The only guide to Settling in Civ 6 a new player will ever need - Ancient Era - Civ 6 Rome Tutorial

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[@Mathmachine]

Rome may not have been built in a day, but it was settled in a turn.

[@moneymike203]

Bars

[@TheCheesedodo]

Nice. "The best time to plant a tree is today".

[@lordfizzz]

Lol love this

[@DerZocker2000000]

after 2 times rerolling because its location was deemed too good

[@thomasw9587]

​@@DerZocker2000000in the days where Italy could afford a handicap 😂

[@piw5056]

Civ 6: came out 7 years ago. Potato: here is how you start a new game. Appreciate the continuing love on this game tho!

[@JacksonOwex]

It sounded like someone requested this series! It's always nice to have things like this, all the talk of a new Civilization game coming(don't know if they have confirmed it is Civ 7 or will be more of an offshoot like Beyond Earth) will make people interested in checking out the current game.

[@limey_]

Its also somewhat due to the expansions isn't it?

[@NoorAnomaly]

I've played this game for 6 years now. Never knew about the bonus resource on city settlement. 😂 Does it apply to luxury resources as well?

[@sinanates-nz9ne]

@@NoorAnomaly Yes and you get this luxury even you dont have required tech .

[@EarlSoC]

It's perfect for me. I started playing this two weeks ago!

[@LAZERAK47V2]

Game: Settle across this floodable river! New Player: Ok! (Moves Settler over river and ends turn) *1000 year flood* *You have been defeated*

[@bennittkfc]

164 likes and no comments let me fix that

[@Tenisinspector8341]

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[@megamax898]

That awkward moment when the game notifies you that a player has been defeated on turn 2

[@Artuxplays]

Hahaa I think I will rage if that Happens to me 😂

[@TheTrueLunarVoid]

To be fair a new player wouldn’t have dlc

[@ClockworkOuroborous]

Potato; "People reroll to get really good starting areas" Proceed to reroll for a crappier starting area

[@Cecilia-ky3uw]

Me : Rerolling until I get spawned in an actually fun island that isn't that great I never get one that scratches the itch- often times when I get smth decent Turns out I settled in a way that only allows for one city instead of two- which is so annoying.

[@odinmatanguihan5086]

I rerolli till I get to the junction of three continents(so I get access to twelve luxury resources, or more if I'm lucky with what's on the coast) I always warmonger early game and try to get twelve luxury resources before medieval age, and this is a lot easier to do on deity difficulty.

[@winoodlesnoodles1984]

To be fair this is an instructional video. It can be difficult to instruct if you are dealt an auto-win hand.

[@slwrabbits]

​@@winoodlesnoodles1984True, but he didn't need to let us know he was rerolling ... rubs in a newbie's bad luck a little 😢

[@winoodlesnoodles1984]

@@slwrabbits Believe me, I understand. However, one of the funniest things I have seen is Potato roll an insanely good start on a live stream and then watch 2 hours of people begging for the map seed.

[@Moose00019]

I introduced this game to my wife. She is interested so we are playing a chill game to get used to it, and immediately she said: Gotta catch them all. (Referring to wonders)

[@libradragon]

You lucky, lucky human! Cheers!

[@thorbjoern1898]

22:18 You should mention that barbarians cant destroy your capital city, but they can attack new settlements successfully. I still feel the pain..

[@libradragon]

Oh, how I hate Barbarians! Thanks for the reminder on their bad behavior. ...

[@slwrabbits]

I just discovered that they can capture unescorted settlers. *sob*

[@UndefeatedEagle]

Oh man thats good . I was finally having something good going until a barbarian galley showed up and got my capital to 13 health but then i killed him with my slinger which was a bit far away

[@skyfeelan]

in my disaster 4 game and with barbarian clan turned on, they just straight up destroyed my second coastal city (I can do almost nothing because archer attack is weak on naval unit and my capital is inland)

[@Sharkx2me]

They destroy your districts as well. I played first game and started war with England. Then all my cities were being attacked by barbarians at once making builds extend to rediculous lengths

[@djpanda7585]

Amazing how despite playing this game for 7 years Potato still manages to teach me stuff I didn’t know.

[@Levvy_f]

Even as a veteran player I love watching beginner guide videos like this. it'd be really fun to watch you progressively move up in difficulty and introduce more advanced concepts

[@ericoh6258]

@@abdulbasith6842 no because then the politicians will try to spam out settlers and build all the mines everywhere

[@hunterdraut1536]

i agree so much. also i swear i learn something new about civ everytime i watch potato

[@WoTLeon]

Playing Maya helped me understand how close should citys be, and how to play with strengths of a leader in mind, so I think Maya helps a lot with learning civ6

[@pinkpanther8427]

Yeah, i think thats a good point. You see that in his recent series aswell.

