#4 Let's Play Civ 6 Mali - Mansa Musa - Civilization VI Gathering Storm Preview

[@jaeusa160]

@5:10 If the opponent's city performed 2 ranged attacks, he may have an upgraded Victor there. @19:30 I think the issue with the Dam was that only 1 side of the Hex was adjacent to a River on your desired tile, but the other 2 had a River adjacent on two sides of the Hex.

[@infamoussky22]

Glad to see the 20-minute compromise worked out!

[@philippeguyard6707]

2 Mali videos in a day? It’s been a long time I have been as happy as today

[@robertposaric6419]

20 minutes extra to watch you mean

[@benabaxter]

I have a secret desire to see the Panama Canal wonder in this game connect your city to the lake, and then have a canal city connect two oceans. Now my secret desire is not secret.

[@zeropositivo1990]

we had the same Idea! ;D

[@VanHelsing1300]

Thanks to your Mali plays I was finally able to win my first deity game at all! Thank you so much Potatoe!

[@dominegem]

I know it’s hard to remember every aspect of the game, but you could have had an economic alliance with the Maori and would have gotten a lot of extra cash for each trade route that you are sending (which is more than 5 if I’m not mistaken) plus the Diplomatic favor

[@SourceOfBeing]

19:20 - "The river must transverse at least 2 sides of the Dam hex"

[@JackRule16]

Potato out here basically giving no fucks about his compromise or his free time. Double upload both 30 min. we love you too thanks a lot homie

[@LewisEWatts]

This civ is so crazy, awesome series.

[@benabaxter]

That is an incredible desert. Iron + wonder + desert hills.

[@konstspridare]

Great video! Im very keen on trying Mali on thursday! I wonder if you could maximise your gold from traderoutes better? If one city would swap/buy as many flat desert tiles as possible and then start all your trade routes from that city. And maybe also build the new wonder "University of Sankore" that gives science and stuff from trade routes. Also get some trade route boosting policy cards.

[@binnerypkema7430]

‘Dam’ I cant build a dam, nice pun

[@DarthRaptor22]

bruh i lost it

[@BenevolentImp]

God dam it!

[@Zanbatoss]

only horrible puns can be considered good puns

[@zeropositivo1990]

I think there's a good potential for an amazing panama canal on the bottom right of your empire. One city connecting the south sea to the lake, and another connecting the lake to the Eastern sea. Would open up naval trade quite a bit

[@DamnItGreg]

Thanks for doing an extra episode!!

[@ЧынгызНасиров-у6ъ]

20:25 i thought video is buffering xD

[@jaroslavjost5906]

Thanks so much for the early upload!

[@stijndevries6175]

Mali's early game seems terrible, but if you can pull through I feel like their insane late game should make up for that. Gonna be the first civ I play once GS hits!

[@pbbdmedia]

I think we could all watch 3 videos on a Sunday. Have a spare?

[@richardgreenwood1268]

I think building the mali district is like the german one, building in diamonds with another city would be great. Of course maybe it would limit the pantheon for building holy sites is the most optimal spot, but with getting a +7 commercial hub with the 100% adj. bonus would be nuts!

[@ItAintFreeDizzel]

Best way to spend an hour... Two half an hour videos out in one day

[@jrm78]

If the huey is available, it may not be a bad idea to get magnus and try to chop it out in one of the new south-east lake cities.

[@crystalsaturn7503]

to build a dam it must have a river on two sides of the tile you want to build it on

[@conquernation9770]

interesting thought what if armies consumed food from local area and drained food from nearby cities. Or cost food to create.

[@joewater6580]

Thank you for the second video. I cant wait to try myself.

[@James_Haskell]

Every time you try to build a seguba you always forget and take ages to check to see where the holy site is going lol

[@PotatoHero524]

Does he have a dog? I hear a dog

[@Zubair4387]

Really hyped for mali compared with the other new civ leader. keep it up and maybe some inca and their terrace farm next because they looked so awesome with so much yield

[@trengilly01]

What is the victory condition goal? We seem to be drifting into building for building sake. Domination: I'm assuming no otherwise we would be buying units and conquering. Religion: Have plenty of faith for a religion victory but hasn't upgraded religion or attempted to spread it. Diplomatic: Making alliances and suzerainships would generate diplomatic favor. I wonder how hard it is to buy favor from the AI. Culture: No theater districts yet or national park planning. Science: I'm guessing a science victory is the goal? The industrial zone support this. I'm not convinced Mali needs the farms (and larger cities) or more industry at this point to achieve any of the victory conditions. Mali seems a super strong civ if you can get past the first 50 turns. Its been a really fun lets play.

[@TrevorCaldwell]

I'm not sure industrial zones are the way to win a space race as Mali. You'll just never be able to get that massive production that other civs can, with the penalty to mines. But what you can do is use Reyna/Moksha to gold/faith purchase the space port, and then buy builders to speed through the projects with Royal Society. Production unnecessary. He's going to need a ton more science to attempt that victory condition though. Should be making a campus as soon as possible in all cities. Faith purchase the district and gold purchase the library/university. Run campus grant projects with the cities (which aren't subject to the -30% penalty) whose production is mostly useless otherwise.

[@stephanevally170]

coal power plant doesn't seem to share production (only the power)

[@magica3526]

you couldn't place the dam because the river was bending away from the tile, it needs at least two adjacent river sections

[@lucashellot9622]

Why don't you build your unique building on those desert tiles?

[@EnsoTB]

Dunno if you realised since but a dam needs 2 river tiles adjacent to 1 hex to be placed. Probably for no reason other than the fact the visual’s would be less weird 😂

[@trengilly01]

And shouldn't the dams need to be built upstream of the flood plains to actually prevent flooding. The one he built is downstream at the end of the flood plain. I'll be interested to see if he still gets flooding.

