Governors Analysis and Guide - Civ 6 Gathering Storm

[@bradleytuttlesworth3959]

Victor Overview - 0:39 Amani Overview - 7:44 Moksha Overview - 13:01 Magnus Overview - 18:21 Liang Overview - 26:37 Pingala Overview - 33:02 Reyna Overview - 37:41 Ibrhahim Overview - 42:14 Opening Strategies - 46:45 Follow-up Strategies - 52:44 Closing Thoughts - 53:50 Always love the content Potato!

[@Abd121]

Congrats!

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Congrats Sam L. you win, send me a message on Discord

[@handy25]

Very nice

[@abeke5523]

i am jealous

[@colinkeller]

Very generous of you!

[@unigeekpanda3026]

0:00 Start. Opening phrase 0:02 Introduction to video 0:10 Thanks to Firaxis 0:16 Video layout explanation 0:30 Pre-release diclaimer 0:39 Victor start 0:43 Victor; Innate - Redoubt 1:21 Victor; 1.1 - Garrison Commander 2:44 Victor; 1.2 - Defense Logistics 3:46 Victor; 2.1 - Embrasure 4:43 Victor; interlude for synergy between tier 1 and 2 6:23 Victor; 3.1 - Air Defense Initiative 6:34 Victor; 3.2 - Arms Race Proponent, into interlude for synergy between all tiers 7:22 Victor; General opinion and judgement 7:43 Amani start 8:04 Amani; Innate - Messenger 8:54 Amani; 1.1 - Emissary 9:51 Amani; 1.2 - Affluence 10:19 Amani; 2.2 - Foreign Investor 11:11 Amani; 2.1 - Local Informants 12:10 Amani; 3.1 - Puppeteer 12:14 Amani; General opinion and judgement 13:01 Moksha start 13:08 Moksha; Innate - Bishop 14:02 Moksha; 1.1 - Grand Inquisitor 14:09 Moksha; 1.2 - Laying On Of Hands 14:42 Moksha; 2.1 - Citadel Of God 15:16 Moksha; 3.1 - Patron Saint 15:36 You really do need to play a religious conquest game. 16:07 Moksha; 3.2 - Divine Architect 17:28 Moksha; General opinion and judgement 18:22 Magnus start 18:23 Magnus; Innate - Groundbreaker 19:10 Magnus; 1.1 - Surplus Logistics 20:17 Magnus; 1.2 - Provision 20:42 Magnus; 2.2 - Black Marketeer 20:52 Magnus; Interlude for synergy between tier 1 and 2, as well as Amani 21:05 Magnus; Continuation of interlude with examples from tech tree 22:28 Magnus; 2.1 - Industrialist 22:39 Magnus; 2.1 examples from tech tree 24:37 Magnus; 3.1 - Vertical Integration 25:05 Magnus; General opinion and judgement 26:37 Liang start 26:43 Liang; Innate - Guildmaster 27:24 Liang; 1.1 - Zoning Commissioner 28:48 Liang; 2.1 - Reinforced Materials 30:06 Liang; 1.2 - Aquaculture 31:10 Liang; 2.2 - Water Works 31:30 Liang; 3.1 - Parks And Recreation 31:37 Liang ; General opinion and judgement 33:01 Pingala start 33:15 Pingala; Innate - Librarian 33:24 Pingala; 1.1 and 1.2 - Connoisseur and Researcher 35:09 Pingala; 2.1 - Grants 35:51 Pingala; 3.1 - Curator 36:05 Pingala; Interlude for synergies 36:38 Pingala; 3.2 - Space Innitiative 37:04 Pingala; General opinion and judgement 37:41 Reyna start 37:52 Reyna; Innate - Land Acquisition 38:28 Reyna; 1.1 - Harbormaster 38:46 Reyna; 2.1 - Tax Collector 38:55 Reyna; 1.2 - Forestry Management 39:57 Reyna; Interlude for synergies 40:21 Reyna; 3.1 - Contractor 41:33 Reyna; 3.2 - Renewable Subsidizer 42:07 Reyna; General opinion and judgement 42:12 Ibrahim start 42:30 Ibrahim; Innate - Pasha 42:48 Ibrahim; 1.1 - Head Falconer 43:05 Ibrahim; 1.2 - Serasker 43:43 Ibrahim; 2.1 - Khass-Oda-Bashi 44:10 Ibrahim; 2.2 - Kapou Agha 44:31 Ibrahim; 3.1 - Grand Vizier, and synergies 45:50 You think this was long for you!? 46:00 YOU MADE ME DO THIS!! 46:31 You said "really really detailed"! 46:42 General strategies start 46:54 Or not. Opening strategies 47:04 Opening strat #1; Magnus, Liang, Pingala 47:25 Opening strat #2; Magnus, Amani, Moksha 47:48 Opening strat #3; Magnus, Liang, Magnus(1.2) 48:29 All in openers start 48:38 All in #1; Amani(1.2 +2.2), Magnus(1.2+2.2) 49:08 All in #2; Liang(1.2), Any 49:23 All in #3; Pingala(1.1/1.2), Magnus 52:17 PINGALAPINGALAPINGALAPINGALA 52:48 Followup strategies start 53:00 Follow up #1; Liang(1.2) 53:10 Follow up #2; Pingala(1.1+1.2) 53:20 Follow up #3; Reyna(1.1/1.2), Reyna(2.1) 53:45 Round up start 54:15 Most important takeaway! 55:15 Thanks for watching 55:33 Outro phrase 55:43 I love you too man! Keep up the good work! 55:46 Babai! 55:47 Final screen 56:07 End.

