Wow you could go for Etemenanki! You basically never do that!

I’m so glad to see a non-modded game once in a while! As a console player, these experiences feel much more relatable.

Imagine being the person at Firaxis that gets to decide which people get in to be the Great People. Straight up spending days reading about scientists or merchants on Wikipedia would be so sick.

You're a better man than me Potato, I would've instantly reshuffled the second I saw desert 😭

looking at the two locked in woods tiles being worked while a marsh lies dormant is the kind of that that triggers a desire to restart in my own games when I do something like it

Wow, what a brutal start as Maya to have the majority of the tiles within the 6 tile limit be desert and tundra. And congrats on the Etemenanki build, the few times I’ve played on Deity it’s always been built somehow by turn 40

"I bet there were people screaming at their screen" You betcha.

I'd argue that Canada is also a civ that wants a Builder immediately, because Tundra tiles are total ass until they get improved.

I just reload when I get a coastal start with Maya so I appreciate your efforts to make it work.

You don't get silk from spiders, you get it from Silkworms. Just a friendly FYI :)

Wow potato! You went for Etemenanki! I'm so surprised - you go for it about as rarely as you go for the Venetian Arsenal! Also - when Venetian Arsenal?

Ngl i absolutely love the marshes pantheon + etemenanki combo, it turns marshes from tiles that are decent at best into powerhouses

Also, a fun fact - your capital city is located in such way, that you could build all 4 'Petras" - marsh (Etemenanki), desert(Petra), tundra(St. Basil's) and water(Mausoleum) and all of them will improve 2-3 tiles around it so will be +/- okay

Hey Potato thanks for getting back with Civ6. Recently bought it and watched your older vids and they’ve really helped me!

me opening my computer: COME ON POTATO me open my notifications tab: YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS

Love you moving the second city away from the third ring desert floodplain wheat 😂 Seems someone forgot about the other part of that pantheon…

Potato talking about silk spiders got me having a Pavlovian deep memory recall from childhood of the Silksteel Alloys tech quote from Alpha Centauri. "Until quite recently, spider silk had the highest tensile strength of any substance known to man, and the name Silksteel pays homage to the arachnid for good reason." Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Scientific Survey"

I don’t get the half grassland Petra. I can honestly say I’ve lost Petra on Deity Ai maybe 2 times with a city with only desert in all three city rings. All it takes is a couple of good trade routes.

Potato: reroutes builder to get Magnus chops in capital. Also Potato: Forgets to establish Magnus in capital. My lowkey favorite part about the reload is that you fixed an optimization faux pas. in the scrapped turn... the Tribal Village gave you the Mysticism Boost literally right before you founded a Pantheon.

I wish someone would make a mod so Era Score carries over *Era ends next turn* Era Score 59/60, same as the last million turns. With an empire that's full, cultured and happy. Game: Oh, that's a shame. Too bad. *Era ends in 100 turns* Era Score 197/75 Me: Game.... Game: Hey, you um... stepped on a happy Tile! Here's another 5 Era score! Me: GAME!

Hmm...Maya sounds like it wants to settle inland and then surround that central core of the capital with all its cities. You don't want to spread too wide to avoid the penalty, and there's no extra benefits for settling your capital on the coast. Something like a spoke and wheel look. Though I guess the quality of terrain tiles really does dictate it more.

Wouldn't a pure petra city here be much better? Like, one just barely inside the capital 6-tile border but grabbing much more desert than Wak Kab'nal?

These videos are addicting, can't not hop into Civ 6 after watching.

He said My Island....Now I'm forever going to associate this series with Braveheart lol.

I love the random starts without the other games modes on.

This reload into Etamananki is why I hold off commenting until I've finished a video because it sure as hell was tempting to go haywire in the comments the moment you finished Writing and didn't go for it

settling near the coast when all your cities need to be within 6 tiles cuts off ~half your options, plus desert to the north and tundra to the south. yeesh.

Btw, regarding Etemenanki - it is missing in the World Wonders tier list video as it have been done before Maya pack introduction (same for Paitity for Natural Wonders tier list and Hulche for Unique units etc.), i'd suggest to redone or at least extend those 3 tier list videos with all the missing items

With all that terrible land you could also get snow Petra in addition to water Petra, desert Petra, and marsh Petra.

Now we know that Potato will go on about Etemenanki until the end of the game :D nice catch btw, considering how much of a longshot it was!

Etemenanki and the Pantheon that gives Marsh +2 production is very fun when you have enough tiles and can pull it off. Pop skyrockets with the production/science to support. Just had both in a multiplayer game with friends.

1. Love when you just play these regular games 2. LOLd so hard about Etemenaki 3. I was the one yelling at the screen when you took plantation pantheon, was so happy when you reloaded. Just really enjoying the content right now :)

I just had a deity game as Germany on huge Primordial map, where I had an insane amount of marsh tiles not just around my capital, but for my next 6 cities or so too, and I somehow managed to get Etemenanki too (+ Lady of Reeds and Marshes). Felt weird being 3rd in science right from the beginning and becoming 1st very quickly too.

Excited for this series! The Maya are my favorite civ!

Good thing there are no other games where you try to get Etemenanki that were live-streamed recently.

YAY. Maya has become my favorite lately.

Potato makes the map wet...game says nope, have a continent sized desert instead 🤣

😂 yes there were people who screamed "do not do that!", I have almost shut the video, but thanks God you reloaded

Man i was so sad that you dont pick the marshes pantheon, i almost write the comment before i see you reload haha

Very clear ! ty

Potato has apparently been playing some Minecraft if he thinks silk comes from spiders XD

Having a religious or a wonder-centric game would be fun, would love to see that!

