The Scouting Builder strategy. A truly inspired tactic, honed over countless hours of playtime. Why, with a single builder, you can defeat an entire total of -1 Barbarians!
is it just me or does this game just ramp up the barbarians in the early game way to bloody high? its like you're forced to pound to archery right off or you're dead.
@@mrnobody-unowen I just realized what your name is and it reminded me of an encounter with my dad on New Year's Eve. He went on a tangent about how Abe Lincoln didn't wear top hats, but that he instead wore stovepipe hats, even though they are the same thing. So thank you for letting me relive that amusing time with family.
@Banana Bee Well, to be fair, they did remove/downgrade quite a few features with Civ 6 when you compare it to Civ 5 with expansions. Unfortunately many game series tend to become more shallow over time. The first game allowed you to melt the polar ice caps and cause global flooding. I wish they'd bring that back.
For now, this is a one-off preview, as the game isn't out yet. I'd potentially be open to doing a bit more, though, as I bloody love Mali's gold focus.
@@ManyATrueNerd Ah right thanks for clearing that up. I agree that Mali might just be the most fun civ for people like us who like to make money. I for one would love to see a full playthrough of Mali where your goal isn't to win but to make as much money as physically possible.
@@ManyATrueNerd if you do continue this, there is cattle down the island, wich means you can build the great zimbabwe ther, wich makes trade routes from the city it is built in ridicoulus
they are technically the pyramids of Niani, and thats only about 5000 km or 3200 miles of where they are supposed to be so yes, not ''a million miles of'' :)
There’s a TH-cam channel called Extra Credits and they have an Extra History series and they did a little series on Mali. A very good watch they’re entertaining and informative
In the base Civ VI, Toronto existed as a City State. Is it still a City State in this expansion? Is it possible to have 2 Torontos fighting each other? If Toronto annexes Toronto, does it become the Greater Toronto, and does the area around it become the Greater Toronto Area?
Actually I believe Mexico City took the place of Toronto, not Buenos Aires (which was already a city state and has their bonus resource gives amenity bonus). And yes it's also weird having Mexico City and Aztec's capital in the game at the same time.
See, this is how you do survival and/or realism; as fun and possibly educational game mechanics! Look alive game companies, some who may begin with the letter 'B'!
If you can fit it in to the backlog of many games that many people want you to spend many hours playing, it'd be cool to see this comeback once its released!
When he went on a hadj (pilgrimage to Mecca) he literally crashed the economy of Egypt due to how much gold he spent and gave away during his journey. This guy was so rich he singlehandedly bankrupted one of the most important nations in the medieval islamic world. I've not even seen Crassus do that.
- Lives on fertile flood plains in the desert - Builds pyramids - Worships a cat Face it, Jon, you're just Egypt in disguise. P.S: As an Ottawan, I am not at all surprised you thought Toronto was Canada's capital. It really _should_ be the capital.
There is a discount right now on steam, if I buy the base game and the gathering storm DLC will it also come with the rise and fall updates or whatever you call it??
Did they fix Poundmaker in this update? Som of his relatives complained that the only real possible win condition was a quoncuest one and Poundmaker was a well known peacemaker.
Commenter from the future here. Poundmaker wound up being one of the weaker civs unfortunately. I'm not sure if they ever addressed this particular complaint, but his only real perk is that he's kinda good at trade? But like, not that good, and there are several better trade civs that also have bonuses towards win conditions. They're supposedly done balancing the game now, which is a shame because Poundmaker is one of 5-6 civs that really could have used a rework / buff.
Actually I think you needed 2 of the same resource to make most stuff that required a certain resource. Now it looks like strategic resources work more like they did in Civ 5.
Mali seems extremely OP early game if you can get a good roll on starting location. That extra gold will be game-changing as you won't have to worry as much about maintenance costs for units/districts/etc. and can buy your way through military units. Unless it's balanced in a way that isn't shown in the video? It's been a while since I've played.
On higher difficulties Mali is definitely hit or miss as the game is very production-focused. In the early game most AI will try to gangbang you and if you can't build a capable army fast enough you'll be done for. Mali can be quite good however if there are no AI terribly close by and you get lucky with the terrain around your starting location.
4 gold=1 prod, you don't have any bonus prod early, huge penality for producing things, and a desert start, with no production. The one thing you get early as Mali is food and faith. So, for me, no, not op at all. Maybe in the end they can snowball, but the early seems so harsh
As someone who enjoys Mali a lot, he had an incredibly lucky start here. Kilimanjaro is arguably the strongest wonder for early game, and when you have it offsetting the inherent crappiness of desert tiles, you have a start so OP I'm suspicious he created it in the game editor lol. Plus like a ton of mines around. Pretty much the perfect Mali start.
