By the way, she was in history a dissolute and often changed lovers without paying attention to their origin. If she liked you, she could call to her for a while, and when she get bored, she says goodbye and gives money)
@@neyt9699 Ei. That sounds fun. At least you get a shit load of compensation for your heartbreak. And few people can claim that he once had a tumble with the Tsarina! You'd be a folk hero for the longest time
Now Russian troops are massing near Moldova and along Finland border, they will make excuse again about "our troops just passing by" like me in civ 6 and then strike when opportunity is ripe
This was the first civ I played on this game, I was new, i met India, who I didn't even know would go nuke happy, I built roads to my farms, and when a city state asked me to take over another city state, I declared war to punish them, then I made peace with them when Gandhi requested, then I declared war again when they asked me to take over a city state a second time, then I got into eternal warfare and pre-industrial India denounced me, I was a noob in every definition of the word.
@@MalevolentSpirit234 I disagree with the ruthless conquering she did not do anything that other rulers wernt the British in India until the 40s were oppressed and French indochinese, She brought Russia into a golden age and the modern age for the time though she has her flaws she was no worse then Maria Threasa, Louis XVI and George the III
@@MalevolentSpirit234 and when it comes to Peter the III it wasn't her idea to overthrow him in fact it was the brother of her lover at the time who came up with it, and alot of Russians supported it because Peter was a bad ruler and hated Russia so inturn Russia hated him
Fun fuct. The lyrics in this melody are lines from the poem "The Bronze Horseman". A tragic story about a poor man going mad who lost his beloved during a flood in St. Petersburg.
@@drcatsville4467 I could understand the following ones: Красуйся, град Петров х3 и стой неколебимо, как Россия, [Shine, the Peter's city, and stand unshakeable as Russia] Осада! приступ! Злые волны х2 Как воры, лезут в окна. Челны С разбега стекла бьют кормой. [Assault! Alarm! Fierce waves are breaking Like thieves into the houses. Snaking Adrift, boats buffet, smashing panes.] The thing gets repeated several times; and than at 1:42 starts something that's clearly not from the bronze horseman "развесёлые, простые, расписные" ["merry, common, decorated"], and although it sounds Pushkinish because of trochee, it seems it's not even Pushkin anyway. And it's very hard to guess at this point. Anyway, after 2:40 we have Народ зрит божий гнев и казни ждет. Увы! Все гибнет: кров и пища! Где будет взять? [___The people fear God’s judgement, for the signs are clear: No food, no shelter; unavailing Their cries for help.___] At 3:08 we have the windows passage again and then the God's wrath plagues Got them from www.tyutchev.org.uk/Download/Bronze%20Horseman.pdf
@@matchety Actually, from 1.42 there goes: Пожитки бледной нищеты, Грозой снесенные мосты, Гроба с размытого кладбища Плывут по улицам! (repeated) Belongins of pale beggars, Bridges broken by thunder, Coffins from cemetery washed away Flow by the streets!
Playing as Poland, joined the Songhai in declaring war on Russia. I just sent 1 knight near their border after a long time of doing nothing, and she surrendered, giving me St Petersburg. Of course, that and all my other warmongering had completely destroyed my happiness at that point, so I stopped declaring war for a while to rebuild. During that time, the Songhai and Inca declared war on Russia again without asking me to join. The Inca didn't do anything, but the Songhai sent a massive army through St Petersburg, into what's left of Russia. Thought that was going to be it. Until the massive Songhai army returned, heavily damaged and retreating back to hide behind my border. Then Catherine asked me to declare friendship with her, before almost immediately asking for an open border agreement. Now I'm sitting there laughing my ass off as the Russian army passes my border to chase the Songhai army back across the continent.
Sooooooo.... I may have just consumed the Ottomans, Songhai, Russia, Korea, and Mongolia all in 1 war. Now it's just France, Morocco, and the Inca watching in horror, while I'm actually going for a space victory.
Tis called the Curse of the Slavs an old Russian fable about if an enemy slayed there leaders, took there land, and killed the people how the blood of their dead would rise up twice as strong for every man the enemy killed and drag the enemy to hell with them
When it came to the information era our borders met. I also saw a uranium pocket close to her borders so I plunked a city there to deny her Uranium. When it came to war I lost due to her millions of marines/ attack choppers. They were fucking everywhere. *EVERYWHERE*
***** Create more units early on, and exploit you Civ's ability to the max, I ended having Spain and Carthage in my pocket once due to the fact that I have more nukes than all other civ's combined.
Mattias Djärv In my game Japan had taken over half of the world map. I took over almost the entire civilization in less than 20 turns with minor losses due to a MASSIVE army of death robots, artillery, nukes and stealth bombers.
The most interesting thing is not the fact that she is a great leader of the Russian Empire... But the fact that she is a Prussian general's daughter and a princess of Anhalt.
Tip: don't let her to reach the modern age. If you get 1 of uranium, she can get 2, and if she choose Autocracy, then she can get 4. So, if you get 1 of Uranium, you can build an atomic bomb, but she can build 2 nuclear missiles or 4 atomic bombs.