Absolutely worth resetting for that Lady of the Reeds and Marshes + Marsh Wonder stack

FINALLY SOME GOOD AND OLD MAYA ACTION

the esoteric joy of the Marsh Build and the excessive difficulty of securing Etemenanki on diety is one of those things that keep me going back to lower difficulties, just so I can set it up somewhat more consistently. Of course, even on emperor, it tends to make the game very trivial from the classical era onward, especially if your wetlands also have multiple copies of rice or sugar.

when you choose wet map you got a huge dessert LOL

I'm not gonna lie, with all those marsh tiles, I was about to rage click off the video when you initially didn't get the marsh pantheon and start building Etemenanki lol glad you came to your senses.

Definitely legendary start;)

Thank you for doing Civ again

Loved the Braveheart reference

Potatomcwhiskey since when so many mistakes you worked not as good tiles in the capital still you are the cive god thx for making civ content means the world

was looking for a good etemenanki start after livestream could not find one thats insane enough just my luck today. ^^

Oh, Potato and his Relics :-D

Love your content dude

Those marsh yields 😍

Happy with the new upload schedule :D

watched the pericles bermuda game recently. england watching a greek colony in the arctic pop up out of nowhere cracked me up 😂

Nice! Locked 2-2 tile in the cap, when there is 3-3-2 available…)

just started playing this game didn’t know id be so hooked to it 🔥

To be in the way is the warrior's way, one could say.

How are you hot keying map tacks and how is it showing yields under it?

You sound like Dermot from Irish People Try channel. Anyway, I love your stuff, thank you so much for sharing your play with us.

I appreciate the Mayastic joke.

How does it matter if you grow the turn before you finish the settler vs a few turn after?

"I feel like I have to kill Samarkand.." That was decided 5 minutes prior when you oggled the resources adjacent to their borders.

The settler thing makes sense. If you put out the settler let's say 5 turns before the next pop arrives, I would say the loss accumulates for each turn, which in retrospect will reduce production per turn hence stalling the next pop. Considering this and extrapolate in onto the later game, the deceleration of production in total, it would make sense, that a certain amount of optimisation would be beneficial. I would like to see a video about this topic, or a short... well, also to find out how far away I'm with my assessment :D

Etemenanki FTW! I don't think I've ever been able to build that one!

I would have 100% gone for Etemenanki in the second city for the flood plains bonus (and probably lost out on the wonder because of it)

As Maya, deserts really hurt a ton.

i wonder if you settle within 6 tiles it said you get a builder so if you have ancesteral hall would you get 2 builders?

Silk coming from spiders

on turn 45 when it was shown that almost the entire island was a desert i would have restarted instantly

Desert, tundra - not to mention ocean, so you couldn't even surround the capital on all sides - I would have rerolled immediately

what is the mod that displays the ammenities in the top bar??

I honestly think I would have dropped a city in the middle of that desert just so I could move my capital to it so I could benefit from the 6-tile range. Would be a rough city, but with a little love it coulda got there.

Heyo! What's the mod that puts the city's amenities in the top bar?

Me today as Maya: I'm going for Etemenanki. Literally 1 turn before completing it, the AI gets it. Me: RAGE QUIT

I just realized spuddies is a pun on buddies

How did you get your worker in the 2nd city? It seemed to just spawn there

Slap a vampire palace on the tundra SW all of your marsh/farms and damn

Silk doesn't come from spiders.... it comes from caterpillars ....

Just played a Maya game and I had the perfect map to fit in like 9 cities within 6 tiles of my capital, I had to kill 2 city states i rly liked which was a shame but a small price to pay for wide Maya 😎

Walking one tile to the left would have prevented the scout from meeting the barb camp.

Potato borrowing Killer Queen for whenever he reloads a save and changes the timeline for the better. Yeah, Maya never likes neighbors that ruin her six city strat. So doom will be fall the city state, like when I was Montezuma and destroyed Rapa city state for taking a good city spot. Thanks Eagle Warriors.

I am really glad Potato reloaded the game.

Potato! How do you leave pins without constantly clicking the pin button?? Is there a hotkey?

Imagine if you could get etem with a bolivar start

Tall game let's gooooo!

Go potatoe!

It happend dude. Inca mountains with preserves around.

When I reload the game my mods are deactivated. What should I do?

7:34 I want to math jokes but i forgot what i want to say lol

You missed the marsh tile to the east, just buy it.

heeeey PotatoMcWhiskey, Buddies here!

Can you explain the optimization of producing a settler before or after gaining 1 pop, because I cannot understand the difference and how your way is more optimal vs producing a settler after growing 1 pop.

It wouldnt be a Potate game if he didnt declare he was going to play tall and then immediately build wide. lol being all alone on your island might mean youll finally have a nice sim game at least?

Potato: Maya-land >:)

but do you still have that gran colombia save

Even though it would take ages to build, why not have the Petra in another city east of Copan? The AI barely ever builds it, so you could just leave it for a while or boost with trading or something? Only thinking that because you have little land. Also is there land out west of your capital?

I always go for "Lady of the Reeds and Marshes" along with Entemananki...I play with the settings on "Wet" as far as rainfall. It's an unstoppable stratagy. You get all your science from tiles and trade routes and build out holy sites ( with a religion) then industrial districts with buildings to take ALL the great engineers on the first one I use one charge to complete the Mausoleum of Halicarnasus and have an extra charge on every subsequent great engineer. I take monumentality on my first golden age and use my faith to buy builders and bring all possible my "corporations" online ( two of same luxury resources completed empire wide then one improved a 3rd time) to start adding lots of free great merchant points as well. With this start I can go for any victory type I wish, I just executed this strategy with Ptolemaic Cleopatra. My main problem is I play on console and the game gets so slow by the Industrial age that just give up and go for cultural victory. I've never won a religious or Diplomatic victory, never built a giant death robot, not once. I may do it this game though.