I need Marbozir as my ingame advisor. Those 4 losers always lead me into catastrophe.

*Large Roman army seen heading towards capital and only city* "Oh this is perfect!" Not exactly what I would have said :-P

Forward settling the AI is awesome. I played a game on deity as pacal and forward settled both Rome and Poland early on. Had to fight both back to back. Managed to capture poland's capital after I repelled the initial wave. Then fought with the roman for about 1000 years capturing 2 cities. I eventually lost ground on technology and had a hard time keeping up. I managed to last untill about early 1700's where I finally was defeated by everyone simultaneously. I was at war with every other Civs and city states at the same time. Enemy units of all colors were on every side. It was absolutely epic. During the final turns I had a tear to the eye while I played a tragic Braveheart like musical theme in my head.

Slight change to the formula, though it's still mostly the same - discussing one specific topic, in the context of Deity difficulty. This time it's early game aggression - defending against it and/or preventing it. Previous episodes: Civilization Choice:- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eK2dqZpy0MCZlXk.html Advanced Options and Starting Location: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fqpniNaeqN6Znqc.html

I know you were worried on Twitter about this new approach, but it's great, lots of extra knowledge in a very specific area. Excellent as always.

If it's your first time on Deity I recommend going with the Shoshone for 3 reasons: 1.) Their pathfinders usually get them off to a very good start to catch up more quickly with the AI with the pop, religion, and tech ruins. 2.) You can usually upgrade 2 or 3 pathfinders to comp bows really early making defense really easy 3.) You start with lots of land meaning you are less reliant on rushing out settlers. Sometimes you start with 3 lux in your borders. I recommend going tradition and tall with shosone for that reason. Plus your cap will got off to a fast start.

I seriously want to see you finish this game

I love this series, it's super useful for players like me who is trying to break into beating deity regularly. In my current game as Mongolia I had to forward settle Rome. I didn't have that many good city locations in regards to unique luxuries, and besides, lake Victoria happened to be closeish to Rome. I managed to not make Caesar attack me by using all of these tricks, I think the most important one was having a common enemy and paying Rome huge gold per turn for attacking the Ottomans. I was super surprised that they never attacked me tho, it was a very aggressive forward settlement, I believe it was only 5 tiles from Rome itself (we were competing for the same squares). When I got keshiks I immediately went to war with him, I really hate fighting Rome in the mid to late game since he usually goes super wide with his unique ability. There's no way I would have been able to win the game without having watched all of Marbozirs Civ videos, thanks for the knowledge Marbozir!

PLS marb do "A LOT" more of these videos, they are just amazing XD

Defending against attack Is always exciting in civ 5. Especially when they're significantly stronger.

nice guide :) has anyone else having problems when they play after watching all the lets play vids ?? last night when i was playing all i could hear was Marbz in my head saying stuff like ' nice, cannon bro' :)

totally impressed by your foresight of the roman menace, and your preparation for war, even the olive branch ignored - a trade route. I would like to see more farms on riverside hills, because 2food + 2hammers > 3 hammers throughout the early game (after civil service). even before, the 1+2 is easier to start working and still grow a little. i wish you would have started the second city ESE near mountain and river (and ocean +fish). also, if you get optics soon, that's +4 food from fish (2x2fish) with a lighthouse.

This video really shows the shortcomings of the AI. You were dead in 2 turns if he wasn't willing to make peace. In one turn he would have had 3 ballistas and 2-3 legions in range (plus other assorted units) and there was no way you could defeat them in this situation. Although I agree with basically everything you say in the video, counting on the AI to make peace before they destroy you isn't what I would call a reliable strategy.

I just get here, great tutorials! Haven't bought civ6 yet, and I don't think I will any soon. Keep doing those Civ5 vids please, many players coming back to civ5 so it may be worth it.

I am so glad you still make civ5 videos! I was super sad when TMIT quit civ4 and civ5 videos :(

Ostatnio Asyrią prawie pobiłem deity. Ten filmik dużo mi wyjaśnił spróbuję ponownie :D

How do you deal with backstabbers? Just played a game where Dido was my neighbour; we had a Declaration of Friendship, were trading luxuries, had trade routes, and even actively fought against a common enemy. I was convinced that all this would be suffice to overcome even her calibre of backstabbing, but before long she declared war and it was GG.

i feel like you missed out on a good opportunity for an amazing series. if you talk about the strat throughout the game like this on a normal game. it will be awesome

i'm eagerly awaiting your next guide - it has been some time since this one came out :D

Turn 11, I meet my neighbors : the Zulus and the Vikings. Sometimes I hate this game

man this guy sure knows a lot about dating.

