Civ 5 Let's Play Babylon Part 3

[LifeIsSoAverage]

when you talk about Napoleon, you are right. Another thing people say is that he was 5'2", but interestingly enough, the French had different measurement system after their revolution, and so today, Napoleon was about 5'8", a pretty tall size for men in that day. Just a fun history fact.

[westerlo4]

half part of belgium is french they moved in here in the middle ages thats when there started a war between Flanders and the french ,flanders won the first war with a great historical battle at Kortrijk they conquered belgium but in the second war the french conquered the south of belgium now know as Waloon ( srry for bad english i am flemisch myself;p

[westerlo4]

:( better watch the whole vid before ya comment :(

[westerlo4]

:o brussels is the capital of the beautiful country named belgium :D

[salami350]

why shall you go to history lesson, just watch this dude play a videogame

[salami350]

keep the facts going, I like them a lot,

[Papciopolak]

You think you learn things? Play some Europa Universalis and you will become a walking encyclopedia of history and geography.

[loriquayleio]

even in paintings by french artists of the period Napoleon was shown as much smaller than those around him.

[VertousWLF]

Personally, I perfer to save up for that tight situation when you need troops quickly or need allies and have to bribe other Civs

[DoubleGlog]

You taught me about bananas, and now french generals. Im subscribing so I don't miss out on further tidbits of information and trivia.

[PAVLOSHELLAS]

why the terrain graphics are so bad?

[ZIZFREAK]

Don't you dare destroy Brussels.

[shamir137]

and by building the Notre Dame you get 20 happiness : )

[jacobwolf124]

Lol I've played this game for sometime and he's teaching me stuff I didn't know or was to ignorant to look up.....

[MrSei2ure]

I MUST BUY THIS GAME.

[lostsagadragon]

hmmmmmm i suck with gold then i usally earn 10-20k gold every game well if i get mech infantry quick and destroy enimes fast

[TheAndiePerson]

I love these. Thank you so much for explaining all this stuff, I had no idea what I was doing before.

[InappropriateBanana]

I didn't know that about napoleon

[jesustheangryatheist]

Hey quill have you been watching QI?

[ladawg81]

Almaty is a city in central Asia. In one of the "stan" countries.

[coolL9457]

is he trying to sell civ 5 or entertain us?

[darklyt750]

@coolL9457 hes entertaining us but hes so damn good at it hes seling it at the same time lol

[xxZarathulPl0xxx]

No they make it a city state because the city is too scared to expand because they fear war with other stronger civilizations

[aiesecoxford]

I don't know why, but I could get your Civ 4 play to go full-screen, but nothing so far in this Civ5 will work - just a big black screen. Weird.

[justinjt2]

he was 5'6

[BaronVonLaladedo]

FACK J00 NAPOYEON

[Starkill8]

I think price of the tile depends on what that tile provides (ex: ivory, bananas, and horses)

[12kothe12]

brussels is belgium

[bigzebes]

C'mon JCVD is the muscles from Brussels.

[Valbuenium]

lol you put yourself down so much XD

[Josh44Tube]

Brussels? France? haha

[SuperRIDDE5]

Norway isn't in the EU as well, but they still have close bonds to them. 

[Applepie869]

KNOWLEDGE HURTS MEH BRAIN!!!

[Daga1946]

I'm Belgian and I don't give a shit

[AlexLong1000]

Thanks for that trivia. I knew Napoleon wasn't short, but never knew the reasons behind that rumour. Thanks again. :D

[runescapejunkie1000]

You go over the game and think all your moves through. Unlike me

[GameGuyG]

i don't know why your saying that the game is educational if your the one who know's all this stuff

[joehoe223]

Brussels/Brussel/Bruxelles is the capital of Belgium, but the question is, for how long wil it stay that way:P Famous for manneken pis, a very tiny statue of a peeing boy

[Chri3toph3r]

DON'T BUY SCOUTS

[nzk13]

ive never owned an ivory towel...

[umpisuoli87]

Lol Brussel is Capital of Belgium.

[iMPRE7ed]

It's a shame not to know these capitals )))) But don't give a fuck ))

[absnorma1]

you pissed off belgium :)

[Redragonclaws]

I really like your commentarys. Maybe do another one of these civ 5 lets plays in the future?

[apocalypse105]

brussels is a city in belgium dude it is the capital of the europeon union....

lol

[OtherRb1419]

lrn2belgium

[imonyourfacewoot]

@OtherRb1419 Belgium ftw :3

[eatingoutfan]

Almaty is a city in Kazakhstan by the way. It's near China :)

[IgnatzKolisch]

Also, Napoleon was often seen in the company of his Imperial Guard, and they were abnormally tall for the time. There were height requirements to enter that unit, and Napoleon was of course shorter than all of them. Very often, then, he would be noticeably the shortest person in the area.

