Request for future videos: Could you turn on the scoreboard in the top right showing the scores of all Civs? It's in Options, I believe in Interface options.
If you don't like keeping it on could you toggle occasionally?
In my games, Monty is a bit of a wildcard. Sometimes he's only aggressive vs. his neighbours and in others, he'll DoW everyone randomly trying to get one sided peace treaties. Eventually he gets run over due to not having a decent tech rate for newer units. It's the same with Alex. The main issue when he's across the map is figuring out if he'll break trades/RAs to do it.
Monty is nowhere near as annoying in Civ V as he is in Civ IV, and unlike in Civ IV he's often a really bad techer in Civ V. Never have issues dealing with him and rarely have to adjust my strategy based on his presence.
Also, I like to settle hills when I can, for both defense and extra production. I tend to have at least half my cities as hill cities, and my capital is if I can help it.
For war, I would personally choose either France (muskets and Foreign Legion), Siam (elephants), Spain (Tercios and Conquistadors), or if I expect a long war, Russia just for extra strategic resources.
The Berserkers are awesome. They are on the LS path with upgrade to another special promotion unit. Effectively they're a knight++++ unit, without the drawbacks. The UA is sweet actually. Makes exploration and city defense/assault pretty easy if it's near water. Shy of a highlands/etc map, there's always water near some cities.
at the moment... I'd say Babylon, Denmark, Arabs, Siam (not an ordered list) and hmm... there's a few ties for #5. Inca, Mongols (for the Keshik/Khan) and some others would be in there. It all depends on if you go for the VC that the civ should be going for.
Why denmark? Berserkers are great but everything else is a little subpar, particularly the UA. On top of that, they're pretty situational unlike the other civs you listed. Civs like Siam and Arabia are excellent in many situations, unlike the danes.
yeah, he's like that in all of my games as well. A little fighting up front, then mass expansion followed by having mass science/gold/etc to do nasty things.
Thanks for the 4-1-1, Professor! Not a video of yours goes by where I don't learn *at least* three or four very helpful tasty tidbits of gameplay mechanics, along with one or two insightful aspects of expert "strategery".
Well done! ~ Alexei "Freshman FratBoy" TreBamm : )
As stated, I really dislike starts where I'm not on a hill with my capital. Especially for this zone, the cultural borders would have expanded into all those flood plains rather than the production heavy area. So my production would have sucked for most of the game. That, and there's desert over in that direction, which is useless unless it comes with oil or iron.
What about settling on the flood plain 1E, that would've netted 4 cows and all the silver eventually? Of course that would've missed the marble but that wasn't known when you settled anyway.
Hahaha beat the arabs literally not figuratively
iasnb17yt 1 month ago
Request for future videos: Could you turn on the scoreboard in the top right showing the scores of all Civs? It's in Options, I believe in Interface options.
If you don't like keeping it on could you toggle occasionally?
MadBagOfHorses 5 months ago in playlist Civ 5 - Deity LP - CHINA
Could you explain why you were disappointed in getting that social policy before completing the research on Philosophy? Thanks.
Fenix138 6 months ago
1 person got DOW'd by Monty after signing an RA.
fr3nchy226 7 months ago
Who checked their phone at 8:15?
layelaye 8 months ago
@searanox
In my games, Monty is a bit of a wildcard. Sometimes he's only aggressive vs. his neighbours and in others, he'll DoW everyone randomly trying to get one sided peace treaties. Eventually he gets run over due to not having a decent tech rate for newer units. It's the same with Alex. The main issue when he's across the map is figuring out if he'll break trades/RAs to do it.
SBFMadDjinn 8 months ago
Monty is nowhere near as annoying in Civ V as he is in Civ IV, and unlike in Civ IV he's often a really bad techer in Civ V. Never have issues dealing with him and rarely have to adjust my strategy based on his presence.
searanox 8 months ago
@lijinr
Unfortunately I don't save the initial maps and have already started a few new games since recording this one.
SBFMadDjinn 8 months ago
Also, I like to settle hills when I can, for both defense and extra production. I tend to have at least half my cities as hill cities, and my capital is if I can help it.
pspboy7 8 months ago
This is a Great MAP, could you share the initial save with us ?
lijinr 8 months ago
For war, I would personally choose either France (muskets and Foreign Legion), Siam (elephants), Spain (Tercios and Conquistadors), or if I expect a long war, Russia just for extra strategic resources.
pspboy7 8 months ago
I had the same problem with 1 resource around you for miles and miles.
KypHeM 9 months ago
What do you mean by "double/triple luck start"? The number of different luxury resources within range?
RedClyde 9 months ago
@RedClyde That's a "double/triple lux start" and yes, he means luxury resources :)
TennysonXII 8 months ago
@TennysonXII Oops! Haha. Thanks.
RedClyde 8 months ago
@Gallean88
The Berserkers are awesome. They are on the LS path with upgrade to another special promotion unit. Effectively they're a knight++++ unit, without the drawbacks. The UA is sweet actually. Makes exploration and city defense/assault pretty easy if it's near water. Shy of a highlands/etc map, there's always water near some cities.
SBFMadDjinn 9 months ago
@Furycrab
at the moment... I'd say Babylon, Denmark, Arabs, Siam (not an ordered list) and hmm... there's a few ties for #5. Inca, Mongols (for the Keshik/Khan) and some others would be in there. It all depends on if you go for the VC that the civ should be going for.
SBFMadDjinn 9 months ago
@SBFMadDjinn
Why denmark? Berserkers are great but everything else is a little subpar, particularly the UA. On top of that, they're pretty situational unlike the other civs you listed. Civs like Siam and Arabia are excellent in many situations, unlike the danes.
Gallean88 9 months ago
@FalseNomen
yeah, he's like that in all of my games as well. A little fighting up front, then mass expansion followed by having mass science/gold/etc to do nasty things.
SBFMadDjinn 9 months ago
YaY!!!!!!
Slanderbot 9 months ago
Just out of curiosity, who would you put in your personal top 5 Civs? Don't need to cite reasons, but if you can, would be awesome.
Furycrab 9 months ago
Ugh... Hiawatha. Watch out for him-he's always the out of control AI when I play.
FalseNomen 9 months ago
Thanks for the 4-1-1, Professor! Not a video of yours goes by where I don't learn *at least* three or four very helpful tasty tidbits of gameplay mechanics, along with one or two insightful aspects of expert "strategery".
Well done! ~ Alexei "Freshman FratBoy" TreBamm : )
AlexeiTreBamm 9 months ago
Awesome! Its great to see your thought process, keep up the great work.
Dillabc123 9 months ago
@tuubatuubi
As stated, I really dislike starts where I'm not on a hill with my capital. Especially for this zone, the cultural borders would have expanded into all those flood plains rather than the production heavy area. So my production would have sucked for most of the game. That, and there's desert over in that direction, which is useless unless it comes with oil or iron.
SBFMadDjinn 9 months ago
What about settling on the flood plain 1E, that would've netted 4 cows and all the silver eventually? Of course that would've missed the marble but that wasn't known when you settled anyway.
tuubatuubi 9 months ago