Civ 6 | This Is An Amazing Isolated Start - LET’S CAUSE CHAOS - (#1 Deity Wu Zetian Civilization VI)

[@SourceOfBeing]

£274 - Wu Zetian was the de facto ruler of the Tang dynasty from 665 to 705, ruling initally through others - first as empress consort and later as empress dowager - and then in her own right as empress regnant. During her reign, China became a Great Power of the world, culture and economy were revitalized, the University of Sankore was founded, and corruption in the court was reduced.

[@Lenny533]

8:13 To answer your question if cats always land on their feet. They have a inbuilt reflex system that allows them to orient themselves and land on their feet. However they don’t always land on their feet. That is just a legend spread by the spy network of Wu Zetian. Because they want to thank the heroic cats that TOTALLY killed all the barbs single-handedly

[@gamer1X12]

My cat used to fall/jump off many of my tall dresseres when they were younger. They'd land well almost all the time. Pretty cool to see it in action.

[@jandjhroco]

I remember hearing/reading that cats falling from greater heights are ironically safer as they will have more time to adjust in the air.

[@UrsaRyan]

lenny you had me for about half of that comment well done

[@littlebear274]

Squirrels, on the other hand, actually do always land on their feet. (Unless they're unconscious or something when they fall, I guess.) They can survive a fall from any height!

[@jehooft8569]

I guess we know what inspired the ancient Egyptians to build Sphinxes now...

[@UrsaRyan]

We had it wrong this whole time!

[@ahmetakgun842]

15:50 If you work the tiles , they will be inside of the fences.

[@UrsaRyan]

I never knew this. So cool!

[@Sascha5]

I'm loving this. Ursa's playfulness is so fun.

[@UrsaRyan]

Hehe, cheers = )

[@NexusNoxCS]

Also, Ryan, this is the funniest you have been in at leas three months. Just on fire, well done.

[@UrsaRyan]

Haha cheers I went a bit mad this game

[@iPokemonAi]

I love watching these old series, brings me so much joy

[@johnhstickler5987]

Watching Ursa's follower count grow from 15k when I started watching to 27k is the epitome of 'hard work pays off' - thanks for uploading Ryan, you give us all something to look forward to after work!

[@UrsaRyan]

Thanks John! It's a grind but you know someone needs to play Civ 6 all day XD

[@NexusNoxCS]

Ursa Ryan: Imagine seeing a cat this big! Tigers and Lions: Am I a joke to you?

[@UrsaRyan]

The Cat Prince denies the existance of cats bigger than themselves

[@RiverHolySitesGoBRRRRRRR]

Wu Zetian knows all of your dirty, filthy, and sinful re-rolling of games. In all honesty, now Black Queen Catherine has the perfect friend.

[@UrsaRyan]

Imagine having both in a team

[@playingbushcat]

Artemis did famously love "cats" and being alone in the woods only with people who had cats

[@helicopterkicker5488]

The early bears are on THEY'RE WAY

[@UrsaRyan]

Huzzah!

[@m1nekji165]

Biggest city in the world without Pingala... Such a pain, love it

[@UrsaRyan]

EMBRACE THE CHAOS

[@ezrapark9992]

Spies? Is this the return of Paul? 🕵🏻‍♂️

[@Grivehn]

Maybe we can get introduced to his chinese cousin, Pa Li.

[@ezrapark9992]

@@Grivehn I could tell Pa Li was a Chinese spy right away. The name was my first clue

[@isaachilburn5515]

Just reminded of that scene in Big Hero 6 with a battery drained Baymax holding and petty the cat. “Fuuuurrry baby”. May the Cat Prince enjoy all the pampering.

[@paulgaofei]

Cats land on their feet because they all learn the principles of angular momentum at the University of Sankore

[@widgetb]

Miniature Deer Monopoly!!! Edit: 15 minutes in and I want to be able to like this twice. I'm dying. 😂

[@UrsaRyan]

Glad you enjoyed = )

[@gaelanmccann6686]

I choose to believe that the itinerant preachers are actually stray cats

[@Sascha5]

1:48 Crouching Tigers are better than Standing Tigers because... they're... slightly lower to the ground.

[@UrsaRyan]

And thus 50% more sneaky

[@Sascha5]

@@UrsaRyan Right... I hadn't realised that that was why they were so good :)

[@roberthiland7824]

Cows are outside the pasture because you aren't working the tile

[@UrsaRyan]

I never knew that was a thing!!!

[@mikelund327]

I think you’re tipping toward the crazy spectrum lately…I love it. Keep it going!

