A continent to call my own - Civ 6 Maori Ep.1

Hey Spuddies, PotatoMcWhiskey here and welcome to my Deity Civ 6 Let's Play as the Maori.
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[@ottovonbismarckboi9112]

When potato plays deity, the Ai have at most like 20 science per turn at turn 50, when I play..... Pedro rocks up on turn 30 with +70 science and tells me I need to die

[@basti2955]

Otto Von Bismarck boi well it's a terra map which leads the AI to have very few space which which then leads to more possible aggression what also will hurt their science.

[@Sidnv]

You've missed all the games where he's had Korea pop up with 200 science on turn 100 then :)

[@ezrapark9992]

I find Pedro easy to kill with unit spam. He has absolutely no bonuses to combat and spams districts even during war.

[@ottovonbismarckboi9112]

Siddharth Venkatesh no I haven’t, just the fact that I ALWAYS HAVE THE HAPPEN

[@ottovonbismarckboi9112]

Ezra Park true

[@PeerPressing]

Turn 20 was a truly dark turn for the Maori - missed camp kill, missed edict change and a missed tribal village #RIP

[@PugsleyThePear]

That's the kind of turn that would make me savescum. Kudos to McWhiskey for sticking to his decisions.

[@MarijnRoorda]

"Rigged" the man says... Maori with legendary starting location. Deep ocean tiles as far as the eye can see...

[@Bright_Vision]

He meant it was rigged for him

[@thesnowmiser6728]

He was talking about the ship's rigging

[@AnAngelineer]

Maori on Terra is the "relaxed Deity" mode! XD But, hey, it's fine to have a simpler game once in a while. ;)

[@spiderking8011]

I'm going to enjoy the ai freakout

[@isaacintner5831]

it is the venice on a duel map with no city states of civ6

[@stevejohnson5887]

I am maori and this map mirrors real life. Maori in its own kingdom in eastern world were dangerous to other eastern world countries not even me wants to meet them 🤧

[@temtem9255]

@@isaacintner5831 wouldnt that be hard? Or am i missing something?

[@isaacintner5831]

@@temtem9255 you set the opponent as Venice and play Attila or some other warmonger if you want to get it over quick. If you can win on chieftain you will probably win eventually.

[@kookybadger156]

I didn't realise how much of a child I was until I found myself chuckling every time Potato mentioned getting crabs. Good job you found Cardiff then, hur hur, etc

[@adamlees8737]

Cool

[@Joe13313]

As a Māori myself. Thanks for Playing as my culture on Civ6

[@Keladinus]

My first time trying the Terra variant to see what it was, I met Kupe like 80 turns in, found out where he was (on the other continent), and realized I was just fucked

[@mohandasjung]

Realizing you are ducked is the main Civ experience.

[@nancytinder7763]

Things I learned a in my previous game as the Maori on Terra Geneva is OP Vilnius plus aesthetics will triple your adjacency Reyna can give you 2 food, 6 production, 1 faith, 1 culture, 2 gold forest hills with 15 appeal Pray you don’t have Norway in the game so you get all the city states to yourself Auckland literally wins you the game You can get a 22 pop city on three tiles in the the ocean Having a ~120 production capital city is awesome Machu Picchu is the only reliable way to get theater square adjacency Good luck on the game

[@adamlees8737]

I lic

[@x_L3m0n]

Ofc Auckland wins the game cuz it is th biggest city of New Zealand and the Maori are native to New Zealand it just makes sense

[@KiwiRussman]

Me: someone who lives in kaiapoi getting excited when it comes Potato: It's not a very useful city..

[@x_L3m0n]

OOF- I'm waiting for the ones in Taranaki

[@judas4544]

no way cuz i go to kaiapoi all the time, im from chch tho

[@robs5701]

When you spend 40 gold to change out your policies you might as well swap out god king as well. I usually go for this card early to get a pantheon and somehow always end up forgetting to switch it out until political philosophy

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Sometiems you forget.

[@ottovonbismarckboi9112]

Bro......same

[@huangzhenglong8985]

I've forgotten to switch out God King till the Renaissance Era before.

[@lineko7013]

@@PotatoMcWhiskey I have no clue about how many times I forgot to send a little "Hello!" gift to civs I meet and die for it.

[@techtrek31]

I really love this content. I'm also now narrating all my own games in my head with PotatoMcWhiskey voice, and sometimes mundane tasks in my daily life. I'm sure it's fine.

