Kongo spawning next to you with 166 science per turn and declaring war on you is the equivalent of encountering the end game boss in the tutorial and dying to a scripted death.
0:37 Historical revisionism at its finest :) Potato playing his own disaster save file is amazing. The vacillation between "We're OK" and "We're dead" was sending me on a roller-coaster of emotions. This episode put the "drama" in "dramatic ages."
But greece actually invaded turkey about 100 years ago. Greece reached near ankara almost captured the new turkish assembly there but it was defeated by a surprise attack and retreated after losing their line. The britain could not support them, it was tired after ww1 and had been focusing on negotiations regarding germany, and more importantly, borders of middle east. So they couldnt back up greece and they only occupied constantinople. Once turkey gave up on oil heavy areas, the british left constantinople without fighting turkish again.
@@anilkarakaya9343 And turkey invaded greece 500 years ago. And Germany invaded France 50 years ago. Who cares about old wars. Stop being a dumb nationalist revanchist
What I like with Civ 6 is the possibility to enact improbable historical situations such as the Turks and the Greeks being at each other's throat for centuries
@@weks Considering that glass was not a thing in those times, it was literally a hole in the wall with some manner of covering. Close the "eye" the wind stays out, open the "eye" the wind comes in.
Norse etymology is so satisfying. Kennings I think these are called. Learned about them in AP English when we read Beowulf and Grendel. Whale-road always stuck out to me as being a really cool way of saying sea, as did honey-dog for bears.
@@hakonandreasolaussen1949 Ah, my mind goes to transparent glass panel when I think window, so I was thinking of peasant house instead of glass in general. Yeah, glass by itself is not too hard to get, though don't expect good glass out of crappy material/technique.
@@norandomnumbers oh I'm just joking around as I've noticed that if there's any chance he can pivot to a tourism game he will xD As for your games, its all about what you enjoy the most :)
"A devastating monument to my own incompetence as a civilization 6 player" I've played for 1,500 hours and I barely know what I'm doing on regular difficulty
The reason your second neighbour tends to be powerful might be because you tend to get in a war with your closest neighbour, letting the other civ sim freely without any war for a few eras, with one side of their empire entirely safe.
the English word “window” has its origins in the Old Norse word “vindauga”, and it literally means “wind-eye” (“vind” and “auga” evolved phonetically into “wind” and “ow“, respectively)
There's always the one "200 science by 100 turns" civ and it's often not the one next to me, because my neighbor is the one that fights me at the start (99% their fault) and delays their own development. Also it's always Lautaro or Mvemba a Nzinga.
Since the latest DLC this is every game for me on Diety. I have managed only 2 Domination wins since it was released. I can eek out the occasional science victory, but have mostly won diplomatically. The AI doesn't have to even have science buildings and still has double my science. It is insane!
Please God, give me more of potato just ranting at the screen and talking about window etymology while the world is burning around him. This is what I needed
Now, to be fair: The AI sending a Settler to settle right on top of you is ABSOLUTELY grounds for war. It wasn't even going to be a good city either, they were headed North.
This sort of thing has happened to me so often that seeing it happen to the game's best player - and hearing you say you'd just restart if you weren't recording - is so affirming! I'm definitely here for this content - and to see if/how you turn it into a win...
Potato steadily going over to the dark side as his passion for culture victories dwindles every time an AI throws yet another early war in his face. You love to see it!
First time in a while that I watched a full episode of Civ. These seemingly hopeless games are very entertaining, as the ones that're smooth sailing can get boring after a while xD Yes, I enjoy thy suffering and the process of making something out of it and perhaps pulling off the win! This is a good formula for entertainment ngl
Historically, being in constant wars of expansion while barely holding onto your empire with the very tips of your fingernails is entirely appropriate for the Ottomans
Window means "Wind eye" and comes from old norse. Infact, the old Swedish word is exacrly "wind eye" )Vindöga). But since the language got Germanized, it got changed to "Fönster" from German "Fenster"
It has been a long since the last time I saw Potato struggles this much. Potato's endless screams and whiny really brought me joy. Thank you, no offense!
