My MOST HORRENDOUS start in YEARS - Civ 6 Ottoman

[@kyloren1054]

Potato's loss as Japan hurt him mentally so hard, he took a week and a half to recuperate. We missed you Potato!

[@wanyaisneed3972]

Imagine taking a week and half of and this is your opener

[@0_Body]

He suffer from emotional damage

[@tagesvaterpatrick8780]

If I remember correctly he promised a recap of Japan....

[@jeffbonds3850]

EEmotional damage

[@jdaniels4490]

@@wanyaisneed3972 I'd just straight up uninstall Civ for a month.

[@Dracoape]

Potato: "I'll enjoy episode 1, but i'll hate my life by episode 3" The game: "Hold my beer."

[@jpiesse]

The Temple of Artemis is showing as not possible because you put the Mausoleum pin down and that would crush the camp that the Temple needs to be adjacent to.

[@sinanates79]

He can build artemis first then mausoleum .

[@jpiesse]

Yes. But he was confused about why the pin was freaking out and telling him he couldn't build it.

[@effeilensucre]

"We'll be in a golden age, so we'll have +15% more of... no culture and no science" that broke me oh god

[@krembananowy]

I love this episode. Seeing Potato fight through a bad start and barely cling onto the game is reassuring, and makes me feel less frustrated about the times I got similar situations in Civ myself.

[@lilschlagen]

6:44 "I've never seen a slinger die so fast in my life. *Nervous laugh*" is possibly the greatest quote to sum this video up.

[@cinnamonbeardstud]

"Blizzard please! Don't release another bad wow expansion!" is already quote of the year

[@Xhalph]

I was gonna say, "Hey, the latest expac is quite good." But I think he knows, based on his "not-good offensive remark".

[@thedementedhouse381]

It is very comforting to see someone I view as an excellent player struggle so hard. It makes the games I play where I get hosed so bad not feel as terrible. Thanks for sticking with it and not restarting.

[@davidmosher8270]

Hey Potato I just won my first Deity game the other day thanks to your tutelage. Space victory with Scotland on Highlands. About 11 turns from losing to France's culture victory.

[@seandoyle6688]

That’s awesome, congrats. I’m very close to my first deity win with Norway, currently pillaging England’s massive coastline to make a bigger fleet to pillage more stuff. Love that cycle.

[@cellamuert]

Scotland is BAE

[@RMCbreezy]

Why havent you guys played on deity?

[@Logan0503]

See you can tell Potato is legitimately stressed because he hasn’t turned off the builder lense.

[@raz3465]

As much as I like seeing you pop off with godlike starts, I will say that seeing how you deal with getting completely shafted early game is both very entertaining but also very informative in helping me improve my own gameplay. Cheers!

[@joshualocke7551]

Everytime I decide to play a different game for a while, potato uploads and the urge to play civ6 returns. You, potato, are directly responsible for all of the 600 hours I have in this game.

[@patrickgilmartin484]

Potato, just a thank you for consistently putting out great content and always keeping the positive vibes. Happy new year.

[@Deamon93IT]

Potato was hyped by the setup, and Civ said nope

[@tompauley6949]

I get an endorphin release when I see a Potato McWhiskey civ upload.

[@MrTrellheim]

One day you'll listen a whisper in your ear saying "it's been some time since you last played Dramatic Ages mode... and you have become so, so much better at the game since then. Surely you can keep that ages golden with no sweat. What's the worst that could happen?" DON'T listen to that Voice. It's the Devil talking and it will destroy your sanity and take your soul so it can sacrifice it on an altar of unholyness to hasten the coming of the End of Days. Freakin' masochist mode.