[@seanvucich]

Been looking forward to seeing this civ - Enjoy playing with this civ - Aotearoa represent!

[@jc7633]

Hey dude love the videos! You’re the best civ player I watch, and I’ve been kinda thinking of a cool challenge you could do. Try to win a deity game as the worst civ for a victory type and play against the AI that are the best for that same victory type. For example win a culture game playing against Pericles, Gorgo, Trojan, and other great culture civs but you play as one of the worst for culture and still try to win with culture. Basically you’re trying to use the worst civ for a certain type of victory and win against the best civs for that type of victory!

[@Sten_The_Man]

Joel Collins yeah, let’s win a religious victory as the kongo :). Haha great suggestion tho!

[@nikolaitregouet]

Joel Collins I mean it’s not hard. For example you take Tomiris, conquer them, leaving all but one city on the whole map and them boom - done, 100% guaranteed cultural victory cuz you inherit the AI infrastructure.

[@adamlees8737]

Gfyyrhhrtgfgjggy

[@shadowoflasalle8831]

Make him do a Canada domination

[@CornRaked]

@@shadowoflasalle8831 Canada does surprisingly well with domination cause they do build up a military like other civs and they use it less so when the time comes that a war is called they have either a strong or moderate army

[@funkwolf]

Would be cool if Amenities impacted Loyalty even on the offense, against other civs.

[@zerogold8717]

Love Kupe on Archipelago map, so good.

[@drakonslayer8279]

The WH in Maori names or words is pronounced like an F, like PH is in english

[@billiejohnson7479]

Whanganui isn't pronounced with an F sound, although words like Whakapapa are. It's due to the dialect of the tribe

[@phforNZ]

@@billiejohnson7479 No, it is.

[@billiejohnson7479]

@@phforNZ The tribe in Whanganui pronounces the Wh without an F sound, it's an exception to the typical rule, that's why it used to be spelt as Wanganui as that's what the Europeans heard.

[@phforNZ]

@@billiejohnson7479 No we don't

[@billiejohnson7479]

@@phforNZ then why are there so many sources stating that it's pronounced that way, and why were there so many stories over the years where people went to Whanganui to interview the locals, including iwi, about how it's actually pronounced?

[@dontnormally]

"I'm just cutting out exploration" Fair, but it's also one of the more interesting parts of the game imo

[@mcihay246]

Regarding pronunciations... Don't worry. With the different dialects, you'd be forgiven if you were to mispronounce a few things based on the spelling. Besides, those that live at Otatara Pa wouldn't have an issue. They're sheep after all. Literally. P.S. Some of the names, like Whakarewarewa, might make the video demonetised if pronounced correctly funny enough.

[@Haren94]

Are you serious about the demonetisation? Why would this happen?

[@mcihay246]

@@Haren94 Well... Whakarewarewa is properly pronounced pretty much as... Uhhh... F*$#-a-re-wa-re-wa.

[@TuMekeBro]

@@mcihay246 am kiwi.... can confirm if he was saying it correctly, he would be de-monetised for real ;)

[@SerEnmei]

I can remember many years ago when Rove had his own tv show, he loved it when Kiwi's came on the show because he could say 'Whakatane' on live TV without having to worry about the Australian broadcast authority.

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

Marae. Soft Ma then rye as in the seed Although again a softer vowel set and rolled R. None of this mar nonsense.

[@Vardalos2]

I still haven't found ONE youtuber who realised that you can start researching since you have science before settling as kupe

[@jeffbailey3193]

I have always wondered this as well. I never see anyone choose a starting tech as the Maori. Just a bit of wasted science points I guess.

[@Antilles1974]

@@jeffbailey3193 It actually doesn't waste the science, it is saved.

[@Skycroft1000]

You can, but you often don't want to. Your science points are still being saved up, it isn't wasted. You may want to leave the option open so that, e.g. you can get mining if you land next to stone, astrology if you find a natural wonder, etc. Your accumulated science points will still be applied to the tech you choose (though with a minimum of 1 turn, the excess will roll over). Being able to accumulate science while leaving the option open is actually a large advantage that most civs don't get, picking a tech on turn 1 wastes it. Edit: in fact, you can see this at 4:04 Astrology costs 50 science and he makes 3.2 so it should be over 15 turns remaining (50/3.2), but instead it is 13 because of the 8 science he accumulated while sailing around the previous 4 turns (42/3.2).

