My face when I steal Petra from the AI with my INSANE production - Civ 6 Gaul Ep.2

[@johnsinerios5148]

"Last episode we had a rather unfortunate war with the Germans..." That's been said before.

[@Basketball_is_Life_88]

The Germans always attack early everytime.

[@caniblmolstr4503]

@Adi G. Wait isn't Ambiorix and the Eburones basically the ancestor of Modern Belgians not the French? The Franks came from another line most likely. What I see Gaul as is as an alternate version of Germany

[@caniblmolstr4503]

@Adi G. No prob. Just stated my observation. Gaul in civ 6 is an alternate Germany

[@Cosamaru]

Potato: "Gaul probably wants to spread its cities out more than other civs." Also Potato: *settles almost every city at the minimum possible range*

[@brewtal85]

That's a sexy looking Petra, so many juicy hills. Would have been heartbreaking for the AI to beat you to Petra and eventually see it sat on the other side of the world on a single desert tile with no workable tiles anywhere near.

[@mishaf19]

Stop...

[@noahdukat1968]

My father did this to me in a multiplayer game... The worst part is that he didn’t even know he was effectively wasting production.

[@BagofBeans1]

@@noahdukat1968 I sincerely hope that you rolled up with a military and got revenge

[@PinkishUnicorns]

hippity hoppity the petra’s my property

[@tribuvanmohanasundaram120]

Orange juice hahha

[@danzoom]

Guys, i have a feeling he is no gonna build a Venetian Arsenal in this playthrough...

[@TheOfficialTacoBell]

"is that a crossbowman?" "no, but its upgrading to a crossbowman"

[@JazzGinas]

Imagine having girlfriend called Petra

[@SlivCommique]

Isn’t Petra that woman from Minecraft story mode or something

[@burgerjoker647]

CommunistStarWar no, she’s from fire emblem three houses

[@swampwitch7313]

@@burgerjoker647 No she's from Destiny 1

[@andhy5114]

That's the girl from attack on titan isn't it

[@Imperial_stroopwafel]

I had a teacher called 'Petra'

[@lekanske3816]

Yea the Petra's cool and all but Have you built the Venetian arsenal?

[@carrotizgud9222]

Mfw when petra with venetian arsenal

[@aidanabregov1412]

Once, either by mistake or pandering

[@bluntlyhonest6803]

I dont understand the venetian arsenal meme. Care to Enlighten me?

[@carrotizgud9222]

@@bluntlyhonest6803 He never builds the venetian arsenal. He built venetian arsenal in one of his videos Viewers go apeshit

[@bluntlyhonest6803]

@@carrotizgud9222 Ah... But is venesian arsenal any good?

[@linkmasterman1]

I'm surprised you were so hesitant to pick up Monumentality, that +2 movement on builders is so powerful, greatly speeding up chopping endeavors.

[@cylee4735]

And getting a few essentially free settlers/builders before quickly swapping the card away

[@robertposaric6419]

3 turns for monument - I guess the world congress actually helped you to be even more efficient

[@DavidSmith-mt7tb]

So I started a Gaul game and I gotta say it might be better to go pingala especially if your capital has good food production. Promote science to get industrial zone as fast as possible. Crank out units and mines for culture gain and then swap pingala for magnus after getting industrial zone and promote for no settler food cost and just spam all your cities. Pingala can be moved to second city at that point.

[@willsquirrels]

I found you yesterday and I have already binge watched like 4 or 5 of your videos lol

[@HazelFawn1]

I won my first ever deity game a few days ago and I was playing as Ambiorix. I am so happy and proud of myself for managing to do this without using any exploits. I would not ever have been able to win if it was not for watching a bunch of your videos, teaching me about strategies and how to play and use cards ive been dealt to their fullest potential. Love your vids!

[@andresjg6]

What victory did you win? How did it go?