I'm really glad you pointed out that tired old myth about Napoleon being short; you'd think after all this time, that one would finally have faded away after being corrected tens of thousands of times.

[jamesalmightyness]

if you want a history lesson come and watch quill18's video's

[Sikeman214]

Hiarwatha was nie to me, until he called my army small,

i said i would never forget it,

and i sure didn't,

he sent his military in...they had weapons, alls i haev were swordsmen.... Yeah......took over 2 of my cities, and when i tried to leave the last city, they killed the unit, but they wouldn't move into the last city D:<

[AndyGrouch]

You don't know where Brussels is and you're good at nations? :)

[nofxmike06]

BELGIUM!

[woonam]

I'd just like to say you sold to me this game. You give a lot of energy during your commentaries and overall it's just entertaining to listen to you and watch your videos.

No homo though =p

[rosen00000]

i just learned somthing i never learned in history calss, GOD I LOVE THIS.

[reeree746]

Why is it that in every single Civ game, Montezuma is always the biggest D-bag of the game?

[shotpower09]

You are the most interesting commentator I have ever listened to. You are very intelligent unlike many other commentators on youtube and I respect your love for the connection between history and video games. I myself am an avid history geek and love when I can relate real-world knowledge to video games. Keep up the great work and have a great time playing Civ 5.

[hochmeisterjer]

11:11----11:15

LOL

[firefrostpeacemaker]

regusa is an italian city state.

[joshp0093]

don't worry about pissing off the French. No one in Europe likes them :)

[apocalypse105]

@joshp0093

haha thats 100% true

[MrSSstar]

Your should First when you start the game try to produce as much food as you can, by the end of the classical era focus on your gold production and culture production (or millitary units if you want a millitary victory) Towards the industral era start working on your weak points and from there you make up what you would like to do :3

[05AT1]

We the English congratulate you on pissing off the french.

[mokchige]

@05AT1 lol that is hilaious

[jamesalmightyness]

@05AT1  I agree to that!

[HDHasen]

"I probably just pissed of half of europe ..."

yes, you did :D, but you make great videos, I enjoy them a lot ;)

[arbiter998]

i can say only one thing about this lp =)

[nancyboy07]

holy shit kid stop fucking talking and just play the fucking game

[zentro99]

@nancyboy07 Don't criticize someone for enjoying a game.

[JamezCraft]

@nancyboy07 Watch another lets play then.. god.

[The109926]

if u heal them in ur terrytory they heal by 2 hp compared to when they are not in your terrytory they heal by only 1 hp

[themrchappi1]

Belgium is internal shattered because it is parted in a german speaking and french speaking half...

[CrazyWolfGamer]

@tahobii yup, Brugge shal had been there 2 since it was a rich city everbody wants,

[finalblood4]

brussels is in belgium JUST LIKE ME!!!!!!!!=3 =3 =3

ps: plz befriend them =D

[7255202]

@finalblood4 lol i used brussels to train my troops and put the city under siege for 600 years.

[Mars2i0]

I hope you conquer France soon, they are very dangerous in Civ V.

[helgi111]

I heard that he was said to be so short was because his bodyguards were all over 6 foot.

[MrOwnageman11]

mining is better, you should of got it because later in the game iron and steel dominate all of the other countries.

[evilstormgnat]

Subbed for the awesome history lessons. I love this style of LP.

[DontBeAPussy1]

gotta love american geography ;D

[gunkie81]

Napoleon was 5 feet 6 1/2 inches tall slightly shorter than average height for the time. At least two inches shorter than the average soldiers height, and three inches shorter than the average height of the dutch at the time. He was not a tall man...but he did have an enormous army.

[S5MM3R]

nice calling brussels france :(

[Suddencrusader]

Ragusa is today Dubrovnik in Croatia.

[prophetxyrael]

Ragusa is near/between Montenegro/Albania along the coast, if you enjoy learning history from games I highly suggest playing Europa Universalis 2 (specifically the stand alone mod For The Glory, you can get it for like 10 or 15 bucks) it has massive numbers of historical events, you will learn more than any history class. Europa Universalis 3 is good too, but the events aren't as rigid therefore less history lessons.

[quill18]

@prophetxyrael I believe I own this game, but I think that my attempts to play it didn't work out at the time. Maybe I'd enjoy it more these days, especially in an LP format. We'll see.

[asson432]

@quill18 Actually-funny enough-I was just about to put the third part of the series in your sight, giving you an idea for a Let's Play. Now while both games are great - both gameplay and history depth wisely-I think that EU III is slightly more accurate as far as geography goes. And it also has improved, smoother - and generally better -gameplay. At least in my opinion. Actually me being strategy cook myself-I learned my EU map this way. And hey, thanks for the Awesome work man. Keep it up.