[@jeffbailey3193]

@@Antilles1974 Thanks for that info, never knew that. I guess it does make some sense then to not pick it.

[@4u_lightningwolf]

hey your the one who spammed in saxy's stream

[@tlheart]

Thanks for the content, I just started a Maori game on small continents, and boy is it fun with the fishing boats.

[@QuadSpades]

I like the new more cut version of your episodes which started with Macedonia. Keep it up and stay safe, PMW! PS! It is fun to see how different people prioritize different Governors and their abilities. I use Pingala mostly because of its 20% district building reduction in same kinda game where I want to settle 15-20 cities.

[@AvengerAtIlipa]

F in the chat for your diplomatic relations with Victoria for the rest of the game.

[@kitreadsbooks7718]

I only found your videos this afternoon but I just wanted to say I love how you explain what you're thinking and why you do things. I started playing Civ 6 fairly recently (I have about 55 hours in game) so it's nice to see things that are maybe obvious to more experienced gamers but that I hadn't even considered (the first video of yours I saw was the one where you talk about choosing a place to put your capital city).

[@grimwest1222]

What an incredible start with an awesome theme and super cool Civ! Well done - really liking these vids

[@enceps]

When he tried to take out that barb camp near the beginning, I felt that.

[@flaviusclaudius7510]

I picked up Civ VI and your videos are really helping me understand what's going on in the game. Last Civ game I played extensively was Civ III and things have changed a bit since then

[@Frankcisco]

I love it and haven’t seen it yet. Good to see you potato

[@grichnak4794]

I love your vids man, they got me back into civ6. Keep up the great work

[@caseyb1346]

7:50 Don't attack. Skip turn and Let the AI attack. They're attacking across a river so they probably won't be able to kill the warrior that turn. Then next turn your warrior can just fart in its general direction and that will be enough to finish it off and take the camp.

[@Pierre-gk5ky]

This inspired me to play a game with that exact setup, and it's a ton of fun. Thanks for the great idea!

[@josabn01]

Missed your videos😎 thank you for the quality content

[@ffreeze9924]

People don’t seem to realize that as the Maori you can do research before you settle. The game just doesn’t remind you

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

The science is stored in a buffer until you settle so it does not matter.

[@akshupe123]

One of my favorite civs

[@Levitz_Silas]

I thought I knew how to play this game until I found your videos! Truly enlightening. Thank you.

[@pralthelegend3753]

Love your stuff my dude. Keep it up

[@ArmchairMagpie]

Those 1-hitpoint leftovers can sometimes be real game changers. Of course it's nice if it happens to your own units in which case it was of course tactical foresight. PS: Seems a leprechaun rolled your map.

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

It never works in my favour, only ever against me.

[@ryonhovey4450]

Ive has multiple games where the Maori win because they have that entire second continent locked down.

[@PugsleyThePear]

Starting to use the map search function was something that changed my gameplay. So good for searching for tribal villages, see what wonders the AI are building or check for resorces.

[@hess4win725]

Great video! super excited for more.

[@jakeanglin8763]

With Mausoleum those yields would be insane

[@cinnamonbeardstud]

Why have I never thought of this! Amazing

[@Chillibro456235]

dude its like art love dat piece of toa

[@aidanabregov1412]

So nice to see another series and of my favorite Civ! Idea for a meme campaign: cause as much global disaster as possible as the Maori. Better if you pick Civs that either try to conserve the environment or just add to the environmental damage. Hope you and your family are staying safe!

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

I already did something kind of like that, but where I did a 0 co2 emmissions run.

[@aidanabregov1412]

PotatoMcWhiskey I remember. That was when you donated for each forest you had inside your borders. I’m talking about turning continents into an archipelago.

[@constancebashford2324]

What about max out climate level, and then bring the disaster chance to zero?

[@LeninZealand]

I love playing the Maori in Civ 6, also dread watching let's plays when they try to pronounce the words though lol. Great video btw, from a friendly neighbourhood kiwi.

[@x_L3m0n]

What kiwi doesn't dread watching people try to pronounce any Maori words

[@bobfrzeed4190]

Awesome, love these bro

[@alliezah]

I was worried about you, glad to see you back

[@Chromify]

starting temperature looking like me when I see Alexander in my games, wet.

