6:13 "I don't feel boxed in at all" 7:58 "I'm feeling very very boxed in" That escalated quickly

oh, you've got a really good spot for the panama canal! This will go really nicely with your venetian arsenal! ;)

So early my dad hasn't started drinking yet

I was today years old when I learned that the boost for Early Empire could be triggered by the combined population of your empire, and not just a single city. I have 1000+ hours sunk into this game.

Kongo are a lot slower to win culture in the late game because they can't build holy sites. No holy sites means very little faith, so you can't buy very many naturalists or rock bands

This style is the perfect blend between enjoyment and analytical. I reaaaaaally like this kind of style. Also comment to flex on algorithms.

Love the zooming in edit you’ve been making these past couple of vids. Makes it easier to read

Playing a game without secret societies now seems weird. They were a great addition to the game

I LOVE this "semi over explained" thing, it helps me to get better, thanks !

8:42 well this is just bad RNG, "legendary" start and you are surrounded by 3 neighbours that get irritated easily, like Ethiopia's "LEAVE THE HILLS 4 US!!!"

Cree word of the day "Expand" "ᑲ ᒪᐦᑭ ᓭᐦᒋᑫᕁ" / "ka mahki sehcikehk"

I like all the zoomed in screen shots. It's much easier to read. Im sure that take a lot more time in editing tho.

I like watching a game where you're seemingly half-stressed about the decisions you have to make. I'm shit at Civ and haven't played it in Yonks cause I'm at uni rn, so having you explain nuances in these specific and seemingly minute details is really useful. The game as a whole kind of links into my degree as well cause you can take analogies from the game mechanics and translate them into Real World Shit like "oh right, Venice did well in the renaissance cause its shipyards were Tight and so its trade routes were exceedingly profitable as a result of innovative shipbuilding designs enabling more cargo space", & shit like that

Please do “over explain”. That’s the main reason I watch your videos. To learn. Otherwise I might as well spend the time playing the game instead. A request though. Could you make a habit of scrolling down to the game seed whenever possible?

“The more they like you the less likely they are to declare war on you.” - PotatoMcWhiskey, Master Diplomat.

I'm enjoying the slightly compressed format. I also liked the old way, too, but you are doing good either way. If a compressed YT format is better for your engagement or what have you, you still doing good. 😃

I thought it was a perfect amount of explanation, plot harvesting was one aspect I didn't really have a full grasp on and this really helped me out in understanding how to better analyze when/if I should chop. Keep up the awesome videos!

A spelling mistake from Potato? Finally, after that one time you got a sponsor, I can confirm it's you

6 gold per turn for open borders LMAO

Love these kind of playthroughs. They don't have the super detailed or unnecessary parts but still retain the most important and entertaining ones

I absolutely love Civ V, and I've played it quite a bit. Up until I found this video I hadn't wanted to get Civ VI just because of the price of it with all DLCs, and later because I forgot it existed. You reminded me to check on the store page, entire thing DLCs and all was on sale for 50 dollars. I'm gonna have a lot of fun once it finishes installing, and hopefully start with some good strategy knowledge to boot! I owe ya for both, thanks!

I hate water maps, got a spawn once with two tiles surrounded by two mountain ranges, a lake, and the ocean, that was the quickest restart I’ve ever done lol

Great start. Never seem to win with Kongo so I am really looking forward to this series

Just waitin’ for everyone to spam “pLaY rElIgIoUs KoNgO” in the comments

I like how much detail you put into explaining the pros and cons of your decisions, it's helping me to be a more conscious player, thank you.

New Civ series, excited to watch it all

Thank you for posting this! I get a LOT of starts like this, with a lot of mediocre tiles and nothing super great nearby, so seeing your thought process on how/where to settle and how to go from there is very helpful to me

Very nice to have such a series again. I recently wasn‘t really effective anymore. I was a Bit upset about it because I know that I‘m better than this. This series reminds me how to be more efficient and concentrate on my goals.

A nice, long, relaxing hic sunt dracones will sort you right out, PMcW!

The skill expression in how you handled being boxed in is actually insane!

Me, whenever I choose a Civ and a Map in CIV VI

Potato.. I think I speak for us all when I say we like it when you are in adversity, its way a better watch than when you are smashing it. The way you think yourself outta these grim situations is genuinely a quality watch with cards etc and clever play. keep it coming man these vids are getting me through mass furloughage xx

Greetings from Chicago. This over-explained play is absolutely brilliant for the new-comer like me. Great video editing and superb narrative. I am now officially addicted to your channel!