[@koolkendall9204]

Wow,how did you not win? ill give you a at-a-boy atleast.

[@unigeekpanda3026]

Probably too late man, didn't have time to watch the video at first and then this took a while to make ^^"

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

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[@unigeekpanda3026]

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[@unigeekpanda3026]

@@PotatoMcWhiskey Thanks Potato

[@minecraftgamer-lv4sy]

0:00 beginning 56:07 end

[@shubhamtripathi2683]

That thumbnail though

[@aelix56]

I came here just to thumb the video up because of it.

[@adrianlopez-lanchares523]

Here is a pretty detailed time stamp of the video, with each governor and individual abilities and promotions included: Victor Overview: 0:40 Ability 1 Breakdown: 1:20 Ability 2 Breakdown: 2:47 Ability 3 Breakdown: 3: 48 Ability 4 Breakdown: 6:24 Ability 5 Breakdown: 6: 34 Amani Overview: 7:43 Ability 1 Breakdown: 8:55 Ability 2 Breakdown: 9:52 Ability 3 Breakdown: 10:17 Ability 4 Breakdown: 11:11 Ability 5 Breakdown: 12:11 Moksha Overview: 13:01 Ability 1 Breakdown: 14:02 Ability 2 Breakdown: 14:08 Ability 3 Breakdown: 14:42 Ability 4 Breakdown: 15: 18 Ability 5 Breakdown: 16:07 Magnus Overview: 18:21 Ability 1 Breakdown: 19:10 Ability 2 Breakdown: 20:18 Ability 3 Breakdown: 20:48 Ability 4 Breakdown: 20:28 Ability 5 Breakdown: 20:39 Liang Overview: 26:36 Ability 1 Breakdown: 27:24 Ability 2 Breakdown: 30:07 Ability 3 Breakdown: 28:50 Ability 4 Breakdown: 31:10 Ability 5 Breakdown: 31:29 Pingala Overview: 33:10 Ability 1 Breakdown: 33:27 Ability 2 Breakdown: 33:27 Ability 3 Breakdown: 35:08 Ability 4 Breakdown: 35:51 Ability 5 Breakdown: 36:38 Reyna Overview: 37:42 Ability 1 Breakdown: 38:27 Ability 2 Breakdown: 38:55 Ability 3 Breakdown: 40:03 Ability 4 Breakdown: 40:20 Ability 5 Breakdown: 41:33 Ibrahim Overview: 42:11 Ability 1 Breakdown: 42:48 Ability 2 Breakdown: 43:05 Ability 3 Breakdown: 44:10 Ability 4 Breakdown: 43:42 Ability 5 Breakdown: 44:30 General Governor Strategies: 46:44Conclusion: 53:48 Much love Potato, always here to help!

[@adrianlopez-lanchares523]

Well, my formatting didn't work and it looks kind of funky and hard to understand, but everything possible is in there!

[@hordenmeisterAO]

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[@MegaAlexPower100]

If i didnt had Rise and Fall already i would just copy ur thing XD but i have it so im a nice guy and give thumpd up :D

[@RSCa3218]

46:15 - Everyone viewing started scrolling through the comments 46:30 - Started laughing at the number of lists and their time stamps and upvotes

[@TigerBrows]

Potato McWhiskey Here: 0:00 Angry Eyepatch Armor Guy: 0:40 Headscarf Diplomat Lady: 7:43 Monkman: 13:00 Very British Guy: 18:20 Putting A Pencil Over Your Ear Makes You Look Smart Lady: 26:37 The Guy Everyone's Going To Get First Now: 33:00 Taxation Is Theft And I'm The Best Thief: 37:40 I'm Actually Just Part of the Ottomans' UA But I'm Here Too: 42:14 The Moment I Realized I Was Way Too Late To Make A Table Of Contents Comment But Decided To Do So Anyway: 46:24

[@Hathsin]

Governor Timestamps & Strategies: Victor Changes - 0:38 Amani Changes - 7:43 Moksha Changes - 13:00 Magnus Changes - 18:20 Liang Changes - 26:38 Pingala Changes - 33:03 Reyna Changes - 37:41 Ibrahim Abilities - 42:14 Opening Strategies - 46:45 Follow up Strategies - 52:45 Wrap-up & Closing Thoughts - 53:49 You're the best Potato I've ever met.

