Oh, A Civ 5 One Tile Cursed Start!

[@maxfactrr8949]

Imagine sailing towards an island so small and insignificant it's barely worth traveling to, just to see the largest and greatest lighthouse in the known Universe shining into the heavens

[@obviousbear1289]

@@maxfactrr8949 also their city is so big that it covers the entire island by now. They crave coffee without ever having seen it, and don't know what construction or wheels are.

[@aiodensghost8645]

Ah yes... its a wonder called The Tower of Bable.

[@ДмитрийМаринин-ф3ь]

That's some warhammer 40k shit

[@KarmaSangheili]

And we shall call it... Rapture.

[@JoshuOfficial]

Bro made Numenor from Lord of the Rings

[@ghjong001]

Every time I see it, I have to stop to appreciate the art direction in Civ 5. The Art Deco inspired iconography and fonts are just perfection for a Civ game.

[@josdelijster4505]

Agreed🎉

[@candycorn6268]

From art-style perspective, civ5 beats 6 at any time of the day

[@Rynewulf]

Its such a shame that after initial release each expansion downplayed the art deco more and more. The new main menus were just ingame art backgrounds instead of art deco statues of things like Atlas holding up the world. And as much as the leader/civ music got better and better, the main themes got so much worse. It became a frankenstein renaissance art deco mess by the end, and not even in a cool intentional way either

[@deeznoots6241]

Definitely the best art of any civ game

[@feckusmaximus3234]

@@RynewulfThe main themes got worse? Wdym? Maybe I’m biased because of nostalgia from listening to it for 9 years but BNW’s theme is beautiful imo.

[@TeddyElT]

Potato was so preoccupied With whether or not he could, He didn't stop to think If he should

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

I'm glad he did, this is a fun challenge start

[@ZachariahWiedeman]

PotatoMcWhiskey: "I'm thinking about doing A. Here's why A is good. Here's another reason to do A. A would be good for this and for that. I'm definitely going to do A. Yeah, A is the play here. Actually, I'll just do B."

[@samdherring]

Subvert expectations.

[@arzentvm]

average potato

[@OmikronTitan]

5:30 How the heck do they even know what coffee is?! Did a can of Folgers wash up on shore? EDIT: 7:34 A storm must have blown some plants from just across the water and they were like.... We need this. Build a great lighthouse to find it!

[@Cx10110100]

Birds. Ate plants and...deposited seed on the island?

[@Indian0Lore]

Ahh yes, bird poop coffee.

[@Palitato]

You should look up the process to make chocolate from cocoa beans. Like... who figured that out? Who came up with that process?! It's so convoluted and utterly insane.

[@C1azed]

I feel like this entire video was made solely for the Boat Mormonisum joke. And let me just say, WORTH IT

[@beeinablanket]

Shameful that Potato turned his back on the one true faith, Denouncing Venice.

[@LAZERAK47V2]

But have you heard of Yoloism? We have Pagodas.

[@StonerWaifu]

Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior... of Boats?

[@matthewpopow6647]

@@beeinablanket i denounce Venice

[@russellcostain1682]

SOAK AND ROCK

[@czeslav19]

Coming from a Pole, Your pronounciation of Łódź is dead on. Congrats!

[@purple_purpur7379]

well it was in the first half lol

[@jdraymon]

had a good effort on Wrocław as well - hampered by civ 5 not showing diacritics

[@TheZakhai]

Turning from nearly spot on "Vrot-suave" on the beginning to literally "Rock-claw" in the middle of the video. Sadge

[@Blackwing2345635]

Mean time Wroclaw - "Raw claw" xD I believe considering English phonetics it would be like Vrotz-wav, the first syllable is stressed

[@NotAProducer888]

​@@TheZakhai I mean, some languages do pronounce it like that. I don't blame them. I am a Pole that lives in the Netherlands, and the Dutchies also say "Rock-claw". They're Germanics trying to pronounce a Slavic language, of course they will struggle. On the other hand, a lot of Poles are very lacking in their pronounciations of the Dutch language. Let's not even start on how we sound when we speak English.