I’m curious why you didn’t choose Dido. Her mechanics are really cool and the history behind the Phoenicians seems like something you’d know a lot about
Oh, the whole shifting capital thing to guarantee loyalty, and then aggressively forward settling is great, but I love playing with a gold-focus anyway, so a gold-civ is just my thing.
50 bucks says the real Mansa Musa also said verbatim "darn, I coulda bought a religion, I probably should have done that but oh well" as he was setting out on his Mecca pilgrimage to raise his profile with those peasant sultans of the north
Fun fact: Mansa Musa was so rich he basically made gold worthless during his pilgrimage to Mecca because he handed out so much (not a joke, 100% truth)
Rivers and wonders have proper names on the map now. That’s new and cool!
The Scouting Builder strategy. A truly inspired tactic, honed over countless hours of playtime.
Why, with a single builder, you can defeat an entire total of -1 Barbarians!
is it just me or does this game just ramp up the barbarians in the early game way to bloody high? its like you're forced to pound to archery right off or you're dead.
@@BradTheAmerican It's great: It let's peaceful civs have at least one big-ish enemy to poke with the stabby end.
Jon loves just laying out roads. He's the best at laying out roads. One might even say that he's the Colossus of Roads.
Nibmeister You didn’t.
@@mrnobody-unowen He did
BradTheAmerican We are not amused.
@@mrnobody-unowen I just realized what your name is and it reminded me of an encounter with my dad on New Year's Eve. He went on a tangent about how Abe Lincoln didn't wear top hats, but that he instead wore stovepipe hats, even though they are the same thing. So thank you for letting me relive that amusing time with family.
😱😱😱😱👏👏👏👏
Jon, Ottawa is the capital of Canada, Toronto is the capital of the Ontario province. Is ok Jon, there are still Canadian messed the capital
Kevin yuan the fuck is an ottayway?
Like Jon! (he's sort of canadian)
@@ludvigsaflund1446
Oooh. Oh. This might take longer than 50 turns.
@@ludvigsaflund1446 imagine the manifestion of Canada in a singular city. You can eat syrup off snow without anyone batting an eye.
Ludvig Säflund Ottawa is Algonquin for "to trade". A lot of Canadian places have native names.
Rice? Copper? Inland? Fuck that's MY last start lol
"OH and a great pile of ERA score becau....shut up Sean Bean!" that was great.
Whoa...Civilization has become so much more complex and intriguing! I have to try it! :)
It hasn't and you don't
@Banana Bee Well, to be fair, they did remove/downgrade quite a few features with Civ 6 when you compare it to Civ 5 with expansions. Unfortunately many game series tend to become more shallow over time. The first game allowed you to melt the polar ice caps and cause global flooding. I wish they'd bring that back.
... that's literally what Gathering Storm is about...
@@PatriotArro ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Quick fact: when on a pilgrimage mansa musa gave out so much gold he crashed the gold market
Another quick fact, his predecessor disappeared attempting a Trans-Atlantic voyage with over 3,000 vessels.
*Mansa Musa
My Canadian pride will not let this go. The special building for Canada should just be a Hockey Rink. NO ONE in Canada calls it Ice Hockey.
"Their unique unit is Those Guys In Red Who Ride A Moose Or Whatever, who gain bonus strength when adjacent to maple syrup"
Gads not sure the British Marines called themselves redcoats either.
@@ManyATrueNerd That's racist.
Best way to train a Canadian soldier for war? Tell them the other country has the puck
@@JoshuaKevinPerry Cut him some slack, he himself is half Canadian.
Wow this new expansion looks amazing. Hope this can become a new series!
🎵"Civilization..... I'll stay right here!" 🎵
I Dont want to leave the mali Oh no no no noo...lol
You make me play fallout again
So is this a new series or just a dlc show off vid
For now, this is a one-off preview, as the game isn't out yet. I'd potentially be open to doing a bit more, though, as I bloody love Mali's gold focus.
I would really like a gathering storm series as either episodes or livestreams
@@ManyATrueNerd Ah right thanks for clearing that up. I agree that Mali might just be the most fun civ for people like us who like to make money. I for one would love to see a full playthrough of Mali where your goal isn't to win but to make as much money as physically possible.
@@ManyATrueNerd I'd love if it potentially became a longer series a la CKII
@@ManyATrueNerd if you do continue this, there is cattle down the island, wich means you can build the great zimbabwe ther, wich makes trade routes from the city it is built in ridicoulus
More Civ and MATN? Two of my favourite things? Yes please!
Jon it’s nice to see that they finally added in America’s top hat to civ.
I don't play Civ myself, but I always love your Civ series.
