The THICCEST Persia to ever exist? (not clickbait) - Civ 6 Persia TLS

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Things I've learned - Typos in KZbin videos drive engagement

[@NathanCassidy721]

That’s one of the oldest YT tricks in the book: Trigger the Grammer Yahtzees.

[@stewartgames6697]

Deliberate mistakes to lure in that "Um, ackshually...." crowd.

[@leonristovski3595]

I have been baited...

[@2Links]

Love how basically no one noticed you spelt TSL wrong too. Are you sure there wasn't any of that fabled whiskey involved?

[@leonristovski3595]

@@2Links i think the problem is that very few people actually know what TSL/TLS (ye ik misspell on purpose) means

[@BanMidou88]

"Alexander is not a big deal... because we have a huge Persian empire..." I will tell you Potato, you are NOT the first to say this...

[@ClockworkOuroborous]

🤣 I lol'd

[@Kemachris]

Having a bit of historical knowledge makes this game like an alternate universe sometimes :D

[@grantpalmer5754]

@PotatoMcWhiskey, the only issue is that the playlist seems to be missing a couple of videos. We jump from the initial attack on Babylon to the Phoenicians are basically gone.

[@MaxisFensterreinigung]

just experienced the issue on my own, but i found it. Here for everyone coming after me: "Executing the most GIGA HUGE invasion of Egypt in Civ 6 History - Civ 6 Persia TSL"

[@LatinxGoyslop1994]

@@MaxisFensterreinigung what lucky timing to see this new comment on an old video. Thanks bud I was really confused for a second there

[@MaxisFensterreinigung]

@@LatinxGoyslop1994 when watching I found the last episode also misses in the playlist: "Pivoting harder than ever before! - Civ 6 Persia TSL"

[@UnbornHeretic]

I like how you are dealing with literal barbary states in the form of barbarians where the barbary states were actually located.

[@snk_private]

If you are into weird history and want to go down a rabbit hole: find out about the American Barbary Wars it's actually really interesting finding out how global the world was even in the late 18th century

[@RMCbreezy]

​​@@snk_privateUndoubtedly i have more to learn about that war but the worlds always been global. The bronze age collapse had a multitude of reasons but it all came down to all the links in the chain of global interdependence all had their own problems which brough down the system

[@psychorabbitt]

12:24 Fucking hell. Persia has the largest army in the world, but I think that barbarian clan is a close second.

[@TNMJAD]

We need a role play element where a massive Scythian/Mongol horde appears out of nowhere on your east flank.

[@chrisfatta9479]

BOUDICA!!! You could have used her to solve your barb problem! I keep screaming it! She’s outdated now anyways!

[@davidmoorcroft7117]

I love how the barbs are more difficult than the other civs.

[@venisontron]

Thank you. Also, there's nothing more fun than summoning an elite army from scratch with a few apostle charges

[@RMCbreezy]

​@@venisontronconverting*

[@arjunsatheesh7609]

Only the early ones knew about the thiccest Persia to ever exit.

[@hitchensghost]

I believe they exited stage right

[@BrainrotOf87]

However us late ones still get to enjoy a good Persia TLS game

[@arjunsatheesh7609]

@@BrainrotOf87 Everyone gets to enjoy PotatoMcWhiskey

[@venisontron]

I also love the random north african barbs who learned how to build an advanced Indonesian warship and then sold one to you. Also, don't forget your jong can escort settlers at full boat speed

[@mikes5212]

Builds Grand Master's Chapel and continues to hardbuild units with over 3k faith saved up. Why not spend your faith and thicccken up that army too?

[@Blackadder75]

same with increasing his spy capacity to 4 and then never build more than 1

[@obito2575]

You could have used Boudicca to convert all those barb line infantry to your own units 😂

[@jonathanjappe7]

it's an especially good idea cause she only works on classical and medieval troops so she was becoming obsolete

[@benjaminwiedel6366]

i came here to same the same thing. And, every time her unit needs orders pop up, they all light up as a reminder.