[@Laurathespookygal]

made me chuckle seeing the massive army amassing around Wroclaw yet potato not acknowledging it

[@neilu7132]

You mean, the city state troops ? actually a great buffer unless their ally declares war on you, then the city state will hammer you lol.

[@sheepwshotguns42]

5:30 how the heck do they even know what coffee is? it would be like me demanding unicorn meat!

[@ethanfrench9111]

I've imagined it makes good surf and turf with some mermaid fillets. Throw in some frites on the side with an Immortal Peach sorbet for dessert and it's golden. Of course, I have yet to locate a Dragon for the starter soup but it's a work in progress.

[@NotAProducer888]

Travelling adventurers from unknown, far away civilizations would have swam over to the island and shown coffee to the inhabitants. That's how I pictured it lmao

[@IrDaNoobKing]

By that logic..because coffee did actually exist despite them not knowing about it…. Where the unicorns at?

[@Pyxis10]

@@sheepwshotguns42 I demand Unicorn meat!

[@mikokos12]

Love the civ 5 content Potato, keep the good stuff flowing!

[@BoliceOccifer]

When Civ 8 releases, you'll have to go back to playing Civ 4

[@franciscloutier5387]

@@BoliceOccifer good luck getting it to run lol, I cannot for the life of me get civ4 to work on modern hardware (Civ3 runs perfectly fine tho)

[@GeorgeMonet]

Yuck. Doomstacks and trash combat mechanics ruined Civ 4.

[@franciscloutier5387]

@@GeorgeMonet doomstacks is Civ. Until they turned the game into a temu version of itself, Civ always had them.

[@Dorkrust]

@@franciscloutier5387 Doesn't mean it was a good thing lol, best change they ever did was get rid of that particular nonsense.

[@skelskeleton]

@@franciscloutier5387 I mean in fairness doomstacks really did kill a lot of strategic planning, especially with how civ 4's rock paper sissor style gameplay meant that a stack with all 3 was just a nightmare to take out

[@TheCodaCrew]

Honestly, this is the god spot for if this was Civ 6 with the zombies turned on

[@iambicpentakill971]

I appreciate the city pronunciations. They might not be perfect, but they are a lot closer than most English speaking people would say

[@rhystaylor851]

RIP the hundreds (if not thousands) of gold that was lost because Potato refused to build harbours. Also Boat Mormanism pog

[@Pengi-kun]

Watching this made me realize I have no idea how to play Civ despite playing all of them since Civ 3.

[@ethanfrench9111]

Yeah, I had something similar to that happen to me just yesterday except it was Shaka and not Polynesia and he spawned right next to me so I didn't even have time to build stuff like you did with the galleys and frigates. The harder difficulties of Civ 5 are basically "Hope I didn't spawn next to an aggressive early game Civ" which is arguably the same thing across most of the games but it goes hard in 4 & 5.

[@themerchant9711]

I appreciate the variety of buildings in civ 5, even if the fact that every city can build them makes it feel a bit repetitive. Might have been cool in civ 6 to have given districts building options that push you one say or another. Kind of like the museums

[@Rynewulf]

Wizardry: Master of the Arcane did that a decade ago around Civ V's time, but unfortunately unlike today with Humankind and Old World gamers just werent interested in 4x civ style games outside official aaa 'sid meier' releases back then

[@GeorgeMonet]

I like that every city can build them. That makes sense. I HATE the district garbage in Civ 6. I HATE overspecialization.

[@dhk117rp]

Me when potato doesn't take 15% wonder production :/

[@matthewloser7567]

@@dhk117rp I thought that too, but unless he had at least 10 production, then he would be getting less than 1 additional production a turn. I'd need to check but I'm not sure whether that would even shave a turn off the timer.