Maybe that's because there's an achievement in the game that is named ''My Little Pony'' when you research Horseback Riding before anyone else as Russia :P
My experience with this character below. It broke my heart when she betrayed me. I rescued her and Gandhi when Egypt and Britain had them both hammered back into their final couple cities. I sent workers into her territory to build up her infrastructure, liberate her cities and gifted them back, gifted her gold and resources as well. I did this for her and Gandhi both. For most of the game, near start until after winning they were both my closest and only real allies. Meanwhile Caesar and I were at the height of a cold war. We directly bordered each other and had a massive military build up just a space or two away from each other. Both of us had Nuclear weapons armed and ready, fleets standing off with each other. The Iroquois decided to attack Gandhi and so a war in the African Continent started. Dozens of turns later Caesar finally backed down and I was able to begin shipping my massive sea fleet towards Africa to help my ground forces fight the Iroquois. Catherine who had been all smiles and friendly suddenly declared war on me and bluntly said something about not seeing any other, better way to show her deceptive ways and even though the odds were against her it would be war. It's kind of surreal how the AI thinks in this game. It's a coincidence I'm sure, but it seems like the moment she realized my fleet and nuclear weapons were no longer tied up with Caesar's cold war, she knew the only chance she had of winning was to declare war there and then and try to take some ground before my fleet could cross the ocean. Next thing I knew she had artillery and infantry pouring across her border and through mine (I had conquered the area of India and she was based in southeast Asia.) That little incursion didn't last long though, as I had mechs and a nuclear submarine on standby in the area in case they were needed in India or in case the Ottomans to the north had decided to invade. My bots made short work of her infantry and artillery, it was really like one of those futile soviet human wave tactics... Then I went ahead and nuked both of the cities I had just gifted her less than ten turns before. The conflict continued and several turns later, all of the Russian territory (south east Asia, again) was little more than fires, fallout, and towers of smoke. She had lost every city but Moscow which was on a peninsula. My mechs had the city surrounded and she had nothing left but said city. My fleet had long since arrived with battleships, nuclear submarines, and aircraft carriers which shelled it for several turns while I hunted down the last of her naval and worker units. Finally the city was attacked and captured. The last thing my "friend" Catherine ever saw were German mechs stomping through her burning countryside of mines and farms, land she was so certain would cease to be the boundaries of her empire, rather the heart of it some time later. ... Then I get the little diplomacy cut-scene and she's flirting about being my captive as she always does when defeated. Goddamn it Catherine you didn't have to start fucking thermonuclear world war if all you wanted was to pack it all in and move to Germany. Goes to show you, "bros before hoes." Gandhi had my back during the whole conflict and still does even after. With his help we've driven the Iroquois and their city state allies down into a tiny spit of land at the tip of South Africa where they can be more easily observed and contained.
Putin: What will it take to end this conflict?: Peace Treaty (10 turns) Peace with City-states (10 turns) 550 Gold 10 Gold per turn (10 turns) Mariupol Kharkiv
Catherine is a slippery one to play against. She forges lots of friendships and defensive pacts making it hard to get to her alone. She also wonder rushes every time and gets extremely angry if she can't finish them first, often declaring war and swiftly crushing any opposition.
@@user-zb4jk4zq8t I’m pretty much the preeminent builder of wonders in every game I play. I’ve probably made just about everyone a little bit mad but no one really seems to care overall. And Russia is ironically my greatest friend in my current game.
Man, the first time I heard this theme when I launched my final assault towards the final civ that was standing in the way of my domination victory. It really sounds like an impending doom.
You are not crazy, you are extremely sane about it, the music itself is about schemes and extreme power, "Montagnes and Capulets", it fits perfectly with Putin personality.
Just in case you're curious to what she says, it's roughly translated to: "You've mistaken my passion for a weakness, you'll regret about this." "Ты принял мою страсть за слабость, ты пожалеешь об этом."
time to bring back one of my favorite comments, as the original poster seems to have been persecuted by the youtube gestapo "you are an uncivilized brute... and it kinda turns me on!" *war declared*
As a gamer who has had his fair share of Civ 5 playthroughs, I can say with certainty that hearing this and being caught off-guard is a death sentence. Those who do not fear the unholy trinity of Attila, Genghis Khan, and Shaka are TERRIFIED of being attacked by Catherine.
If you're on the two hardest difficulties in this game and you hear this theme directed at you, you are going to lose the game and there is absolutely fuck all you can do about it.
I think of the Civ 5 leaders, she's one of the few who would genuinely punch you upon declaration of war, rather than saying "How rude.". DIdn't she also use to scrap sailors down at the docks for kicks IRL? One badass leader.
Greetings upon thee, Your Imperial Majesty Catherine, wondrous Empress of all the Russias. At your command lies the largest country in the world. Mighty Russia stretches from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Baltic Sea in the west. Despite wars, droughts, and every manner of disaster the heroic Russian people survive and prosper, their artists and scientists among the best in the world. The Empire today remains one of the strongest ever seen in human history - a true superpower, with the greatest destructive force ever devised at her command. Catherine, your people look to you to bring forth glorious days for Russia and her people, to revitalize the land and recapture the wonder of the Enlightenment. Will you lead your people once more into greatness? Can you build a civilization that will stand the test of time?
"You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings." - Catherine the Great
April 2, 2022 Putin: “What will it take to end this conflict?”: Peace Treaty (10 turns) Peace with City-states (10 turns) 550 Gold 10 Gold per turn (10 turns) Mariupol Kharkiv Zelensky: “We still have business to settle.”
Had a Poland playthrough where Catherine and Gandhi both declared war on each other, and I was all "Allrighty guys! While you're busy nuking the planet, I'm off to SPACE!"
