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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@Joe13313]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@dontnormally]

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

[@tlheart]

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

[@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?

[@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

[@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.

[@funkwolf]

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

[@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.

[@Frankcisco]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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?

[@AvengerAtIlipa]

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

[@josabn01]

Missed your videos😎 thank you for the quality content

[@pralthelegend3753]

Love your stuff my dude. Keep it up

[@alliezah]

I was worried about you, glad to see you back

[@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

[@billmuertos]

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

[@grabbinsheep]

f in the chat for 8:11

[@spencervandyke1552]

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

[@grimwest1222]

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

[@akshupe123]

One of my favorite civs

[@grichnak4794]

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

[@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).

[@ryonhovey4450]

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

[@Levitz_Silas]

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

[@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.

[@OnlyBush]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@jakeanglin8763]

With Mausoleum those yields would be insane

[@Chromify]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@MaliciousCup]

as the world is going into a Critical health emergency. Potato: "Builder go get Crabs"

[@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!

[@bobfrzeed4190]

Awesome, love these bro

[@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!

[@hess4win725]

Great video! super excited for more.

[@PaulDickson7]

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

[@PKWitness]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@midknight1978]

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

[@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)

[@chrisspies2803]

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

[@cooperterrill9095]

new potato video? pogchamp

[@aidanabregov1412]

Cooper Terrill get your Twitch heresy out of here!

[@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?

[@Chillibro456235]

dude its like art love dat piece of toa

[@IgneousKaiser]

Potato: Hello barb camp, can you die? Barb Camp: No :)

[@filippodanielibailo9070]

It's fantastic, you are back with more videos

[@civ-fanboy2137]

I also try to place my districts as soon as possible, but I encountered this bug, that if a strategic ressource spawns under a not build district, I cannot finish the district.

[@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.

[@benedekmorhorvath4230]

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

[@jamesbarbagallo1241]

ironically he spawns near "Zelandia" which sounds an awful lot like "New Zeland" where the Maori are from. >_

[@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.

[@Decks_Ray]

@@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

[@andrewulrich5570]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@robertposaric6419]

Hurray! He is back

[@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.

[@BrainrotOf87]

I don't wanna be that guy, but... Being a New Zealander, I think he should take some Maori classes. He actually might even like it.

[@andresjg6]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@heavycritic9554]

14:24 That whole thing with using abbreviations and acronyms in speech is really odd. There's a Norwegian comic strip called "Kollektivet" ("The Collective") where an American tourist talks to a main character (don't remember if it's Ronny or Mounir): Tourist: "Are there any Double-U Double-U Two sites around here?" MC: "Double-U Double-U Two?" Tourist: "Yeah, it's short for World War Two." MC: "No, it's not." And 15:16 Meeting Gitarja is aaaaaalways nice. Same with Cleopatra. 😁

[@gielos]

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

[@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

[@weregoat529]

Kupe always backstabs me. He's friendly as anything until he thinks his military can take mine, then he refuses to renew friendships and inevitably invades in a couple of turns...

[@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

[@elibrent4155]

does the audio sound a little weird to anyone else?

[@senidalamsunyi8300]

yeah, wonder why

[@aidanabregov1412]

I don’t hear anything abnormal. There was some audio issues in one of the Alexander vids, but not now.

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

I tried a new audio filter for this series. If you don't like it I'lll go back to the old way.

[@Mrmaverickism]

@@PotatoMcWhiskey your usual one sounds more clear but this one is easier on the ears. Neither re bad, the new one is just softer. good for a long video in my opinion

[@4u_lightningwolf]

i think it sounds better!! usually it is quite loud and sharp, this more soft and relaxing

[@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.

[@czitrom42]

I really enjoyed this video. It was wery relaxing.

[@amosw766]

26:50 as bizarre as it sounds, Whangarei is actually pronounced "phangurai" or close to

[@danshakuimo]

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

[@kotyrollins]

"To the other AI in the game." Thats it folks. Hes gone native.

[@pranavsharma455]

Subscribed, Mr. Potato Man!

[@Social_Mechanic]

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

[@harjutapa]

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

[@SHeViChPioNist2000]

Oakland + nan-mandol = easy game , Wish u good luck on states!

[@Cewu]

44:50 not really as a challenge but more as orgasmic wish fulfilment. XD

[@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.

[@kalancouch3583]

Just so you know, the Marae is pronounced "Muh-rye".

[@SerEnmei]

except you roll the 'r' like the Irish.

[@tonicartos]

@@SerEnmei The rolled 'R' is a modern Te Reo Maori accent. In the 19th century the 'R' sound was recorded as being halfway between that of an 'R' and an 'L'. If you travel into the deep north you will find the 'R' isn't quite rolled, it is more like an almost rolled 'R'.

[@dorian4646]

@@tonicartos like japanese "r"?

[@tonicartos]

@@dorian4646 From what was written, it would seem so. Though I am sure it had its own peculiarity a native speaker could distinguish.