[@dillguy9]

Nice, Maori are the continent "Zeelandia"

[@wrjtung3456]

And they say civ 6 isn’t historically accurate

[@danshakuimo]

@@wrjtung3456 You have to watch the earth map video where Japan invades Korea

[@MrGreyScreen]

Big ups to you Potato for commenting on your pronunciations. New sub well earned.

[@benedekmorhorvath4230]

There are some amazing spots for golden gate bridge and good canals you should look into Potato,great video as always

[@andresjg6]

This is my favorite way to play! Terra map with Kupe is so fun.

[@Sledgeroy]

Really love your CIV Gameplay, your voice is the last thing i hear when i go to sleep lol

[@okanadabas4740]

not gonna lie why has my dude potato not at least several 100k subs like thats good friggin content right here its a damn shame

[@filippodanielibailo9070]

It's fantastic, you are back with more videos

[@PaulDickson7]

Great to hear your voice :) hope you're keeping well

[@madmartigan1498]

I tried the same Setup with Kupe. It's so much fun even though it feels a lil bit like cheating (but it isn't, it's in the game...). - Potato, you're the best civ player / streamer! Keep up the good work!

[@pdraggy]

I played a two large lands civ v map where I started with 2 civs on one side and 3 on the other. I quickly killed the two on my side and it took 150 turns for the other civs to get over to my side

[@chrisspies2803]

I warnt Go habe the confidence Potato hat when he thought he would kill the Barbcamp 😂😂😂

[@midknight1978]

finally!! thought u went AWOL potato!!!! glad to see your content back again

[@jaimediaz6621]

Hi Potato! I really enjoy your CIV 6 videos and look forward to this playthrough. Could you potentially do an Aztec playthrough for the Gathering Storm expansion?

[@spencervandyke1552]

AI whenever you do everything to please them: “DO YOU WANT TO SEE YOUR PEOPLE TAKEN AS SLAVES!”

[@andrewulrich5570]

You always make so much sense when you play I always start and lose focus within 10 turns

[@czitrom42]

I really enjoyed this video. It was wery relaxing.

[@MuppetLord1]

Kupe with Auckland and fishing pantheon is completely broken. ^^

[@andrewsercer9538]

"kick back and have a good time" every once in a while. Agreed. My go-to for that sort of thing is playing Russia on an easy difficulty setting (for me, normal difficulty is Prince, so easy-mode is Chieftain lol)

[@paulstelmack4354]

Love your videos. I play on Switch, and there is no search function (like you did for tribal villages). There is a function you may not know about that DOES work on console. The Trade Route button has a tab to show available trade routes. It's my new favorite feature, let's me figure out which city to send those routes from super quickly. It's a game changer!

[@sp00ky_guy]

Oh man I used to love doing this in Civ V

[@joebonner5914]

Love the content Potato. Any thought to playing some of the scenarios through to victory after A-Z?

[@tinkornhardfist7574]

In my current game as Brazil, playing on a continents map, I got placed on a continent where I was all on my own, only with a city state on it. I claimed the whole continent, placing 7 cities on it. The only downside was that I was alone and couldn't meet anyone, but I claimed a tribal village on a nearby island and they gave me the Cartography tech when I was still in the Classical era. This pretty much allowed me to explore much earlier.

[@Argonaut717]

When you switched laws and didn't clear the barb camp I would've fucking reloaded save lmao you're a better man than I potato lmao

[@johnhammond1668]

Been diving heavily into Rimworld recently, but I think this might be my next save. Too much of a builder at heart to not be all over heavy expansion, and those juicy city-state bonuses are too good to turn down.

[@OnlyBush]

plz dont change your style of videos found you recently and am loving your videos

[@billmuertos]

31:02 thank you I've been dying inside listening to you try and pronounce all these names wrong haha

[@alyssabrianlaube6935]

Ty for a great idea!

[@oversnow116]

The first civ I have ever used to play Civ 6, was Maori, when I 1st played Civ 6, I looked at the civs, and I picked Maori. The Reason I picked Maori when I 1st played is because of the water advantages, When I read Maori's Advantages, I did not understand and I thought that they can go get water tiles quickly, I thought you needed a Research to be able to have Water tiles.

[@angus5693]

Its pronounced marye as in Mugh - and then Rye like the plant

[@kiwir3bel]

I was going to say the same thing, but online all of the pronunciations say it wrong and I thought I was going crazy. Nice to know someone else says its pronounced this way.

