Ryan you are the hardest working Civ player on TH-cam. Constantly uploading games is no short order. Thank you for filling up my day with premium content.
Just wanted to say that I have probably watched 30+ of your videos over the past 2 months. You've definitely reignited my interest in Civ, though I'm in that tricky spot of not being sure whether I enjoy watching people who are better than me at the game, or getting annoyed with my own (innumerable) mistakes. I have made sure all of my civ playing friends are clued into you, as you have quickly become one of my favourite streamers. Keep up the amazing work, I'm optimistic that the TH-cam algorithm will recognise your quality, in the same was as it has for one of my other faves RCE (Real Civil Engineer!).
I absolutely love watching these videos that show me how to play a civ the right way. It's the hardest thing to not be able to sit down and play Byzantium right right now!
I love this, and it isn't just a domination condition but the studied strategic advantages applied so precisely. It's a joy to watch a pro conduct urban surgery like this.
And he already won this game. Even with the Cree having a lot of science, just the size and strength of Ursa's empire already made him the winner. He could even change to almost any other victory type if he wanted. Unless Ursa makes some crazy rule that makes him lose, this is already won. Just curious to see how. Needs some campuses to catch up...
When "proper" Rome gets rolling, its hilarious. Will be interesting to see how much of a tech gap, and if campus pillage and sheer numbers of troops (and citizens) can overcome more than the usual Diety gap.
Fun fiction: Byzantines believe their horses run super fast from racing a lot in the hippodrome that you can make a religion out of it, so their horses can ram into walls and basically melting them when the sieged city's people believe so too.
Just to help out, Porphyrogennetos is pronounced: Por-fyr-oh-gen-eh-tos. It means 'Born in the Purple,' and refers to the Roman/Byzantine tradition of putting the children of the emperors in purple swaddling clothes when born. As purple was the most expensive dye at the time, it was a method of showing off the wealth of the empire while also serving to reinforce the legitimacy of those born into the imperial family.
Feels like you’re missing a trick not beelining Shipbuilding after Astrology. Byzantium is the perfect dual-threat civ, and you can get dromons not long after your religion, and long before tagmas.
9:17 Hold on there Ryan... Cacao (kuh-kau) beans are used to make chocolate. Coca (kow-kuh) is used to make cocaine. The latter is what powers Grand Columbia's amazing movement speed! AKA Columbian Marching Powder
fun fact, if you have already converted and taken the capital of all the civs in the game except one, then take the final civ's capital, you will actually win a religious victory first instead of a domination victory if the loss of that city results in the final civ being converted to your religion
Hi Ursa, i follow your channel about more than a year, i always see your videos, they are very fun; can you make a new challenge for France Eleanor of Aquitaine in deity++ to make a pacifist domination victory against the most powerful and dangerous civs like Gran Colombia, Russia, Rome, Khmer, Japan, Scythia, Ottomans and Byzantium???
Porphyrogennetos means “the one who was born in Porphyra” (Porphyra being a room in the Byzantine quarters and the lovely colour we see Basil wearing).. in general Porphyrogennetos is literally , the one who was born while his father was the Emperor..
Something I would've really enjoyed for the byzantines is the boats that shoot fire. I forget what they're called but it would've been cool to see a strong melee boat that when it attacks it shoots fire
You talking about killing the city state Ayutthaya made me sad, because that is free culture when you build stuff, and you would be building a LOT of hippodromes.
Porphyrogennetos! (Por-fir-again-eh-tose) It means "born in the purple" and referred to emperors who were legitimate sons of prior emperors. The Byzantines didn't really have a problem with people taking the throne by force - they figured if you were good enough to seize the throne you'd probably be a good emperor. Therefore they made up a fun term for emperors who got there the old-fashioned way. My favorite emperor, Constantine VII, is sometimes called Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_VII
In my opinion, very strange move to capture Erevan, since you probably want to capture holy cities to increase unit strength, then having Erevan as a suzerain makes this so much easier to do and to secure your religion in general
There is mod called Knights of Solomon - gives new secret society, which is religious-war targeted. Not imbalanced, interesting, gives new benefits, ideal to play with Byzantium. Just saying..
1:53 "We have abundant start positions." Is this your way of reiterating that there are extra civs for the map size? Lol, misspeaking can be quite amusing at times. For example, I'll never forget the time my Mum got mixed up when writing a shopping list such that it advised me to buy "Cadbury mince."
This episode ended too quickly! Such a great start. It's obviously not going to matter as you are already absolutely smashing the AI but I can't believe you turned down so much production from God of the Sea for a slightly earlier Prophet. In fact, it was such a resource rich start there were loads of viable choices and unless you're going culture victory Divine Spark always feels lacklustre to me. It probably meant you got Feed the World but a Prophet a couple turns later would still surely have had Crusade available and if FtheW was gone there still would have been a lot of interesting choices thanks to extended religions.
