as the viewer who sent the save file, thank you very much for having it a go! I went to turn 50 to give up the religion to build more archer and saved the early war myself, but the late game with 8 cities and 400 culture on turn 300 and australia(on the other continent) winning science just is unstoppable. I also tried to conquer my continent with mass producing military but eventually failed because they have better units. At last I tried going for science myself and it worked! the geothermal helped a lot on campus. I spied on australia for boosts and won on turn 328.

After producing a disaster save of his own, Potato looks to his viewers for inspiration for future disasters.

Potato: "I'll sell this to Arabia because I'm not going to go to war with them." Potato 3 seconds later: "I'll upvote this military emergency because I'd like to go to war with Arabia to liberate Valetta" Never change ya ol' spud.

Love the disaster files.

re: the Chariot, you get a Heavy Chariot by finding a meteor early in the game - that's your free military unit

I'd honestly love to see you continue this game because I'm invested now

41:10 "I wasn't expecting my scout to get brutally murdered." Why not? I was. Barbarian Quadriremes are _assholes._

I think people who struggle to understand the "inertia" of the game and predict where things are going should consider playing civs that make a lot of gold. Gold allows you to immediately complete tasks and pivot quickly when needed. That is my preferred way to play, but it might be the best way to play for people who have struggle controlling game momentum.

I love the disaster save files! I’m guessing the Chariots came from meteorites, as I believe those give you a heavy chariot even if you haven’t unlocked them.

Potato is that kind of superhero that saves you from a car before it can hit you but accidentally breaks your arm doing it.

I absolutely lost it at how you ended 40 turns later with your capital also 1 turn away from getting taken. A related idea Potato - it's pretty fair your last Ludwig game turned out to be a disaster save. It would be cool for you to save your own file and show how you could have played it differently to avoid the inevitable loss after your forever war with Maya.

Now THIS is the Potato I love watching! I love that you are diversifying your channel, but hotdog, this is the content I love from you! Keep on truckin' and thanks for the old school Potato video!

Disater saves is back. Great series, love it

Maybe a cool idea would be to do like follow up episodes on disaster saves, maybe that after getting into a playable position you return the save file and then continue playing and at some point down the line when you both have finished then sort of compare notes and see how both of you continued on after it. Does sound like a bit of work, but also might be interesting and lets the audience see how this story ends as well.

Love the disaster saves! ❤️

The satisfaction you get when Potato is actually pronouncing his cities correctly…

Always been loving the disaster series, really glad to be seeing a new one. ❤️

I'd love to see Potato finish to the end, but he should get to a salvageable point, then return the file to the originator first, then continue.

New potato video insane

Hahaha the ending is hilarious. Nice (almost?) save, Potato.

I don't even play Civ6 anymore but those disaster save file videos are so good and interesting that it's a waste not to watch them. Keep it up Potato!

One downside of chopping everything is that if you have a lot of unforested flat land you're more likely to get droughts. I've had this where I keep getting droughts until I can replant woods in the areas

Man, love the variation you're able to procide with your Civ content. This was also a great and enteratining episode! Well done! I was pleasantly surprised to hear your decent pronunciation of city names this episode! Except Västerås, that one was still a mess. Västerås is pronounced like "Westeros", but with a V instead of a W.

🥔 my dude, you just made my Friday after a long week, thank you.

Really love disaster files! It’s neat seeing how others have started their first 50 turns and how you can decipher intent and the best path forward. I liked the attempts at religion prior to pivoting away, too

Great video, really enjoy the disaster saves

Thanks so much for the Mod list, feels like a new better game! I wish I could subcribe a second time to extra support you haha

"I've saved your game." 40 turns later, "I don't think I saved your game, but I had a blast! I love you all very much, buh-bye!" Classic Potato. 😂😂

However, ARABIA appeared *thumbnail picture of Ethiopian cavalry*

Love these!!

i love these pls keep them coming

Man, you really got into roleplaying modern Sweden there.

OMG YES ITS DISASTER TIIME, I LOVE THESE VIDEOS. As a deity player that can usally win, these videos really help me to improve my game

I appreciate the pronunciation of these Swedish cities!

Love the disaster save videos

9:51 "You don't need a religion to win a faith game" 🤔

Would 10/10 watch more of these

idk if im mishearing or what, but at the start you said that the submission was from [name] and then reading the message, they ask to be called by [different name]? why not use the name they asked for at the start?

Glad to see a disaster save!

One optimisation you neglected was delaying getting era score until the dark age had started. Saving those points so as to try for an heroic age would have been worth mentioning at least.

The day will be saved by a potato! ❤

Love this series

Potato you have a great source of material for videos, just once a week make a video on a disaster save file, call it salvation saturday.

Can you make the Yogcast play Ozymandias again? That was hilarious.

When all your Cities are pronounced "Something-Chopping", you know, what is coming next...

Top tier thumbnail

Love these

By the way, in reference to the 2 heavy chariots before they unlocked chariots Probably found a pair of meteor impact sites, they give you the best heavy cav unit you can get

First disaster 1. Picking sweden

Amazing video! Is there a general pace in expanding/growing. For example: By turn 30 I should have xyz? By turn 50 I should have xyz? I always feel like I am out paced or I need to go faster.