[@kryzethx]

This is like watching a train wreck in slow motion and I love it lmao. Things could not have gone more poorly, but I especially love how, during the Dark Age, Potato is basically fighting a 1v3, with barbs from the north, rebels from the south, and Greece from the west. None of them attack each other, despite how they should all have hostile relations; I guess they all just hate Potato more lol

[@RMCbreezy]

It does seem like the ai works together sometimes but just have to break their reasons down. Barbs are cause he met them and fought them Rebels cause theyre mad at daddy potato Greece cause hes technically weak but super in their face

[@LeinhartUK]

Potato "I can't even settle my own river" Pericles "I believe that's Greece's river"

[@hurgcat]

24:20 "maybe great generals will save us" broke me 😅😅😅

[@santiagomolinatorresarpi8554]

It is in the most dire and grim of circumstances that potato's humour really shines. I was just dying of laughter the whole episode.

[@WVUScoredAgain]

Watching a master struggle is literally so much fun. Seeing you dig yourself out of what I would consider an impossible hole is just wild lol

[@Verzox]

I love this. cant wait for more of your misery.

[@benvel2302]

Did anyone else notice the historical consistency of the kebab killing the souvlaki. Props to civ for providing historical scenarios for us to play

[@GorditaSlim]

"We're just gonna Archer our way out of this problem." I have found where I belong.

[@thatcivturk]

man this is going to be a cool seires staring with a greco turkish war. how will this get any better

[@miraclemaker1418]

Lmfao it just couldn't be any more perfect

[@tamer6453]

Haha indeed

[@mastykidemiai]

Patato is absolutely right. People want to see pain. Because I can't count how many times I had to restart and reloud CIV 6. I want so see the best strugling also :D

[@melogranohifi]

FYI Potato, the two names for Suleiman, Kanuni and Muhtesem, translate to Lawgiver and Magnificent, respectively. So standard Suleiman is the Lawgiver, while Great Commanders Pack is the Magnificent

[@DamagedDingo]

This was the best tragedy / comedy I’ve seen in a long while. Blacking out the gold income cracked me up

[@ber7129at]

In the future when you get that turn 6 relic, you can remember this episode and know you’ve earned it.

[@ReistyPanda]

This start was too relatable to my Suleiman run. It took 4 restarts to get a reasonable foothold.

[@Skycroft1000]

Wow. You're not kidding. I was wincing the whole time.

[@bobmortimor6967]

HAVE NOT CLICKED SO FAST IN MY LIFE

[@mrcivilization112]

Same

[@teatime1848]

Average Turkish person seeing the Ottoman Empire

[@haletth9252]

I was extremely stressed about a job interview but Potato did it again great content so fun to watch

[@alexanderpopov3587]

Sorry for the rough start but the way you handle it when everyone else would just restart is both very helpful for us as players and also entertaining. Good luck with the rest of the series.

[@RMCbreezy]

Combat is the most fun. The barbs give the best fight, simply because they can crank out units and i swear their aggressiveness transfers into just better tactics. Minus when they kamikaze of course

[@leslea8403]

13:20 "I do have a soft spot in my brain," oh my 😳

[@psychorabbitt]

This went from a blursed start to a straight up cursed start.

[@aidanabregov1412]

True pain is buying plains wheat tiles

[@aaronsirkman8375]

Dear lord, Potato; I wish you would have just rerolled by the halfway point. But I did enjoy your struggles afterwards; I just hope things look up for you eventually. Good luck, noblest of tubers.

[@Woopdidoos]

I very much prefer this type of game compared to so many when you have just about infinite amount of land to pump settlers.

[@lukecharles9622]

25:56 Capturing Rhodes made Potato arrive 😂

[@FredGreen182]

Unhinged potato is usually reserved for much higher episodes in these series, this is a really fresh take on Civ LUL

[@TotalEclipse69]

Dont take this the wrong way, but i am enjoying the pain slightly. LMAO

[@eduardo3652]

If anyone was unsure if the last update seriously updated the AI... I present Exhibit B (the previous Japan game was Exhibit A).

[@RMCbreezy]

I had the ai in my recent game actually have death robots and aircraft so whatever they did is great. I tend to win most of the time on deity but later than most wins. 300ish turns. Game modes seem to make it easier for the player

[@mrtobstah101]

That start, pericles, I would have restarted turn 15, kudos to you potato for sticking it out! Also, I've played against Canada in two games and they're insane in the hands of the AI now, not sure why yet...!