_"Sees God's great wrath and waits for death. All is destroyed"_ _Oh god, Please say that my translation is wrong and that everything will be alright._
If you are still interested six years later, you are quite correct. The literal translation is not "death", but more like "punishment" or "plague", as "Plagues of Egypt". The lyrics are two fragments from "The Bronze Horseman" by Pushkin, but verses are repeated just for effect and some stresses are wrong. I tried to show how it sounds (translation of the poem by Yengeniy Bonver). City of Peter, just you shine City of Peter, just you shine City of Peter, just you shine And stand unshakable as Russia! Siege and assault! The evil waters Thrust into windows, like slaughters. The boats Siege and assault! The evil waters Thrust into windows, like slauthers. The boats The mad boats row into a glass. Row into a glass Row Row into a glass The stalls are under the wet mass. Under the wet The stalls are under the wet mass. The wrecks of huts, the logs, roofs’ pieces, The things, carried the pale want from, The bridges got away by storm, The coffins from the graveyards - float, Along the streets! Float, along the streats! Float, along the streats! The populace Sees God’s great wrath and waits for death. Sees God’s great wrath and waits for death. All is All is destroyed: bread and abode. All is destroyed: bread and abode. And abode All is destroyed Siege and assault! The evil waters Thrust into windows, like slaughters. Siege and assault! The evil waters Thrust into windows, like slaughters. Bread and abode Is destroyed Bread and abode All is destroyed, and how to live?
April 2, 2022 Putin: What will it take to end this conflict?: Peace Treaty (10 turns) Peace with City-states (10 turns) 550 Gold 10 Gold per turn (10 turns) Mariupol Kharkiv Zelensky: “We still have business to settle.”
Russia is the one civ that I am absolutely terrified of facing lategame in domination. The one time it happened, I was England, and the largest navy the world has ever seen was swiftly destroyed in a stroke of nuclear hellfire. Her immeasurable ground troops followed soon after. All I could do was watch. Don't fuck with Deity Russia, kids.
I remember my first game as Venice... I annexed two City States on the coast and I developed great and rich empire. If anyone attacked me, I paid Alexander to declare war on him. He helped me to survive two Japanese invasions. Suddenly, Inca and Russia declare war against me. Inca Empire was on another continent. But the Russian Empire was my close neighbour. Soon, airplanes, Cossacks and artillery began sieging my first City-State. I could only watch in horror how its health goes down and how it becomes a part of the Russian Empire.
И заложила бомбу замедленного действия под империю, дав из страха за свой трон и жизнь вольность дворянству, сделав их из главного служивого сословия паразитами. Не говоря о том что при ней угнетение крестьян достигло пика. Но да, для той эпохи абсолютизма она была идеальным правителем.
I had started with Catherine right next to me, she instantly coveted my lands. Fearing for my life I built up my army (On epic difficulty) I focused on military a lot, building up my forces waiting for her attack. Around turn 100 she finally attacked, I repelled her, took her second city and got her to fear the might of Japan. She begged for war to end, I complied and made her a vessel, a promise to protect her as it wouldn't be a good fight to have finished off her other few units after killing a army.
@@megaponful It is just our current political instability, the world will soon find another way to get fertilizer or wil make genetic enhancement on the crops to deal with it. This is not cutting edge technology and we or some country out there still have an industry to make it.
@@ShadowDwellerL Regardless Russia's economy is far more self-sufficient than most western economies, so funnily enough they actually suffer less than the west from a lot of these sanctions... The EU would be best off just telling America to go fuck itself, lift the sanctions on Russia and become neutral in this whole geopolitical conflict, and while now this isn't happening, I think a winter when several EU countries will freeze their asses in unheated homes might push them in that direction. Europe is self-sabotaging its own economies by supporting US geopolitical interests in Ukraine over Russia's, so hopefully it will eventually see reason and just push for peace on Russia's terms as opposed to further esxalation as they are doing now...
"Never start a land war in Russia."
--Europa Universalis III loading screen
"...Unless you are the Mongols."
--John Green
+General Luigi Mongols cheated and came from the east.
+General Luigi +1 this freaking gent
+General Luigi or Poles. Or Vikings.
But the Poles cheated using some fake Dmytr for a few time lol
"She's beautiful, she's rich, she's got huge... tracts of land. "
By the way, she was in history a dissolute and often changed lovers without paying attention to their origin. If she liked you, she could call to her for a while, and when she get bored, she says goodbye and gives money)
@@neyt9699 Ei. That sounds fun. At least you get a shit load of compensation for your heartbreak. And few people can claim that he once had a tumble with the Tsarina! You'd be a folk hero for the longest time
Ugly ass face she got like when she become mad
@@someorclad9738 And you’d get a scorching case of the clap along with the payout.
@@neyt9699лично свечку держал, что так утверждаешь??
"I see your army massing near my border"
Russia: "Our troops are merely passing by"
Pretty accurate months ago.
Ukraine: “A likely story.”
Now Russian troops are massing near Moldova and along Finland border, they will make excuse again about "our troops just passing by" like me in civ 6 and then strike when opportunity is ripe
Except its the Americans building military bases all around the world.
@@keijiyoshida6283 Found one.
'you so hot when you're angry'
famous last words as a hoard of cossaks arrive from the horizon
And then the winged hussars arrived.