"I'm not feeling too boxed in at the moment" Me, reading the title: Oh no

That was the greatest intro I've ever seen, I have to say

The editing improvement potato is making is something else, i love it

0:27 "This is a very nice starting location" 1:55 "This is a really really tough starting location"

I absolutely love the detailed explanation you are giving, civ 6 is such a complicated game

Seeing a potato vid notification brings joy to my life ❤️

I'm loving your tutorials. Thanks so much! I almost never have tried anything except a diplomatic win until I got to king level, then I needed more. Watching your nice, and unranting, strategy has made a lot of difference!

Hi Potato, I know you probably won't see this comment, but I want you to know I think your vids are great and they've helped me improve a lot at civ6. Keep up the great content!

Star position: legedary For potatoMcWhiskey: someshithole

I'm listening to this while I work, and it's enough explanation that I can follow without watching closely, but not so much that I get bored waiting for you to do something. If this is a new format for you, keep it up, it's great!

Finally, the Kongo! As someone who often plays with religious victories disabled (and without gathering storm and rise and fall), I know how strong the Kongo can be. In my opinion, at least with religious victories disabled, the Kongo are a top 3 or 5 civ. At least in the base game. :) Cant wait for the series

Your let's play are always such a pleasure to watch, I truely love them. I really enjoy the way you explain every single move and point out the little details. Keep going, love your work !

Also started as Congo yesterday! I'm also having a terrible start because the switch version of Civ6 keeps crashing.

This is the good solid-gameplay and thoughtful-planning content that you're great at, Potato. Glad you're back in this mode again!

Yay continents and islands map! I love that map type because you find yourself exploring and settling for the entire game as you always seem to find little bits of land forgotten by the AI, while not having to focus your entire game on the naval side of things.

If the Eleanor Game has taught us Anything: Just Settle a City Next to Ankara{Ottoman City} & Flip it :)

This is a great to watch... as a new civ player I need the explanations on why you are doing things... so I appreciate the time you put in explaining the things you do.... cant wait for the next episode

Your explanations are perfect, I learned a lot !

I love this format bro! The arabia play was a bit too long so it became kinda boring but this one had my focus the entire time and i learned a lot from your explanation. Please hive us more of this format if u can please. Thank you for keeping the community alive bro

I was really happy to see you playing tall without doing a one city challenge then you saw those endless deserts. I am disappointed to be honest. I like you and I will watch the series no matter what but in my opinion you are playing so optimized that it prevents some of the fun. I'm %100 sure that you can win this game with that 6 cities but there will be 12 cities with unpronouncible names in unrelevant positions. I don't know if I'm the only one but small empires make me emotional. Seeing my builders making farms like a county, thinking about villagers who are so happy with the new road that their trader just made, watching my spearmen defending their homes on a mountain pass till their last drop of blood puts me in atmosphere. I don't know why am I writing these little stories lol. You are my favourite Civ6 channel, keep going!!

Fantastic explanation for how to run a tall civ! I don't ever seem to play tall anymore.

I started a new game today and had a great start - Playing a standard Pangaea map size as Basil, I spawned right between Yosemite to the west and the coast to the east - this meant that settling in place got me the sailing boost (and all 6 coast tiles in range of the capital had either crabs or fish), and a really decent first tile to work. It also gave me the boost for Astrology (allowing me to rush for it, as I was in Shuffle mode) and I found the Hermetic Order, allowing me to install Pingala on Turn 1... All of this allowed me to get really early swordsmen (plus a vampire) and eliminate my neighbour Alexander before he could really get started...

Hey Potato. I was watching another video of yours where someone mentions that we get a free sub on twitch with amazon prime so I just went over and coughed up some bezos bucks for you. I like the semi-overexplained content as I try to get better with Civ 6. Appreciate you buddy

You should play a game as Victoria and rush harbours in every city (with the pantheon that gives extra production toward the first district) when you combine that with the policy card, governor and free enquiry dedication you can generate insane amounts of science and gold in every city.

The more I watch these Deity gameplays the more I realise it all comes down to planning

For feedback: I watch your videos because you explain. Your content is both entertaining and educational.