[@UrsaRyan]

4,000 hours of Civ will do that to you

[@jasonarthurs3885]

Ages ago on a radio program, I came to learn of a farcical competition, in which contestants would submit proposals for outlandish inventions. One submission that stood out was the idea of creating the infrastructure for a national monorail, based on the notions that cats always land on their feet and buttered toast always lands butter side down. Inventor suggested constructing the railbed by connecting a series of cats, each standing on the buttered side of a slice of toast. In theory the chain of cat/toast assemblies would levitate perpetually. If the toast were to flip and land buttered side down, then the cat would land on its back. I still giggle every time this pops into my head.

[@UrsaRyan]

Hahaha

[@MFD8724]

Actually getting Pyramids is pretty crazy. One of the hardest wonders to get in civ 6.

[@UrsaRyan]

I was very impressed with myself I won't lie

[@Deamon93IT]

Ursa has embraced Tzeench

[@FrankieJayUK]

I've never laughed so hard at one of your videos before Ursa - absolutely hilarious! CAT ATTACK!

[@jonathanwynes2542]

When I played her, I just stuck spies in the tech leader’s campus cities and focused on getting culture for myself. Getting the increased Eureka boost over and over again was nice to keep my science relevant as I pursued other goals.

[@58209]

28:53 i was thinking that sounds like something my cats would do right before you said it 😹 😸 i loved the cat lore this episode. laughed quite a lot watching this one.

[@bassistofsin]

Hilarious ad placement right before the pyramids animation. Was expecting pyramids and got the domino’s logo

[@UrsaRyan]

Haha = )

[@Ridhotoni]

good morning and evening to my fellow bears

[@mahadevovnl]

Shouting at storms is like shouting at undead ice dragons (Jon Snow). Super effective.

[@CarlosHernandez-ll3mf]

If you werent actually aware, tile improvements for the most part, have different animations and looks depending on whether the tile has a resource and if it's currently being worked or not. Thats why pastures will sometimes have the livestock outside

[@MrCalls1]

18:35 Indeed, lions are just oafish cats. Too large an inefficient utterly unrefined compared to their cousins, they waste so much time acquiring food themselves rather than outsourcing it to humanity.

[@raredoodle]

I love your videos!

[@UrsaRyan]

Cheers!

[@Xaphe23]

I can verify as a cat owner that they'll settle wherever the hell they want.

[@aleksandarpopsavin3842]

Lets go 30k subs!

[@Artie_Fufkin]

Fabricate scandal can occasionally be so good mid/late game. Especially with cards that shorten mission time. I once got the Fabricate Scandal promotion and the No Time to Establish promotion on same spy. I yeeted so many AI envoys.

[@t_xxic8814]

Right on time 😗👌

[@ahmeddeghady4510]

12:20 "imagine seeing a cat that big" Tigers and Lions: Am I a joke to you?

[@DirkdeZwijger]

fun video thanks man, really enjoying your videos

[@UrsaRyan]

Thanks for watching!

[@ArchetypeApollo]

people eat marsh in all the habitat that was removed. While many plants wont be edible, but there are birds, reptiles, insects, fish and even mammals in that habitat.

[@tr0mkas248]

I cought this one early

[@ProtonCannon]

36:52 Yes, the Fabricate Scandal mission last double the time of the other missions so if you want a spy that is dedicated to that it is important for them to have "Linguist" promotion and "Machiavellianism" card slotted. However there is a reason for needing to be longer. The Fabricate Scandal's true power is that its effectiveness greatly improves as the Spy gains more promotions. I don't remember exactly how many but I think for every promotion the spy has the mission removes +3 more envoys removed. So a Master Spy with all 3 promotions is able to remove 12 envoys(!) with every successful mission. It does NOT depend on the "level" of the mission itself, that increases the success rate of the mission itself, the number envoys removed depend on the spy's promotion levels. One might not think this is a big deal but think of what this means! Not only the you can gain suzerainty of the city state easier. If you look at a scientific city state and remove the envoys of the Deity AI to be below 3 that means it will loose all the passive science gained through the city state in all their Universities and Research Labs. This also removes the great passive base bonus of the Deity AI has on all of its yields. Depending on how the AI's empire is built just a few good Scandal missions can significantly reduce the AI's yields they get through city states.

[@FictionJunction.M.]

Omg I love Wu Zetian. The spy spam is just so fun.

[@DocNo27]

Ursa finally embracing his inner spy? I can't wait!

[@jameshall1300]

Yongle is definitely my leader in my next game, but Wu looks pretty interesting too. Being able to steal tech boosts that are 50% of a tech could make it a lot easier to catch up late game.

[@grantpritchard7492]

The Cat Prince standing off against the barb camp made me think of another cat aphorism: "As hard as a cat's head." Not sure where it comes from, or whether it's true, but it seemed apropos.

[@Nukacola38]

I’d love a super cut of just your intro episodes… #obsessed

[@IzzRei]

Haven’t watched through all of it yet but I’m down for a spy game. I did one recently and I used a strat I don’t see talked about very often. I gave victor his 3rd promotion which grants a level of any units trained in the city. I used that city to create spies and they came out with a promotion right away. I bet this leader is one of the few that could realistically on deity have spies out and then complete Terracota Army which gives all your spies a level.