[@philipollas2377]

0:37 Victor 7:42 Amani 13:02 Moksha 18:22 Magnus 26:36 Liang 33:04 Pingala 37:42 Reyna 42:15 Ibrahim 45:49 General Strategies

[@evandercorvus8355]

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[@philipollas2377]

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[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Not first I'm afraid!

[@Benjamin-085]

Victor: 0:38 Amani: 7:43 Moksha: 13:00 Magnus: 18:20 Liang: 26:36 Pingala: 33:01 Reyna: 37:40 Ibrhahim: 42:13 Strategies: 46:44 and Follow up Strats 52:43 Thoughts/Ideas: 53:49

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Not first sorry!

[@Benjamin-085]

@@PotatoMcWhiskey Its fine, at least I tried. Meh Maybe I can get lucky next time and win.

[@bumblesheep9528]

Time Stamps: Governors: 0:40 Viktor 7:44 Amani 13:09 Moksha 18:33 Magnus 26:38 Liang 33:02 Pingala 37:43 Reyna 42:12 Ibrahim 46:44 Opening Strategies 53:47 Summary

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Not first I'm afraid !

[@bumblesheep9528]

To slow I guess. I was one of the first, who watched the video. But somehow the others where faster to finish it. However, if there is free food Ill be always around.

[@VoidChroma]

0:39 Victor 7:42 Amani 13:02 Moksha 18:20 Magnus 26:37 Liang 33:00 Pingala 37:41 Reyna 42:12 Ibrahim 46:42 General/Opening Strategies 52:42 Follow-up Strategies 53:47 Closing Remarks

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

You werent first sorry!

[@Emiltat]

Victor 0:39 Garrison Commander 1:23 Defence Logistic 2:50 Embrasure 3:46 Air Defence Initative 6:22 Arms Race Proponent 6:35 Victor overall thought 7:13 Amani 7:43 Emissary 8:55 Affluence 9:51 Foreign Investors 10:19 Local informants 11:10 Pupeteer 12:10 Amani overall thought 12:15 Moksha 13:03 Grand Inquisitor 14:03 Laying on of hands 14:09 Citadel of God 14:41 Patron saint 15:15 Divine architect 16:07 Moksha overall thought 17:31 Magnus 18:21 Surplus logistic 19:11 Provision 20:17 Black marketeer 20:44 Industrialist 22:28 Vertical integration 24:38 Magnus overall thought 25:07 Liang 26:38 Zoning commissoner 27:25 Reinforced material 28:49 Aqua culture 30:05 Waterworkds 30:53 Parks and recreation 31:30 Liang overall thought 31:38 Pingala 33:02 Connoisseur and researcher 33:28 Grants 35:08 Curator 35:53 Space initiative 36:39 Pingala overall thought 37:05 Reyna 37:43 Harbormaster 38:28 Forestry management 38:55 Tax collector 40:05 Contractor 40:21 Renewable subsidizer 41:33 Reyna overall thought 42:08 Ibrahim 42:13 Head falconer 42:48 Serasker 43:05 Khass -oda-bashi 43:44 Capou agha 44:10 Grand Vizier 44:30 Opening strategies: First 3 titles 46:56 Follow up strategies 52:43 Final thoughts of governors in gathering storm 53:54

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

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[@Emiltat]

@@PotatoMcWhiskey oh that is lovely. whats your tag on discord? the link on your twitch was invalid

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

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[@Emiltat]

@@PotatoMcWhiskey Thanks Potato

[@matthewmacneil2761]

Victor 0:40 Amani 7:44 Moksha 13:03 Magnus 18:22 Liang 26:39 Pingala 33:13 Reyna 37:43 Ibrahim 42:15 General Opening Strategy (First 3 Governor Points) - Magnus, Liang & Pingala 47:05 Alternative 1 Opening Strategy - Magnus, Amani, Moksha 47:25 Alternative 2 Opening Strategy - Magnus, Liang, Magnus (Provision) - 47:48 Alternative 3 Opening Strategy (First 6 Governor Points) - Amani & Magnus 48:38 Alternative For Strong Coastal City - Liang - 49:10 Potato's Most Powerful Starting Strategy - The Pingala Opener - For Delayed Settling - 49:23 Follow Up Strategies After Any Opening Strategy If Coastal City - Liang - 53:04 Pingala - Use Three Points & Place In Largest City 53:12 For Money - Use Three Points in Reyna 53:20 Potato's Thoughts On Variety Of Governor Uses In Gathering Storm 53:57 Love the content Potato! Keep up the great work!