[@HazelFawn1]

@@andresjg6 It was a science victory. I won one hundred turns after the first AI had launched their satellite and started the space race. It was a very tough race to catch up as fast as possible and whilst my exo-planet expedition was on its way the world descended into a 5 way thermonuclear war (I was nuked first)

[@jamescrock2213]

@@HazelFawn1 jesus, past what difficulty do the AI's actually nuke each other? I usually get frustrated late mid game cause I earned so much tourists but stops growing/(or got cut 3 times from diplomatic victories, AI voted against me every single time) and start my bombing campaign. I tried deity once and france was eating half the map with helicopters while I had musketmen

[@greyaiden228]

I was just thinking this would come out now! Love the play throughs btw!

[@SkyReviewsNet]

Static Wilfrid Laurier is cursed.

[@spambot9206]

You'll get used to it if you have a potato pc like me

[@luxy3730]

@@spambot9206 hehe *potato* pc

[@bruno3719]

good night. I discovered your channel a short time ago, but I'm Brazilian, I don't understand any English. And you disabled in the last 2 videos the caption what helped me to see your videos. if you can activate again I appreciate it.

[@recas2780]

Imma help like this comment so potato can see

[@benedictosamosir9109]

didn't youtube just disable community captions because people kept abusing it?

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

I did not disable captions that is a youtube issue

[@bruno3719]

@@PotatoMcWhiskey understand. thanks for listening. your civ videos are really cool. I really liked the series you play with Rome, it was very cool the mechanics legions.

[@bruno3719]

sorry my poor english and i'm using the google translator to communicate me lol

[@Lickiecat]

One day the robots are going to achieve sentience. And they will remember how we laughed at them.

[@jrm78]

The desert city will also give you era score for the coastal settle and you can always purchase a galley for that little extra bit too.

[@joelpierce1453]

You could have had a +4 campus in Lisieux next to the volcano. Another mine between it and the industrial zone would have kept your adjacency.

[@Gregorius421]

Wow, I've learned more from this series than days of playing. Good job!

[@bobintheg]

Was waiting all day for this upload lol. Thanks for continuing to provide entertainment for us during these trying times 🥔

[@gyuszibaan9860]

Love the length of this video :).

[@farisimran4588]

The thing that i love when watching potato play is he know what is he doing , he is very good at this game... compare to other youtubers where they are not even know what are they doing

[@isaiahgentle427]

I saw the potential of the petra spot in the last video, and the natural wonder just makes it even better now. So satisfying

[@user-ex2tk1qr3i]

Thanks for you post the video now

[@tylermeehan6117]

I just found this channel and I’ve subscribed within 10 minutes of watching him. This is really interesting and helps me a lot cause I’ve been playing civ 6 with no clue of what I’m doing

[@bleearg13]

People who disliked this video: Gitarja, Wilfred, Frederick, Mbenza and....Seondeok.

[@PiotrDzialak]

I wonder what's the point of people disliking this video. Potato didn't say anything remotely offensive.

[@benjaminmadrigalperez9010]

@@PiotrDzialak some do it to bookmark the video. Don't ask me why not bookmarking it normally. But it is what i have been told.

[@neville1311]

Gotta love these thumbnails

[@elbonnybar]

this is giving me more satisfaction than the Bizantium game, so many good locations to settle. btw where are the cliff of dover? you need them for extra meme strenght.

[@LillyAlara]

Thanks for this series Potato! I've been playing a hotseat game with my roommate, and Gaul is very hit and miss with the Hermetics. If you get lucky with ley line placement, then it is golden for making up for the lack of city center adjacency bonus, but my capital in this game has an entirely wasted ley line until we hit the next age. Overall, I'm enjoying the ability to ignore early game monuments by just churning out high production military units and building mines; it gets rid of that tedious feeling you get when most civs have such a static build order in the early game.

[@cccbb89767]

Congrats on this. … must have been a lot of editing work .. high quality content for the civ community.. extra thumbs up for additional analysis like the one about the statue of Zeus

[@elsanto2401]

Not gonna lie, i go for the scrub greed petra by settling near freshwater dead center in the desert

[@don825]

I would strongly recommend settling a coastal city and going for the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, purely for the extra charge for Great Engineers alone. The numerous early industrial zones will ensure you generate more Great Engineers than anybody else for the rest of the game, and that extra charge will come in handy more times than you'll be able to count - particularly the ones that give workshops bonus culture, the one that builds a free workshop and factory, and the ones that boost wonder production.