[@UrsaRyan]

I talk about that very Victor strat in this very video XD

[@DonDensho]

Ahhh the tundra and desert start. I always restart if I see those two in the same city lol

[@UrsaRyan]

Never restart! Never! XD

[@atoucangirl]

personally i find the worst boost from tribal huts are Early Empire because it's easy to get and Archery because i always get a slinger early in part to get that boost. Iron Working is also super frustrating because if i wanted to unlock swordsmen i would get an iron mine, so either i don't want it or i was about to get it

[@UrsaRyan]

Yeah all these are contenders. Or +20 faith AFTER you have a pantheon

[@stigma4122]

Haven't gotten to the part where you place Temple of Artemis but it's +10 on the marsh tile directly next to city center

[@lawlussmusic]

Ursa Spyan!

[@iamthecarver]

great wall is amazing, one of the best ways to play china

[@zezynho115]

This barbarian start, would be amazing with the previous China...

[@ryaneylee]

Nice to see that you're putting my comment 2 weeks ago on Victor granting spies promotion to practice!

[@UrsaRyan]

Ah yes! Very helpful tip that. Cheers!

[@portland573]

Mocking the golden age points requirement for next era there 8 )

[@eyeborg3148]

You have to go settle the tiny islands in the South China Sea!

[@UrsaRyan]

How do I create more artifical reefs?

[@athistedthetjapper823]

Yesss

[@PinkPanda-z5b]

what a good start for the GREAT Zimbabwe +24 gold for each trade route if settle in place Edit: that was from turn 0, after Ursa explored a little he found more bonus resources we jump to +32 (3 new bonus resources + not need to sacrifice one bonus tile for the great zibabwe)

[@UrsaRyan]

I need to build that wonder more

[@PinkPanda-z5b]

@@UrsaRyan Yes please

[@frankiesanchez2319]

i'm currently , extra enjoying my Wu Zetian play through. I've never declared war, but have been attack, and dragged into one via alliance , killed kupe who settled my land, and put Gitarja in her place for dragging me into a war. oh and australia is I think my ally's next target.

[@UrsaRyan]

Sounds like chaos, I love it!

[@Grivehn]

Is it just me, or that lake Ursa founded his capital at looks like a.... erm, well... standing 'tiger', with its tip pointing towards lovely miss Wu and her city. Also, that one heroic defender gotta be the most veteran of scouts in the history of all Civ games. (Disregarding upgrades like Rangers.) Also also, Settlers with promotions sound like settling in Humankind. Where you can get some bonuses before settling down if you do certain things. Here maybe you could get promotions like 'Druids' which would give an extra faith on the tile you settle. Missionaries even, in later eras. Or 'Warriors', and you get a melee unit when you settle.

[@UrsaRyan]

Promoted settlers would be so cool, totally agree!

[@darrismoore-ward1312]

Liking and commenting to improve my social credit score 😃👍

[@discoooooooo]

5:30 Ursa truly got into the 皇帝 of the Chinese mindset

[@laurentiucostescu7773]

Yaay

[@UrsaRyan]

Huzzah!

[@davidharris6893]

Convenient now that we're at a spy game, but I feel like scouts should be able to converted/upgraded/promoted into spies. They're useless by like the industrial era as rangers - maybe the final promotion on the scout tree could be turning it into a spy, or going for the intelligence agency allows you to upgrade rangers into spies. Some toying with scout capacity might need to happen to make it work, but it would make scout units a bit more interesting in the mid-to-late game.

[@UrsaRyan]

Scouts into spies - that's awesome!

[@valerieunsworth4038]

Clever cats!

[@ozzycraft1670]

I used to go only autocracy because it has a policy card of every type

[@violetteplague3043]

Look at you showing love to the kitties.

[@SweenyMarc]

15:35 All the cows are outside because there's not a citizen working the tile. EDIT: And as I see this has been pointed out a few times, to make this comment more useful - Ursa not liking spies is basically a meme now, but what do they need for him to get on board? Seems a big issue he has is the time it takes to travel/establish/carry out missions so cutting down the turn counts on those or giving them some way to get an immediate benefit might be the way to go. I actually find it really funny how different Ursa's opinion/experience with spies is compared to just about every other big KZbin Civ player.

[@UrsaRyan]

Speed and usefulness yopu actually get from them compared to the RNG of using them. I'm not saying they don't have a use - I just use them for the +3 combat diplo visability. Everything else can be done quicker with a pillaging light cav unit =)

[@TheIshShow1]

Let's Go Ursa

[@MrCalls1]

22:10 … South China Sea eh. If you don’t settle those barren desert islands in the middle, I will have to download this map myself to complete the obvious mission.

