Petra Power | Civ V: Seven Kingdoms Episode #4

[@ArcNine9Angel]

Daltos being the most improved player over these years is actually so inspiring, proud of him.

[@ManCheat2]

watch him fumble

[@mattmcginn8096]

He's always been one of if not the strongest player. He just never takes these seriously and forever wars the first person who slights him. This is one of the only games I've seen where Daltos hasn't been at war by episode 3 haha

[@panner11]

@@mattmcginn8096 I don't know about always. Especially late game he used to completely lost, but the last couple years he's been very vocal about actually watching and reading up on civ 5 multiplayer strategy. It makes a world of difference.

[@ChaoticHarmony431]

In the words of Rythian, “Unfortunately, he is Daltos and there is no cure”.

[@Spyro5500]

Taking like 10 years to get slightly better at a game you play a lot is not very inspiring xD

[@shanadir]

Well, lewis is a brit. Claiming w(h)ales and then never developing them is a tradition.

[@Z0eff]

Daltos is actually getting pretty far ahead now. I figured he would fuckup somewhere along the way but he's on track to leave the others in the dust. The wide-liberty playstyle is weak in the early game but starts to run away in the mid to late game. But with most other players having a slow start he's already racing ahead. Which will accelerate even more when wide-liberty train really gets going in the late game.

[@M0M0117]

He’s too big, people will gang up on him. There’s no point in getting too big too quickly in a multiplier game, especially when the map is this small.

[@zacp4739]

@@M0M0117 Basically just depends on if they attack before he gets too big. If he can dig in with artillery before they make any serious efforts then he'll just obliterate their units.

[@muaz3708]

​@@zacp4739 if they all attack like they attacked lewis then he will lose

[@MzyraJ]

Potato is the Briony of strategy games, seems so lovely and wholesome, and then you hear some of the jokes they make 😅

[@Brian-tn4cd]

Ok so to be clear, Dedalus had told Icarus that the wax wings would get too heavy if he went too close to the ocean and would start melting if he flew too close to the sun and Icarus being an impulse young guy was messing around being excited bout flying and flew too close to the sun

[@tenebrisevernight]

Additionally, Ancient Greeks didn't know about 'altitude' or 'space,' so they just assumed higher-up meant hotter.

[@Brian-tn4cd]

@@tenebrisevernight Greeks definitely had such ideas, but their assumptions were probably closer to the idea that if you put your hand close to the fire it gets hotter and extrapolated that to the sun, they did know that if you go higher it gets colder they just didn't realize how far away the sun really was

[@Z0eff]

ok @PotatoMcWhiskey we must know what you said at 2:18

[@theenglishbassist]

Yes, I'm so intrigued

[@themasterofinfinity]

Not sure I want to know lol.

[@MilkTub]

My hypothesis is to do with five year olds but I could be so far off lol

[@Lunaboops]

Not much ever gets bleeped so I need to know the spicy words

[@milesroy9564]

“Tight five year old”

[@okram2k]

Happy Monday Everyone! Daltos continues to roll along far ahead of everyone else with his seven cities though at this point I kind of hope he doesn’t settle his eighth. The further past turn 40 you settle a city the more harm than good it will do you unless you are going down a very specific game play route (that usually only coastals do). I know it sucks building a settler and not using it but all it will do is delay him getting important national wonders that are already difficult to build as a wide liberty player. Getting Petra was huge and I was rather impressed he identified its importance and prioritized it in his research que. Old Daltos would have only realized how good it was after Lewis built it in his second city and complained about it, new Daltos identified he had a desert start, shifted out of the normal liberty tech path to get currency early, and now has the best empire by far in the game. Rythian oh Rythian. I know civ isn’t a game you guys play a ton of but I feel like every time someone has to discover a core game concept and today you discovered regional luxuries. Congrats! :) Every player gets one luxury that spawns in quantity around them and in which there’s (almost) always enough to trade one to every other player to encourage the players to trade with each other. Somehow despite not generating any faith until after turn 48 Rythian manages to get the best coastal pantheon (God of the sea) thanks to other players just not picking it, so kudos to him and now Rythian will actually do some decent faith production for once! Can’t really tell yet if Rythian has any islands or not around him but he has three pretty decent cities and his trade routes up so for a tall play he’s off to a good start. If I were him I’d make at least one boat to look around to try and find a nearby spot for fourth city on an island. Maybe plop it down after getting a national college up. Potato so far is the only player that I would say is kind of (and I use that term loosely right now) keeping up with Daltos. He has five cities, getting down the piety tree quickly, and getting temples rolling out in them which makes them all fairly strong. However all of his expands are still very very low population and his happiness just isn’t there yet to support any more. Desperately he needs more luxuries and sources of happiness if he wants to catch up in any meaningful way or he’s going to just be a big blob of land that does nothing. Duncan has, at least, managed to spawn his free great scientist and plopped it down next to his capital although on just a simple plain grassland tile. I would have put it on the bison myself because a great person tile improvement can still get the bonus from whatever resource its on (so in that case it’d get +2 food, +1 food from the bison and +1 from the city’s granary). Dunca’s three cities are growing well and has not quite gotten a pantheon yet. I’d love to see him take rain dance here with all his lakes but there’s still a few other good options left. Kirsty: Last game Kirsty was too passive on settling, this game she is just gone mad with settling, sending her settlers far and wide to suck up land so far away from home that she is settling cities just so that they aren’t quite so lonely. I can’t really tell what pantheon she picked and missed it if it was on screen in the last episode but I don’t see any bonus on her yields from it. Her happiness is a little low and she’s being hurt by her regional spread to her neighbors but she has met every player so there is plenty of people to trade her chocolates with now. With Lewis bent on the sea I expect her to just keep filling up the land even though it’s so late for settling. She is also making border conflicts that don’t even need to exist with Daltos by more or less pressing up against his entire border with her cities. That could horribly backfire on her down the road or maybe she plans to attack him in the future? Lewis: Lewis so far has not brought his A game today. I am genuinely angry that it is turn 58 and he still has not improved his whales around his capital yet. It was bad enough being a coastal and researching sailing so late but then not even sending a worker out to improve your whales. Christ on a bike. Lewis’s saving grace, I suppose, is there’s a long chain of islands to his left and he sees it and plans to leave the continent behind. That could pay off in the long run but he will be behind for a very long time before he catches up to Daltos. The other downside of lots of islands is it means your production is far away from the continent which makes it hard to build and deploy a land army. RT: Today’s role of just glad to be here is going to be played by RT Games. I guess at least the inconsequential player is out of the way in the corner where he can’t really affect anything. He has plenty of land and luxuries and could support a much larger empire, just hasn’t, ya know, built the settlers to go claim it yet.

