21:09 Well, there you go. Faith CAN move mountains... or at least hills.

I can't believe the Old Gods heard your cries and gave you that flat land tile. Super cool bros, those tentacled overlords.

For anyone asking it is now canon that James of St George once again showed his prowess in engineering by flattening a hill. No more questions. It’s part of the lore.

"This video is sponsored by feraxis!" LITERALLY CHEATS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME

"ANYBODY WANT ME TO BUILD THEM SOME WALLS!?" -James of St. George of Ethiopia, renowned explorer and one time engineer

Wow imagine living for 1265 years, building a wall infrastructure for the greatest city, exploring the entire world, and only ended up dying off the coast of a frozen tundra. RIP James of St. George, you were the hero we deserved but not the one we needed right now

First City on Earth... Second City On Mars... And the rest of the Universe left to be Conquered!

*Chariot falls from the sky in a fireball* Potato: I know what I'll do with this! *Throws chariot into fiery pit*

Getting Great Bath on Deity not as China The AI: "My Lord, is that legal?" Potato: "I will make it legal."

"I gotta put my legs between my head and pray" Potato - 2020

Potato is slowly turning into the Spiffing Brit.

Potato: "Let us pray using a bath that prevents floods" God: "I'm sending you my location"

I imagine that the Ethiopian people just prayed that hill away with their amazing faith.

Civ VI, a perfectly balanced game

Imagine if the city-states acted like this.

AI civs when great bath is done-"wait a minute this isnt allowed!"

"Why is the meteor landing so close to the other one?" Simple... they're walking their shots towards your capital!

18:23 You can see exactly which (and how much) Civs are influencing City States by clicking on the "Influenced By" header/button just to the left of where it says "6 Civilizations" at that timestamp.

Wait Potato with sponsors? When did the world change so much? I don't know if this means the world is gonna end or we have reached the heavens.

Secret Societies are incredibly OP, and this expansion is so absurdly fun. There's so many variables and angles to play now!

Me: How tall are you gonna go this game? Potato: Yes

Sacrificing Modern Armors in a volcano for faith and science. Is this enlightenment or the dark ages ...? Oh man, I thought I'd seen it all!

i love the new erosion mechanic in the new dlc that sometimes turns hills into flatlands, very realistic to how the real world is and in your case it came in clutch letting you build that spaceport!

recently won a Deity game with Ethiopia. Rock hewn churches are OP.

I tried my first one-city challenge yesterday. There’s something so fun about optimizing one city to the max and not having to worry about anything else

I just dominated a game with Ethiopia voidsingers diety game and it was pretty amazing because of the faith.

"I wanna put my legs between my head.." You okay, buddy..?

Ethiopia is so op with the right policy cards and the voidsinger society

Hey Potato. I never played Civ until I started playing Civ 6 a couple months ago and I just earned my first deity victory going for culture with china. I managed to play the entire game with only one combat (random mid game barb attack on an auto-explore scout), and got a sub 300 turn win. I have to give you a lot of credit because I have learned so much about the game by watching you play. Thanks so much for the content.

You didn't put the save file in the description? Tragic

Congrats on the sponsorship for the video spuddy!

"I've got this game on lockdown" The literal world and god: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?

Never been this early, just want to say how much I love your content!

That's really weird about the AI hating Great Writers for you, in my games they always hate Great Admirals :/

Deity AI is brutal. I tried to play Bull Moose Teddy 3x, but the damned AI kept declaring a surprise war on me before I was even able to get my second city up and running. I gave up and went with Ethiopia instead.

The fact that you never once said, 'I want Kandy" is killing my soul

"Well, dang, my show is over. Wonder if there's anything good on KZfaq. OMG! New Potato video!" I literally jumped around yelling "Potato! Potato! 🥔!"

27:34 First satellite. "Beep... beep.... beep... beep..." I still read this in Leonard Nimoy voice.

There’s an easy solution to this. Max out the amount of faith one can get from the Great Bath. Like 10 faith per tile or something. But maybe at this point the developers like it.