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

You weren't first sadly! :(

[@iluvyou2nite]

I found great use of Liang's Reinforced Materials promotion in my latest game with Pachacuti. I had a city within a ring of mountains and 4 volcanoes, one of which being Mt. Vesuvius, and boy did that city thrive. I got the full benefit of all the fertilization with none of the negatives of molten lava melting my city every other turn.

[@Skycroft1000]

Reinforced materials strikes me as most useful for volcanoes. Like rivers, you know where they will hit, but there's no dam or similar way to mitigate them normally. Especially with the natural wonder volcanos, you could probably get good use of Liang with that promotion in a single volcano city that you can also build up to be your tall city with all the districts.

[@yahawahschildtammyt]

Exactly what I'm doing right now. . I have her sitting in my city with a natural wonder volcano and all my districts sitting around the volcano. Amazing!

[@SGProductions87]

I find you can avoid most of the damage by not placing districts around the volcano and making sure your city is not directly adjacent to it. 2 tiles away, your city will very rarely be affected unless it's like "megacolossal eruption"

[@KevinStudent]

That's awesome they let you have a look at this! You perfectly represent an experienced fan of the series that gives well-balanced criticisms of the game!

[@fenril6685]

Liang's Reinforced Materials I think was designed with volcanos in mind, since it is probably the most consistent (from the looks of it) locational disaster. It seems like it would be a top tier promotion if you had a city near one of the volcano natural wonders in particular. I think that the changes have been altered somewhat to make some of the governors very synergistic in their trees and then some less synergistic and more situationally powerful/flexible. Pingala, Magnus, and Mokshaw are the synergistic victory-focused governors now. Liang, Reyna, and Amani are more situationally powerful offering alot of flexible options depending on what build you are aiming for. They also are more focused towards playing the map, e.g. where have you settled your most powerful cities and what kind of civ bonuses/wonders do you have? Victor and Ibrahim are kind of separate imo, while they do lend themselves towards domination victories I feel like their greatest strengths are in their defensive options. These are the governors you want early if you are behind and in danger.

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[@Weraptor]

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[@zoltantorgue7231]

victor= 0:56 amani= 8:09 magnus= 18:06 liang= 26:57 pingala= 34:30 reyna= 37:49 ibrahim= 42:20

[@zoltantorgue7231]

these timestamps are for when each on starts

[@steph_man372]

Something I love with Reyna is also just the production a city can get with her due to that first left promotion. 2 or 3 resources, the city, commercial hub and yellow card that gives another 100% adjecency is just so much production for a coastal city.

[@mattorabuena398]

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[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

You're got damn right.

[@skalerz396]

Great quality and comprehensive video, Governors are the one thing I still needed help on and this video definitely helped a ton. thanks for the video!

[@Baleur]

I've almost not looked at any of the other governors seriously, before watching this video, than Magnus and Liang. Because those two are so obviously great that its hard to say no to making those the first you spec into. Magnus for his INSANE "settlers dont cost pop" and the extra growth from trade routes (set a trade route for your new cities back to the capital to let them get a boost until 4 pop or so). And Liang for her INCREDIBLE bonus to district production and builder charge earlygame (before those civics unlock). The third one i usually spec into is Pingala and put 3 point into him for the full Science and Culture buffs, place him in my biggest city and just afk-enjoy the bonuses roll on in. But i really appreciated this video, it brought many things to light that i didnt even check out seriously before. Civ is a game that just keeps on giving and becoming more complex and deep, even hundreds of hours in i havent checked all governors yet.

[@remlapwastaken8857]

Ibrahim is insane. I steamrolled a domination victory before the Industrial Era as the Ottomans because of Head Falconer and Serakser. He's like Victor, except good. I don't care for his later promotions as it's easily counteracted by an enemy dropping one of their own governors to replace him, but the first two promotions coupled with crusade can cause you to one shot cities with Janissaries.

[@NatanoMai]

I just love your work Potato. You always find the right balance between being very informative and entertaining, keep up please :)

[@josephdockwiller3652]

I can't wait for Gathering Storm.

[@132Beats]

I think Vertical Integration is very useful for Space Projects

[@edwardrusk]

As soon as your started describing Reyna I thought "That will be Mad with Mansa Munsa", then you basically confirmed my suspicions. My inner "Morganite" (Alpha Centauri) is now very happy. 😁

[@ldynasty]

Great thumbnail Potato! Cheers and thanks for the info.