Ohhhh my god, I want this to be a series so badly
they are technically the pyramids of Niani, and thats only about 5000 km or 3200 miles of where they are supposed to be so yes, not ''a million miles of'' :)
YES, I hope this is the new series you were talking about.
Was hoping you made this a series. Civilization is great.
I love the idea of Mali bragging about their horses to everyone but really they're riding deers
I just love your speaking style, your exclamations, etc. Very entertaining, as well as informative! Thanks.
fun fact mansa musa had so much gold that when he spent some on his travels he destoryed the economy of the town he was visiting
I need more of this in my life.
There’s a TH-cam channel called Extra Credits and they have an Extra History series and they did a little series on Mali. A very good watch they’re entertaining and informative
Extra Credit did a series on Mali and this Leader. Worth the time less then 10 minutes each I believe.
I love this! Probably my favorite GS Let’s Play I’ve seen so far. EP 2?
I would LOVE to see more of this once Gathering Storm officially arrives! :)
this was literally the perfect start location for Mali
Would like to see more of this run. Quite fun to watch.
That city state ability is pretty awesome. No more need for battering rams!
Keep playing this I’ll watch !
I'd really like to see a Kupe Playthrough as it seems to be designed to play very differently and very much a balancing diplomatic plates sort of deal
In the base Civ VI, Toronto existed as a City State. Is it still a City State in this expansion? Is it possible to have 2 Torontos fighting each other? If Toronto annexes Toronto, does it become the Greater Toronto, and does the area around it become the Greater Toronto Area?
And if Toronto ceased to be a City State, which new City State has Toronto's old abilities?
@@abalister6661 That makes sense, we all know Argentina is south America's Canada!
Actually I believe Mexico City took the place of Toronto, not Buenos Aires (which was already a city state and has their bonus resource gives amenity bonus). And yes it's also weird having Mexico City and Aztec's capital in the game at the same time.
See, this is how you do survival and/or realism; as fun and possibly educational game mechanics! Look alive game companies, some who may begin with the letter 'B'!
Bethesda is busy forcing its game launcher down the player's throats, to avoid refunds. And you're a fool for thinking about them.
@@JoshuaKevinPerry
Josh, I think you have an unhealthy obsession with Bethesda. Feel free to talk about the things bothering you in life.
Mansa Musa was in Civ 4 and I've literally never played as him, despite the fact that I love that game XD
When Jon said "I love gold", am I the only one who heard it in goldmember's voice?
If you can fit it in to the backlog of many games that many people want you to spend many hours playing, it'd be cool to see this comeback once its released!
1:51 Not only that, he apparently was crazily generous, some say that’s where his real richness laid in his kindness as big as his wealth.
When he went on a hadj (pilgrimage to Mecca) he literally crashed the economy of Egypt due to how much gold he spent and gave away during his journey.
This guy was so rich he singlehandedly bankrupted one of the most important nations in the medieval islamic world.
I've not even seen Crassus do that.
You said "Flipping" more times than Mali's total gold production for the whole game
You sir have fun videos!
Not seeing the plus 8 Faith Mt Killimajaro adjacency hurt my soul.
YES, I want more of this!!
I'd love to see more of this, when you get the chance. :)
Timbuktu wasn't as prominent under the rule of Mali. If you civ had been Songhi however it would be different.
- Lives on fertile flood plains in the desert
- Builds pyramids
- Worships a cat
Face it, Jon, you're just Egypt in disguise.
P.S: As an Ottawan, I am not at all surprised you thought Toronto was Canada's capital. It really _should_ be the capital.
every time he says flipping take a shot
"Money....we're very good a money!" Lol.
I smell a new livestream game!
No not live-streams I can’t 😔
Can we just get a regular series instead of a livestream?
This so much.
But then there will be no Claire. Plus all the crazy chat antics.
@@markmillett6540, but then people don't have set aside several hours of their lives at once.
Spends lots of faith on units and buildings, is surprised that he has not enough faith for a great prophet.
"Shut up, Sean Bean." Haven't we all uttered those words at some point?
There is a discount right now on steam, if I buy the base game and the gathering storm DLC will it also come with the rise and fall updates or whatever you call it??
I’m so excited for gathering storm
Extra Credits did a series on Mali and its really cool now seeing them in Civ 6
Now if we can only get Walpole as an alt leader for England
i like this can't wait to buy the dlc next month!!
Did they fix Poundmaker in this update? Som of his relatives complained that the only real possible win condition was a quoncuest one and Poundmaker was a well known peacemaker.
Commenter from the future here. Poundmaker wound up being one of the weaker civs unfortunately. I'm not sure if they ever addressed this particular complaint, but his only real perk is that he's kinda good at trade? But like, not that good, and there are several better trade civs that also have bonuses towards win conditions. They're supposedly done balancing the game now, which is a shame because Poundmaker is one of 5-6 civs that really could have used a rework / buff.