-_- saving stockholm sounds catchier but i see what you did there

Two save your disaster files after each other!!

from disaster to disaster! :D

Yay civ!

7:40 the holy site was placed there because they wanted Mahabodhi Temple

"I've went 40 turns over what I said I would, and I will cobtinue because I am having a good time" true Civ lifer that comment.

Farms are marginal improvements, but farm triangles are fire.

Drink every time potato butchers on pronouncing jonshoping

Chariots without the tech are probably from meteorite pickups

I’ll allow it. I’m assuming you’re rage quitting a lot with Terra Invicta. I can wait.

There was like ominous movement by menilik calvary on 12 o clock for 2-3turns clear signa of invasion 😂

They may have gotten the H. Chariot from Meteorite Craters.

I only tried one Deity game on four-leaf-clover yet. Won it by scumsaving to path-block other settlers in the map central as Suleiman the magnificent and then go full Domination. Still was damn close as Peter/Russia tried Religious, needing only one more city to win at a point. Even with good heroes (Herkules, Himiko) and barbarians demolishing Wu Zeitan. When I won I simultaniously felt great and dirty, due to the scumsave and luck. Give it a try on Deity guys, it's really managable if you replay some turns and know what you will go up to :)

"you don't need a religion to win a religion game" potato 2023

At 11:33 why not settle the city off of fresh water and coast to put loyalty pressure on the single Arab city?

Valetta has fallen 😔 billions must pray

What shortcut keys to open legend keys on map???

Would have slightly crippling yourself with training gpt for gold to buy the Prophet? Not sure if it would have been enough

You leave Montréal alone!

Chariots likely came from meteorite sites

0:01 no image flipping around? I'm madder than I've ever been! 😡🙃

"you do not need a religion in order to win a faith game"

not improving the furs has made me so angy :( poor foxes

Surprised you didn't call this one Stockholm Syndrome 😂

Civ 7 better have alien invasions

Sounds like sweden irl

At this point just restart my friend

Definitely going for a religion with Ethiopia as your neighbor on deity isn't a solid choice UNLESS you are planning to fight for a religious victory as your win condition, because otherwise you'll spend the whole damn game trying to stop him from converting. Arabia is a mixed bag, I've had games where they didn't get a religion and they were happy that I spread mine to them, but I've never had a game with Ethiopia as a neighbor where I went for a religion and it didn't devolve into a holy war.

Im playing on emporer difficulty. Still learning the mechanics. Prince got boring in the late game. I picked japan and wanted to just have a religion. My first religious game. I have canada above me and Ethiopia below me. So far it seems i got a religion before Ethiopia because it says they will fall to my religion. Ancient era just ended. I have 3 cities and i can possibly place one other. I see I'm gonna have to pull out the samurai and clear a path.

Where nuzelock?

I cringed pretty hard when Ethiopia hates your guts and you sold the only 20 iron you're ever going to get because you got it from a stellar peace deal and have NONE of your own. You could've used that iron to make a Man at Arms, drastically increasing the combat strength of all your cities, instead of a little bit of gold to purchase a tile or whatever you blew it on. Chopping flat land woods is also not worth it in the early game. Chops on a hill are excellent because you can place a mine on it afterwards. If you save a woods on flat grassland you could have a 2 food 3 production tile with a lumber mill in the early game. Instead of a dead 2 food tile that's not worth working until conservation, and 90 production immediately. Production is good to have now but not if it neuters a city for the rest of the game because you have no hills. In comparison that flatland lumber mill is going to significantly bolster that city's production throughout 80% of a 200 turn game, and only takes 15% of the game to pay off the lost chop. Lumber mills do improve with tech too you know. Also jungle isn't ALWAYS a great chop. Leaving jungle on a plantation tile isn't a bad idea for +1 food. A banana plantation for example will always have at least 3 food on it early game, and like Potato says, a 3 food +whatever else tile is WAY better than a 2 food tile and the same. Because it's either counting towards surplus growth or covering the deficit population cost of a 1 food 4 production plains mine. (Apprenticeship)

Going hard on religion was the abysmal mistake of the save in the first place. The original player should have scouted Ethopia and Arabia by like...turn 15 with how close they are to their capital. Both of those are *extremely* religious civs, going for religion in proximity to them is an absolute waste of time and turns 70+ showed off why: they drowned you in an infinite deluge of missionaries. Holding your own religion was an absolute impossibility, should have instantly pivoted to campuses in preparation for a little manifest destiny before settling into a culture game.

Isn’t it a better idea to NOT go religion in a culture game? You get a -50% tourism penalty against civs that don’t follow the same religion so you kind of then have to win a religion victory anyway.

“Arabia”

Forcing religion is bad most of the time, especially when Arabia is in the game. I only try to get religion if I can have a good faith generation early game and will beeline it before anything else. Late start on religion against deity will only hinder your empire's overall development.

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