[@e2driver99]

Great Video per usual. Adding my 2 cents. IMO you’ve always undervalued Lian’s Aquaculture. Allows for +4f/+1g tiles in Classical Era. Monumentality dedication and open coastal areas = rapid expansion and growth. And I always fully promote her by late game tourism victory to set up my seaside resorts with plenty of parks which also provide amenities to help with the expansion. But your sit and produce workers strategy is spot on now. Amani, another strategy for her is to grab first suzeranities for era score. Meet a city state first then send her and pop the score. I’ve watched many games where you were desperately looking for one or two points nearing the end of en era. Another tool. Also, she should synergize very well with Hungary. Drop her in, seize suzerainty next to a victim and levy their army. Victor, good analysis, but think you missed on Embrasure promotion not being useful when moving him a lot. If able to buy (gold or faith) units, allows for better defenses garrison in newly conquered cities.

[@dracma127]

That thumbnail is a pretty accurate description of my own thoughts tbh. Magnus wasn't really nerfed - Pingala just got super buffed. Victor got a buff, especially considering how strategic resources act as a nerf towards early war (20 iron per swordsman is huge). Bonus loyalty for dark ages, and potentially 50% more resources means Victor has a much better reward for investing promotions towards him. Extra exp towards units made in your unit factory, and the option to pursue nuclear shenanigans mean he'll still be useful outside of early war as well. Air defense still sucks, but at least it's only a tier 3. Amani... i dunno, she still is really dependent on whatever city states are available. Free envoys are still what I look for when choosing her, though moving affluence towards a tier 1 promotion does make her more viable. The extra resources, however, seems to be a rather large increase to resources. Still dependent on map rng, and is a tier 2 instead of Victor's tier 1, but it's an option to go for. Emissary is still useless, and a counter to spies seems a little counter intuitive for Amani's main shtick of being placed in city states - unless the ai got changed to want to place spies in city states, now. I have to be honest, I never once chose Moksha in a game outside of grabbing all 8 for the achievement / era score. That said, he doesn't look too bad once you get over his tier 1 promotions. All of his tier 2 and 3 promotions are very good for faith strategies, and can turn a centralized production into a decentralized purchasing strategy. Considering the extra hump to get over, you're definitely going to want to build Casa. Magnus still does what he does best - early growth. Chops do have a long-term penalty, but who cares about that when you're still trying to get out your core cities? Provisions wasn't really nerfed - you're going to be grabbing this for the settlers anyways, who cares about 20% production towards workshops/factories. Surplus logistics is a little counter intuitive, but in the long term this does mean you can grow multiple cities faster with domestic routes rather than babysit a single city at a time. I normally skip black market, but considering your game the extra resources are going to be much more important - much like how Victor also generates resources to support an early war, Magnus can double as a way to quickly militarize. Industrialist is kinda hard to say, since idk just how powerful your powered cities can be. The extra 25% efficiency in a single city's power doesn't sound too good, though I guess I gotta wait and see how disastrous the global warming system is going to be for myself. The extra production is also kindy iffy - +2 really isn't that good. Vertical integration is still kinda underwhelming, too. Liang was always an underwhelming governor for me, always being dependent on how good your coastal cities can be, but now she _makes_ those cities good. Moving the district buff down to a tier 1 is great for some quick infrastructure, and who really remembers the bonus to city center buildings anyways. Aquaculture was never really appealing either, just being a diet Kampung, but now having it be a source of production is really strong. Reinforced materials sounds situational, but can work if you want some of your core cities around volcanoes and the like (can you still get pop loss?). The rework to waterworks is also a little iffy, mostly because of how lategame this is. P&R got buffed too, giing you a little extra lategame tourism, but it's still rather eh all things considered. Liang still has a strong niche for coastal cities, but now she can still act as a general bonus towards infrastructure / tourism. Pingala's new tier 1 promotions are what makes him so good now. Early sources of science/culture are what makes Autocracy a good government, and Pingala can easily double that bonus. Another nice things about Pingala is how his new abilities means he's always going to want to be placed in a single city for all game - fitting into both a tourism and science victory. Reyna looks about as eh as ever, though her early sources of gold can help a struggling gpt. Merging the trade route bonus to her innate ability is still rather mediocre. Now, you can get not one, but two bad promotions, all for the price of one! Harbormaster is still really dependent on you building both districts, which really isn't worth it imo. The new forestry promotion is interesting though, mostly because of the comparison between production and gold. Lumber mills are still going to be more efficient, even when not along a river, but forestry can both save you the trouble of building mills and also let you effectively convert that +1 production into a global +0.5 production. Take that as you will. Tax Collector is still a good early source of gold, and contractor is still useful for when you're lacking in production, nothing new there. Renewable subsidizer actually sounds pretty strong when you consider it makes around twice as much power, but it really does suffer from the inability to move this power to other cities.

[@sokolov22]

Does Harbormaster's bonus stack with Shipyard, I wonder?

[@iptf]

City parks are great for seaside resorts & national parks.

