In todays episode, barbarians continue to do barbarian things, our favorite bear does a gamble that doesn't quite work out, Spain proves to be a pain, and we learn how to properly defend a fledgling nation. A horse is a horse, of course, of course, but sometimes it is also a good source of income. Will Spain prove they have learned nothing and declare war again, will Germany manage to settle ten cities before the medieval era? Will I ever stop posting these summaries? Probably not on that last one. But for the possible answers to the other two questions and more, turn in next time, same Ursa time, same Ursa channel!

Seriously, one of the things that popped out to me in Civ6 was just how vicious the barbs were (esp. compared to Civ5 BNW). I have lots of game openings like yours except that when I do it it's always something like 8+ barbs spawning just outside sight range of my capital and the scout spotting my city just as soon as it spawned.

Early huzzah! Now, waiting for the giant Portugal game.

Although I only play deity and know all the tricks, I much prefer these games where you talk about every relevant decision.

I love the detailed explanation that you are doing for this series!! Learning a lot and knowing how to think about the mechanics in Civ 6 makes you such a better player. Keep it up and I greatly appreciate it! Huzzah!

29:58 that was probably the longest silence i have ever heard in an ursa ryan video, it makes me appreciate how damn good you are at talking a lot without making me realize that you are talking a lot

It’s great that you show how to play less than perfect starts. I even forgive your pronunciation of the German cities

As a point of interest Ursa, barbs absolutely do NOT have a human player bias. The AI in general (barbs, city states, and full AIs) all have a bias towards attacking where they have the biggest combat strength advantage. (meaning units with low health or melee strength are preferentially targeted). Which is the biggest reason it looks like the barbs prefer to attack your units. If you and the AI both have a 20 combat strength warrior at full health, the AI will have the deity combat strength bonus and you won't, so the barb would rather attack you. As for barb behavior, it's coded according to three states the camp can have. If a barb camp is active (IE a scout has found a city, reported back to the camp, and the camp is spawning a unit per turn), barb units from that camp will move towards whatever city center the scout found. They'll engage units they find along the way, but if you run away they won't chase and will instead resume moving towards the city. Once they get to the city they'll attack whatever units they find, but will preferentially target the city center if possible. (Which is why, given a chance, barbs will ignore your units to suicide into your city center). If a barb camp is passive, it spawns a unit about once ever 10-15 turns (I don't recall the exact number), and those units will attack anything that wanders nearby. If the barb camp is destroyed, surviving barb units will exclusively attack the units and cities of the player or city state that cleared the camp. You can genuinely wander a 3 health scout next to a full health line infantry and have it completely ignore you, as long as the camp was destroyed and not by you.

It’s very refreshing to see somebody who sees the benefit of Religious Community. Sometimes I’m just in the mood to make really good international trade routes.

I really like playing civ6, I have about 500 hours in the game but I still learned so many little things in this entertaining series that will definitely improve my future games. thank you so much

Ursa: Munich kept getting flooded and kill all my population Ursa: put pingala in Munich

Even as a deity player, this guide is a very good insight into your thought process behind you games. Love it! Have you ever thought about making an AI like ChatGPT play a game of civ, i.e. "ChatGPT plays chess", would love to see your spin on it.

haven’t watched the full video yet, but if he sacrificed etemananki for the tutorial i might cry lol 😂

Here’s to another day of watching civ videos at work waiting to get home and start a new campaign…

I'll admit, that second flood would have probably been a restart for me, brutal. 😂

Researching pyramids would have been a great play as it would have given 6 culture per turn between those holy sights and that campus in the desert (unless it got taken and you didnt tell us).

I love the fact that the game you chose to go extremely in detail is the game where you get swarmed by barbs into several natural disasters and early game war.

Although I play deity and currently gunning for a sub 140 win, I love this start that you have because this is the normal deity experience, where even if you play perfect, u can't go sub 180 and sub 200 is extremely hard. Civ 6 is much more about luck than skill

Barbs on Deity are wild, my first Deity game I was at war with Babylon and was holding a mountain pass. Barbs rolled into Babylon from behind with 3 trebs and a ton of man at arms and razed all of Babylon's cities in like 10 turns... I did not expect to win the war that way.

£570 - The University of Sankore currently could boost 3 districts.

City patron great for any civ with a good early unique district.

Hey Ursa, love your stuff. Just curious, what religious beliefs were you going to go for? You mentioned in the last episode that you have some recommendations that don't need a lot of holy sites in your empire to benefit

Sleepy, you have married an Icarus. He has flown too close to the sun.

Huzzah!!!

How have I played this for so many years without ever noticing the tiny promotion progress bar?? 🤦🏻‍♀️

0:01 Barbs are (uhhhhh) barbing. Can we have a T-shirt with this quote?

One other game mechanic question re: city patron goddess - does the production bonus apply even if you have nonspecialty districts? For example I tried it with vietnam, preplaced the first specialty district, but started with a thanh in every city - does the 25% apply to its construction? Then after the thanh is finished, does the 25% apply to the specialty district still? I thought this was a smart move, but it ended up not being very powerful 😅

This game might last over 200 turns...which means more Ursa and more Ursa is good and good is fun.

🖖

not placing stonehenge next to cap? 🥺

17:50 Ursa stops working the wonder build. How/can you do that on PS??

Day 4 of asking Ursa to play the Philippines civitas mod

i would honestly just restart this game

Algorithm 439

Huzzah

Daily comment.

a

First