[@jasonbaird1645]

I love the shuffled tech tree. It makes every game unpredictable, which is what I want most in a Civ game.

[@-KFirefly]

Thank you Potato for all these superb videos. I absolutely love to see you end up doing well from terrible starts. I'm a beginner in this game, but when I start I have to remap several times just to get a decent start otherwise Barbarians slow me down so much I end up behind on all stats even though I'm on prince. It's embarrassing but I think I'll end up doing well soon since I've been playing more and more. Anyways, Thanks! much

[@NCISfreak123]

I know it frustrates Potato when the start is not optimal but seeing how a person can play through a suboptimal opening really helps me get better and not rage quit so often! Also, very entertaining 😂

[@jeremysocia7158]

I've seen a ton of your videos and this is definitely my favorite so far. The chaos was fun to watch.

[@ONAPAL3HORS3986]

This is like 9/10 games of civ 6 for me

[@FlaminTubbyToast]

Spud on his gold income: this is terrible. Im so embarrassed. Me upon seeing spuds gold income: “for brick he flew pretty good”

[@stanislawwitkowicz918]

The irony of Suleiman the Magnificent straining to take Rhodes is delicious.

[@charlescloudy]

Petition for Potato to post his turn 1 save file and mod list so we can play along with him

[@andrewklang809]

'I don't like that Pericles is denouncing me" You're Turkey, he's Greece. There is no excuse for being surprised.

[@b9904]

The frantic voice of Potato as he plays this episode is comedy gold!

[@woomy8971]

FYI if you haven't seen the Boesthius video, the new Suleiman's abilities don't actually work like how they're written in-game. The trade route buffs apply to *all trade routes* rather than just ones from conquered cities, and the unit attack bonus also applies to attacking cities at all levels of health.

[@Noissimsarm]

Thats Nader shah. Sulaiman gets extra science and culture from golden ages and extra combat strength against people not in a golden age if you aren't in one also.

[@woomy8971]

@@Noissimsarm fuck you're right LMAO

[@arturmichalski5181]

Potato stealing settler from AI just right next to him, risking whole game is so Boes move, amazing

[@robskinnerinvesting]

This is almost like one of those starts where you continue, not because you should, but because you want to see how bad it can possibly get.

[@citricdemon]

4:30 "sometimes you gotta break a few horses to make a few eggs"

[@timwhitman3207]

Potato "This is a necessary war crime" McWhiskey.

[@jasonarthurs3885]

The Blizzard dig nearly had me spitting out my beverage.

[@Krossfyre]

Honestly this is a refreshing playthrough so far. Haven't tried dramatic ages mode, but my second deity win recently was with Russia, where I spent 90 turns fighting off barbarians because Tokugawa was up to my north and generated too much science for Work ethic lavras to beat back the barbs. Definitely had some big misplays, but I also was just spending so many turns fighting barbs that were far stronger than me and losing production and gold to them.

[@jiiaga5017]

The end of this episode was like the epitome of the speech at the end of Rogue One: "We'll take one chance, and then we'll take another, and another, and buy another luxury, and another, until the chances and gold run out"

[@Hannah11876]

Muhteşem is pronounced "mooh-tesh-em" which translates roughly as mangificient, a title given to him for his achievements. This title is mostly used in the western literature, in Turkey he is simply refered to as Kanunî (the lawgiver) because he reformed the entire ottoman judicial system during his reign. Just a fun fact/trivia.

[@carlosmiguelteixeiraott3643]

Potato: "Just don't look at my gold income!" Me: "Well since you brought it up, let me have a peek"

[@PetsGameLp]

I only played with tech and culture shuffle mode for the last 200 hours of Civ. I love its chaos, maybe I'm just a masochistic play ( do enjoy the pain soul games bring)

[@maxthomson765]

I love how your dream, your DREAM was to buy a wheat tile. Nine minutes in and I know this is going to a painful ecstasy to watch.

[@Ottocide]

20:30 I actually had not looked at your gold income until you pointed it out lol. I was too entrenched in the fighting!