[@leoslack6104]

I’m really liking this series Dalits is doing too well

[@Goldashes]

just been staring at those unimproved whales in Lewis land with disappointment....

[@thijn7835]

he does need the tech for it even...

[@Candlemancer]

He forgot they were a luxury

[@Z0eff]

Lewis has gotten rough starts before and still got out ahead. Having said that Daltos' rapid growth is only going to accelerate in the late mid game because that's what wide play liberty does. Daltos is known to fuckup his games even after a fine start but maybe this time... this time he's got it in the bag.

[@Goldashes]

@@Z0eff absolutely, he is having a good start and by industrial if played well will be unstoppable

[@dzello]

1:40 WALES DOESN'T NEED TO BE IMPROVED, IT'S BLOODY PERFECT!

[@muaz3708]

that petra is going to be really strong

[@tialac506]

SECRET TOADY SECRET TOADY THROUGH THE CIV GAME SECRET SECRET SECRET TOADY

[@bl8976]

Damn, Rythian losing Great Library and Great Lighthouse as Venice... RIP his early game.

[@atanaskocev7747]

Damn need to wait for jingle jam now 😂

[@june-ls1hw]

Daltos had no business getting oracle as liberty haha. Great game for him

[@shrimpisdelicious]

Horses run around on their middle fingers.

[@svenrio8521]

I still believe in Lewis. Trust

[@kam......]

Calling it now, 3 city RT is deffo gonna underdog this.

[@rhystaylor851]

I feel like Oral Traditions don't really make sense for Crusty Sock, Potato flavour fail

[@fidoruh]

I love Daltos. His humor is great.

[@SqueakySniper]

Quinquerimes never had corvus boarding ramps. The corvus was only ever used twice and contributed to the sinking of the roman fleet in a storm the second time.

[@nicksamek12]

You just slap a horn on a horse and it’s one of the most mystical, magical creatures; I agree with Daltos that the base horse must be pretty mystical too.

[@s1lm4r1l6]

Daltos has more than 6 pokemon on his team. He cheatin'!

[@al145]

I for one welcome our new Daltos overlords

[@cinaralin]

This is looking like a good one.

[@Techstriker1]

Is Whiskey ok? He seem to have chosen chaos lately lol.

[@WaterMelonLord100]

Was Potato always this unhinged?

[@Burred11]

Yeah, pretty much.

[@Eeraschyyr]

Unimproved Wales? Sounds like the British to me. d=

[@boblolrus]

Nice!

[@infinitedonuts]

What was bleeped out?

[@tctilly06]

I always wondered why that U2 album randomly appeared on my iTunes

[@Techstriker1]

Realize if someone ever wanted to be confusing, just name their cities after the other players.

[@Eeraschyyr]

No Skarmory or Galvantula. Or Tyrani- you know what? I think we just have different ideas on 'best pokemon' who'd've guessed.

[@ConwaytheWizard]

Potato McRizzkey

[@themasterofinfinity]

Potato is a big ooof. Even bigger ooof than daltos lol

[@iain-duncan]

They're great

[@ManofUlster]

Can anyone link to the mod / mod list they’re running?

[@Z0eff]

Lekmod/Lekmap, links will probably get the comment deleted so you'll have to google

[@ManofUlster]

@@Z0eff got ya, thanks.

[@rawr40k]

I didn't get that whales joke that potato said.

[@Z0eff]

Wales being a country and Whales being an animal :)

[@rawr40k]

@@Z0eff Wow, somehow I totally missed that.

[@nazamroth8427]

Daltos winning? That is allowed?

[@Raktus]

I mean, famously... it gets colder the higher up you go. So Icarus flying too high wouldn't be the cause of wing melt at all.

[@panner11]

Almost like it's ancient mythology or something

[@dethmin173]

cool

[@joshuarosenbaum2410]

Potato's naming scheme is the best but no Fabian is a L

[@GhostOfSparta]

You guys should play return to moria

[@OJosheO]

Maybe this is a hot take, but Longlegs was a bad movie. The cinematography was great, but the story and Nic Cage in general were bad, and I don't get what people like about it.

[@MaxDavis-f1q]

no spiff, unwatchable. unsub!!!! /s

[@archdukepc102]

How are they still this bad at the game

[@panner11]

They only play like 2 games a year, except maybe Daltos. There's not much reason to expect constant improvement.

[@williamosborn888]

First

[@Klekowksii]

18:49 No it's when the baby goat makes stone tools