible hand you keep getting dealt.

[@joefjunior]

This series rips. Love the challenge. Also, now I have "weird ball" in my lexicon from the previous upload.

[@baeinthebay1888]

i wouldve rage quit at the snowstorm, actually i probably wouldve rerolled the start at the beginning lol

[@Skrubleader]

The new Ottomans war game is so strong.

[@okonkwojones]

14:48 Canadian troops were the first allied forces after the D-Day landings to stop taking prisoners. CA recon from the beaches found a village where a panzer SS unit had executed captured Canadian pathfinders and paratroopers by grinding them under their tank tracks. So, the order went out, that all offers of surrender were to be ‘politely’ declined.

[@whatsinaname7289]

I know this is kind of sadistic of me, but it's refreshing to see someone who's usually so good at Civ struggle at a tough game. I'm glad you didn't re-roll this one.

[@tirangle]

i honestly learn way more from the games where he gets his shit kicked in

[@colinmarshall6634]

I would have alt-f4'd after that blizzard lol respect for sticking with this one

[@DrownedInExile]

Damn that blizzard was some apocalypse-level disaster!

[@PugsleyThePear]

Title should be "licking my wounds after an awful start and then licking my wounds after an awful blizzard"

[@Gronmin]

The best part of dynamic ages is that if you live long enough most of the AIs will just die to losing loyalty to free cities

[@seanhoffman2755]

Dang did I miss a video? When did you kill Greece??

[@mastykidemiai]

That blizzard was brutal :D

[@Pepe-ut2sn]

Potato setting disaster intensity to 4: wow thats going to be fun Potato now: …

[@leaguesmanoframsgate]

That blizzard was so awful Potato was briefly playing Frostpunk.

[@rogueoperations2016]

If only you could weaponize copium

[@MRxParkour]

"We'll see where the cookies crumble" lol

[@caysekhan5553]

Disaster intensity 4 strikes again!

[@Rich-MarsEco]

Don't Juice Potatoes is what i got from this video.

[@simonbigger1395]

man i cannot wait for the next upload

[@IANF126]

ah the weather. i had a 6 pop desert city going strong building up petra, and a sandstorm came in and took the pop down to 1...

[@TheFrothyBrew]

@6:28 God's Bruschetta? Lol

[@Mars.TN_]

Hey Potato! I've been loving the vids a lot, I also had this idea for a game where every civ only has 1 city for the entire game but the borders can keep expanding forever. I've never seen anything like it before and it sounds so fun. Just having to balance between production and growth. I don't even know if this is possible or not but if it is that would be amazing

[@pdraggy]

I just saw that Pachicutie has a PO-Tay-Toes achievement!

[@Jawu523]

I think I’ll put liang immediately to the volcanos city

[@LAZERAK47V2]

Considering the state of Canada recently, the whole country rebelling is more likely than you'd think.

[@jeffreyhornblower6515]

Should have planned a Grove in the north for growth

[@JeffreyGoddin]

Don't recall Potato thinking this hard ever, pin this series as a tutorial. Makes me a bit ashamed of all the way better starts I've aborted, on lower difficulty.

[@urizen7613]

Me too!

[@JimParshall]

Evil Men with evil dreams they can't destroy all our dreams. You just gotta channel star blazers :)

[@bjornsnikl170]

the autoplay next video is in wrong order. For information

[@aesemon5392]

'I think I lost some units in the blizzard. I don't have any evidence to back this up' Hmmm, the events list in the right might be a good start?

[@Noissimsarm]

I just know potato is gonna win by default from all the loyalty issues the ai will have.

[@Ivan.A.Churlyuski]

Should rename Konya into Yo.

[@Corrosiveweasel]

Hey potato idk if anyone else agrees with me but I really prefer watching you play when your start is at least decent. Personally when I play civ I will restart until I get a roll I like. I just don’t find the uphill battle very fun because the early to mid game is the funnest part!! It seems like other people don’t mind. Give the people what they want. I just want to put my opinion out there.

[@AlvinBrinson]

Is there a missing episode? This is a huge jump from the previous episode!

[@taylorsnyderutube]

That blizzard though. xD

[@hitomisalazar4073]

Man this run is almost scary sentient in "... what's the one thing I can do to screw Potato just as he thinks he's recovering?". Rocky game by your standards and all. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

[@wclinton93]

Man, after these past few games you've earned yourself some decent luck. Here's hoping. Great vid.

[@neilmakohoniuk3768]

did i miss an episode(s)? First one ended on turn 85 and this starts at 141 ?

[@AlvinBrinson]

Seems so...

[@1pufc]

That blizzard 🤣

[@martinperry5072]

Potato, I think you are actually enjoying this game. I can hear unused neurons and synapses firing from here. As a Canuck, I can confirm that we are polite, but if pushed, we push back hard. As far as I can tell, hockey is the only team sport I know of where fighting in the game is legal. You do get a five minute penalty, but what the hell?

[@gpd6760]

tomatoes in Italian is Pomodoro

[@The_Crab_Whisperer]

That's tomato. Pomodori is tomatoes.

[@The_Crab_Whisperer]

Also, you don't need to capitalise nouns like you do in German.

[@The_Crab_Whisperer]

But, you do need to capitalise the first word in a sentence in English.