[@mehmetunal9731]

but the housing thing is totally different

[@andrewklang809]

Maya, like Australia, Arabia, Maori, Kongo, Canada, Inca, and Portugal all have such unique rules it can build bad habits. There are some fundamental, nearly universal strategies that should be learned before you get into the more exceptional civs. Civs that just give boosts to something are better for beginners. Rome, England, Greece, China, Zulu, America, Japan, etc.

[@mrdrprofsteve4455]

I feel like Scotland is a great civ is a great leader for learning this! You learn how important amenities and happiness are while having a leader that benefits more from it

[@toreq1127]

maya are a gimmick civ and too focused on the tall playstyle, id say if you want to learn science victory, just play korea

[@doomcaptain9478]

I'm so happy to see CIV overexplained again! This is how I learned how to play Civ, and since I'm getting my friends to play too, this is a great video for me to send to them. Thank you so much potato, and I'm very grateful for this! Keep doing you!

[@Helios076]

For sure! I am starting the game after a long break of playing Rome and love these videos to learn new ideas great content

[@skatingmermaid]

I remember playing Civ III about 20 years ago, knowing nothing about global strategy games, just enjoying to watch the little camels of the caravans moving across the map. I started playing Civ VI after almost 2 decades of not gaming strategy games around christmas last year and I got hooked again, but also pretty frustrated, because the game became so much more complex. I watched your series and many of your others vids and I’m really happy that you do this series. Yesterday I gave myself the “permission” to play Rome in Settler mode and I enjoyed having a really easy game where I achieved a science victory for the first time. Was it a bit too easy? maybe, but hearing you say in 22:10 that we play because it’s FUN really resonated with my experience. I don’t have to rush myself to higher modes when I’m not ready for them prove that I’m a “real” Civ gamer or that I do it “right”. By starting the game I AM all of these things and the fun should be the main thing. So thank you not only for your explanations but also for “life advice”, just wanted to let you know that you have a positive impact in more than just one way with these vids ☺️

[@SatiricaGmail]

I just gave myself permission to do the same thing. Fun is fun is fun!

[@TomJacobW]

Civ 6 has a really satisfying learning curve and the mechanics are really neat - it’s a great game to come back into the genre! The only thing I don’t like (and miss from the old civs) is the gamification of it. The old civs had the advisors, it was more … “political”. I thought more about influence spheres and boarders and how a decision affects different diplomatic relations; also the graphics added a more serious element to it. When you had your advisors talking, it really felt like you’re the president in a briefing room. That needs to come back! Now it’s more “gimmicks and adjacency planning - the game”.

[@mikecarpenter3565]

Big props and respect to potato for always preaching fun when playing games!! Too many people take games way to seriously nowadays

[@dominickfekete3458]

Doesn't matter how long I've been playing this game. These are always my favorite. Always a good touch up on basic stuff that may have slipped my mind or learn something new

[@louloulou7801]

potato gets salty when AI steals his colluseum,... starts a prince game with the plan to build wonders for fun ;D Great video and well explained

[@daniellundberg9225]

Honestly this is one of the major reasons I never play on higher difficulty than Prince, despite having ~2700h in the game. The game, to me, is at it's most fun in the beginning - why take away all of that just to have the AI cheat more? I can absolutely beat the Deity AI but I don't play the game to win, indeed - I very rarely play past the Renaissance Era. And why destroy the fun of early expansion, snagging the 'right' wonders or religion by playing on Deity?

[@dylanvansill2764]

I’ve been watching your videos for about a year and playing for a few years. Still learning every video from you. Thanks for the great content

[@courtneythomas3297]

I can’t even imagine how much work a video like this is. And it’s so excellent! I have 3000 hours in civ and I’m still gonna watch the series anyway because I always learn new mechanics from Potato

[@Vael221]

Fantastic. I really got into Civ6 a few years ago with your Arabia overexplained series, and I always find them to be some of the most enjoyable to watch.

[@tlobrill1]

The fact potato is willing to make updated explanation videos is legit. He could easily just say “I’ve made those and refer back” good on you buddy.

[@caesarsalad77]

Potato's the one that got me confident enough to win my first games at a difficulty greater than Chieftain. For that, I'll always recommend his tutorials!

[@jamsdead4273]

I've been watching your videos forever and have been looking for a series like this that wasn't made 3+ years ago. You can't believe how happy this makes me!