And you know they'll come from the mountainside.
she's my fav leader when I'm trading, she always gives me good deals! cyka blyat!
Oh... maybe that's what my baby gave me this face and this music started playing... I'm so sorry Cathy.
This was the first civ I played on this game, I was new, i met India, who I didn't even know would go nuke happy, I built roads to my farms, and when a city state asked me to take over another city state, I declared war to punish them, then I made peace with them when Gandhi requested, then I declared war again when they asked me to take over a city state a second time, then I got into eternal warfare and pre-industrial India denounced me, I was a noob in every definition of the word.
Dear lord, I thought her peace theme was intimidating enough.
It's Russia
Catherine II (Екатерина II) was a ruthless conqueror, and she overthrew her husband via a coup, so yeah, well deserving of being intimidating.
@@MalevolentSpirit234 well, to be fair he deserved it
@@MalevolentSpirit234 I disagree with the ruthless conquering she did not do anything that other rulers wernt the British in India until the 40s were oppressed and French indochinese, She brought Russia into a golden age and the modern age for the time though she has her flaws she was no worse then Maria Threasa, Louis XVI and George the III
@@MalevolentSpirit234 and when it comes to Peter the III it wasn't her idea to overthrow him in fact it was the brother of her lover at the time who came up with it, and alot of Russians supported it because Peter was a bad ruler and hated Russia so inturn Russia hated him
"You are an uncivilized brute...
And it kinda turns me on!"
*War Declared*
+Mangs "Is it the money I have that turns you on?" -Enrico
+Mangs In reality as a Russian she is saying "You have been behaving badly"
Me: Oh? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+UaruGaming That's kinky as fuck.
+Mangs WHO SAID THAT
Not gonna lie, read that in Marbozir's voice for some reason. I think I need therapy
Fun fuct. The lyrics in this melody are lines from the poem "The Bronze Horseman". A tragic story about a poor man going mad who lost his beloved during a flood in St. Petersburg.
may you remind what part of that poem they are singing
@@drcatsville4467
I could understand the following ones:
Красуйся, град Петров х3
и стой неколебимо, как Россия,
[Shine, the Peter's city,
and stand unshakeable as Russia]
Осада! приступ! Злые волны х2
Как воры, лезут в окна. Челны
С разбега стекла бьют кормой.
[Assault! Alarm! Fierce waves are breaking
Like thieves into the houses. Snaking
Adrift, boats buffet, smashing panes.]
The thing gets repeated several times; and than at 1:42 starts something that's clearly not from the bronze horseman "развесёлые, простые, расписные" ["merry, common, decorated"], and although it sounds Pushkinish because of trochee, it seems it's not even Pushkin anyway. And it's very hard to guess at this point.
Anyway, after 2:40 we have
Народ зрит божий гнев и казни ждет.
Увы! Все гибнет: кров и пища!
Где будет взять?
[___The people fear
God’s judgement, for the signs are clear:
No food, no shelter; unavailing
Their cries for help.___]
At 3:08 we have the windows passage again and then the God's wrath plagues
Got them from www.tyutchev.org.uk/Download/Bronze%20Horseman.pdf
@@matchety Reninds me of the The Plagues song number from the Prince of Egypt. No wonder!
My God! It has lyrics! I never knew
@@matchety
Actually, from 1.42 there goes:
Пожитки бледной нищеты,
Грозой снесенные мосты,
Гроба с размытого кладбища
Плывут по улицам! (repeated)
Belongins of pale beggars,
Bridges broken by thunder,
Coffins from cemetery washed away
Flow by the streets!
Last thing Peter III heard before getting couped:
Playing as Poland, joined the Songhai in declaring war on Russia.
I just sent 1 knight near their border after a long time of doing nothing, and she surrendered, giving me St Petersburg.
Of course, that and all my other warmongering had completely destroyed my happiness at that point, so I stopped declaring war for a while to rebuild.
During that time, the Songhai and Inca declared war on Russia again without asking me to join. The Inca didn't do anything, but the Songhai sent a massive army through St Petersburg, into what's left of Russia. Thought that was going to be it.
Until the massive Songhai army returned, heavily damaged and retreating back to hide behind my border.
Then Catherine asked me to declare friendship with her, before almost immediately asking for an open border agreement.
Now I'm sitting there laughing my ass off as the Russian army passes my border to chase the Songhai army back across the continent.
lol karma
Sooooooo.... I may have just consumed the Ottomans, Songhai, Russia, Korea, and Mongolia all in 1 war.
Now it's just France, Morocco, and the Inca watching in horror, while I'm actually going for a space victory.
bobmcbob49 *ximicacan intensifies*
Tis called the Curse of the Slavs an old Russian fable about if an enemy slayed there leaders, took there land, and killed the people how the blood of their dead would rise up twice as strong for every man the enemy killed and drag the enemy to hell with them
you're a legend
This music made me immediately regret declaring war on her.
Her peace theme is more bellicose than many cultures ' war music.
i did it and she nuked me in a heartbeat
When it came to the information era our borders met. I also saw a uranium pocket close to her borders so I plunked a city there to deny her Uranium. When it came to war I lost due to her millions of marines/ attack choppers. They were fucking everywhere. *EVERYWHERE*
Joseph Stalin Hello Stalin. How's the air in Hell? :D
Joseph Stalin That's what uranium is for. Nothing cleans up an army better than a nuke.
Eragon Aelendîl you mean communist heaven?