[@zundra616]

Damn that's actually a pretty good idea with the right spawn, never thought of that. Always forget it gives extra charges

[@RobertR19]

Great video like always. Vampire castles and the Gaul's are crazy. Try it out.

[@Redheisenberg]

I just finished watching ep1 and i see this in my notifications LETS GO

[@Willdroyd]

hippity hoppity the comment bellow is my property hippity hoppity the petra’s my property

[@orarinnsnorrason4614]

That thumbnail is top tier :)

[@Ultima3755]

The great engineer that gives extra production and culture to workshops is really nice for Gaul especially with mosuleum for the extra use.

[@Bungiejumper117]

Potato, I’m so proud that you fixed your pronunciation of Uluru, love from Aus x

[@Bigvision121worship]

Playing as Gaul while watching... First 3 Oppidums adjacency bonuses (+4, +7 in Capitol with Magnus, and +5). I love these guys:)

[@PaulDickson7]

Stella episode, thank you Potato

[@s-man5647]

36:15 potatomcwhiskey getting a new RTX 30 series card confirmed

[@LAZERAK47V2]

I like to think that the war between the Gauls and Germany was about who has the better facial hair and then they just went out for drinks after.

[@kevindotcom5318]

Love these kind of gameplays!

[@kristilucero4553]

why does this series make me nostalgic for old minecraft survival series

[@Xardaras]

I feel dumb for having to google "gaul" to find out it's synonym with "gallia" in latin...

[@russellroberts6220]

I followed your advice and started the medieval age in 172 BC. 1 turn military production is so choice.

[@maxxxaids]

Please do a Gaul stream soon! You're the only civ streamer i know of that plays them right and its super triggering seeing people not take advantage of their mad gains!

[@christopherjohnson1873]

Your videos are pretty addicting

[@irismarin8613]

"39 production per turn, this is unheard of on Civ" *laughs in Petra Outback Station city with 120 production per turn*

[@Nowitzki4141]

i’ve noticed that highlands maps have less water than usual, so even though the entire map is the same size as continents, there is more land to be settled, and large portions of land stay unsettled the whole game

[@noisy8937]

i know im a bit late. But that terracotta army build was very smart in dramatic Ages. If you go into a potential dark age you just can update as many units you need to get the golden age.

[@tyrannicalsaint]

Good pronunciation of Uluru .

[@therealJiggySaw]

New luxury resource of potatoes gives +10 everything

[@cameronphenix2096]

Gorgeous thumbnail, Tater.

[@Isengardtom]

This let’s play is a lot of fun

[@04Bpyro]

Does it bug anyone else that the opidum when placed has the same symbol as the encampment? It just seems like a really confusing thing for them to do.

[@grimmturd]

I've noticed that you still move great people via normal travel, instead of the instantaneous teleportation to a city that they are capable of.

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

sometimes the time difference is irrelevent

[@assainisateur]

thumbnail of this video is epic win in itself

[@bamjam1]

i played this game like 300hours but man i feel like such a noob when i watch these videos. Learned so much from watching your vids that i can now go higher diff then warlord lol.

[@RMCbreezy]

Thousands here and hes taught me stuff. A lot of it comes down to wording stuff the game tells us in different ways

[@zachkennett6480]

Day 1 of Pacifist Challenge -Cannot declare war -Barbarians Off -Can only kill units in defense -Must be science or culture victory

[@edencoles8040]

What about religious or diplomatic?

[@dsong5343]

I mean thats basically every game I play lmao (besides barbarians off)

[@MS31459]

Why not a diplomatic or religious victory

[@zachkennett6480]

Eden Coles Not as fun

[@zachkennett6480]

Darthraider 100 Not as fun

[@Velocitypounder]

I like the idea of a diplomatic victory this game

[@gunzakimbo]

With how much I find myself building builders with them, Magnus isn't as good cause I also find myself not building as many settlers (especially in the early game). Definitely recommend going Liang first with them and then Pingala. I love your strategy of Oppidum, Ancestral Hall and the Settler card. Then if you have room, then try for the settler not losing a pop. Had 2 turn settlers! xD Thank you for the amazing work my dude! :) Edit: Those computers blocking great prophets! xD Holy crap, computers made a smart in-time and game decision!? xD