[@cmdrwilmot2696]

I think he should have built a worker boat right before he started pumping workers. Using it to make fishing boats would give him one extra food and production. The food would make it easier to put workers as unemployed for production, and adding even one production would be a 33% boost.

[@superguy911]

@@cmdrwilmot2696 work boats don't exist in this mod, workers improve sea resourses

[@stinkinhippy1724]

Is no one going to mention the crabs for gold being a trade associated with the worlds oldest profession joke? Had me chuckling for a good 5 minutes.

[@seansloan7015]

"Save 15% or more when you switch to Aristocracy." -Some sort of Lizard maybe

[@Mathmachine]

Sometimes I think the games know when they're being played by a streamer and intentionally create these kind of starts.

[@killakanzgaming]

I just love the idea that a small group of people somehow got stranded on a tiny island, and the first thing they decided to do was build a monument. Over hundreds of years, multiple generations chipped away at the one big rock on the island, it's reached a point where nobody knows what they're making, or why, but they will finish it somehow. A new civilization formed in a sunk cost fallacy. It feels so ridiculously human.

[@evanknopp4441]

Having not finished this video, I tuned out when you started to lose, I started your rewind and had humongous dejavu, I'll watch the whole thing now ^.^

[@kortzite5204]

Potato is an absolute demon for calling it "Vrotswav" 50% of the time and "Rawww claww" the other 50%

[@pacocheung1864]

Next episode could be an hour of pure suffering and copium, or it could all end in 5 minutes

[@FrancisFjordCupola]

Polish one-tile island? Compared to history, that's great. No invading Russians. No invading Germans.

[@olenickel6013]

One-tile Poland is not yet lost

[@Jerrycourtney]

*_Maybe the real Polish One-Tile Island is the friends we made along the way._* -Sacagawea

[@SergeySklonin]

You can use "Fog-busting" with civilian units to see barbs in the fog of war. In essence, you hold right-click with a worker/settler and scroll all over the map. If the circle is red, there's a barb. Doesn't work for Terra Incognita though, fog of war only.

[@josdelijster4505]

I loved civ 5 with all addons it was great.. never thought i would love ut more than 4 next war.. but i did.. and this is a fun vid on what was possible with it

[@archranger80753]

glad to see people are still playing civ 5, great vid!

[@KorutsiHiro]

The most cursed Spawn in civilization history.

[@fredblues7175]

I have a lot more hours in Civ5 than 6. The modded civs were amazing and diverse. 2 of my favorites were New Vegas Mr. House one city and Little House on the Prairie.

[@realah3001]

The yuri civ was peak

[@dlearn863]

Haven't discovered horses yet. The enemy is entering the era with spies. Imagine that in FFA.

[@MrAM-ny1nk]

I honestly thought this was one of those one tile challenge maps that every civ player was spamming out in civ 6 like four years ago. Good to see its an actual game!

[@dontnormally]

it's awesome that you went ahead and rolled with the cursed start - makes for a really interesting game!

[@Vimes1982]

That fishing worker made me smile :) You´ve played a lot of Civ VI!

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

Such a cool start! Glad you decided to roll with it and make a video on this.

[@Andrei-yv8fz]

"I'm skeptical that you could, yet intrigued that you may."

[@colonelgraff9198]

Bro gets the Saint Helena starting point

[@mikemcgillivry506]

got to give you crazy props for trying to pull that start out from oblivion. Didnt think it was even possible at first

[@GeorgeMonet]

I love Civ 5. My favorite Civ followed by 2 and Beyond Earth. One of my favorite things to do was troll the AI by having it play Venice on a colossal archipelago map with no barbarians or city states and Domination only victory.

[@juniusluriuscatalus6606]

Potato: "Sorry not sure how to pronounce this." Half of Poles: Shaking heads in disbelief. Second half: "No one knows."

[@Makem12]

Potato, why didn't you spawn on a snow tile? You're making it too easy for yourself

[@MrElectronicfallout]

that crabs joke got me pretty hard, thank you for that

[@jessefoutz597]

I like that you pronounce Lodz as "woodge," like it's supposed to be.