Man just being able to through town and buying basic buildings by throwing cash around syncs so well with my basic Playstyle
Actually I think you needed 2 of the same resource to make most stuff that required a certain resource. Now it looks like strategic resources work more like they did in Civ 5.
TRADE THE HORSES, YOU'RE NOT USING THEM, YOU'LL GET MORE
Amazed that finaly one expansionn that makes game good.
Ottawa IS the capital of Canada. Toronto is the capital of the province of Ontario. Canada loves you too Jon! God save the Queen!!
Looking forward to part 2.
Would love to see this as a series while I live steam would be nice a series would be more enjoyable to watch.
Great video, excelent presentation. New episode?
More of this please!
Flippin beautiful
I'm so used to watching you play Crusader Kings 2 that, when you said "fertility", my mind didn't exactly go to soil fertility...
Mali seems extremely OP early game if you can get a good roll on starting location. That extra gold will be game-changing as you won't have to worry as much about maintenance costs for units/districts/etc. and can buy your way through military units. Unless it's balanced in a way that isn't shown in the video? It's been a while since I've played.
On higher difficulties Mali is definitely hit or miss as the game is very production-focused. In the early game most AI will try to gangbang you and if you can't build a capable army fast enough you'll be done for. Mali can be quite good however if there are no AI terribly close by and you get lucky with the terrain around your starting location.
4 gold=1 prod, you don't have any bonus prod early, huge penality for producing things, and a desert start, with no production. The one thing you get early as Mali is food and faith. So, for me, no, not op at all. Maybe in the end they can snowball, but the early seems so harsh
Mali is also pretty fun to play as in CKII with holy fury
Does anybody know what is the minimum CPU and GPU I may need to play the game at max settings at at least 60fps?
Need a lot more of jon and Civilization
please make this a series once its out
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. Toronto is the largest city though and in the same province, Ontario.
Build a canal southwest of Walata and it is connected to the sea :)
9:06 Hello Sargon, I wasn't expecting to meet you here.
Did Jon just luck out when it comes to starting location or is Mali OP? Seems like one hell of a civ
As someone who enjoys Mali a lot, he had an incredibly lucky start here. Kilimanjaro is arguably the strongest wonder for early game, and when you have it offsetting the inherent crappiness of desert tiles, you have a start so OP I'm suspicious he created it in the game editor lol. Plus like a ton of mines around. Pretty much the perfect Mali start.
This civ looks ridiculously fun.
flipping spot on
When u placed the Religious District i was like : he's Mansa Muse, has almost no Production and changes one Faith against 1 production and 4 gold...
Oh, there is a max of 50 iron you can stock!!! Noone really mentioned this bevore! Camping with ressources isnt working anymore
I’m curious why you didn’t choose Dido. Her mechanics are really cool and the history behind the Phoenicians seems like something you’d know a lot about
Oh, the whole shifting capital thing to guarantee loyalty, and then aggressively forward settling is great, but I love playing with a gold-focus anyway, so a gold-civ is just my thing.
50 bucks says the real Mansa Musa also said verbatim "darn, I coulda bought a religion, I probably should have done that but oh well" as he was setting out on his Mecca pilgrimage to raise his profile with those peasant sultans of the north
According to Wikipedia, yes, Kilimanjaro actually is a dormant volcano. Learn something new every day.
In min 27 ya can see the gouvernor of a foreign civ in a citystate
And think about the free trade route for every golden age
I missed it, what difficulty are you on? I could never finish a game on anything higher than prince.
early Reyna to buy districts is actually a bad move for Mali since districts is one of the few things they don't get a production penalty for.
Yeah he had godly RNG for his starting location but you can't fault him for making some bad choices since he plays a lot of games.
Oh excellent, early Civ from Jon
psst! psst! jon! you should do a series on this!(when it comes out that is)
@Many A True Nerd - Natural Wonders do not (or at least should not based on interviews) take the 30% penalty to production.
Gathering Storm? A Primarch will rise!
~Remembers back to Civ 4 desertification~
Intentionally causing climate change to screw over enemies could be an interesting tactic.
Fun fact: Mansa Musa was so rich he basically made gold worthless during his pilgrimage to Mecca because he handed out so much (not a joke, 100% truth)
Jon, please please please play more civ. I love your civ and stellaris series.
Everyone gets mountain tunnels
series or one off? please and thank you.
Indeed
should have put mali in the title, if not for reddit i would not have known you did this.
Series please!
Has Jon ever been more English than when he forgot he was sharing his island with Scotland?
Loved the video please play more