[@bendiede7982]

Pingala + Grants promotions + Oracle + GS/GE/GM that “automatically builds x & y and increased output of X & Y” = My favorite setup.

[@lsdave42]

Victor's Embrasure sounds absolutely amazing for a Theocracy Domination game where you are using faith to purchase units--I'm assuming you can still do that in GS--you'll be able to get units that are both strong, and also start close to the front lines. Or, you could park him in a city with a lot of strategic resources and encampment buildings, and faith purchase everything from there. Either way, Embrasure took him from "meh" to "BFF" in one fell swoop.

[@Theosis10]

Something to note on Liang, I feel like reinforced materials will have top value when you knowingly settle near an active volcano. You know it will erupt, you know it will damage your tiles. Take RM and reap the over effect benefits without having to deal with the damage.

[@50crowley]

25:33 - Maori are still able to chop woods. They cannot HARVEST resources, so Wheat/Rice/Stone/Deer/Cattle/etc are permanent and thus cannot be removed or built upon.

[@WhozZzWho]

very new to your content. really love the long form videos. im a big podcast listener and being able to throw you on for an hour+ is really nice. only downside is there are times when you talk VERY VERY fast. as one who is attempting to learn i have to repeatedly roll back the video. otherwise love the content thank you.

[@Krvsrnko]

5:47 Potato goes Sicko mode

[@ryanjswift1]

I feel they could make growing tall a significant strat if they changed pingalas first two promotions into aura abilities which have a range of 6 or so this would mean building tall would gain more benefit from this ability than building wide allowing a small cluster of 20 pop civs to give a Viv a dramatic science or culture bonus making civs like the Incas and the cree viable culture and science civs. What do you think

[@Lankpants]

Kinda interested in that one-city slightly later city spam strat. The best way I could see it working out would be to play Rome for Trajan's Column. Rush out early game builders to optimise your production/growth. Rush to State Workforce and build your plaza ASAP which gives you your first two governors which you use for Pingala+Connoisseur boosting your culture up to the point where getting the rest of the techs to Political Philosophy should be easy at which point you invest in Magnus and finish your Ancestral Hall to get Provisions and start spamming settlers. I wonder what time you could actually accomplish this by though. I feel like even fully optimising you might be a bit slow to start getting settlers out and still lose too much land to the AI on higher difficulties. This is all before mentioning that you're not going to get a ton of military units trying to do this, so you'll be fairly passive. It'd still be a crazy efficient and optimised way to play though. Seems like something I'd like to try at least once post the expansion release.

[@infamoussky22]

I really feel like every Governor is stronger now, which makes me so happy. I love meaningful choices.

[@DenteMM]

You really really broke the really world record of really

[@xbjrrtc]

Ah, a new video! What a treat! 😁

[@stevenbov]

I was watching someone play Mali and their early cities grew very fast due to the +food from adjacent desert. Seems like Pingala would work especially well with that early game.

[@Isengardtom]

Great video as always Potato I think another nerf on chopping is that Overflow is gone such as the Magnus + limes stacking and then overflowing in something like a wonder for example

[@AnuragKumar-ik1kc]

Potato, I liked the video because of the thumbnail

[@fenril6685]

I hope that new/modded governors will be a thing now. I'm betting that with the addition of Ibrahim we may see some governor focused mods/additions from the community.

[@Shatoswolfdemon]

nice job hiding the time stamp part, Too late for me to do it seeing all these other ones but nice video once again PotatoMcWhiskey. I love the information you put out and you're absolutely the most informed youtuber I've watched playing GS so far.

[@colinturner3060]

I think you undersold Reyna's harbormaster. Combined with Free Inquiry golden age and some policy cards, she can add an absurd amount of science if placed in the right city.

[@juliancarlson6784]

epic thumbnail

[@pdraggy]

I don't know, sometimes I start with either Amani (for a quick suzeranship), Moksha (to quickly get on my way to faith purchasing districts), Magnus (for the chops AND the settler training ability), Pingala (for the culture than GREAT PEOPLE), or Reyna (for the purchasing districts) it's pretty different game to game. I even recruit Liang rather early for the builder charge when I can. Damn you Firaxis and your awesome governors!

[@pkf_r_e_e_z_e9366]

Pingala's gonna be hella strong on the Inca

[@mavoc3094]

Slow down a bit Potato, you keep misspeaking throughout this video. Multiple times you use the wrong governor name or change the values of the text you are reading.

[@tianarmas1665]

Weird -flex- thumbnail but ok

[@Plague_Doc22]

What I really want to know is the spawn rate of strategic resources. Because in rise and fall I felt like you'd be lucky to have more than 1 of each resource. And with it being changed so its even more important now, if the spawn rate remains the same..you'd be really hindered or a passive playstyle would become really difficult due to the lack of tools to defend urself with and you'd have to attack a city to get it (besides city states but thats not even a guaranteed way of keeping it)

[@ravd1884]

Interesting thumbnail. Great video!