[@sebastianwiedemann326]

How to "install a regime" into a city state: 1. Conquer it unreasonably early (while surrounded by other civs) 2. Let flip independent 3. Reconquer 4. Liberate to founder

[@TheNoksu97]

Ah yes when persia exited the world

[@carrandgillfamily8901]

26:40 I hope in Civ7 there is a bit more nuance to being a warmonger. Instead of the other AIs hating you generically, there could be some that still want to be friendly out of fear of your retaliation. Much like you're at ease when you have a declared friend, you can't be attacked by them for 30 turns. Maybe there's another diplomatic option to declare you're not going to go to war, and to break that vow could trigger a larger emergency, but there would still be some way to revoke it legally so that down the line you may decide to go to war with them. I'm sure there are other ideas to make warmongering more interesting, too

[@e1123581321345589144]

That barb swarm was insane! No wonder Phoenicia didn't have any army left if they were constantly fighting that coming out of Africa.

[@luffdubstep]

everytime im feeling down about life im just gonna picture potato saying "slowly but surely, we will clear out all this bullshit"

[@nicksamek12]

Too thicc to exit

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

We need wider doors

[@steffensegieth8816]

Potato: we struggle a little bit on amenities, 19 of 20 Citys are unhappy 😂 clearly a little bit, in civ4 your hole empire had disapeared

[@nosh3691]

When the Barbs are the only other group with an army, you know it's going to be a good Dom game

[@RMCbreezy]

Usually where i pivot and delay my domination to pursue the greater threat. Nothing like fighting barbs and free cities

[@soupwizard]

8:40 Lawrence of Arabia says: "Give me soldiers, and I will go into the desert and end your problems with bullshit." Later at 12:38 "I say, this is certainly a lot of bullshit!"

[@brickingle3984]

love how you have followed the exact historical expansion of the persians so far.

[@kassandra4748]

Love this run so far very much! Like always your eye for the right decisions in a never ending micromanagement flood is incredible. ❤

[@KCpersian]

Loving this series potato. Would love to see more TSL videos with other civs. Edit: you can probably guess why I'm loving the series based on the username ha

[@gumbycat5226]

Why no Petra - so many perfect cities for it...

[@craigs7896]

As Persia you can keep the movement bonus by keeping two enemy civs alive, with just one city each, with decent pop so they won't flip, and alternate surprise wars on them for 10 turns and just continuously have the extra movement while you actually go attack other civs.

[@aldinrh2792]

Sometime i bored when play civ 6,, but everytime i watch your video, that inspire me to play the game, and i enjoy it

[@RMCbreezy]

Do you go to war?

[@WrnMyr]

27:25 oh uh yeah i've been listening to a lot of knight corps

[@tyrosinetek]

27:25 Potato announces his upcoming electronica album "Nightcore Domination"

[@MrTakin00]

Did I miss a video on the playlist? Last one you were still invading the other Civ

[@peterkang6677]

love how the barbs are putting up more resistance than any other civ

[@damejanea.macdonald2371]

Africa is making me feel like I might have spoken too soon about getting to thunderdome without the endless line of barbarians. There's probably not a lot of space on the European side of things left for barb camps to spawn anywhere other than Africa until your settlements arrive. At least it's not immediately from early game.

[@johnedmond9361]

This game made me wanna start a Persia game and it’s going fantastic! Thanks!

[@peterkang6677]

sometimes it feels like barbarian 6 when you have to fight against an army of barbarians

[@thelonelybritV2]

When I started the video I paused it without looking at the screen so that the video can buffer a bit. Then I looked up to see the gameplay upside-down & perfectly aligned. It took me a good 6 seconds to figure out what was going on & realise what I was looking at. I restarted the video to see if I could stop it there again, but I've tried 10 times & failed every time.

[@ghlegend195]

9:13 What is that in the city of Konya? Is that a special governor? It looks vaguely like Hammurabi

[@wokerthe]

That's the special Ibrahim the Grand Vizier governor for the Ottomans

[@jamster251]

Boudica for free line infantry! Awwww

[@chrisfatta9479]

I keep screaming it

[@gabrieltorres5]

Potato, I think the Immortals do full damage with ranged atacks on city walls, but they still get the -17 penalty vs. district defenses that all ranged atacks get

[@vapor4441]

The barbs are your strongest enemy

[@Brickwinds]

Always love True Location Start maps

[@RMCbreezy]

You had to of expected intense barbs. You destroyed 3 empires! All those starving refugees had to eat and there werent any potatoes

[@jackward2191]

The most professional and largest army potato faced throughout this game was the african barbarians

[@johnaristotle3736]

" Pull back my Jong" Ha!