[@snowgods2195]

Technically all the vowels are pronounced separately. There are no dipthongs in Maori

[@anarchycastro]

@@snowgods2195 Yeah, they wear jandals, not thongs.

[@DexRei]

@@kiwir3bel Reminds me of watching anime reviews and people butcher character names. This is forgiveable though, whereas with the anime stuff, the show literally just said the name and the reviewer still gets it wrong

[@gotMylky]

This is such a fun idea omg, you keep making me re-download this damned game after I finally think I get away from it! xD

[@j.lahtinen7525]

The Maori are quite fun to play! I don't know what voodoo google practices on me, but I got this video recommended just after I started a very similar game, with the same idea, on a similar map, as Maori. 😎

[@laynewebb5986]

You did the same thing that I do every time I play the Maori: You forgot to select a tech while selecting where to put down your first city, losing out on that +2 research per turn.

[@Edramon53]

It's not lost, it's just stored and applied when you do choose one so it's fine either way.

[@itwasntme6110]

Hey Potato I’m a noob in the game this mode and this Kupe mode is super fun I try other civilizations and had a very hard time getting started but this one is so fun and good thanks for the tips and vids 👍🏻

[@evandelck8541]

I’m looking for more Civ 6 content and ur here so thx

[@Horkslair]

Any time I find a relic early, I grab the relic bonus in my religion. +12 faith a turn from your relic and any more you come across is an insane bonus once you get your 6 slot government and can start buying troops with faith. Plus you can have so much faith coming in you can consider buying great people for the advantages they provide.

[@pranavsharma455]

Subscribed, Mr. Potato Man!

[@GJgabriel28]

Im impressed. You are doing things that took me 70 turns LMAO

[@alcool222]

I've done the exact same thing. got a 170 turn cultural victory on diety, while my best result otherwise was turn 219. as boring as it may seem, it was my favorite way of playing civ by min maxing my every move without the perils of being attacked

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

I'm less interested in min maxing than I am just having a chill game.

[@kirralythompson508]

A few early tips for Maori here. 1. Don't build scouts. Build Warriors. They have the same naval movement and upgrade to Toa. 2. Don't settle your capital near too many land resources. You need fishing boats and a spot to get your harbour to +6 adjacency. Forrests/jungle are often better than bonus resources as Maori.

[@stewenw4120]

This looks like fun. Will try it too in about 2 hrs. :)

[@antondrake9198]

Being from NZL I love how you pronounce Marae, Ma-ray hahaha, btw it is strong Ma followed by Rai. Ma-rai, you can also roll the r if you want

[@ung0liant]

recreating this challenge roughly (never played deity). capital has 5 ocean features, picked up god of the sea, and i found auckland and jerusalem on my continent. its gonna be a good game.

[@RogerMacCallum]

I think it would be interesting to do the math on the “production value” of faith from Earth Goddess compared to fishing boat production. I feel like in a Kupe game with lots of woods and coast there would be tonnes of faith available to translate into settlers, campus and TS buildings, units and great people.

[@robertposaric6419]

Hurray! He is back

[@grabbinsheep]

f in the chat for 8:11

[@harjutapa]

I love Maori so much. OP but in a FUN way.

[@danshakuimo]

The only way to get religious settlements on high difficulties is probably getting a relic early from a village

[@zerefiel]

Your civ vi plays are awesome and this one particular inspired me to do something similar. True start earth map, deity and I chose Greece with pericles while choosing the rest of the civs to be all North and South America based civs. I did however chose to also include Macedon cause it seems like they spawn next to Greece with a settler alone near Greece starting warrior. In my first run I lost cause of the Inca's massive science. But I did win in my second run where I did not include them. Maybe u can do a similar run. it was fun having 4 continent all to myself.

[@actualturtle2421]

Talking about saying acronyms out loud, one of my favorite things to do is use redundant acronyms. I say "as asap as possible" all the time. That and "ham as af." That's "hard as a motherfucker as as fuck." I legit love it so much.

[@gielos]

I like the new less over the top 'hey spuddies'

[@cheeselord8153]

Best strat is to get 200+ gold per turn and rush planes and just buy a bunch of planes to dominate

[@Social_Mechanic]

I fucking love these types of videos bruh. Keep it up!

[@spugnoxngubcux9801]

I just realized you settled on the continent of *Zealandia.* How fitting.