[@jacobboeser]

I've had this game for like a couple years but never played. I suddenly started playing it last week and already racked up a hundred hours. Game is VERY addicting. discovered your channel around the same time I started playing and this video helps a lot to get the more basic functions.

[@jwk080212]

Thanks so much for these videos! I've played civ games for nearly a decade, and I've always been terrible at them and kept myself playing on difficulties 1 and 2 because I always struggled to learn how the systems worked from the in-game tutorials. I've improved more spending a few hours with your videos than in couple hundred hours I had played on my own. I have plenty to learn still, but I'm feeling way more confident going into level 3 and 4 games :)

[@user-rl5qi6vr7h]

Thank you! I bought the game a few weeks ago but I've more or less been in the dark and trying to learn on my own. This def helps out as a newer player. :)

[@NickMcNabb]

This was incredibly useful. I've played Civ 6 on and off for ages but really muddled my way through so hearing the sorts of things you're thinking about and learning tips (like the slinger -> archer thing) was excellent. Off to create a new game now!

[@mayonnaiseeee]

You are an amazing potato, thank you for this guide. Just picked the game up after having been away from any Civ games for several years. Very helpful!

[@TylerAndToast]

Thank you for continuously getting people into the game. Especially good to do this years later since so many updates and added content

[@untyprandom9740]

I discovered your channel 3 days ago. I have a friend starting the game and it made me want to play the game and your channel helped me a lot on getting better at the game (I started a Khmer game using some of your advices (mainly on how to develop my cities: chopping, farm triangles, building mine) and I've never had a better start).

[@untyprandom9740]

+ where to settle, better judgement of what is around me

[@rickb6694]

I have many thousands of hours into the Civ franchise. I still don't consider myself an expert in any way, shape, or form. That depth is why we love this game, and I love these vids because the back to basics information is still good to hear, even for us old heads.

[@royflores7916]

Just got back to playing civ 6 and have been getting wrecked, needed a big refresher after all of these dlcs and updates. Very helpful, thank you.

[@jbeaver959]

I've watched a few tutorial videos but this was by far the most helpful. You're a gentleman and a scholar

[@davidcantor8349]

This video was so awesome, you've earned yourself my Subscribe and Like. I was regretting buying Civ 6, it seemed so complicated (and it is still) but your simple, direct and useful tips are making this a lot more understandable and fun.

[@Martin-vp9lv]

I’ve played since CIV1 and have thousands of CIV hours. I’ll still watch this.

[@ioanvladescu5987]

If there would be an "oscar award" for best civ6 beginner playthrough culture victory, this would be the winner. Every single year. Great content, sir!

[@Jim90117]

In terms of scouting I usually have them follow rivers, to reveal the ideal areas to settle, it also can give tactical defensive advantage from barbs.

[@MioMyDog]

An excellent tutorial, thank you! I love the approach of "this is how to think about doing stuff" instead of "you should do these things".

[@dutyfreeadventures5924]

Yes. Thank you. Just started playing again after years away. Nice refresher to get me in the right headspace.

[@promarch2]

I love how often you just say "its not the because its good, but because its fun". Love this guide, looking forward to see more of it

[@dientimuri3956]

Might be something you mention in a later video in this series, but it took me forever to understand district limits, how population affects them, and how the housing hard pop limit works. I only really properly figured it all out when I sat down and decided to try to get the District 12 achievement.

[@daemynrall-santos8977]

I have over 1600 hours in this game and I still love watching potato’s tutorials. There’s still so much to learn about this game

[@Esgarpen]

I remember starting my first Civ6 game, having played a truckload of Civ3 thinking I'm good jumping right into Immortal difficulty. Needless to say, I got my lower back handed to me... But it was good fun, and I'm always down to watch a potato playing my old favorites again

[@DrPooks]

The Tier 1 Classical Republic government has the downside for beginners that it lacks a Red Military policy card slot. You end up having to use your valuable Wildcard slot if you want/need to use any Military cards (to fight barbs, to build units, to upgrade units, to plug in Veterancy for Harbours and Encampments, to plug in Conscription to fund early wars). The Autocracy government is more beginner friendly IMO. While the perks are more meh, having one of each colour of Policy slot allows better balance and flexibility, making it as easy as picking the best card at any given time from each colour category.

[@Lukeo0]

I love these indepth videos so much. Thanks dude. Never stop. I am learning so much from you.

[@olewolf2]

Good shit Potato! I've watched before but started having you pop up in shorts content as well. Loving the current style!

[@ericagriffith8047]

i love your overexplained series - been playing for years and still learn things everytime... Thx!