[@Tsumii610]

"The Polish One Tile Island" sounds like something i read on urban dictionary

[@CDL_Gaming]

NGL, watching this at 6 AM having been up all night and it took me restarting the video 3 times to realize why Civ 6 looked so strange... it's not Civ 6. lol. I'm going to bed, now.

[@farenellvideos]

The epdisodes where you struggle are the most entertaining. But super interesting at the same time.

[@lesnicus]

mate, your prenounciation is spot on. well done! edit: spoke to early I guess...

[@lesnicus]

polish is confusing but we have only one K :) rest was spot on

[@Blackwing2345635]

@@lesnicus pretty much one letter - one sound mostly, but also W = V confuses people sometimes.

[@lesnicus]

@@Blackwing2345635 Yeah, Potato got it right though. I like to describe it as Ł=W and W=V and we have no V

[@kylarking]

Always love some fresh Civ challenge content!

[@emilydioptase]

In one tile civilization, nobody jumps for the tile improvements.

[@Silentpoppy]

I like to think this city has a absolutely insanely deep mine underneath it, like if you fall into it you will die from screaming before you hit the ground levels of deep.

[@kaan-kaant]

I never moved on to civ 6, but civ 5 wasn't quite enough either. Highly recommend the civ 5 vox populi community mod is so good despite some problems with running it. Would make a great video watching someone have a go at VP for the first time around tbh.

[@Luzitanium]

I have this song The Source Of Life (Tom Strandberg) as Main theme of my Civ V, for me is the best song i ever found that fits perfectly a CIV game.

[@SergeySklonin]

Also, try rushing for workshops ASAP, before or right after libraries - this might help vs. deity. Loving your videos :)

[@Sworddeath727]

I remember Polynesia being the most painful person in any game of random civs always comes as friends then tries to attack every time my #1 backstabber of all my games.

[@entropic-decay]

I remember in one run of mine, I had a one-tile island just off the coast of one of my cities, barely in range of it to be claimed. It was a plains tile with sheep and I did improve the tile. Just, random little island that some sheep herder lives on

[@RedSntDK]

Gotta love lekmod. All social trees have something great going for them. Which is why I love rushing writer's guild and Mausoleum at Halicarnassus so I can get +100 gold per writer I pop, meaning I get ahead on social policies.

[@diakoneiross]

Pronunciation of Łódź is amazing, Wrocław is basically vrotsuav, we don't do weird stuff with c. C is always ts. ;)

[@Laura-eq6uv]

Unless it a part of "ch". Or "cz". Digraphs my beloved :3

[@SkyPixelin]

I haven't heard of Boat Mormonism for a while now. Thanks for the reminder

[@CainXVII]

Apparently the Swedish king is supposed to be Gustav II Adolf. But he looks more like Erik XIV. Doesn't matter, they both fought Poland :)

[@wolfsruhm]

one thing i have to say: during your settler production in your cap, you could have just put your ppl back onto food, because, iirc, in Civ 5 half your food production is used into producing settler, with the counter to that that you will not get growth, though it might be change in the mods you were running

[@lynth]

The funniest part about this is that Poland doesn't really have any actual islands. Even Wolin is more like a piece of the mainland that broke off and is just a few meters away.

[@too_s0ber910]

I wold have laughed so hard if the great lighthouse got ninja'd out from under you with 1 turn left.

[@Volpeusz]

im surprised how smooth and well that ,,Łódź'' was

[@BucknerSJ]

10:50 New Patreon tier unlocked: Potato's home address

[@Metallex]

The world enters the Medieval period in 920BC. Potato invents the wheel in 260AD.

[@ladsvideos]

Back to watching Potatoes videos because 1) They're great and 2) Civ 5 refuses to launch on my PC 😢

[@backyardcreeper]

@@ladsvideos try deleting the start-up movie files.