[@Arms.Enthusiast]

Have we got episode six of kupe today? Would love a fat double upload

[@MGerdtell]

You can get decent value out of on the move Embrasure if you have Grand Master's chapel, faith purchase a unit for quick reinforcements and have it start with a free promotion.

[@fenril6685]

I feel like Reyna's first promotion changes may end up making Egypt a much more viable civ on Deity and may end up allowing them to be a very viable civ leaning towards diplomatic victory type.

[@MunchKING]

What I was thinking the good thing about Local Informants would be if you have her in a city state, it wakes it much harder for your enemies to "Fabricate Scandal" and get rid of your Envoys. Which, with her doubling envoys means massive amounts of envoys that they can't do much about.

[@Plague_Doc22]

Find myself always going the culture and science boost one, liang or magnus first almost every time. I wish there were more scenarios which would make me mix it up.

[@frederikbacker6753]

Could you make a guide on district placement?

[@ParadigmZwei]

I'd be super interested in seeing a vid on the impact you reckon the new (non-civ-specific) units, districts, buildings, and improvements might have. Not sure how long a video that would be, but something along those lines would be great in any case, :D

[@MrTrellheim]

How did I miss this for a year? I'm curious, would you change any of your advice or strategies from a year befoere?

[@MrGoodgorilla]

We're just about to drop the fifth DLC of NFP and, huh, I never thought about it. The AI doesn't put cities under siege? Thanks for all those tips and explanations you do on all the specific topics. I just play Civ on and off and your insights have been very helpful.

[@albertehlers2934]

Ohh so that's why there's all these time stamps 😂

[@Nick-lv6ii]

ive never really been interested in religion victories. dont know why, just never really been gravitated towards going for religions.

[@xbjrrtc]

Same. I actually disable religious victories in my game. I'm mildly bothered by religion in the game, just because it bothers me in real life.

[@atocanboi409]

technique if you're not getting a Religious Victory: if you have one Holy Site (could be from a City you conquered or something), you can get a shit load of Apostles and spread a Religion that's not wining into cities following the wining Religion. don't do it too much, you don't want the other person to win. not like you have anything better to do with your Faith anyways. if you're Kongo this is extra easy.

[@RogueLich]

Does Reinforced Materials work for say Volcano eruptions? Could let you settle in an area others might not consider, that's only going to get more tile yields as the game goes on. Also Amani's left tree seems half biased towards big (i.e. old, core) and edge (i.e. new, small) cities Does Ibrahim get booted from a city if you declare war on its owner? Does he stop the city's owner moving any other governor in there? Does the 2nd 1st level ability include anyone at war with you, attacking your districts? E: Nobody has time to do your timestamping for you lmao

[@1mrs1]

What does the +2 appeal mean for Liang? Is it just +2 appeal for the tile the city park is on, is it +2 appeal for adjacent tiles, or is it +2 appeal for every tile the city owns? If it is the first it seems completely worthless, but it could be powerful in a culture game if it is either of the latter 2 as it would let you construct good tourism-y seaside resorts and national parks throughout your empire. If you have a lot of coastal cities and you move Liang around to put city parks in each, you could get some good tourism going.

[@sean-patrickmcclure2825]

Great video!

[@BenevolentImp]

Damn! Well done making your viewers want to "do your job for you" :D

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Laziness is its own reward

[@aitsch5273]

if you want play Warrior Monk try Zulu! Monk Korps are isane crazy

[@switch1e]

It really sucks that they’re not changing the Netherlands in relation to the introduction of dams and canals

[@mrsamtheman80]

Great analysis as usual, really appreciate it! Curious about your take on changes to existing civs. Teddy Roosevelt looks like he got quite a buff that could amount to 1,500+ diplo points over a full game (starting very early on once first government founded), particularly with Potala or Forbidden Palace wonders. I don’t have much context or experience compared to you though-would be curious to hear your take on Teddy, and any other existing civs that changed.

[@pileofcheese5017]

Lijang's reinforced materials is HUGE with volcanoes

[@maxearp2153]

Can't believe I just saw this!!! Can we have an update

[@beanburrito4405]

Aquaculture with Auckland is absolutely ridiculous

[@nguyenMeo]

wait Ibrahim gives boots too ennemies tropps aswell ?