[@teloranstrekal1328]

Did you forget that you can bribe Barabarian Clans to not attack your cities, or were you more focused on keeping gold in your treasury?

[@mrtobstah101]

You could have made a huge convert barbs play with your general. 3 line infantry for free could have been huge!

[@mateocalderon6913]

My favorite civ videos are TSL ones and I do like the slower game speed, I think that makes for more exciting games actually! More in the future please

[@RMCbreezy]

Your comment almost makes it sound as if potato played on a slower speed yet he played on Standard. Slower game modes are harder to pivot to war and only boosts the AI's passive bonuses in the long run i feel. It does wonders for immersion though

[@manicpixiedckgirl]

"the (not click bait) in my title has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my title "

[@onetruedodd]

I'm 12 minutes in. Please use Boudica to convert barbs. I'm losing my mind over this.

[@thewildformosanformosan]

You've basically recreated the Persian Empire at its peak on the map

[@Zaimejs]

Does tater forget he can buy troops with faith?

[@venisontron]

mfw Potato doesn't put in the commercial hub card when he's playing an owls game

[@gabrieltorres5]

Did you guys know that Persia was historically attacked by a huge army of barbarian line infantry coming from the north of Africa in 1150 AD?

[@carva9000]

18:22 can i take your Djong also potato?

[@C1azed]

The barbs being a bigger problem the AI is peak civ

[@TomasCyr]

It throws me off in a good way when you're talking about some improvement, I don't even know which but it sounds like you're say "Pirate Jesus" "We gotta get the cash up so we can put down another Pirate Jesus" and I dunno it makes me giggle.

[@carrandgillfamily8901]

if the title says it isn't clickbait, then by golly I'm going to click on the video. Definition of baiting me to click. AND IT'S GREAT! GO POTATO, GO!

[@Ceceiliapus]

Is it time for Petra soon? I want some tasty desert yields!

[@ironboy3245]

Lore accurate persian empire

[@tannerdavisr]

So looking forward to the churn train

[@yea7974]

Your videos help me sleep 😁

[@tangodospassos]

Look man I'm not saying that a huge Persian empire invading the mediterranean area has already been seen before all I'm saying is watch out for this Greek dudes will you

[@THATguyTOMO]

The last time i came this early my gf left me

[@leonristovski3595]

Is the TLS in the title a mistake? Shouldnt it be TSL? (True start location?)

[@nonevahed5559]

with all the barbs, I'm starting to think the correct decision may have been to peace out Dido after taking Biruta so she could be a buffer to deal with the Barbs while you swung your army north to focus on killing the Ottomans and Byzantines. Fighting swarms of line infantry just so you can settle cities in the industrial era seems not worth it. In a domination game on a Large map, every single turn counts.

[@RMCbreezy]

Turn 900 victories are where its at

[@Z0mb13ta11ahase]

Coulds paid the barbs to not attack you

[@tagesvaterpatrick8780]

Great episode! As usual. But what is Potato saving the faith up for? 😉

[@Blackadder75]

For Bon Jovi

[@tagesvaterpatrick8780]

@@Blackadder75 I believe ... this joke to be kind of funny. 🤭

[@thevoid7863]

You are not even half the thickness of the original Achaemenid Persia.

[@RMCbreezy]

The map does hinder his persia ness

[@dmitriyk.2890]

Is it posible to do a one-city challange as Peter? He is pretty OP but he is geared for culture victory and it is probably imposible to win culture with ome city and no mods.

[@pezzshnitsol]

Wait, can you eat city state units for corps and armies?

[@RMCbreezy]

I was about to say no... but I'm unsure now. HOLD

[@Lon3wolf18]

25:32 are you a jerma fan potato?

[@RaiXun]

Is there a video missing? I went from killing Gilga bro to uh....well a thicc Persia

[@RMCbreezy]

Two of them. Go to his recents

[@RaiXun]

@@RMCbreezyAh sick, thanks man, I'm too spoiled by playlists lol

[@2hundidforbigsucci]

Did you know the title is incorrect? The potatoin Persian empire will never exit

[@JuanGarcia-gy8vl]

Persia is *THICC* as a potato!

[@linkatronic]

Is it worth letting those barbarian clans settle into city states on the North African coast?