[@Formal-DeHyde]

Me: rolls 1 tile island, eyeroll and reroll. Also me: sees Potato rolled 1 tile island, grabs popcorn

[@ClnlBogey]

Ah yes the Halloween video. Scary shit, no joke.

[@DerZocker2000000]

11:42 potato discovers what renting property is like

[@RedSntDK]

Oh my god, someone building Notre Dame while you haven't even gotten Theology.. OOF! Hard game indeed.

[@VGM00021]

We're spending most our lives on an Easter Island Paradise. - The early game.

[@polinco737]

Discovers the wheel in 260 AD?? This civilization can't possibly fail!

[@nickojustin]

I had a similar start once. It was big enough for three cities and when I wanted to settle more, I couldn't due to ocean surrounding me.

[@KarltheBarl]

lol you had the same idea of playing 5 to refresh your memory for 7 civ 5 is so much fun I forgot how good it is

[@Enderlinkpawnu]

"I can work this one food tile, or I can work *this* one food tile!"

[@PainFireFist]

Gold for crabs is such a legit trade 🤣

[@WilliamTehConqueror]

Man, i must have got knocked back 10 years with the boat mormon religion name

[@KargoolElvalie]

Your proununciation of Nicosia made me cry.

[@soggysusej]

Instead of squeaking out 1 GPT with open borders, you can ask for it when mutually trading accept embassy (just saves you making an extra trade)

[@princeinferno426]

Polish person here, you pronounce Wroclaw pretty well. In Polish the ł in Wrocław makes the same sound as w does in water. The rest of the pronunciation is correct.

[@ogcipher4967]

I was like "wait why does the game look so weird but so familiar in the same time" and boom it's good ol' Civ V not VI

[@esinohio]

I can't wait to see @PotatoMcWhiskey demolish Civ VII diety mode when it comes out or whatever the hardest mode will be!

[@2centschange]

10:55 Potato basically explaining how social media works.

[@pascallaforge375]

What a cliffhanger, hopefully you make it out of that war

[@SkeIIum]

Oh hey, finally forced to go tradition. Lets go!

[@TheSuperappelflap]

A lighthouse...and a library...built right by the seashore...seems weirdly familiar.

[@Elias.Barney]

as a saint the boat mormons make me happy lol 😂

[@JMACCSArmiesOfMiddleEarth]

God I miss civ5 leader screens

[@rratactual]

This is such a Poland start I swear "hmmm yes wow I cannot wait to play one of the most powerful civs in the game, hopefully my start has at least some pastures" The start:

[@superguy911]

when your land is incredibly shit, there's actually a strong case for liberty. what use would growing the capital even be when all you have is 2 food tiles. Could have invested those cargo ship in exponentially better cities

[@dbpeel]

surprised you didnt go exploration for the extra production on cities settled on the coast. (unless lek mod removes that part, I dont play with it so Idk if it does)

[@NineEyeRon]

I’m falling asleep to this tonight!

[@JesseAnderson]

You'd think after 100 hours, I would've at least tried to improve a water tile with a worker. I've been using workboats exclusively this entire time

[@garethleahy412]

He's playing with LEKMOD which removes workboats and gives their job to workers. It's a major overhaul of vanilla civ 5.

[@st.videoss]

@@JesseAnderson It isn't a real thing, potato is playing with several mods that you and I both are very unfamiliar with

[@Milone335]

Hi potato, I wanted to ask if you could play Hungary in Civ 6. Because I think it is possible to win a domination victory in under 100 turns on a tiny terra map

[@konstantinnovozhilov1715]

I remember when Civilization VI was announced people also hated the new leader styles

[@GeorgeMonet]

I still do. And seeing them again should remind people how bad the Civ 6 leaders look.

[@kiraalira]

Łódź perfectly fits your start since it means "boat" in polish

[@elzaiba3489]

What mods do you use to get the extra civil and resource tiles?

[@robertmarshall2502]

"I'll wait two turns to grow and then I'll pull two workers off" Hey, however you find best motivates them is OK.