[@PatheticApathetic]

I think Khmer is the best option for a warrior monk dom game. Domreys come in the medieval era, which is also the warrior monk’s era. Should be pretty good with Domreys tearing down walls and warrior monks taking cities EDIT: I meant Khmer, but typed Chandragupta

[@EnsoTB]

Lord Parbr Domreys are a Khmer Jayavarman unique unit. The Indian Varu aren’t as good at siege but both Civ’s are pretty bad either way 😂 it would be easier going for a flat out better Civ like Spain who will have a bonus to combat strengths based on differing enemy religion

[@PatheticApathetic]

TaintedBrownjuice right, I meant Khmer. First, neither of them are “bad.” Second, if you use Spain, then warrior monks would be completely superfluous

[@EnsoTB]

Lord Parbr Warrior monks can get 60 base combat strength and 4 movement... and that doesn’t involve selecting their fairly useless religion spread ability. Sorry to hit you with some facts you clearly didn’t know, but both Khmer and India ARE bad. They are 2 of the lowest tier civs in the game and their bonuses for success even in a strong religious game are weak in comparison to most other religious (and even non-religious) civs like Poland, Arabia and, obviously, Spain. Most non-religion dependant civs with adjacency bonuses to holy site districts outclass the Khmer. These include The Netherlands, Japan, Brazil, Australia; and probably the highest tier religious Civ in the game, Russia.

[@PatheticApathetic]

TaintedBrownjuice low tier doesn’t mean bad

[@EnsoTB]

Lord Parbr True, not always, but Khmer and India ARE currently very bad civs. Should you want to know why Khmer are bad, read ahead. If not TLDR, everything they do is bad and most other civs do their “unique” bonuses better. Australia (not even considered a strong religious Civ) can do *everything* better than Khmer and they have multiple extra bonuses stacked on for free. The only good thing Khmer has going for it is that you get +1 housing for holy sites adjacent to rivers.... literally that is their 1 good perk. India get +1 housing for every step well and they are still considered bottom tier, that is how bad Khmer are. Australia get a base of +3 housing just for settling on coast. Khmer’s aqueduct isn’t a unique district so you are paying for a full priced aqueduct to get +3 faith and an amenity... terrible. That +3 faith can be got as an adjacency in the other better civs. Australia get a base +3 adjacency for holy sites on tiles with an appeal of breathtaking (which are most tiles adjacent to woods/mountains) which stack with the base adjacency bonuses. Easily +5/+6 adjacencies for Australian holy sites and Khmer have to build an aqueduct for it... Khmer’s +2 food on aqueduct adjacent farms is also useless because cities are limited by housing in Civ VI, not by food. You can only get a max of +10 food from farm adjacency per city, which is ok, but why do you need that much food with your sad bonus +1 housing. I think Firaxis are making a joke here. Finally, their missionaries giving relics is bad because you have to lose pressure in cities through losses in theological combat to get them. You could take the monastic isolation faith doctrine and just kamikaze your missionaries but you waste a founder belief and you will rapidly run out of relic slots. Khmer is BAD.

[@justinwhite2725]

Please test if the +1 for victor is applied before or after doubling for Canada’s tundra tiles.

[@NYCCamper]

The AI loves Amani, Double envoys.

[@zekleinhammer]

As someone who plays marathon, Embrasure could be useful if microed

[@peterknutsen3070]

How uptodate is this information? I can see that at least Pingala has changed at some point after this video was made.

[@mijailcortes7472]

Omg that thumbnail is sooo..... Cutre 😂😂😂😂

[@TripleZ007]

Does Magnus' ability "provision" interact with the Janissaries requiring one citizen to create?

[@valentin4743]

Awesome thumbnail :D

[@minccinoluna805]

wait why dont i ever have Ibrhahim in my games

[@jarodhans3758]

same here

[@honnyheart]

👋 Hey. :) Thank you for another good video. I have a main question though. How many tiles does this "adjecent city" spread too? Fx I got an island city and closest foreign cities are 10tiles away, and I don't know if the pressure goes that far.

[@badday4885]

That thumbnail though 😂

[@BryanWolfe12]

Can you do a diplomacy video as soon as Gathering Storm drops?

[@Dusty-iv5tt]

Will you post a Maori vid today ?

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Yup!

[@asparagoose8992]

I feel like population should be a more valuable resource, like it should require population to produce military units, just look at history, the world wars took a lot of population from some of the countries that participated in them.

[@PrinzSander]

With sweden You should use magnus to chop the oracle and then Place pingala there EDIT: Of course you need to place the government district there with die UB the Bibliotheque

[@SomeGuy-lx4wk]

Looking forward to Korea and new Pingala opener.

[@mrjay1489]

Liang seems great for Indonesia and other coastal civs

[@peteydog1473]

I think this is kinda obvious. 3 government titles are really easy to get in the early game (early empire, state workforce and the government plaza)

[@SourceOfBeing]

Discounted by 80% feels too strong, are you sure they didn't mean discounted to 80%?

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

its by 80%.

[@aroventalmav888]

Liang would be godly for the Maori