[@EnsoTB]

trengilly Could be, to be honest I have no idea. Not sure if it’s something where as long as there is a dam on that specific river it’ll never flood? Maybe it’s coded better than that and I’m being cynical 😂 I really have no clue

[@trengilly01]

@@EnsoTB The tool tip makes it sound like each flood plain area can have a single dam, but where doesn't matter. We'll see, I suppose it would have been pretty complex coding to actually deal with up/down stream

[@trevonhood297]

I feel like you did Hungary a favor by taking the city with the two constantly erupting volcanoes

[@lootedcorpse]

park liang lvl 3

[@hfbdbsijenbd]

Yo, dude! Love your stuff!

[@Wayne-yk6um]

ooooooh boy 2 videos in a row thats great

[@jesusthemezziuggh]

Another Lake Phallus in the south east...good times

[@SourceOfBeing]

If you want something from the AI and you offer them a city in the middle of your empire, will they accept it even though the city will flip back to you within 3 or 4 turns?

[@PatSeagramson]

Making a mistake by not getting alliances as early as possible and building them up - also missed a inspiration by not doing that.

[@matt12th]

Curious how your amenities are doing with so many cities.

[@gustavokkonenjohansson8315]

What options is he using to make his characters move fast

[@JornterBorg]

üřmœmğæý quick movement

[@tomw4955]

go to options there should be two things quick movement and quick combat. both are deactivated by default. if you activate them u get to finish civ games in a reasonable amount of time ^^. honestly I tried to play without it sometimes but man I forget what I want to do by the time the units finish moving. also deactivate auto unit rotation .... it drove me crazy cause it would jump to a random open unit of mine sometimes all over the map. XD

[@thekleptodeer1038]

2 in 1?! You spoil us Potato

[@juliocmbaia]

Shouldn't Pingala be placed in your largest/most populous city instead of parking It in your capital? Also, Shouldn't you try harder for Golden ages?

[@cinnamonbeardstud]

Tatey you didn't let us see the video of the new natural wonder. PotatoMcSweaty

[@roderickzijlstra8129]

I think he did a dam good job

[@scottfordham]

Hey PotatoMcWhiskey just letting you know the modder p0kiehl seems to have watched your "4 Problems I have with Civ 6 after 1,000 hours" Video and added your suggestions for playing tall. p0kiehl's Improved Specialists - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1651756807 Production From Population - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1651788601 He gives you a shout out on the mod pages too

[@AQJ_DK]

Dams have to have rivers on at least 2 sides

[@azimuthclark462]

I traded A Relic to the AI for what amounted to about a thousand gold, a few turns later I got The Relic back for 20 horses. I thought this is a trick whiskey would have used

[@TheAntoine185]

Why don't you make the commercial hub city project?

[@S23K]

The Dam requires two edges of the tile to be a river :) Edit - and don't forget that canals need to be on flat tiles. Loving the new format btw!

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Nope, its that the damn requires a river to be at the edge of the tile that is not the same edge the city center is on.

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Sorry I was thinking of Aquaducts

[@S23K]

@@PotatoMcWhiskey No worries - thanks for easily some the best preview videos of GS! :)

[@thomaschambaz7946]

Should you strengthen your religion a bit, I don't remember which beliefs you chose, also maybe evangelize beliefs? Also what victory are you going for if it's not a surprise? Diplomatic?

[@polymphus]

+394 gold/turn in 800AD. "I'm not even really making that much." Mali, man. Just, Mali.

[@kyvan15]

Is this going to be a game WITHOUT Magnus? I'm not sure what to do without the chops... :-D

[@Sammy-gs9hl]

Hey Potato, love your videos. Do you think Mali could purchase units for free once they switch to Democracy and are the Suzerain of the new Carthage city state (units are 20 % cheaper for each encampment building)? In theory they should have a 105% discount with their suguba and a military academy. It would be similar to Saladin, who can purchase faith building for free if he is in theocracy.

[@TrevorCaldwell]

I believe it will work this way, although I don't think it *should* work this way. In my opinion discounts + discounts should multiple, rather than add. E.g. if you have two encampment buildings you should get 20% (first building) + 16% (second building: 0.2 * 0.8) = 36% discount. But I haven't seen that math in the game thus far.

[@SenseiJosh]

“Damn”

[@juppjames9635]

So, the coal plant makes Germanys production even more insane? lol ...

[@tomw4955]

I mean.... the rhur valley aint for nothing the production wonder.

[@johnedwardcastillo8442]

I love how you talk really really fast when you wrap up every episode.

[@NitroOfficiel]

It really tilts me that you don't improve your spices on the volcano in Kumbi Saleh. Don't know if it is because of the volcano that you don't improve adjacent tiles but you have no excuse for the horses ^^.

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Its just not a priority

[@NitroOfficiel]

@@PotatoMcWhiskey you do have 78 builder charges but yeah low priority xD. I'm also really impatient to see your fat bonus on you holy site in the future city near the natural wonder.

[@JimmyMon666]

he did try to improve it earlier, but Hungary declared war on him and captured that builder. He got the builder back, but the war took most of his focus.

[@ChristianTW3]

23:28 kreygasm

[@Fin_flash]

"accidently" turned barbarians off;)

[@dracma127]

Civ 6 Gathering Storm: Bork Edition

[@kaladinstormblessed5600]

😎 so 👌

[@Saracen93]

Republican legacy will give you happier and bigger cities that will grow faster. Unhappy cities will produce less.

[@clamchowder2010]

you are lacking on science

[@wodzimierzabramow1544]

You've been really ignoring amenities and keeping your cities happy throughout this game. I'd suggest building a couple of entertainment districts

[@yazidefirenze]

Go watch Jeff Bezos vs Mansa Musa