Civ 5 AI Only Timelapse: Ancient Empires 

Darius was a genius this game, he waited for the Aztecs and Greeks to bleed each other out before helping the winning side, then when the Huns took Constantinople he joined a coalition to take Constantinople for himself in the guise of liberating them. Then he supported the Byzantine remnant against the powerful Mayan empire until the Byzantine remnant was weak and no longer useful to him and he swiftly invaded them. With all this land gained he wiped out the rest of his enemies on the right side of the map with ease before throwing all of his forces at Alexander and outflanked him several times while he was busy trying to conquer the remnants of the Indian and Babylonian Empires. That is some Machiavellian shit you pulled there Darius, good job.

Jesus. Thats a terrifying unit carpet at the end of the match

1) Maya completely bitch slapping Huns and Assyrians was incredible plot twist, it's as if you saw calm nerd beating two muscular bullies. They have intellectual bonuses and one of the most garbage unique units in the game versus two most terrifying early conquerors and they rushed them early game. 2) Nobody expected Delhi to NEVER be conquered by super expansionist Greeks next door lol 3) The struggle of Byzantium was absurdly dramatic 4) As @the derpy doodleman noticed, Iran was incredibly competent civilization in this game 5) One of my few favourite civs in game and IRL won, finally 6) Holy shit half of all worlds tiles are covered by units...

Nice Darius vs Alexander revenge match. Round 3 when?

Everyone else fighting and expanding, and India's just like "yeah, I'm putting up a wall".

Now that is the very definition of a "carpet of units".

Map ended up as a Persian Carpet. How hilarious.

Greece vs. Persia. Seriously. Why there are so many iconic rivalries in your videos? WHYYY

4:47 If you listen very closely, you can hear the Persians shouting at the Greeks: "How dare you claim you stand for freedom and we for slavery, when it's you who has slaves, and we're the ones who don't practice slavery?!"

that persian army will give me nightmares forever

You basically screwed India by limiting tech to the classical period. What Gandhi would have done in order to get his hands on some nukes.

The Byzantines really looked like they were in a winning position until out of no where the Huns smash their capital. Possibly one of the biggest contributions to Darius's rise.

Greece and persia get a rematch but this time the outcome is a little different

Absolutely disgusting. GG, though, Darius.

4:59 Rome be like "ok now what"

Graeco-persian war, haha. If only Greece wasn't distracted by India and Babylon, they could've had a chance.

This time the persians decided that THEY would invade Alexander while HE was busy with the indians on another front.

Greece you should conquer Persia, instead of bashing some little bullshit-civilizations! Bye the way, Rome held for so long, this was great!

AIBatle! I offer you this: before loading any new video get announced civilizations that will be fighting in so we can bet which will win

Calling Byzantium, the Huns, and the Aztecs "ancient empires" is a real stretch.

Is no'one going to talk about how fucking fast Persia conquered the world??

The thousand nations of the Persian Army descend upon you!

Their Units blot out the map. "Then we shall fight in the... no never mind we'll just die."

And down goes the 300

Once again Babylon falls to the Persians

that rome last stand

Surprised that the Persians didn't utilized Immortals much more... But then again, they're only up against Classical Era cities, in which Composite Bowmen are a better investment than Catapults...

Grece doomed themselves when they started a two front war VS Indi and Persia. They were slowly winning VS India but the war took valuable rescources they needed on the persian front. Persia played this to a T! :-O

It's the Persian Empire! Wow, that's . . . big.

It is hard to call the Aztecs, Maya, Byzantium and Indonesia the "ancient" empires. All of these empires existed in middle ages. And where the hell is China?!

Darius dunked on people this game

rome under siege from day 1 and still lasted over half the video

5:20 this WAS Sparta

*sighs* Aztecs and Rome can't fight to save their lives, can they?

Why are the aztecs in this scenario? They didn't exist before 1000 ad. They basically only rose to power after 1300, and there wasn't really an "Aztec" faction at all until then.

Turn 0: Attila: Can I get aaaaaaaaaa Attila: Capital

Always so satisfying when Greece gets crushed

China?

I really thought Sparta would survive longer to the Persians.

Persian death wave

The greeks did amazing considering that they don't have any bonus in this map

Feelsbad. Rome could easily taken this game with their units considering the tech was capped at the Classical

It's amazing how long Delhi survived

The fact that the Indians, The Romans and the Persians lasted so long is hilarious

Where's China? It's like the oldest one

Good job, Persia! Long live the shahansha!

How the fuck does Celts one moment have one city and then spam 10 units to overwhelm Rome who had more units and towns then they do? Damn poor Rome always getting rekt even tho they were op in real life

Where china

"without any fear of collapse" are we sure they won't succumb to unit maintenance / salaries? ^^

For a second I was excited that the Maya were doing something in one of these. Of course it couldn't last :(

Music from Medieval 2 : Total War Britannia? I like it!

The Greeks would've won if they were led by Leonidas

The aztecs do not qualify as an ancient civ. Oxford University predates the aztec empire.

hahahaha alexander's destiny has differed

Turn 316:rome becomes roman again?

do Mount and blade warband map

what's the song in the end after the whole battle?

5:12 Spartans about to dine in hell.

Это было библейски круто

Весь бой смотрел как лисы бегают друг за другом...

Bizantium stood still until 1453 the last period maybe was only one city but it still was there

puts in byzantium "ancient empires" really?

I guess China is not an ancient civ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Gross

Having played for thousands of hours and watched tonnes of these videos, I'm starting to think that Persia has probably the best AI in the game, it is nearly impossible for him to lose in an AI match, and is basically the only AI I bother to worry about when I'm playing... That or egypt

Rome MVP

no spécial unit from Constantinople :'( sad

~At the rivers of Babylon~

That must be one swood guy...

Nooo greece my vote :(

Russha!!!!

Исторично.

3:16 wait a damn minute that's from dragon age: tresspasser

Кошмар.

indonesia is not ancient, american indians too

Greek and Roman but NO EGYPT? baffling

So uhhh. Neither rome nor carthage were ancient, same with the celts. All classical era civilizations. At their heights at least