Just love re-watching this one... I've done this so many times since and love it. So much fun.

*You unlocked the boost to the I WILL END THIS MAN'S CIV GAME tech.*

The most ironic ending would have been not the one with a comet destroying the city, but the one with a comet destroying exactly those four floodplain tiles...

Nice, he was just complaining about a lack of sponsors. I mean I'm broke so jokes on Firaxis but whatever.

Kudos to Firaxis for paying you! Your content had me having so much more fun with Civ 6. Thats how "influencer" shit should be.

You convinced me to buy the frontier pass so excited for these updates!

Thank you for doing this video. Was just able to complete the one city challenge for the first time because of this! One thing I did in the endgame was switch Pengala for Liang to protect myself against natural disasters. However, I found out real quick that Liang does NOT protect you from comet strikes!!! So I built a settler unit in case I lost my capital. I would have a settler hanging around in case I lost my capital. I would not "settle" the settler, just having it chill and avoid comet strikes. Luckily I kept my capital until my crew made it to the new planet.

In this world there are people on Mars in the 18th century, while we are in 2020 fighting over Karen not wearing a mask.

Love your videos. This has been my favorite game for the past year and youve helped make it even more enjoyable. Congrats on the sponsor! You earned it man

Actually, this game would be a cool alternate universe. What happens when you combine cyberpunk and Lovecraftian horror?

So, a few tips if you try something like this ever again: 1) even though you can't WORK tiles farther than 3 from your city, you still gain amenities from improved luxuries and strategic resources 2) everything else in those tiles can be chopped and so you at least get something out of those tiles 3) You can troll the enemies who attack your city-states by levying the city state units and making a ring around the city, then replace those units with something cheap of your own near the end of the levy. They can attack the city with ranged units, but never capture it. Works particularly well when the one attacking is your ally so there's no chance he declares war on you.

Potato! We, your lovely fans, politely demand the seed info for this start!

Just finished Luetin’s latest lore video and jumped right into Potato making a literal hive city in Civ6. Is this you, Tzeentch?

Dude your pretty much savant with civ (but socially adequate at the same time) and I've been around since square unit placeholders; ty for the content, Respect:)

You started recording around 16:00 ended around 21:00 That is a lot of effort for one video

Goddamn. You turned Addis Ababa into a mega Troy, one that is truly impregnable and glorious. Its just insane to watch it relentlessly thrive.

I just watched Potato do the Desert Canada run, and I think that is the Monkey's Paw curling for this start haha.

Good on Firaxis for supporting you! If you ever contact them, tell them to get the updates onto iPad version!

Thank you for teaching us about this game!

One of the most fun games I ever had in Civ V was a game as Spain where I designed a single base location that had every single Natural Wonder. Cue 4500 gold on round one, growing to two population and an additional 12 production on round three, growing to three population on round six and starting to generate 10 faith per turn, got my pantheon on round ten... It was so much fun

What I do with units : Attack and defend What Potato do with units : THROW them into Volcano !!!

I really didn't think this would interest me. But the way you edited it to speed it up made it so much better to watch! Congrats on the win! It was fun to watch!

Glad you had fun.

Nice! Speaking of God-like starts, I've had two games spawn my next to the Paititi natural wonder. That thing is incredible. I'd love to see you cover that. 😁

Another one city challenge by potato mcwhiskey awesome 😎

So voidsingers make for some crazy gameplay. Try out a peace only domination culture game as Eleanor of aquatine. Once you get cultists, you can easily take over the world without ever going to war (well if you play on pangea anyways)

"Perfectly balanced" Hmm.... Seems like there's gonna be a bit of a potato-tea war comming soon.

Can you imagine this Soothsayer + Great Bath combo for Indonesia? You could flood the seas with an endless amount of ships.

8:20 I don't know exactly how optimal it is, but if you had saved your soothsayers with one charge left, when the Appease the Gods rolls around you could get all your soothsayers promoted which gives them all at least one extra charge and allows you to really start going ham if you continue holding on to your collection of soothsayers the second time Appease the Gods rolls around.