Killing Yerevan makes me feel bad. It is kind of the best city-state in the game. Makes the religion part of the game super easy. I guess you don't need them tho right? Since the endless war will spread the religion anyways...
Ryan you are the hardest working Civ player on TH-cam. Constantly uploading games is no short order. Thank you for filling up my day with premium content.
I appreciate that!
I also consider Byzantium to be the best. A very fun domination Civ.
Except when you win an accidental religious victory instead
That was nice of Indonesia to build you the pyramids
I'm just borrowing it promise
I think I speak for everyone when I say we now need a video of Ursa Ryan in a pool full of crisps
That is what I'm talking about!!!
I would love to make this happen
Just wanted to say that I have probably watched 30+ of your videos over the past 2 months. You've definitely reignited my interest in Civ, though I'm in that tricky spot of not being sure whether I enjoy watching people who are better than me at the game, or getting annoyed with my own (innumerable) mistakes. I have made sure all of my civ playing friends are clued into you, as you have quickly become one of my favourite streamers. Keep up the amazing work, I'm optimistic that the TH-cam algorithm will recognise your quality, in the same was as it has for one of my other faves RCE (Real Civil Engineer!).
Just to say, thanks so much for your support!
Also have a go at Civ again. It's a terrific game
The last thing they heard was 🎵A-one attack, a-two attack!🎶
The war cry of our people
@3:34 what did I just listen to 😂? Love it!
I absolutely love watching these videos that show me how to play a civ the right way. It's the hardest thing to not be able to sit down and play Byzantium right right now!
This video was a lot of fun, looking forward to the rest of the series
Going to be a short series. He has already won.
Cheers fellow Ryan!
It's a crime that you don't have more subscribers. Your videos are very entertaining.
Cheers! Hopefully one day
For anyone wondering how to pronounce porphyrogennetos, it is roughly:
Por-fee-ro-GEN-ne-tos
Capitalized is the accented variable.
I love this, and it isn't just a domination condition but the studied strategic advantages applied so precisely. It's a joy to watch a pro conduct urban surgery like this.
Cheers!
And he already won this game. Even with the Cree having a lot of science, just the size and strength of Ursa's empire already made him the winner. He could even change to almost any other victory type if he wanted. Unless Ursa makes some crazy rule that makes him lose, this is already won. Just curious to see how. Needs some campuses to catch up...
Haha - I didn't even need campuses, I just looted them!
When "proper" Rome gets rolling, its hilarious. Will be interesting to see how much of a tech gap, and if campus pillage and sheer numbers of troops (and citizens) can overcome more than the usual Diety gap.
the new bear looks good on the big screen!
Cheers! I think it does
Byzantium and Crusade going together is actually deeply historically accurate
*Latin Empire
Byzantium was historically crusaded against by Islam and Christianity.
I love a good snowball
Ryan saying Byzantium is the best civ in the game.
This is why i follow you and like, comment on your vids my brother..
A holy site on the flat grasslands with a Mahabodhi temple on the woods next to Ik-kil would have been a good choice.
Gorgeous start!!
The second I saw the thumbnail I knew this would be a banger
3:33 - what? xD
Fun fiction: Byzantines believe their horses run super fast from racing a lot in the hippodrome that you can make a religion out of it, so their horses can ram into walls and basically melting them when the sieged city's people believe so too.
Por-phi-rho-genetos. Or whatever Ryan says it is!
Fully agree. Byzantium is definitely God Tier.
The cree ai plays crazy good in pretty much al my deity games interestingly
The Cree are tough. I think humans play them poorly compared to the AI.
Just to help out, Porphyrogennetos is pronounced: Por-fyr-oh-gen-eh-tos. It means 'Born in the Purple,' and refers to the Roman/Byzantine tradition of putting the children of the emperors in purple swaddling clothes when born. As purple was the most expensive dye at the time, it was a method of showing off the wealth of the empire while also serving to reinforce the legitimacy of those born into the imperial family.
You know I even had the prononciation guide to my side and I still find it a tricky say. We brits are not built for Greek
Feels like you’re missing a trick not beelining Shipbuilding after Astrology. Byzantium is the perfect dual-threat civ, and you can get dromons not long after your religion, and long before tagmas.
True - but people often overlook horsemen with Byzantium. Dromons are great at starting your religious spread but horses get the cities captured fast
Canada is the evil Switzerland! I laughed beer out of my nose!
haha = )
Pool full of crisps. No matter how hard I try, I cannot unsee that. You'll hear from my legal counsel. ;-)
What a Reefsome start! I am super surprised that you started with a canal city ....
9:17 Hold on there Ryan... Cacao (kuh-kau) beans are used to make chocolate. Coca (kow-kuh) is used to make cocaine.
The latter is what powers Grand Columbia's amazing movement speed!