[@lfavaro]

Nazca would be great in this map

[@pezzshnitsol]

Wow the barbs in the south are actually insanely obnoxious

[@melovepeas]

Ah yes, the famous Persian urban hub of culture and finance, Porter Washington

[@fargonotic]

hmm a properous and militarily strong empire being hindered in its progress by barbarians invading from inhospitable areas at its borders, what a shame, who could've foreseen that man

[@AUTvillacherboyAUT]

cant you promote after combining?

[@RMCbreezy]

Idk been to afraid to lose a promotion every time

[@cinnamonbeardstud]

Persian Chungus

[@elsupreme]

Really craving a TSL game after this series.

[@johnaristotle3736]

Suz Yerevan and then use apostles to convert barbs. Why waste energy fighting them?

[@RMCbreezy]

Honor and glory!

[@samueltrusik3251]

WORLD CONQUEST TIME

[@gustavkrogsbygaard3254]

I think it's a mistake to inject so much gold into your desert city. Its only purpose is the niter, everything else doesn't matter with that one. It's not about asking how much a city needs improvements. It's about asking what the return of your investment in the end will be. The gold would be better spent elsewhere in my opinion.

[@nielsbosmobile]

Please fix your play lists. There are 2 episodes missing before this in the list.

[@pyz-kazume4352]

Starting to look like persia real golden age empire, you must do better now and beat greece to continue the expansion

[@brinaldi81]

Thiccc af boi

[@wsoma24]

Brand-T48?!

[@Amm17ar]

The one thing I dislike about Civ is dominations are way too easy. Other Civs just dont put up a "realistic" fight imo. I wish there was a way for them to really react with everything theyve got like civilizations throughout history would have. Obviousy there are plenty of times where an army was just way too massive and ahead of its time for one reason or another and nations/civilizations just got taken over without too much of a struggle. But it feels like Civ 6 struggled to really make wars realistic, both in their toll on the nations fighting it, bringing others into the conflict, and the sheer amount of people at times involved in conflicts. I just find if you want a domination victory even as a extremely inexperienced player like myself, its not the hardest thing in the world even on the hardest difficulties.

[@mule1298]

I disagree, he almost got shitstomped by crossbows were he a less experienced player. Early game captures war well imo, but late game i cannot argue there are literal nukes.

[@Amm17ar]

@@mule1298 Yeah fair enough, I just find for me, when the game starts out as a domination game, its just pretty easy to compound and snowball into a win. It just feels inevitable, which I wish was more of a potential for it to not work out and actually for it to be possible to backfire.

[@palmtrees2924]

Yeah, the civs don't really put up a fight once you get past the early stage where their production bonuses matter most. So far the only real resistance he's faced has been from the barbs.

[@RMCbreezy]

​@@Amm17arplaying with dramatic ages can help shatter your kingdom so it forces you to backtrack. But the AI just cant handle that modes loyalty pressure. On top of that they never go after the free cities almost acting if theyre city states theyre suzerain of. Which makes no sense since theyre THEIR OWN CITIES usually

[@Amm17ar]

@@RMCbreezy Ill give that a shot for sure. Ive been wanting to try a Eleanor no war domination game for a while too. Might try and speed it up with a dramatic ages game with Eleanor?

[@CheeterCheese567]

Typo typo typo, exist?

[@spoogsq836]

Use a nuke this game! Just for fun ofc

[@Legault397]

clickbait - didn't even finish conquering Phoenicia smh

[@otzui]

TLS?

[@leonristovski3595]

Same question

[@JessWLStuart]

Baktri Petra, anyone?

[@giorgitskhadaia2562]

You could upgrade units cheaper

[@Kamishi845]

And this is why I can't ever bother to play dom because all the unit micro is just too much for me haha.

[@RFDN0]

I just tech spam and get ahead of the curve that I am able to just March a small army and win.

[@RMCbreezy]

Sim citying it just dont do it for me. Domination or the faux peaceful religion(soft dom) game are my go to's. Clicking next turn only every 5-20 mins for me!

[@KrakenTheWall]

Exit lol

[@ishaansingh6973]

For some reason AI seems to be disinterested in making walls, playing a similar game with Galls and nobody's interested in walls.

[@RMCbreezy]

I see walls all the time. Sometimes they do seem to hate walls until they get threatened. There seems to be moods for games