+Deus Paligorius more like totalitarian heaven
bernardobiritiki and the difference is?
Catherine + Autocracy = Fallout 4
Emperor Palpatine + Autocracy = Alderran (Death Star)
Gandhi + Democracy = Fallout 4
Gandhi + AI = Fallout 4
catherine+horse= ?
Russia never gets Autocraty! Because im from Russia
That double uranium bonus can be really powerful lategame.
Mattias Djärv It would be, had Gandhi not decided to nuke everyone the *INSTANT* he created Manhattan Project.
Servant Archer That's why you rush it so you can nuke him before he nukes you.
Mattias Djärv You cant rush the Manhattan Project
***** Create more units early on, and exploit you Civ's ability to the max, I ended having Spain and Carthage in my pocket once due to the fact that I have more nukes than all other civ's combined.
Mattias Djärv In my game Japan had taken over half of the world map. I took over almost the entire civilization in less than 20 turns with minor losses due to a MASSIVE army of death robots, artillery, nukes and stealth bombers.
This song sounds like the end of the world has just begun.
+Rumia Scarlet
Nukes just start raining down.
+ReDleGiThacK The Immortal's Bots and Pro players think that they can mess with RUSSIA.SHOW THEM TRUE POWER OF RUSSIAN EMPIREDamn i love this ost=)
+Rumia Or the lady in the dress is possessed by the Omen.
+Sunrise Shine 273 and both are irrelevant at this point
+Sunrise Shine 273 map japan got smashed by the Russians in ww2. it was humiliation
The most interesting thing is not the fact that she is a great leader of the Russian Empire... But the fact that she is a Prussian general's daughter and a princess of Anhalt.
+CottonPanzer Yekaterina, or Catherine, is not even her personal name.
+CottonPanzer Want to know Russian history? Look it in Germany ;)
I love how much Germany influenced Russia. First a line of monarchs and then Marx and Lenin.
its called monarchy )
Urkaim No, it's called outsourcing :P
The video is mislabeled. It is supposed to say Civilization V OST | Game Over Theme
PenguinJusticeMedia Unless of course you're playing as Poland and you declare war first! Then you just charge in with your winged hussars! :)
+rct3terminator1000 reverse history
You charge in with your winged hussars to find that they already have tanks...
Tip: don't let her to reach the modern age. If you get 1 of uranium, she can get 2, and if she choose Autocracy, then she can get 4. So, if you get 1 of Uranium, you can build an atomic bomb, but she can build 2 nuclear missiles or 4 atomic bombs.
Arabia: "That's cute" *looks at giant tank, ship, and aircraft army*
the Atomic Age to be precise...
When I wrote that, i was playing the first civilization V which did not have atomic age, not the expansion
Muhammad Irfan Muzhaffar Darmawan Not everyone has BNW.
Or 4 Humongous MECHAS!
We fucked up.
Turkey will be hearing this soon at this rate.
+TheDjqubi Haha, good one.
+Disappointed Turtle Take your damn upvote!
+Disappointed Turtle ,too bad,it is not soviet anymore ;)
I don't hope. I from Turkey. 🇹🇷
Now It seems like you'll be hearing the ceddin deden theme along with this one.
*The literal winter has declared war on you*
I play as the Russians as my main civ and whenever I hear this war theme I feel like I'm winning even when I'm losing!
This comment aged like fine wine.
@@evanshirley6089 Indeed... XD
Hey this isn't Russia's war theme-its Russia's special military operation theme!
@@volodymyrromanenko7165 chto s ebalom )
lol
Maybe In Medieval
@@volodymyrromanenko7165 Контрнаступил контрнаступ то?
she is the only one who smile when losing for some odd reason
Because she expects to have a bedchamber wrestling with you when you've hold her captive.
what a perv. I don't take prisoners if I were the one to rule my own empire in the game. Declaring war on me is the last mistake people does.
Foxforch OR....she might kill you in bed.
it is a reference to the real history, i think she died having sex with a horse if i remember it right
Maybe that's because there's an achievement in the game that is named ''My Little Pony'' when you research Horseback Riding before anyone else as Russia :P
My experience with this character below.
It broke my heart when she betrayed me. I rescued her and Gandhi when Egypt and Britain had them both hammered back into their final couple cities. I sent workers into her territory to build up her infrastructure, liberate her cities and gifted them back, gifted her gold and resources as well. I did this for her and Gandhi both.
For most of the game, near start until after winning they were both my closest and only real allies. Meanwhile Caesar and I were at the height of a cold war. We directly bordered each other and had a massive military build up just a space or two away from each other. Both of us had Nuclear weapons armed and ready, fleets standing off with each other.
The Iroquois decided to attack Gandhi and so a war in the African Continent started. Dozens of turns later Caesar finally backed down and I was able to begin shipping my massive sea fleet towards Africa to help my ground forces fight the Iroquois. Catherine who had been all smiles and friendly suddenly declared war on me and bluntly said something about not seeing any other, better way to show her deceptive ways and even though the odds were against her it would be war.
It's kind of surreal how the AI thinks in this game. It's a coincidence I'm sure, but it seems like the moment she realized my fleet and nuclear weapons were no longer tied up with Caesar's cold war, she knew the only chance she had of winning was to declare war there and then and try to take some ground before my fleet could cross the ocean.