[@neelkanthgarg8670]

Patato- i don't really see Ottomans as a religious civ History- whatcha smoking

[@nathaniel3707]

I feel for ya man, I'd have smashed that restart button so hard.

[@serioussam2071]

give us more episodes of this game. Imagine a new player banging head in such a cursed game with little game knowledge and not even knowing its a cursed start :)

[@TheTherealbigchaz]

This is the most I've ever laughed in an episode!

[@Bayushimoju]

lmao. the switch from temple of artimis to archer spam was too funny

[@egesucu]

0:40 Nailed the word 90%, just say “s” like it’s “sh” (eg. Sheet)

[@JamesMichaelDoyle]

25:28 made me laugh really hard. "no blizzard please..."

[@RobertR19]

The paroxysm of schadenfreude is overbearing.

[@t_xxic8814]

"episode 1 and 2, have a great time" - KEKW

[@elPacho_42]

Ottomans and Greece going to war for a bit of land. How iconic.

[@portland573]

Played two games of Dramatic ages before never clicking on the mode again. Too much variance impacting on enjoyment. Nice to have it for the folks that want to use it, but eternally grateful it's not part of core gameplay.

[@richardohanlon3036]

Yes! I've been checking your uploaded for the past few days wondering when the next series was starting

[@matheusribeiro4620]

"i have to declare formal war on greece, which i think is a NECESSARY WAR CRIME" McWhiskey, Potato

[@CiaranMaxwell]

One time, I got attacked by Pericles in the early game. We were at war for an entire era, with me just doing my damnedest to fight off his hoplites. (Those things are bloody terrifying.) As soon as I started to push into his lands (it took forever), he wanted peace. Which I accepted wholeheartedly so I could actually play the darn game. The turn after the war ended, he asked for friendship. I said, "Hell yes!" We even allied as soon as I unlocked alliances. Anyone who messed with Greece messed with me, and vice versa. It was weird.

[@9killerqueen]

"I do have a soft spot in my brain" - Potato McWhiskey

[@snowgods2195]

I've had a worse start. 3v3 game I had Japan. Deep Tundra start was forced to Settle, was on a tundra peninsula. By the time I managed to get to the exit (lucky barbs can't take capital cities) my "Ally" forward settled me and sea was out, because everything was settled by that stage. The only decent city I ended up with was a city state I captured.

[@Gornejo]

Potato! be careful of no sacrificing all your archers to that volcano

[@Flashgen75]

You may regret that chaos, but I love it. Can't get enough of tech shuffle games.

[@peterkemmings5444]

The game you are playing now. That is how the majority of my games go. GG. And happy new year. Looking forward to the next video

[@johntriple]

Playing as ottomans next to greece leaves only one choice we need to be historically accurate potato, execute order 66

[@citrus1225]

I’m gonna say it… we need some more tech shuffle it’s really fun to watch personally

[@f0rm0r]

Liked for the retro "the call is coming from inside the house" reference.

[@saigesmart4167]

7:26 this is what I always have said about barbs needing a rework and everyones just like "your bad," and im like "no you just have experienced the shit rng" lol

[@DaRealKakarroto]

Seems like 2023 is going to be an interesting year ...

[@alexsmith8317]

When the grim dark of 40k enters the realm of CiV.

[@brandonzzz9924]

Potato: "loses his shit" *but optimistically*

[@johnshank1051]

I am so excited for this series. All the craziness is gonna be so good to see how you are gonna adapt to it.

[@manwithabasicprofilepic]

After being deprived for so long, the potato lord has blessed us with content!

[@tortugulaproductions]

Potato: In Episode 3 I'll Regret This Civ 6 RNG: No, you're going to regret this right now.

[@1missing]

Your commitment to the content is astounding lol. I would've restarted this game on turn 1

[@MrMolova]

My god. I would have restarted at around 15 different points in this video. Respect to you 'tato.

[@nathanbenson2875]

I love seeing a game where he struggles and comes through by the skin of his teeth

[@psykergirl3615]

Oof, what a start. NGL I would've restarted. I played with tech shuffle a couple of times, but I feel like it just hinders and doesn't really add much fun. Same as dramatic ages.