AKA Columbian Marching Powder
Once you know, you can never unknow
Ursa Ryan, Seven Seas Low sea legendary start abundant resources hot climate no turn limit and any Civ you want
Do it! Also, what's your twitch or anything
fun fact, if you have already converted and taken the capital of all the civs in the game except one, then take the final civ's capital, you will actually win a religious victory first instead of a domination victory if the loss of that city results in the final civ being converted to your religion
I can see how Ursa leaves south of his cities open and barbarians will constantly pop there and pester him.
@32:38...I only now notice that Indonesia's capital is next the Giant's Causeway.
Yeah I wondered why they were hitting so hard!!
Byzantine in civ6:- strong , Tagma , Deus vult , Hippdrome , Print non stop cavalry
In real life:- Hold the walls of Constantinople
Hi Ursa, i follow your channel about more than a year, i always see your videos, they are very fun; can you make a new challenge for France Eleanor of Aquitaine in deity++ to make a pacifist domination victory against the most powerful and dangerous civs like Gran Colombia, Russia, Rome, Khmer, Japan, Scythia, Ottomans and Byzantium???
Porphyrogennetos means “the one who was born in Porphyra” (Porphyra being a room in the Byzantine quarters and the lovely colour we see Basil wearing).. in general Porphyrogennetos is literally , the one who was born while his father was the Emperor..
Also hoplite literally translates to “the one who caries a shield”
Didn't know that about hoplites!
#49 - Many wars have been waged for control of the University of Sankore.
Commenting to spread crusade to the algorithm
porphyrogennetos (por-fi-ro-gen-ne-tos) is greek for son of porphyros (por-fi-ros)
‘I rarely ever use Lahore properly’ *chuckles*
Hahaha
ah yes, the classic Byzantine Golden Horde.
such a fun built.. had one of my best games with crusades byzantium^^
There are some crazy great zimbabwe placements!
Something I would've really enjoyed for the byzantines is the boats that shoot fire. I forget what they're called but it would've been cool to see a strong melee boat that when it attacks it shoots fire
I loved that in Civ 5 - I also miss this
FOR THE ALGORITHM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What did you do to the water tiles. There are so much rss on it never seen it like that before
It's porphyry gennotos which means purple-born
You talking about killing the city state Ayutthaya made me sad, because that is free culture when you build stuff, and you would be building a LOT of hippodromes.
Porphyrogennetos! (Por-fir-again-eh-tose) It means "born in the purple" and referred to emperors who were legitimate sons of prior emperors. The Byzantines didn't really have a problem with people taking the throne by force - they figured if you were good enough to seize the throne you'd probably be a good emperor. Therefore they made up a fun term for emperors who got there the old-fashioned way. My favorite emperor, Constantine VII, is sometimes called Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_VII
He is S++ Tier
Spear of what!? Floon?
Spear of flan. Yummy!
In my opinion, very strange move to capture Erevan, since you probably want to capture holy cities to increase unit strength, then having Erevan as a suzerain makes this so much easier to do and to secure your religion in general
All about comitting to the Byzantium war machine. Yereven's capture started a snowball that never stopped = )
After this massacre I hope next game is in deity++++!
There is mod called Knights of Solomon - gives new secret society, which is religious-war targeted. Not imbalanced, interesting, gives new benefits, ideal to play with Byzantium. Just saying..
So you played them 😁
So you played them 😁
So you played them 😁
Smashed them in one episode. How do we make this more challenging for you? No military units at all?
Eleanor laughs at this
1:53 "We have abundant start positions."
Is this your way of reiterating that there are extra civs for the map size? Lol, misspeaking can be quite amusing at times. For example, I'll never forget the time my Mum got mixed up when writing a shopping list such that it advised me to buy "Cadbury mince."
Haha - no it's the option that allows extra resources at everyones capital - yeah my words muddle much
This episode ended too quickly! Such a great start. It's obviously not going to matter as you are already absolutely smashing the AI but I can't believe you turned down so much production from God of the Sea for a slightly earlier Prophet. In fact, it was such a resource rich start there were loads of viable choices and unless you're going culture victory Divine Spark always feels lacklustre to me. It probably meant you got Feed the World but a Prophet a couple turns later would still surely have had Crusade available and if FtheW was gone there still would have been a lot of interesting choices thanks to extended religions.
Being honest, I knew that I was going to win as soon as I started playing Byzantium on turn 1! God of the sea would have been very good
Did you know hippo means horse , so hippodrome is actually horsedrome
Build it and they will come..
porphyrogennetos is pronounced por-fee-raw-yEN-nee-taws according to google
it means 'born in the purple.'
F God of the Sea :'(
Byzantium is great, but Babylon exists.
Babylon is nothing to Byzantium XD
Killing Yerevan makes me feel bad. It is kind of the best city-state in the game. Makes the religion part of the game super easy. I guess you don't need them tho right? Since the endless war will spread the religion anyways...
Byzantium is so good, even the besy city states aren't enough!!
For the algo