Next thing I knew she had artillery and infantry pouring across her border and through mine (I had conquered the area of India and she was based in southeast Asia.) That little incursion didn't last long though, as I had mechs and a nuclear submarine on standby in the area in case they were needed in India or in case the Ottomans to the north had decided to invade.
My bots made short work of her infantry and artillery, it was really like one of those futile soviet human wave tactics... Then I went ahead and nuked both of the cities I had just gifted her less than ten turns before.
The conflict continued and several turns later, all of the Russian territory (south east Asia, again) was little more than fires, fallout, and towers of smoke. She had lost every city but Moscow which was on a peninsula. My mechs had the city surrounded and she had nothing left but said city. My fleet had long since arrived with battleships, nuclear submarines, and aircraft carriers which shelled it for several turns while I hunted down the last of her naval and worker units.
Finally the city was attacked and captured. The last thing my "friend" Catherine ever saw were German mechs stomping through her burning countryside of mines and farms, land she was so certain would cease to be the boundaries of her empire, rather the heart of it some time later.
... Then I get the little diplomacy cut-scene and she's flirting about being my captive as she always does when defeated.
Goddamn it Catherine you didn't have to start fucking thermonuclear world war if all you wanted was to pack it all in and move to Germany. Goes to show you, "bros before hoes." Gandhi had my back during the whole conflict and still does even after. With his help we've driven the Iroquois and their city state allies down into a tiny spit of land at the tip of South Africa where they can be more easily observed and contained.
***** I read it all, you uncultured swine.
But Gandhi is an asshole too.
***** Yeah. If you somehow piss him off. He's pretty peaceful all things considered. Just don't let him get close to the Atomic Era
Hector the Third I am fairly new to the game and Gandhi appears to be a huge piece of shit in one of these games.
Huh that's almost like my experience except I wasn't playing as Germany
"Don't let Ghandi get ze nuke!"
*Conquers India*
*Sees 8 uranium in Russia's borders*
"Scheiße!"
When you forget the bae's birthday.
I see all man of culture returning to hear this tune in February 24th
Putin:
What will it take to end this conflict?:
Peace Treaty (10 turns)
Peace with City-states (10 turns)
550 Gold
10 Gold per turn (10 turns)
Mariupol
Kharkiv
@@ArmyJames Ukraine has rejected the peace offer
No one can conquer Russia in the winter....
Unless you are the Mongols.
Good one, you watch Crash course?
andreas-daniel Martonosy Everyone does.
Except the mongols.
Mr. Worldwide Mongols are always the exception.
Ever heard about Winter war
Wohvelivoro It was part of WW2, and Russia won this one...
Of course, it's up to popular opinion, but yeah, only the mongols are the exception
Winter is Coming...
nuclear winter
Kahleesi Theodora Mother of Dromons.
The winter is near
A Russian Winter...
Dangit Ghengis, where are you?!?!?
When the Red Army choir start singing, things just got real.
@Ottoman empire en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrov_Ensemble
This ain't red army you uncultured swine
*Angry Russian Imperial Army noises*
@@SithEmpiredidnothingwrong YES
white army*
Perfect for this moment February 24th 2022
As if her peace theme wasn't menacing enough
SHITT HERE WE GO AGAIN
Yeah... It looks like this theme will be playing again now
Hey leave the great Catherine alone. She and i have conquered the world many times.
She Zerg rushed me with marines. All I wanted was that one odd uranium pocket.
👌
Welp. Back to this video again due to current events.
Can't fathom why I felt compelled to search for this
Catherine is a slippery one to play against. She forges lots of friendships and defensive pacts making it hard to get to her alone. She also wonder rushes every time and gets extremely angry if she can't finish them first, often declaring war and swiftly crushing any opposition.
You described me playing civilization lol
@@user-zb4jk4zq8t same lol. taking wonders I want by force xDD
@@user-zb4jk4zq8t I’m pretty much the preeminent builder of wonders in every game I play. I’ve probably made just about everyone a little bit mad but no one really seems to care overall. And Russia is ironically my greatest friend in my current game.
Ты описал внешнюю политику нашей страны в целом - в духе ваших США, разхреначит любую оппозицию и мало союзников.
Their music makes them appear sinister. Even the peace tune makes them look like their planning something very bad.
***** Ahem? Rape?
WAR DECLARED
Man, the first time I heard this theme when I launched my final assault towards the final civ that was standing in the way of my domination victory. It really sounds like an impending doom.
When I read about Putin invading Ukraine I remembered this music immediately. Maybe I'm crazy
You are not crazy, you are extremely sane about it, the music itself is about schemes and extreme power, "Montagnes and Capulets", it fits perfectly with Putin personality.
Apr 2, 2022
Putin: “I know when the end is near. What will take to end hostilities?”
Zelensky: “We still have business to settle.”
@@ArmyJames ironically, but Russia win
@@ArmyJames ugomonis hohlinka
@@Iip353 They win the battles but not the war yet, the war still ongoing.
Germans: “We successfully invaded Russia! Wait why do we hear boss music?”
Wrong Time
This is the world theme now
Just in case you're curious to what she says, it's roughly translated to: "You've mistaken my passion for a weakness, you'll regret about this."
"Ты принял мою страсть за слабость, ты пожалеешь об этом."
I love how this plays even when you get a Scientific Victory. It really enhances the sight of that space station and the ending narration.
This song can be heard all across Ukraine right now
This song is awesome at the same time it is terrifying
@Українська Паляниця Ukraine is historically just a province of the Russian Empire.