[@nocnafuria4374]

For beginers: The Godess of the river pantheon is quite good if you have troube managing your cities and keeping them loyal and happy - when I was starting to play Civ 6 it always helped me to keepp my cites loyal beacouse I had a lot of problems with getting ameneties.

[@charlietheturdil8632]

Having a problem with amenities now too lol I am very lucky that I grabbed the one u said by accident early on lol

[@slwrabbits]

It took me a while to realize this doesn't work for me because I forget to build holy sites - whoops?

[@bradmapson6243]

I tend to go the religion route and then get stuppas to get that +1

[@Yuddder]

Just got into Civ 6 this week, such a fun game. Thank you for these!

[@jespersrensen1189]

Thanks to many of your videos I finally won a Deity game after many close games. Biosphere Hamurrabi tourisme with a Delicate Arch start and lots of rivers for the Lady of the Reeds and Marshes, ended up quite a fun game.

[@thomasw9587]

Oh hot damn, I was just rewatching the old one! What a time to have this drop

[@CivStory]

Really glad to see people still play and upload this game! Nice video!

[@doc.sk8erdie286]

Hey PotatoMcWhiskey, I played a full day and lost before I made it out of the medieval era. I was tempted to just play again because I thought I did good, but when I saw that I had the lowest score I was kinda upset. So now I'm gonna spend a full day watching you dominate Civ 6.😁 This really is helping me, thanks.👍

[@JayPapy]

Gotta love that each time a new Potato video comes out my desire to pick up Civ VI again rises tremendously!

[@GoBlueHTB]

I have won the game on Deity difficulty multiple times and I'm still sitting here through a nearly hour long video for beginners and still getting value out of it because Potato's content is quality.

[@MagusSartori]

I appreciate the tutorial quite a bit. I watch you play often, but bounced off the game myself when I tried, even though I play many other 4X games including older civ games

[@milletmongoose]

This video inspired me to play Civ 6 again after a few years. Your content is always solid.

[@jayXpunk]

Having not played a Civ game since Civ II this is super helpful. Thank you!

[@RoundSeal]

It's both exciting and affirming to learn that the stuff I've slowly been figuring out about the game myself is the same that you recommend doing to really optimize play. I'm not always good at Civ, but I enjoy it regardless, so it's great to hear that if I just keep chugging away at it I'll likely end up decent one day. Probably lol. I also had _no idea_ about map tacks, that's a game-changer for me!

[@charlietheturdil8632]

Its amazing you make a tutorial for such an old game that i just barley started playing been playing 5 for so long so excited to finally try 6

[@Vesp3r1987]

Awesome video! I always struggle on the start i hope this helps me get better

[@valenciagagucci3069]

Thank you really much. That was actually the first guide that helped. I will watch some more of your videos.

[@Ty_-ht1mp]

Thank you for making another one of these. As a new player, I really appreciate it!

[@RenegadeStriker7]

I started with Civ Revolution, so I love the explanation to the complicatedness of Civ 6

[@antarath517]

To be precise on city center yields: first it removes features such as woods or rainforest (not terrain or resources like hills or rice). Mind that the 1 production or food from a forest or rainforest *will* be lost on founding. All resource and terrain yields will stay. Second, it brings the food up so that the tile produces at least 2 food (it will never bring it down from 3 or more) Third, it likewise brings production up to at least 1 on the tile (it will never bring it down) Where possible, settle on tiles where you can take advantage of raising food/production to 2/1 and/or tiles that you always want to be working. Perhaps the most common example is plains hills tiles, where a city center will bring it from 1/2 to 2/2 (since founding does not bring terrain yields down). That extra production in the early game is very useful.

[@slwrabbits]

Thank you, that helped clarify things for me a lot.

[@jacobglenn6280]

Opening with “Over explained” as a title to the video is very correct. The super fast talking and explaining every random little thing tickles my adhd brain

[@katmannsson]

It doesnt matter how many Overexplained's you do Potato, or how Long I've been a sub they're always the uploads that excite me the most. 'Dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good' is a Core Philosophy of my *entire* life

[@ODiddy67]

I want another map that is a god tier start to be shared with the spuddies. Set up "episode 1" and let us submit our games to show how the game can diverge. Let us have the map number, civ, settings, and return the deity game at turn 100. Then feature a patreon for each win condition. Then do your playthrough?

[@Stick2xYourGuns]

Mate this is great, just tried playing civ 6 this week for the first time, new to this genre too. No clue what I was doing and here you are! thanks lol

[@ewokgrundle9471]

Love it! Thank you. I've been playing with him, trying to win a science/culture victory.