[prophetxyrael]

@quill18 also @asson, EU3 is more graphically appealing and more geographically correct, however it lacks the rigid historical events that are what teaches you history through the game (EU3 allows your to activate events you meet the requirement for, which is better for gameplay but FAR less historically accurate) The problem most players have with For the Glory is that the events are too rigid, and don't allow historically insignificant nations to become really significant. Made me learn tho!

[prophetxyrael]

@prophetxyrael Also, FTG is cheap as hell. Usually that's a plus.

[rasmuslm]

@prophetxyrael It's true to say it's near but it's not really between Montenegro and Albania. Ragusa is a Sicilian city and as that part of modern day Italy.

[prophetxyrael]

@rasmuslm The Republic of Ragusa existed on the far south coast of Dalmatia and has since been renamed Dubrovnik (wiki) It was once an important maritime republic, along with Pisa, Venice, Genoa, and another random one in Amalfi. This is the Ragusa referred to ingame, and not the Sicilian city. Sorta like how there is a Los Angeles in the USA, but the original Los Angeles is maybe a few kilometers from Assissi in Italy.

[rasmuslm]

@prophetxyrael Ohh yeah I see. Your probably right since the Italian Ragusa never been a state in itself and therefore should be called Sicily, Val di Noto or something along those lines if it was the case.

They do have some pretty amazing buildings and has been a culturally rich place...but I guess that does count for anything :P

[master0Fkings]

@prophetxyrael ragusa is in italy isn't it?

[YouStoleMyTube]

I can't believe you spent your gold just for the sake of spending it... You don't need another scout! >_<

[manic221]

Great lets play giving me lots of tips for playing the game next time i give it a go, i was doing so well with England until the Germans started a massive war i couldn't win so they took 3 of my cities plus a lot of my gold for a peace treaty, don't make to many pacts of secrecy it seems to piss people of or you get dragged into a war.

[izvarzone]

Do scouts useful in later eras?

[lookingeast5]

I have to say Quill ur one of the best reviewers I've ever listened to~ I enjoy listening to your talk during the gameplay :D keep up the good work!

ps. I'm getting civ 5 tuesday any suggestion on who playing first?

thanks~

[superguy911]

Man I was yelling, "Get a scout man, get a scout"!; and then you did :D

[Baronbandit1]

you expain things really well

[Baseguy100]

I like this game but can i download it from somewhere?

[quill18]

@Baseguy100 There's a free demo on Steam.

[xrw175p6mq4]

@Baseguy100 You could try going to a store that sells games and you can trade little slips of paper and they will download it to a small box that you take home with you.

[Souldriver9]

ow come on Quill I just got a little break from history exam and now I'm learning more stuff from you during my break D: lol

[quill18]

@Souldriver9 Everyone, quick! Spam Souldriver9 with history facts until his brain explodes! I'll start:

The Hundred Years' War actually lasted for over 116 years.

[JamesKirby1996]

@quill18 christmas was chosen on 25 december because of a pegian festivial

[quill18]

@JamesKirby1996 Indeed -- the winter solstice (Dec 20/21st) is when we do our gift exchange with my wife and her family. Avoids conflicts AND means earlier gifts. Hurrah!

[alex123466]

@quill18 Yayz History- The Boxer Rebellion was started due to the Europeans moving into Asia

[cheese89145]

@Souldriver9 The Monguls were not actually barbarians.

[TheUchihaShadow]

@Souldriver9 Sir Walter Raleigh Did Not Introduce Potatoes or Tobacco to England

[natey10101]

@Souldriver9 I know I'm late on this, but:

Christopher Columbus and his fleet were not actually the first group of people from Europe to discover the new world.

[ownagenewb111]

thanks for these vids they have helped me so much. this is my first civ game and everything was very overwhelming at first (the tutorials sucked)

[zottentonio]

brussels, french OMG.

grts from belgium.

ps: we are so gone kill you!

[KielSives]

What specs are you running? I'm running on a pentium D 2.8 Ghz and 256 MB gpu and it's slow as all heck...

[5throth]

brussles is the capitol of poland......... right?

[rjh00]

lmao, I doubt half of europe would get pissed because of Brussels =D

[B0mbad]

Hello from Brussels :D

[JoeAlcorn]

Civ games have the best story ever, the story of humankind

[Ulfhedjinn]

I'm British and I laughed so hard at the Brussels part, 10/10! :D

[clipmaster30001]

not entirely true, napoleon was in fact a very short man, but your right about him being very sociable with his army, thats why they loved him and were inspired to march on all the way to moscow

[quill18]

@clipmaster30001 There's no point in arguing about the height. Just take one minute to do some searches online. It's okay, I'll wait.

What did you find?

[CrazyMetalKidd]

@quill18 napoleon was 5"2 which is really short for a man.