@@ArmyJames Russia is historically just a part of the Golden Horde.
@@batyakhmel1674 The Golden Horde went cyrillic
@@batyakhmel1674 I’m Genghis Khan, and I approve this message.
POV: You are Ukraine
nuclear war
Lol , now russians are retreating. I guess Ukrainian tech tree was more advanced , and they had better combat units.
@@tzeentch7900 I don't see Ukrainian get upper hand anymore. They totally lost.
@@HikaruFX12645 no, you not right
@@tzeentch7900 Ukropium is a dangerous copium, my friend.
time to bring back one of my favorite comments, as the original poster seems to have been persecuted by the youtube gestapo
"you are an uncivilized brute...
and it kinda turns me on!"
*war declared*
As a gamer who has had his fair share of Civ 5 playthroughs, I can say with certainty that hearing this and being caught off-guard is a death sentence. Those who do not fear the unholy trinity of Attila, Genghis Khan, and Shaka are TERRIFIED of being attacked by Catherine.
If you're on the two hardest difficulties in this game and you hear this theme directed at you, you are going to lose the game and there is absolutely fuck all you can do about it.
Tell that to Ghandi.
Занудный Лис
His words are backed by nuclear weapons, I'm sure.
Or Marbozir...
"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat"
"You've been a naughty naughty boy!"
I can have an image of a polish crying in the corner.
Cheeki Breeki Intensifies.
What is Cheeki Breeki?
@@Spino2Earth Iv damke.
@@helio3928 ???
@@Spino2Earth Go to gulag.
@@Spino2Earth
_Search it up_
When Russia declare war on your cultural city state ally
Ah yes, Kiev was indeed a city state in Civ V XD
This is an American Soundtrack of a Russian piece, about an English book about Italian people.
Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.
Невероятная песня!
I think of the Civ 5 leaders, she's one of the few who would genuinely punch you upon declaration of war, rather than saying "How rude.". DIdn't she also use to scrap sailors down at the docks for kicks IRL? One badass leader.
Greetings upon thee, Your Imperial Majesty Catherine, wondrous Empress of all the Russias.
At your command lies the largest country in the world.
Mighty Russia stretches from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Baltic Sea in the west.
Despite wars, droughts, and every manner of disaster the heroic Russian people survive and prosper, their artists and scientists among the best in the world.
The Empire today remains one of the strongest ever seen in human history - a true superpower, with the greatest destructive force ever devised at her command.
Catherine, your people look to you to bring forth glorious days for Russia and her people, to revitalize the land and recapture the wonder of the Enlightenment.
Will you lead your people once more into greatness?
Can you build a civilization that will stand the test of time?
That aged well like goat milk
"You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings." - Catherine the Great
When Russia declares "Special Military Operation" on you...
Да, специальную военную операцию. Потому что вам лучше не знать что происходит когда Россия объявляет войну.
_Oh shit_
Volodya's coming in hot now. Sheeeeit
@@fairy_polumna О, и что же произойдёт? Россия отдаст Воронеж?
@@revosrevos Кое что похуже... для всего мира
I'm not here for any particular reason, move along...
Putin's theme when he annexed Crimea.
+British Imperialist and without a single shot fired
+jack peam Sounds pretty fuckin CIV style to me.
+British Imperialist Putin didn't conquer Crimea. Crimea's people voted, what country should be Russia or Ukraine. They're voted-Russia.
Cool Guy In a rigged election. And Crimea was part of Ukraine-you cannot just start a referendum to annex some other country's land.
***** Serbia was on a genocidal war path. Ukraine is not. The situations are completely different.
POV: Russia declared war on you
When you piss off a Russian in CSGO
I don't know why but every time I declare war on russia my weapons start Stallin
Then start Putin up more defenses.
Polelek Steam
they are preparing to Marx towards my borders
Atragon Frost Ask switzerland to be lenin you money
These puns are Sochisey
Kruschev them.
POV: You're Stanisław August Poniatowski and you forgot to send flowers to your bae
Relevant
What Turkey hears right now...
I from Turkey. I don't heard this song. 🇹🇷
Kiev and America almost receiving this theme now people.
@Idk Idk Whatever, this game will not end well for anyone anyway.
April 2, 2022
Putin:
“What will it take to end this conflict?”:
Peace Treaty (10 turns)
Peace with City-states (10 turns)
550 Gold
10 Gold per turn (10 turns)
Mariupol
Kharkiv
Zelensky: “We still have business to settle.”
+ all Horses, all Iron, all Uranium, make peace with DPR, make peace with LPR.
@@HorusHeresist I would take that deal, because that’s the best deal Zelensky is ever going to get.
"Keep grinding the enemy and nibbling at the provinces until everything is occupied. "
Literally, Winter is coming...
Well then.
Ukraine be hearing this right now.
Missing the scream of "GOIDAAAA" in the background
GOOOOOOOAL
Had a Poland playthrough where Catherine and Gandhi both declared war on each other, and I was all
"Allrighty guys! While you're busy nuking the planet, I'm off to SPACE!"
Ghandi: nuking intensifies
Catherine: Double uranium intensifies
P-Ball That Mofo from South-East Asia
Silly Polan, yuo cannot into space.
Lol cold war
Escaping one to the one place not corrupted by capitalism, eh?