DUDE! That theater square/entertainment complex diamond is brilliant. I just knocked out a culture game as Teddy in under 200 turns using that. Absolutely diabolical.

That staring location is actually much better than one I just had as france. I had literally 1 Food 1 production tiles as far as I could see in my capital. The AI were leagues ahead of me, and I could never catch up so I restarted.

"This guy really overthinks the starting location" -My dumb brain trying to make me feel better for not being 999IQ

Really liked the amount of explanation

That looks like a really nice Panama Canal area...... maybe the first time I’d ever have seen it in real use if you build it

The two tile island would make for an interesting "isle de mausoleum "

Im in the midgame of a Kongo game so this is perfect timing to learn

This is the type of start that I abruptly pound "Restart" on around turn 40. It'll be interesting to watch it play out.

I love this series already. Each minute of this episode was golden.

Man I would've ragequit this one after seeing the Ottomans and Ethiopians forward settling me like that. You have so much knowledge on this game its incredible to see how you salvage something I would've deemed impossibly hard.

Very much enjoy the semi over-explain style, thanks potato!!! 🥔

These gameplays are very nice!

A newb like myself, loves your "over explained" game play. I learn so much

Man pls keep it up, i aint loosing one single video.

keep up the good work bro you are my favourite civ 6 youtuber,greetings from indonesia

pretty sure you could make a +5 industrial zone in Mbanza Mbata if you put an aqueduct on the hill tile between the mountains, and shifted both the industrial zone and dam in Kinchassa down to the right so the Mbanza industrial zone gets the dam adjacency. You'd lose that other production from the hill tile though.

Menelik II looks terrifying when he's not moving.

Man, the Ethiopian guy’s stare is the stuff of nightmares

As a new player I actually found out of the units protecting city areas thing on my own, and in my current Brazil game it was the only thing that saved me from potentially lacking a coast (hehe I might have amassed wonders)

I always struggle with maps that you start so close with to the AIs these are some good ideas to do

Loving the gameplays!

Kongo is great because any unit that takes a city either becomes a corp or army depending on which you'd discovered, plus they get these abilities a few civics earlier.

OOOOH YEAH BABY THAT’S WHAT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR

The ideal theater square formation looks suspiciously like the ideal industrial zone formation.

23:36 Potato spends a minute and a half explaining his decision to chop a rainforest tile. Never change, Potato.

6:14 “I’m feeling pretty secure, I don’t feel boxed in at all” *checks title* oh no

We have good a food. We have five luxus. We have not nice idustrial zones.

I love u this channel is very good bro, never change

I would have settled on the silk.Would that have been a bad play? +1 Culture from the getgo +fresh water+1 amenity

Somehow the Venetian arsenal is gonna be your godsend

I'm loving this gameplay format!

Potato excited to settle a turtle. Confirmed. Potato has been turned by Big Turtle.

Never thought I would ever hear "very good jungle tiles" in a Civ game.

How was he not attacked immediately. I feel like no matter what I do on deity, if my neighbors are that close, it's a gauntlet of survival.

I've been having a bit of trouble against the deity AI lately, and I usually have to start my games over a few times before I get anywhere. These playthroughs are SO helpful to me, though! Keep up the great work sensei!

I recently had a game as America where I was able to not only make a Theater Square Mega Triangle but I was able to do it with Water Parks instead of Entertainment Complexes. I also had Yellowstone in one of the 3 cities, but wasn't able to put a national park on it because it spawned on a lake. I wanted to put a park on either side of it instead, but coal and aluminum spawned there. Feels bad man.

I like the "overly explained" approach. Yes you say stuff we know but there are a few things I didn't. Great tutoring

That little island to your north is a fisheries improvement DREAM- you're looking at around 10 2 production fisheries-- you won't be able to do anything with that besides produce naval units. It might be worth trying to go for the panama canal to connect the two seas.

My best WORST start wasn't tundra but snow do the 1st ring, 2nd ring was mountain and ocean and no workable tiles insight at all. (I had rand setting but legendary starting) wish I could show you how awful it was for rng.

Hey Potato, I don’t know if it’s a different spelling in Europe, but “truely” is spelled “truly”. Sorry if it’s different there! Edit: I forgot to mention that Babylon was leaked as the next DLC on the Nintendo EShop. It should be coming out on the 17th of November.

11:42 Yes, yes I do really love a nice looking tile!