[@mikefm4]

Grew up on Civ 1 and 2. Played as far as Civ 3. I just decide to download 6 and I’m watching this video as it’s downloading to my Xbox. I’m excited to learn Civ all over again

[@Formal-DeHyde]

Funny, I’ve played Rome almost exclusively since release. Your suggestion was like sudden enlightenment why that’s the case.

[@zeprowl]

always nice to fill in a few gaps, looking forward to more!

[@godman6397]

Love your stuff man. Keep up the amazing work.

[@ericgropuis]

Playing this game and really like this game for like years but still appreciate these types of videos since I’m still not the best and don’t know all the ins and outs

[@colman123456]

Damn, I picked up Civ6 a couple of weeks ago and have already played 2 single player and 2 multi player games. But there is so much in this video I had no idea about. Take my subscription.

[@gwmoyski95]

As a console player I definitely agree with the recommendation of small to standard map sizes. Not just with slowing down the system but navigating the map with your cursor is also a bit more tedious on console since you can’t just point and click. I don’t think he mentions it in this video but turning off battle and movement animations really speeds things up too. Love the channel and this tutorial series! Really helped me learn what to look for and then teach myself through the game rather than just “here’s how to build an op civilization”.

[@GirlVersusGame]

I'm very new to the game and the last video sounded like kermit the frog yelling, this is so much easier on the ears, thank you 🙂

[@alex_spartan1805]

Even as an experienced Civ player, I am always looking to improve my game. Love the videos!

[@T0tenkampf]

Even though I am a veteran player, there is always something to relearn when you cover the basics...great video

[@donelec5955]

Thank you so much for this vid, I’ve been struggling 🙏🏼

[@andreaswand6935]

Threre is one thing about urban planning and god king: urban planning scales with the number of cities you own, god king does not. So if you get your hands on a second city very early (Barbarossa e.g.) urban planning gets more valuable.

[@JakeSezz]

Maybe I don’t recall you ever mentioning it in a video since I started watching, but I had no idea about the distance where Barbs spawn. Always be learning!

[@zachdetsch1700]

Not my first time watching one of ur over explained… u boosted me from king to deity and I now exclusively play on deity. And yet I just learned you can right click on the wonder to open the encyclopedia (to be fair I rarely use it)

[@victoraandersen0830]

really good video i really learned a lot that i didn't show. Even though I have been playing for a while this was just the kind of video I needed to see, I can now see the strategy and the fun of the game, I always went for what I felt was best but really learned something thanks .

[@TylerAndToast]

The first 2 eras of the game are the most fun imo. After that it's much more micromanaging what you've already done. Not entirely, I still enjoy it all the way through

[@LestherGui]

Love the guides, thanks!

[@Raymart6543]

I just started playing and understanding the game by myself and after so many turns I was still at Renaissance era and my opponents were already at Modern Era 😂 so here I am and thank you so much for this guide

[@STROKEofGOAT]

Potato I’ve been playin civ 6 since launch and still found this helpful thanks ❤

[@darkfog360]

Was never a tbs gamer. Civ 6 was on sale. Bought it and now im in love with it

[@rexertex8726]

Honestly I don't care how the channel changes I will always love how Potato plays, play everything, it will all be enjoyable

[@ctakitimu]

Now to figure out how to turn on the tiles displaying resources...I really appreciate these guides, I'm new to this game.

[@fran5007]

Just when i come back to civ6 I find you just realease this masterpiece. Thanks

[@cheeron]

Big thx for Ancient tutorial! I would like to see tutorials for other Eras :)

[@aidenromine1000]

Thank you so much for this video! I love this game, but admittedly, I haven’t really understood what I am doing through my first 10 hours of the game 😂

[@LenaLange-cp4qi]

This may be an old game but I'm a new player and this video was really helpful, thanks man!

[@Picklemundo]

Thanks Potato for helping me and my friends 👌

[@GreekHusky73]

I've been playing CIv 6 off and on for a couple years. And I never knew about the Global resources tab/button. It makes keeping track of luxury resources so much easier. Now I don't have to mentally keep track of what need to trade for and when I need to do it lol.

[@edcdad1124]

I've quit this game multiple times couldn't get a understanding but now I'll try again

[@Very_Okay]

POTATO MYBUDDY! i’ve been getting back into civ and i’m also dumb as shid, so these videos are incredibly helpful.

[@marcelloID]

Goddamn it, Potato! I was just about to enjoy some free time and then I stumbled upon this.... Curse you! But in all seriousness, thanks so much, you reignited my love for the game :) Happy upcoming 2024!

[@christinevanderpol]

❤thank you so much for this series!

[@rudy75]

Great video! I'm not new to the game, but I've learned something new!