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
_"Sees God's great wrath and waits for death. All is destroyed"_
_Oh god, Please say that my translation is wrong and that everything will be alright._
If you are still interested six years later, you are quite correct. The literal translation is not "death", but more like "punishment" or "plague", as "Plagues of Egypt".
The lyrics are two fragments from "The Bronze Horseman" by Pushkin, but verses are repeated just for effect and some stresses are wrong. I tried to show how it sounds (translation of the poem by Yengeniy Bonver).
City of Peter, just you shine
City of Peter, just you shine
City of Peter, just you shine
And stand unshakable as Russia!
Siege and assault! The evil waters
Thrust into windows, like slaughters.
The boats
Siege and assault! The evil waters
Thrust into windows, like slauthers.
The boats
The mad boats row into a glass.
Row into a glass
Row
Row into a glass
The stalls are under the wet mass.
Under the wet
The stalls are under the wet mass.
The wrecks of huts, the logs, roofs’ pieces,
The things, carried the pale want from,
The bridges got away by storm,
The coffins from the graveyards - float,
Along the streets!
Float, along the streats!
Float, along the streats!
The populace
Sees God’s great wrath and waits for death.
Sees God’s great wrath and waits for death.
All is
All is destroyed: bread and abode.
All is destroyed: bread and abode.
And abode
All is destroyed
Siege and assault! The evil waters
Thrust into windows, like slaughters.
Siege and assault! The evil waters
Thrust into windows, like slaughters.
Bread and abode
Is destroyed
Bread and abode
All is destroyed, and how to live?
"You will pay for this in time" - Ukraine
April 2, 2022
Putin:
What will it take to end this conflict?:
Peace Treaty (10 turns)
Peace with City-states (10 turns)
550 Gold
10 Gold per turn (10 turns)
Mariupol
Kharkiv
Zelensky: “We still have business to settle.”
@@ArmyJames absolute Chad
Russia is the one civ that I am absolutely terrified of facing lategame in domination. The one time it happened, I was England, and the largest navy the world has ever seen was swiftly destroyed in a stroke of nuclear hellfire.
Her immeasurable ground troops followed soon after. All I could do was watch.
Don't fuck with Deity Russia, kids.
I like how they put actual cultural consideration into these soundtracks. very well done, for a western video game developer
This song ended pretty early when I was the Huns.
I remember my first game as Venice... I annexed two City States on the coast and I developed great and rich empire. If anyone attacked me, I paid Alexander to declare war on him. He helped me to survive two Japanese invasions. Suddenly, Inca and Russia declare war against me. Inca Empire was on another continent. But the Russian Empire was my close neighbour. Soon, airplanes, Cossacks and artillery began sieging my first City-State. I could only watch in horror how its health goes down and how it becomes a part of the Russian Empire.
Один из великих правителей России.Надрала зад, кому только можно и увеличила территорию империи.Подняла образование и экономику.
И заложила бомбу замедленного действия под империю, дав из страха за свой трон и жизнь вольность дворянству, сделав их из главного служивого сословия паразитами. Не говоря о том что при ней угнетение крестьян достигло пика. Но да, для той эпохи абсолютизма она была идеальным правителем.
So how are those 10 tundra cities working out for you Cathy?
Siberian Riches baby!
Civilization V russian special military operation theme
They should add the "Declare Special Operation" option to the next civ
Gives me major World at War vibes
When you're being bullied but your older brother is a KGB agent.
All we are missing is Sgt. Reznov leading an army of Russians over the hills towards whatever enemy that faces them.
If Civilization had a final boss...
This theme would fit it perfectly.
Not kidding about the size of the "mind" of Catherine :D
The theme of my nearly failed degree...
Same
I had started with Catherine right next to me, she instantly coveted my lands. Fearing for my life I built up my army (On epic difficulty) I focused on military a lot, building up my forces waiting for her attack. Around turn 100 she finally attacked, I repelled her, took her second city and got her to fear the might of Japan. She begged for war to end, I complied and made her a vessel, a promise to protect her as it wouldn't be a good fight to have finished off her other few units after killing a army.
This is exactly what Volodomir Zelensky heard today around 6am
This is scary. I love it.
This is the song which plays when a girl enters her period.
correction: this is the song that plays when mother Russia is on her period
Anyone here for Ukraine?
When it's the 450th turn and you still haven't taken Kyiv
Why tho, if you can make the whole world hungry?
@@hachijospaniard5643 Most of the world discovered fertilizers already. And Brazil have fertile lands do deal with it.
@@ShadowDwellerL not really. The sanctions are still hurting us alot and we still cannot replenish to cover the loss of fertilizer.
@@megaponful It is just our current political instability, the world will soon find another way to get fertilizer or wil make genetic enhancement on the crops to deal with it. This is not cutting edge technology and we or some country out there still have an industry to make it.
@@ShadowDwellerL Regardless Russia's economy is far more self-sufficient than most western economies, so funnily enough they actually suffer less than the west from a lot of these sanctions...
The EU would be best off just telling America to go fuck itself, lift the sanctions on Russia and become neutral in this whole geopolitical conflict, and while now this isn't happening, I think a winter when several EU countries will freeze their asses in unheated homes might push them in that direction. Europe is self-sabotaging its own economies by supporting US geopolitical interests in Ukraine over Russia's, so hopefully it will eventually see reason and just push for peace on Russia's terms as opposed to further esxalation as they are doing now...
Wrath of the Ice Queen