The sheer joy that radiates from this video :-) Watching this already made my day at 9am.

* Gets sponsored by firaxes * RNGesus: you are blessed

Watching you geek out over the insane luck you're experiencing is giving me life Balance wise though, civ 6 would do well to not let multipliers stack. Only apply the highest multiplier.

An entertaining video. James did an excellent job of flattening that hill so you could build a spaceport. I've been thinking about what kind of videos I'd like see while watching the assorted Lets Play series, and I've come up with a couple of ideas. 1) A video (or series of videos) on what to do to keep yourself competitive in your non-primary resources. I mean I know if I'm doing a science victory I need to build campuses (campi?), but what should I do to maintain a reasonable culture/gold/etc., outside of building theatre squares, commercial hubs/harbors, etc. Policy cards, pillaging, stealing with spies, etc. 2) A video (or series of videos) on the different map types and how they change the world. Land/water ratios, distribution of land types, land vs coast, etc. The one sentence description that the map selection screen gives you is pretty unhelpful.

LoL, i was screaming aince beginning, keep a spot for Spaceport! 😂😂😂

I just finished a similar game with Khmer. Basically mass settle along all rivers, building the holy site and fully upgrading and it allowed the cities to grow really fast. Then got the belief that converts faith into science, buying great people and units with faith all over the place!

Poor firaxis thinking that people won't find a way to abuse very feature they add

This isn't even exponential growth. It's logarithmic. You don't understand how much more terrifying that actually is.

I love your content, so impressed that you were able to pull this off on deity

When will Potato change his intro to "hello there, ladies and gentlemen! I'm the Spudding Irish."

Cool video, Ethiopia is indeed awesome, have been playing it for a while and while I am not as Civ-savvy as you, it has been doing wonders. I should try the OCC with them, it was my favorite challenge in Civ 5, and one I have done on a consistent basis.

Congratulations for the sponsor!!! Btw, where is the seed

Had so much fun trying this. Tried it on Prince and 1 roll had 5 tiles earning faith. Blundered my way though and ended up with a meteorite assisted domination win Lmao. Great video

You play this game like Garry Kasparov while I play it like Forest Gump. Love the play-throughs though.

“A word of this” -PotatoMcWhiskey 2020

Grats on the sponsorship. Well deserved.

Spiffing Brit is furiously downing his tea while he venerates your faith tile yields.

Tried this, had a lot of fun right up to the point that asteroids flattened my capitol and my second biggest city in the last 3 turns before I quit.

This was such a fun video to watch!! Keep up the good work!!

"I do not want to hear a word of this in the comments", Famous last words there Potato XD

You angered the gods by sacrificing tanks. They tried to smite you with a meteor 😂

Potato spends the entire game worshiping the Great Ones, flooding his city, throwing people into volcanoes, and generally causing the end of the world, and then is surprised when meteors start falling from the sky. (I know that there's actually no in-game connection between those things, I just thought it was funny)

Man when I watched your video I felt how much you love trowing things into a volcano. Looks like it was your hobby when you were young.

30:25 - this summary is just terrific

Shout out to James of St. George. My man built the walls of the greatest city in the world and then circumnavigated the globe. What a life!

RNGesus after seeing this video: what have I done?

Btw love ur content it's absolutely banging And ur content is so helpful for new players

also another good soothsayer play is take the rainforest pantheon. then use your soothsayer to set forest fires. the rainforest yields that grow back will make you not want to chop it. i have 3 food 2 production rainforest on turn 98 with no improvement. and a great bath heh. maya again. make sure you move your population around out of the forest while you burn it lol. it's really hard to decide where to throw a soothsayer charge here. another massive forest fire for huge yields or 5 more faith per turn.

Even though this clip is at the beginning more like a commercial .. beautiful challenge

Had a Russia game where I placed the Great bath in my capitol and the river next to it flooded five times before the renaissance. Good times

No one tell potato that he could have erupted his vulcano and won a free promotion.

china looking on at ethiopia building a ton of wonders: "my true successor"