After 1200 hours of gameplay these videos taught me some serious boosting tips. Thank you very much!

Relaxing video, I mainly just made note of a couple of things for when im playing multiplayer with my brother and sister. Still helpful nonetheless - especially the bowmen. They are insanely good especially since I kind of maxed out on my city dealing defense damage so they just kind of wreck nearby barbarians or enemies that I may be at war with.

Great Tutorial, Marb, and a very important topic for that Deity Jump. Cheers, Ivan :D

Like the focused approach. I know this is old but I just started playing Civ 5 (already had the game when hype from 6 started) and this is my favourite guide so far

Thanks for returning to the guides, Marb. I really enjoy hearing your thoughts on Civ V.

Amazing work, again! Clear, detailed, and informative.

Something that you mentioned which I think you should've expanded upon: You do get a positive modifier for initiating trade with the AI, but *only* if the trade is favorable to them, i.e only asking for 5 GPT when they'd be willing to give 7.

Great video Marbz! I hope you make more of these, I remember the struggle when I first started playing Deity and that was painful. Would have loved to have that kind of help back then. :p

As someone who got crushed in early games A LOT of times, I think taking the "Faith Healers" Pantheon can help a lot. +30HP when next to one of your City, I find it completely OP. Great video anyway.! :D

Good job. In essence you showed by example and didn't let the AI intimidate you. I would exit to main menu if I didn't deter an attack because the AI will often attack even on Easy level by turn 80 if you are exposed. If you have timed things out you can kick their ass though and when I finally stood up to the AI, it was a steamroll. As you pointed out the AI doesn't comprehend strategic value. It's what makes your start so strong. As you start pooping out Naval units you will appear very powerful and while those units can't hurt Rome he doesn't seem to know that. I've held nations off with inflated navies that were useless really. They denounce but they won't attack because pointy stick ratio has me 200% stronger than the next AI.

Thank you very much Marbozir for making this video, this will really help moving to the Immortal difficulty. Also, I know that this influences the entire video but the correct word is not "Defence-ability" but Defend-Ability." (I'm a genius, I know)

please continue this playlist! very helpful information. i think there are many topics to talk about ... city management, tech research and building order, warfare, ...

Hey Marbozir, late in the game here, but one thing I would find useful is how, on Diety, you claw your way back in tech. In your Meji game, the AI was like 12 techs ahead and you shrugged it off like it was normal. A lot of players, including myself would be intimidated by this. Maybe that's on your list but just my thought.

I really like your videos, thank you. Also huge respect for doing the videos in your 2nd language.

Great video. If you want a suggestion for the next guide, it should be one on how to real with runaway, snowballing civs. Encountered this problem in a recent game where Egypt first snowballed, and when I had spent a lot of resources dealing with them, Poland and Austria suddenly went into overdrive and Poland was about 4 turns away from winning a "cultural" victory a la your Netherlands game. I just can't conceive of how to deal with a situation like that, and I think it's a situation most people who have tried Immortal or Deity have run into.

Great job as always Marbozir!Also, the 1 thumbs down must have been from Caesar.

I love getting stuck in the endless "Come to beg for mercy?" screen while trying to negotiate with the Deity AI to end a 200 turn war.

I see this in terms of views is massively appealing. I enjoy shadow run a lot but numbers say the opposite. Didn't know if you were going to do any ramblings on the direction on the channel for the rest of the year. I do have cable and you and a couple other you tubers are my screen time. Wondering what's next and any thoughts on xcom2 news (other than delay) the mutons look nasty as ever now as hell good luck on the march to 100k

Very nice video, keep the Diety guides coming :D

Hey love your channel Marbozir! When are you going to do a civ5 series as Venice? I want to see how you handle their whole situation--which city states you think are best to puppet etc. I have gotten diplomatic victory on deity with them. Now I have been trying games as Venice with only domination victory enabled and I'm finding it all but impossible. I even give myself advantages: strategic balance, Pangea plus map--so I can take full advantage of double cargo ships, and restart the game unless I start with a lot of hills or mining based resources nearby. I still can't get past the point when all the other civs start getting gunpowder units. Emulating your videos taught me how to beat the game on deity. Venice is one of the only civs I think you haven't played. I would be so thankful if you did this :) Thanks for your consideration.

what mod do you use to have all that on-screen help and info?