[@tighnarix3229]

I would’ve settled the Petra city on the sheep next to the lake. For a couple of reasons 1. Access to fresh water(so no need to rush aqueduct) 2. More desert tiles to make the Petra even better 3. It still has access to 5 chops 4. Still in range to purchase tiles for the Pyramid and the Petra

[@tighnarix3229]

If I did this, I would obviously not have purchased the Granary in Aduatuca

[@generalbacon7476]

You got to do a campaign where the only civs in it are ones with culture bombs

[@lasombra120680]

Having watched a few of these Civ 6 playthroughs now... dare I say Potato as a production guy I think this may be some of your best and downright flithy work yet.

[@aidanabregov1412]

What if CIV VI devs made Jair Bolsonaro as an alternate Brazilian Civ that could chop the pantanel for gold?

[@tompeled6193]

Yeah.

[@votecthulhu9378]

lmaooo

[@tompeled6193]

Unique Ability: Destruição Ambiental Can chop natural wonders and receive 1000 of the tile's yields.

[@aidanabregov1412]

@@tompeled6193 But permanent negative grievances against Leaders that like the environment... and BREATHING!

[@lucakeltie2491]

You should build the Venetian arsenal this game. I heard this you tuber built it once and he was really glad he did

[@Xenodotus]

The workshop which you said would take 90 turns to return on the production investment takes 65 turns. +3 production for 65 round equals 195 production. Also that does not include the value for when a citizen works in it and neither does it include the added benefit on Great Engineer points. If you use a builder (current cost 90p) and you improve 3 tiles with them - each time adding +1p for the tile - they pay themselves in 30 turns but don't forget that they become more expensive, so building a workshop is better at this point in time but after the pyramids Builders become incredibly valuable and are better than workshops (if you don't get pillaged) which is hard to do with an Industrial complex from Gaul. I still think workshops are very worth it especially with a Civ like Gaul and an aggressive neighbour. But that's just my opinion.

[@norsktorsk8982]

14:43 Who's said we need monuments on other civs

[@nikhilchandraperi9145]

@PotatoMcWhiskey I've noticed that it helps to put the adjacency of your district map tacks as its name, so you have more info available at a glance :)

[@JohnDoe-yq8ox]

At 37:30 when you culture bomb with the mine, Germany's area did not go to you. Is that something with the new updates? I'm still using Rise and Fall. It can actually be helpful to not get it so that Germany does not get grievance against you.

[@varangianguard7102]

John Doe pretty sure borders of other nations arent affected from culture bombs, this could be an update or maybe something for gaul only so they arent too op

[@houndofculann1793]

@@varangianguard7102 actually stealing tiles from others has always been one of the functions of a culture bomb, Poland even has the ability to instantly convert any city losing a tile to their culture bomb into their religion. The Gaul culture bomb just has the extra rule of "claiming unowned tiles"

[@varangianguard7102]

@@houndofculann1793 ah i see

[@s-man5647]

11:05 I wonder if there could be lens that specifically looks at adjacency bonuses of 3 or more

[@goosewild3478]

Just imagine drinking Petra

[@DrTheDarkNight]

Gaul is amazing! this series convinced be to buy the frontier pass xD

[@nathanskeen5865]

When i played Gaul I got Petra and Rhur valley in the same city. Easy space race city

[@locococo8961]

24:24 Remember when you played Germany?

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Yeah but that happens much later in the game

[@p1ural391]

my god, that petra city is nuts

[@falsehero2001]

I can’t believe he had the...😎...Gaul to do that. YEAAAAAAAH!

[@jothki]

You have reduced civ count on a map that's mostly land. Empty space will be a big thing.

[@daviddavidsson6243]

I once won a game on emperor difficulity as france and one of my cities had over 100 production on standard settings, also it had no natural wonder or anything

[@TheAsh221]

This is the most potato civ ever... He loves production and adjacency...

[@Robovski]

Well done never saying Poppadum.