[quill18]

@CrazyMetalKidd 5'2" in ancient French units, which translates to approximately 5'7" in conventional imperial units -- which at the time was average or better. The confusion between French and English units is actually where the confusion about his height began.

[dolape79]

Ragusa, is today's Dubrovnik. In Croatia. Famous fortress that dates from the 12th century. Held by the venetians for some centuries, Marco Polo was supposed to come either from Sarajevo or Ragusa, both venetian controlled at that time.

[ilikepie77bob]

You probably know this but you can make scouting and improvement building automated

[Pizarroconquer]

BRUSSELS = BELGIUM!!!!

Don't forget it anymore :p

[ShiftBlade]

It seems to me, in the case of buying tiles, that it costs twice as much to buy rough terrain tiles and tiles across a river. Take some of the hexagons northwest of Babylon at 5:44 for example. The tile one hexagon north-west of your horses costs 100 gold, because it is across the river from where your current culture is. Now, the hexagon south-west of the hexagon we just discussed also appears to be across a river, but it's actually adjacent to a tile you own on the same side of the river.

[Knightbruder]

ey quill heres ur dutchman from civ 4 again :) as neighbor of the belgians I happen to know that belgian is kinda torn between the dutch and the french... north west speaks dutch or vlaams(dutch accent) and south east speaks french.... the only way u might offended them is becus Belgian is trying veeery hard to be a independant country while they are speaking their neighbor's language! :D GREAT VIDS btw! first time ever I like utube better then games :D

[quill18]

@Knightbruder Isn't there even talk of splitting the country in two?

[serieuzeman]

@quill18 Yes there is, but it's probably not gonna happen. Belgium is like an ugly pair of siamese twins that wants nothing more than to be seperate, but unfortunately they're connected at the heart and the operation to divorce them would kill one of them and leave the other one handicapped. This is coming from a Belgian BTW.

[Pizarroconquer]

@quill18

Indeed, but this will unluckly happen ( atleast I hope :p)

[Knightbruder]

@quill18 well not really lol they live with it I guess :) got a king and stuff and ofcourse brussels is the capital of the EU (I thought don't rage on me if I'm wrong) but its indeed a bit awkward that they have 2 different languages and two different 'halfs' in the country. I do not believe their is any real hostility between the halfs so I guess they can just live this way ^^

[manic221]

@Knightbruder I'm sorry but your dumb, EU stands for European Union or i guess you could have meant Europe either way your stupid, Europe is not one country Europe is a continent made up of many countries including Belgium, France, The United Kingdom, Germany and many more the EU is much like the UN but it only includes countries within the continent of Europe, in Europe there are many languages, my apologies if I've completely misunderstood your comment.

[manic221]

@Knightbruder so basically what i'm saying is there is no capital of the EU, but Belgium do host the European Union meetings (Brussels is the capital of Belgium)

France is in the EU there capital is Paris (obviously) Russia is in the EU there capital is Moscow.

England is part of the EU our capital is London.

EU is many countries with many capitals :)

[SonOfTanit]

@manic221

Russia in the EU??? Are you crazy bro?

[manic221]

@SonOfTanit wait Russia isn't the the EU? are you sure?

[asson432]

@SonOfTanit

It appears later - If you move the date forward while starting the game. In 1399 there are only realms of Muscovy, Novgorod, Rayzan, Murom, Yaroslavl and Smolenskian rebels.

[Sarahlyonz]

@manic221 Russia is part of Asia. they are Asians. dont say they arnt becouse the definition of an Asian is they come from Asia and Russians come from Asia so therefore Asians.

[manic221]

@Sarahlyonz HAHA wow you really are stupid do you know where Russia is? go get an atlas... no seriously go i can wait. i'll give you a clue it's the biggest land mass in the world plus, but the main point of this is i did a quick google search and guess what i found? Russia is part of the EU, that's all goodbye.

[MAWK93]

@manic221

WTF?

Russia part of the European union? Since when?

[Sarahlyonz]

@manic221 well technically speaking Prussia is part of Europe and Asia. but if you where to say where it is you wouldn't say Europe you would say north east Asia. soo they Asians.

[dthac1]

@manic221

Russia is not in EU

[superguy911]

@quill18 Nah man I live in Belgium you probably didn't hear the full story. Dam politicians. :)

[thasmin1]

Maybe you get minus points for not knowing Brussels isn't in France, but it's evened out by not calling the Iroquois "ear-uh-coys".

[quill18]

@thasmin1 At least I figured out pretty quickly that something wasn't "right" after I said France!

[laxdude1616]

@quill18 Iroquois is a French word for that civilization and should be pronounced "I-ro-kois"

[quill18]

@laxdude1616 French is my native tongue. "ee-roh-kwa' is the closet phonetic spelling that I can come up with for the French pronunciation.

[laxdude1616]

@quill18 lol, That phonetic spelling is better than mine...

French is your first language?