Works on small maps. On Large\Huge maps deity AI will spam 15+ cities = their military strength will always be higher = always hitting you around turn 150 with insane unit counts (which are usually more advanced). He;;, that happens on immortal huge too. The standard 4 tall city food\science rush build gets wiped off the map. The best defense = higher city and unit counts but that means slower science and a slower game. Hold until you're matched or get a good UU and crush them before they all crush you.

the positive trade modifier only works if the trade is in benefit for the AI (eg. selling stuff for lower than they are willing to pay). The better (best of course being gifting stuff away) the trade for the AI, the bigger the modifier. I did prevent some wars by gifting a duplicate luxury some times

Haha just the guide i needed in transitioning to deity! Thanks! :) At first i found your accent annoying but now i can't but love it

Agressive Civs? Where's Gandhi?!

I would love to see 10 - 15 more topics in this series... to be honest, I'd take anything at this point! :D

This is great! Please make more of these! :)

I liked the customized user interface mod. What's it called?

Hey Marb, I have a request. Can you do a playthrough on Immortal where you do a silly start strategy with a lower tier Civ? Just thought it might be something a bit different. It's just when I start watching your new Civ 5 playthroughs I already know you're gonna wreck in late game in Deity. Another idea maybe is have a map full of high tier Civs and you use a low tier Civ on Deity.

I’d appreciate a video on your thought processes when capturing AI cities, particularly taking cities that are under threat from other AI’s with the same intent. A good example was the impressive snatch of Delhi in your last let’s play

So enjoyable and helpful. I feel like i'm learning not only from a master player, but from a gifted teacher :) thanks Marby!

Did Attila get the great wall..? eheheh how ironic

A topic that you can cover and you probably already have on your list, Social Policies;Tradition vs. Liberty would be interesting from a Deity game perospective

instant subbed! Can't wait for the next episode.

+Marbozir Hey man, I love your videos. I was wondering if you planned to continue this series? I would love to see a video covering Warmongering & Diplomatic Relations. Especially for early warmongers like say, Atilla for example.

this is my story: i was playing as Austria.I had so good starting location- the oceon on the north, some grassland on the west,quite a lot sand on the east, some silk, silver and gold. I put my 2nd city on the coast to the east there was a 1 tile bay heading in the front of the city where was Denmark and also a mountain in the south(i think really nice city) also i had marble, 2 tiles of fish and 2x incense. My 3rd city was to the west- many grasslands some horses and catles and wine also a mountain in the south and some hills to the west where was Wiliam (NL) everything was fine.. i had a declaration of friendship with Wiliam and they were sending some cravans to me as well.. well till the first war with denmark he sended quite lot units but it was really easy to defend... after peaceing out with him we made a friendship... The medieval era come and i had 2horsemen, 4 or 5 com. archers, 2 catapults and 1 swordsman- i was preparing for the war with Wiliam, but he was faster. he started second war he sended quite a lot units i killed his 2 units per turn but he was still sending new units so i couln'd do a whole lot just defending well my army was ok half of them was doing nothing becuse there was just not enough space.. so i just left them in my second city.. i was waiting for denmark to declare war on me and it happed but i was pretty much screwed when i saw what he was sending... he had his unique unit replacing longswordsman and many trebuchets also he had musketmans when i sawit i knew im F** well there was nochance to hold it on the 2 fronts and play against that heavy technological advantage... i lost on the turn maybe 300 and i got completly wiped out PS: standard size, epic speed, fractal,immortal, no randome personalitiez or something like that

Good stuff Marbozir. Very informative. Thanks!

more guides for deity please! Its helping alot!

I've always wondered why you send your scout in the same direction that your brute is already scouting. Given the speed at which AIs gobble up ruins in deity, wouldn't it be more pragmatic to send your scout scouting South east in this case and have the brute go in a wide arc starting from West and going all the way past Rome?

in this case, i guess caesar accepted the peace for two reasons: 1. he needs to keep his army score up. that's probably what he is interested more than taking your cities. 2. when (your army/his army) rate is over a certain number, there is a big chance he would accept the peace.

you should do a lets play against 7 other aggressive ai

I like your accent. What to do, if they attack your second city or third city that is small and bad-protected, but with good resources, and you don't have enough soldiers to stop the carpet of doom?