[@UrsaRyan]

I declare them all mine regardless of how close they are to me

[@PhantomNull13]

Ah, yes, of course. The South China sea is notoriously found just north of China.

[@ArchetypeApollo]

what if hic sun dracones allowed for leveled up settlers and you could settle multiple cities with it? Maximum of 2 level ups though, unless other promotions gave benefits usually provided by government plaza buildings?

[@UrsaRyan]

that would be awesome

[@dolomaticus1180]

Well to be fair Yongle actually punched you in the face first. It was one of the rare times you was NOT the one to kick the fighting off!!

[@UrsaRyan]

What I play so peaceful promise

[@refragerator]

Amateur civ player here, why didn't the game allow to build the Temple of Artemis right next to the city on the stone - only because Mining was missing or something else? If I read the map correctly, that would have been the ideal spot to place the wonder if you don't want the Barbarians to disrupt building it, albeit slightly slower because you have to get extra tech first, right?

[@Maren617]

Yeah, but on deity later would have meant never because the AI would have built it earlier. :-)

[@UrsaRyan]

Yes, extra tech. When playing on deity you can't often afford to wait that long!

[@refragerator]

@@UrsaRyan Thank you two for the swift response!

[@Yacovo]

Thanks for the video.

[@UrsaRyan]

Very welcome!

[@sydneylord]

did not know spies are also affected by victors embrassure promotion

[@UrsaRyan]

I didn't know until recently either!

[@drjonritz]

How is it that two people got to this video before me? I'm sitting here, I get the announcement, I click, and there are already two likes?! Whoever you are, you're quick!

[@UrsaRyan]

Hate to break it to you but in the time it took you to get here and comment, I have you down chronologically as the 7th comment. Early bears be speedy

[@drjonritz]

@@UrsaRyan SO SPEEDY bears! Wow.

[@blafoon93]

This is the perfect game for Great Zimbabwe, if you don't build it in your capital this game I'm going to be so disappointed. 15 bonus resources visible in the cap at game start with a viable tile for the wonder.

[@rommayo]

Algorithm 86

[@prof.niceguy9744]

You go Ryan!

[@tariqgraves374]

I cant go and use the bathroom in peace now

[@konan102102]

KZbin started to me your older videos. Ursa come back you need to finish your semester in the university of Sankore

[@lolwhatidk]

please don't spy on me wu monkaS

[@gchwee83]

*Screams at Pyramids*

[@cinnamonbeardstud]

Ursa Ryan is a catboy CONFIRMED =^OwO^=

[@UrsaRyan]

Actually dogs are cool. Just saying XD

[@thr4017]

Ursa Ryan cleverly makes every playthrough look special, but let's be honest: For the average player, Wu Zetian is by far the weakest of the three new China leaders.

[@UrsaRyan]

That's kind to say XD Wu though is eons better than Unifier Qin! The spy bonuses get SILLY late game

[@brentblack2605]

When will you do trajan again ??

[@thebenqisme]

Is there any place in earth that have both desert and tundra in 1 city?

[@UrsaRyan]

I bet somewhere in South America has something like this - Bolivia maybe? Crazy geography in that country

[@chrizzie1]

"You should subscribe to the channel ... and if you don't, she's gonna spy on you." But how would Wu know whether someone's subscribed? Is it all a bluff, or will she be spying on everyone regardless of whether or not they're subscribed?

[@UrsaRyan]

Yes

[@bumbleguppy]

Ursa playing spies you say? 🍿

[@UrsaRyan]

Never say never!

[@Feaynnewedd]

Hey not settle on the stone?

[@Maren617]

How exactly did the pink cat kingdom happen? 😂

[@UrsaRyan]

I was very tired and went mad

[@ezojanek]

You are so fucking funny like LMFAOOO

[@alonilin]

I still dont feel strong spy ability unfortunately. I saw mod for leader Cortez that can buy spies by faith. 👈 That I feel strong spy ability.

[@UrsaRyan]

That's very handy tbf!

[@behnamasid]

How do you have two Chinas in a game ?

[@UrsaRyan]

Tick the box that says "allow multiple of the same country" - I manually added Yongle into the game to see what would happen!

[@behnamasid]

@@UrsaRyan Yeah didn't know that, would be interesting to try out

[@BenvanAssema]

🖖

[@jacobdhall]

2024 rewatch

[@Jusdro]

Man I hope these spies end up effective in this series. This new leader could be so fun as long as the RNG isn’t cruel

[@UrsaRyan]

Just wait, that'sd all I'm saying

[@McCloudious]

Could you call one city Fushal? The holy cat city told of by Cloister the Stupid, also known as the Holy Poppadum, who is God in the religion of the Felis sapiens who had evolved on Red Dwarf, as recorded in the cat holy book, the Book of Smeg.

[@UrsaRyan]

Alas the series is done but great shout!