[@The_Crab_Whisperer]

😋 I'm just fuckin' with ya. If you're learning Italian that's great! It's a fantastic language 😁

[@gpd6760]

@@The_Crab_Whisperer you are correct

[@williamlipscombe9029]

As a Canadian, I feel seen.

[@cryptc]

I like dramatic ages mode, but I stopped playing with it because I would almost always find like a whole continent of AI cities that had rebelled.

[@Aecusim]

I feel the same way. Dramatic ages is HEAVILY player favoring. AI does not tackle rebelled cities and the longer they start the more their loyalty debuff will wreck AI cities.

[@mechaboydx]

Scratch that: Kongo is in a dark age. Which might be why they haven't wrecked Potato this episode. If Kongo get heroic age, I have no idea how he wins this game.

[@cryptc]

@@mechaboydx there aren't heroic ages in dramatic game mode, but yeah a golden age for kongo seems like a game over

[@mechaboydx]

That's.... something. I think he might have better luck going after Scythia.

[@rodneycrum7830]

4:21 +5 campus 3 tiles southwest of eretria :b unless that tile was intended for something else

[@Shauma_llama]

Quite a recovery you have going on.

[@reneprins282]

There is an episode missing in the playlist the sec part where u crush the greeke:(

[@pltradioman]

how did it go from turn 86 to turn 141? didnt see the ending to greece.

[@weks]

Awesome games man. Would love to see if some kind of hybrid approach is possible, like building some army and some infrastructure

[@kristjanpeil.bsky.social]

Missing an episode - ep 1 ended at 70-sth...

[@FluridCube]

Potato you should treat yourself and do a reverse of your canada game (cold world with all the desert civs and you are canada)

[@resdty9691]

might not be the greatest start

[@datbunneh3671]

Can you bring back 1440p please? It's so sad to watch YT in windowed mode in 2023.

[@rafaellambiase4009]

Where’s the second video?

[@Killa_3]

Does any one ever have issues with sync, mine and my mates games always de sync's ,we have tried to save and come back, turn off any mods etc, and it still just happens ?

[@ThatJingleJangleFeeling]

How am I supposed to know where the first entry in this series is?

[@MrTrellheim]

The AI is already bad enough with loyalty issues in normal mode, but is really disatrous with Dramatic Ages. Once there's two or three free cities next to each other you can se the balck area grow like a cancer.

[@JChalant]

I didnt know you could chop fish!

[@Jessterr2]

Civ giveth and Civ taketh

[@samsamtls1218]

Would it make sense to make a petra city in that desert ?

[@mechaboydx]

Am I the only one thinking he should get Liang w/ reinforced materials and stick her in Rhodes at this point? Probably doesn't have the governor titles, but that volcano is being a thing.

[@ThorbjrnKuhl]

They should really fix the AI. Every game I’ve played, eventually the AI just grinds to a complete halt. I’ve invaded and it seems like the AI has just left the game and is force-ending their turn. Nothing is being produced, and I can take over the entire civilization with a small army, no units are being produced. This particular game mode I just avoid, it’s too painful for me to lose cities, but if I do play, I’ll just aim along, until every AI has lost, they eventually succumb to free city units, barbarians and loyalty pressure.

[@kylebutler682]

why would you nueter that volcano

[@onlyDoti]

Potato, you taught me the game before i was in college and got it myself. Recently, I’ve noticed that your play has gotten stale (not your videos, i love them). Specifically, the way you play civ is geared towards winning as opposed to enjoying the journey. Sometimes you gotta build an aqueduct simply because the “citizens” want running water.

[@kolos0139]

9 pop loss blizzard lmao

[@bengalbrown2834]

Is the new leaders out for console? I play on Xbox and I haven’t seen where I can get them.

[@The_Crab_Whisperer]

Yeah, I'm Playstation. Not yet for me. But I've not checked for a few weeks. (stuck in hospital)

[@paulkearney1187]

Gods Wrath!

[@IKerensky]

Didn't peacing the Congo actually hurt you because all that unrest he got was from the long lasting war ?

[@fallamaria]

Could you do a game where you focus on a diplomacy win? (I accidentally almost won one once but I have no idea how that happened) - and maybe with an added challenge of domination using only loyalty 😇😈

[@Twistedcrescendo]

I think he's done the pacifist domination challenge, if memory serves me.

[@fallamaria]

@@Twistedcrescendo oh! That's very possible, I'm new here 😂 been watching him all week tho, so maybe it was a while ago? I haven't found it yet at least

[@Twistedcrescendo]

@@fallamaria kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWKQpmOvn85_pc0 it should be this video, I believe! It was two years ago so it makes sense that you haven't been able to binge that much in a week 😂 Or if you don't trust random people sending you links (understandable, if so); search "peaceful domination" in Potato's channel

[@fallamaria]

@@Twistedcrescendo haha! Sweet, thank you! 😁😁

[@johnnybravo5087]

I took over two civs as Babylon and won a diplomacy game. It's easy

[@zorobutashina5086]

I did test some of these tactics in my game but didn't work 😂

[@charlestaylor8344]

Did i miss something? First episode he took one city. Episode 2 hes got all of greece?

[@jl3039]

I miss kek lizard 🦎

[@AUTvillacherboyAUT]

imagine him loosing this game to tamar.. two consecutive losses?