This is my favorite civ 6 game ever so far! Please potato more of these! I figure most of player would just restart a lot earlier then you did (maybe even yourself) but thanks to the purpose of the game aiming to showcase life in bad situation…. Did I say just bad? Anyway… I do think the tech shuffle mode is the hardest single option to challenge a deity player. The only advantage of human player vs AI is planning but this mode takes it away. Much more fair to the AI I would say…. Can’t wait to see if potato can turn the tide.
To answer the etymology question: window (n.) c. 1200, literally "wind eye," from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr "wind" (see wind (n.1)) + auga "eye" (from PIE root *okw- "to see"). Replaced Old English eagþyrl, literally "eye-hole," and eagduru, literally "eye-door." Compare Old Frisian andern "window," literally "breath-door." Originally an unglazed hole in a roof. Most Germanic languages later adopted a version of Latin fenestra to describe the glass version (such as German Fenster, Swedish fönster), and English used fenester as a parallel word till mid-16c. Window dressing in reference to shop windows is recorded from 1853; figurative sense is by 1898. Window seat is attested from 1778. Window of opportunity (1979) is from earlier figurative use in U.S. space program, such as launch window (1963). Window-shopping is recorded from 1904. SRC: etymonline.com
Honestly this game reminds me of my own game with some friends a few days ago. Started very close to two enemy civs in a terrible starting location, both immediately started forward settling me, and got huge militaries real fast, and also a stupidly high science and culture lead, while I was stuck on 1 terrible city. By turn 60 I barely managed to get a second (terrible) city out, while my neighbors were both on 6-8 cities, had about 500 higher military scores, about 80 science and culture leads, and had also completely killed off and razed all the city states I was relying on. We decided to just nope out and go next
It would be interesting to see you take a quick gander at the changes in Dune Spice Wars. I love to hear your take on the new updates and maybe see a multiplayer game.
more of this please, such an entertaining game. i suck at civ and this is how my games feel all the time, so hearing you react to each new challenge is amazing.
Potato just described all of my deity Dom games (outside of Basil II). Either my 2 closest neighbors are bloodthirsty scientists or I'm getting tossed around by barbarian hordes. Sometimes both.
I think it would be really interesting if you forked at this point and played both options in two separate video series.. One where you hunker down and late game Congo, and one where you head down south and take out the others first. Wound be super interesting to compare the two strategies 👍
'window' comes from the old germanic word 'windauge' which translates pretty directly to wind-eye, cause it was a literal hole in your house (this is pre glass windows). german doesnt actually use that word any more nowadays, instead our word for window is 'fenster' which comes from the latin 'fenestra'. french also took over the romanic root with fenêtre (note the accent circonflexe over the second 'e', a sign that this letter used to be followed by an 's'). that's why the english word for the act of throwing somebody out of a window is 'defenestration' :)
Window i belive comes from old norse vindöga (wind eye) which is the hole on the top of the short side of a house that smoke could flow through like a chimney, so basicly an ”eye” in the wall that wind and smoke passes throught
This entire episode brilliantly displays how broken AF civ6 really is. I still love it, but god is it broken with little to no attempt made to fix it despite a huge lifespan.
I’ve been watching potato for years and I’ve never even considered watching a episode twice. I’ve seen the last ep 3 times, and I’ll watch this again tomorrow. I can hear his pain and for some sadistic reason I find it hilarious….. sorry..
I'm surprised you didn't peace Kongo out after the Emergency failed. I mean, it worked out because he only sent a token force that got obliterated by a river flooding, but the AI is usually willing to accept a White Peace after an Emergency finishes.
Can you use these past two episodes to go back and analyze your war strategy for our benefit? You really successfully leveraged less powerful units to your advantage which is not something I feel like I can do nearly as well. Would love to know how you decide your maneuvering and fight selection
Knowing someone who knows how to do stuff is a function of how much stuff you need done. As you get older, you likely are responsible for more things like house, car, etc..
This video is currently not part of the playlist. I was super confused when I watched the epic first video, and the second video had you own all of Greece. :D
Potato, this is brilliant. Have you ever considered a multiverse type video link where when you have the option to pivot in your games, you end up doing both in separate video series? So for example, you can either pivot in this or go on with domination, I personally would love to see both sides, esp from someone with your skillset. Obviously it's a lot more hours for you, but may be fun?
Window comes from the Vikings arrived in England. At that time the houses simply had holes in the building - making them “vid-öga” in english: wind-eye