Thank You bunches that was a great war.I nrstly always loose those type of wars.

I Started a game on only difficulty six. Atilla was my neighbor and his carpet of death, conquered me by turn 60.

Very good video, keep up the good work!

Very useful information, thank you very much

I don't agree about embassy, especially about neighbors or civs scouting towards your capital. They'll find you anyway, but those 5-6 AI giving you 1 gold per turn at start can help you a lot on deity. DOW from AI depends much more on the civs and diplomacy, if you have Chaka neighbor, better take his gold, because he may attack you anyway if that's his plan at some given point.

Hi Marbozir, your videos on deity are great! I am currently playing as Poland facing a zulu that has conquered Persia already, as well as a currently very friendly Sweden who comquered France. Zulu is at 156 technology and I am st 112. Zulu has gun powder. I have crossbowman, knight, and printing press. I am wondering if I should go for the military technology at the bottom, or should I research more infrastructure technology at the top? Thanks!

thanks this video was great like all your others :)

9:00 *ptsd noises when i foward settle near assyria in an unexplored zone*

Thanks Marbs! :)

I love your videos man. I just want to know one thing, what kind of accent is that

Very nice. Thank you.

Hi, you are such a good player, congrats. But, do you have quick speed pace games here in youtube?

Great one, keep it up! :)

thanks ! really help me a lot

Nice vid. Which UI mod do you use plz ? Any link to dld it ?

Could you do an episode on a cultural victory start?

You are wrong. Common enemy modifier appears only when you actually fight, killing a lot of units or taking a city. Otherwise there will not be common enemy modifier. So this is not actually easy to get this modifier. Anyway, when civ is at war with someone it is less likely to attack you so it's wise to accept offer to go war but not wise to declare war on civ your neighbor you worry about is at war with unless you sure you really can prove some good fight.

This is the voice of the spy on TF2 !!

Which mod are you using to show all the possible improvements of a tile? For example: Plains, Hill, River Electricity - Hydro Plant - +1 Production Civil Service: +1 Food Mining: +1 Production and so on ... ?

Didn`t you settled the second city too late? I Know that this was not the topic but in case of early aggression when should i settle second, third and so on? I would like some new Darkest Dungeons streams. Thanks in advance.

Anybody know what UI he is using? Specifically the part that shows at 1:38 what tile yields would be with certain techs/improvements/policies?

I was looking for your video for too long :D

More please!

I'm kinda new to Civ, like I own the game since a long time ago, but my record win was on Warlord difficulty... Even when I play on Settler or Chieftan I just can't win lol I prefer building wonders than making units... Anyway, my question is: What is the mod or thing used in the video to like show all the different possible improvments when he hovers his mouse over a tile? I think that it would help me. Thanks!

My mind is already blown at 0:30... Surely a 2 food tile is better than 1 production, 1 food and 2 gold?

Genghis Khan's disagreement with Alexander:Whose horse is stronger?

Thanks!

more deity guides!!!

does this series ended or what was pretty good so far...

Trying to learn to play on deity, load into a game with 7 random AI's. Get Atilla right next to me, Montezuma right above me, Genghis Khan and Shaka to my top left. The fuck did I do to deserve this?

Hi. Sorry, but how many tiles do you have to leave between your new city and an AI city to not get the forward settling diplomatic penalty? I wanna guess like 8-10, but I'm not too sure.

I'm gonna try a domination victory by only don't what my military advisor wants me to

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Another neat little thing one can do is pillage AI roads, like between Rome and Antium. On another note, one thing I'm a little confused about: it was mentioned that a spy in a capital city can get information about planned attacks/sneak attacks. Does this really only apply to a spy in a capital, or did Marb misspeak/I mishear?

Have you ever beaten on deity level without domination? It's seems like everyone I have seen play deity difficulty on youtube only wins by domination. I've won by culture and diplomacy on immortal, but it seems too difficult on deity.

I feel mean but I had to slow the video speed to 0.75 because we spoke really fast lol

Whats the UI this guy uses? It's definitively better than the standard one.