[@FostedFlake]

When the Petra decides to be built by the other Civ it’s Petrayl!

[@BF-eu9bd]

woo

[@varangianguard7102]

Brett Fong first gg

[@spyrochrisgaming]

9:50 I believe Venice is a rename of Zanzibar.

[@janekkmiec2307]

While having a lot of production is fine and dandy, what was the end game goal? Start cranking out science buildings to catch up technology-wise or crank out an army?

[@MrPihtija]

Might not be your PC for the leaders animations, in the last patch i had a problem, but only with 1 in my game, all the others were working smooth while gorgo was 10 fps

[@Atlasholy8]

Played the standard game on deity on multiplayer as Gaul. Montezuma was building spaceports on turn 84!!😱

[@mrjblacc85]

With all of these great engineer points, are you thinking of the Mausilium at hallicarnassus for the extra charge? Also, good call on building you govt district in your capital, in my diety Gaul, dramatic ages game I lost my govt districts due to a dark age, that basically killed me.

[@Naruninja555]

Kongo built the mausoleum already on his play through

[@codeplaysgames7681]

I don't have Civ 6 only 5, 4, 3. But wow, civ 6 looks so extensive and amazing looking. Just gotta wait a little more till I get my new computer and buy it. Can't wait.

[@RMCbreezy]

Did you get a computer and buy civ 6? Its on the xbox and phones too

[@simdoughnut659]

It's funny, I'm doing the A-Z challenge atm and I'm on the Gaul, and I also have Germany as my neighbor, and he made the mistake of attacking me and got crushed.

[@Mejulie1217]

17:01 why did building a mine there give you the adjacent tiles as well?? (Bibrax)

[@Mejulie1217]

found tha answer later on :) Culture bomb - Gallic ability Hallstatt Culture (by building Mines) This culture bomb thing is way too op.

[@smonk3074]

Yesterday in my Gaul game I wiped out Scythia, Kongo and the Inca in the ancient - medieval era thanks to the oppidum's insane production boost, then after the wars, with the whole world hating me I started to sim -city my empire with the Gauls insane production and culture, built campuses, entertaiment complexes and even more oppidum's in nearly all of my cities. About when I got to rocketry I decided to go for a science victory because most of my cities had 80-120 production and I was making 890 science per turn when the AI closest to my science was making 120 science per turn. I also picked communism for even more production and science. Grabbed the royal society building in the goverment plaza,constructed 6 space ports in my cities with the most production and in all other cities I started spamming out builders to feed into the space race projects for a turn 329 science victory. Truly barbaric beings those G*uls.

[@Dunkle0steus]

there were two spots with 3 adjacent quarries/strat resources to the west...

[@forerealz]

I've also had performance issues with leader animations recently. For instance, Harold has no beard most or helmet lately.

[@Andjac2010]

Has he said which Victory-type he is going for in this playthrough? I know he mentioned Diplomatic, but that usually requires a religion for the Mahabodi temple

[@eljackofarmer1604]

I swear every game u play wit congo they always skyrocket with military and science and culture

[@thr4017]

I always enjoy your Civ6 videos, thank you very much. The following may sound strange but: The "problem " is sometimes that you are "too good" at Civ6. As a viewer I never have that feeling of...well, "tension" because it is crystal clear that Potato will always win his games, mostly even easily. I remember that you once did videos called something like "I save your disasters" where people sent you their savegames and you tried to correct their mistakes. And that was not always possible. But I found it most interesting how you (for example) handled critical war situations in those videos, sometimes with reloads and trying out different strategies in a critical battle. Would you consider doing such videos again?

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

yes

[@bihanj5284]

PotatoMcWhiskey cmon man he put so much effort into that comment at least capitalise that ‘y’

[@thr4017]

@@bihanj5284 Thanks for caring, but It's an honor to get a response from PotatoMcWhiskey, even if it may be small. He has so many comments to read, I understand that.

[@bihanj5284]

T R yea lol I know I was kidding

[@RMCbreezy]

Reminds me of my last game. Had to reload 3 or 4 times to save a religious wonder from gandhi's zealotry. Mainly was my greed of not building walls

[@oatmeal42]

A lick most devious