Firaxis put me into Civilization 6 

Drop a potato if you've done the potato challenge 👇

I can now retire

"Hey Potato, do you want to create our next monthly challenge?" "Yes, the challenge is to play my favorite civ and win with my favorite victory type."

13:40 Insists upon the importance of declaring friendship with other civs on the first turn. 24:05 Meets Gilgamesh, the 1 civ known to love friendships on the first turn to meet, and doesn't ask for it.

Some guy really commented "we're never getting Civ 7 are we" the day before the first trailer

51:10 "I'm thinking settling on the bananas has a lot of a-PEEL to me"

I'm Khmer, yes it is pronounced "Khmai" you pronounced our civilization correctly

we're never getting Civ 7 are we

Dude when I saw this mode in the game I cried tears of joy because it was like you got everything you ever wanted. Through watching your videos over the years I have related to you a bit as well as going from Emperor to Deity skill through your training. So to see it all culiminate by SEEING YOUR NAME IN THE GAME was absolutely incredible. And then I proceeded to have one of the most fun experiences I've ever had in civ by playing your scenario. So thanks for everything my dude. Also, Firaxis' translation of GigaHuge: "Build a sprawling empire!" was hilarious to me for some reason.

This is 100% a "Momma I made it" moment! I'm super proud n happy for ya!

"I just got a vision of the future. The vision says I must pray." -PotatoMcWhickey

Finally Potato is doing his own monthly challenge. I had a ton of fun with this one, I don't remember too much happening in the late game besides settling almost half the world, but the early phase of my game was amazing: I had a ton of marshes so I got the Lady of the Reeds and Marshes pantheon, and used that and a couple of chops to get the Etemenanki. I also spawned on a peninsula with the Cree to my left. I had to do some screwed up tactic to delay his settlers, but I managed to forward settle and get him stuck on just 3 coastal cities for most of the game. Unfortunately for him, they were all desert cities that couldn't grow too much so eventually my civ grew so much he just got gobbled up. Even the two cities he managed to get on other islands got absorbed too.

I hurts to see you not declare friendship with Gilgamesh turn 1.

Beat this challenge this weekend. Was fun to do and cool see your name mentioned in the civ preview.

No one, not God, my mother, or the great world around me, would forgive all the savescumming I've done in my life.

culture huh? sounds like a perfect domination game

I was 150 turns in and found out you had to win by culture. I already had taken the whole continent through war😭

It was super cool to see your icon in the game menu! My Emperor run also ran into Greece spawning immediately next to me/Canada on another island. They were a big challenge when I kind of faffed about trying to build some pretty cities (my understanding of good places to put Government Plazas needs work) and could only find a few National Parks, but I managed to Rock Band my way to victory in the late game. Since I started playing Civ again last month, this was the second time I played above Prince. When I first played Civ, I played a lot of Settler fearfully, but watching your content between my time off from Civ, I became more confident to at least be average. My Prince run of the challenge let me take over a large half-tundra island and coat it with National Parks and Preserves. I hadn't appreciated how great this combo was until your videos and now I love to try to put them together when I can. I'm looking at the Appeal view every other turn to try to balance against my addiction to Industrial Zones. 23:33 Guilty as charged. Any time a barbarian kills one of my units, it's back to the save scum. 29:10 I suspect you already know this but just in case: I usually like to check my apostles' upgrades before using them to evangelize my belief, because since you only need 3 charges to evangelize, you might get something that gives additional charges and in that case, you can use that time to use the two charges of an Orator or 3 charges next to a natural wonder. (Also I always keep Debaters as a safety valve on if I lose track of things and get my religion removed, because then I can fight some missionaries to revive it prior to getting a rock band, but as my Settler tendencies imply, I'm both nervous and unobservant lmao.) 36:19 THANK YOU. I managed to aqueduct across a river presumably when there were a couple of aqueducts in close succession and I never could figure out why it wasn't working some of the time. I'm kind of bad with rivers in general as I could never figure out dams without the improved map tacks mod. 2:28:31 I don't know if I believe the spy probabilities. Mine always seem to die and need me to reload to save them.

Re agent killed: You would think a spy would be a rogue and take "Reliable Talent" so even a nat 1 becomes a 10.

Potato has achived total inner peace

Hey Potato I just wanted to say thank you for this challenge. I hadn't played civ 6 in over a year, but somehow the algo showed me this vid and dropping into a game with no barbs and pure "numbers go up" was really fun. Now I see a half-dozen leaders I don't recognize and am ready to dive back in.

Congrats Potato, this is well deserved honor! You have a big influence on my play, I would not be the player today without watching your gameplays. The way you explain (and explain in every game) your moves and the reasoning behind is the best. Keep up the good work, I'll promise to keep watching all your Civ games in the future as well 💪

Congratulations! And thank you for a fun challenge

Thankyou for clarifying tall vs wode builds

How dare you meet Gilgachad and not immediately befriend him? Look how sad he is. But I'm glad you did it in the end, and also established an embassy in him.

When I loaded up and saw your icon I laughed so hard. Delighted for you and it was a fun challenge. I love culture victory, and it gave me a chance to practice more with a civ I'm not that familiar with.

Saw this challenge an hour ago and looked for a video but didnt find one, go for dinner and there it is!

Glad you're back. I missed seeing your Civ 6 videos, though I do understand why you took that break.

This is great, i didn't realize how much i miss watching/hearing you play civ and also miss playing it myself

At about 1 hour 20; the American colloquialism is "Peddle to the metal"

Let's goooooooooooo Tater back on Civ!!!

Whenever you say "in terms of ____", I always finish it in my head with the one meme "in terms of money, we have no money" lol.

Potato is playing 4D chess. I'm banging rocks on the ground. Thanks for another detailed video. You're the best.

it's been so long since i've had a chance to watch a Potato video and this one is firing on all cylinders. well done, sir.

I will 100% start using the diplomatic points exploit. Thanks for the tip!

Just started playiny civ 6, very new to the whole civ series. Love your videos, very helpful guide, and now I'm addicted to this game haha And with the news of civ 7? Well hello, looks like I've got a good game to commit a lot of time to for the next few years

its good to have you back on ciz, ive missed these videos. i know you probly get tired of playing but just saying its good to have ya back

This was a very fun challenge. Great challenge to start with after not playing for years.

I bet this scenario just as it started, and it showed me how fun it was to play Khmer. The unique units were also extremely powerful, and I'd definitely play Khmer again.

This civ is so good that a professionel player has to resort to the cheapest exploits :)

I played it, I really enjoyed it. Thank you Sir!

I've had great fun but haven't yet survived the surprise attack scenarios thrown at me round about the industrial age. It was an honor to play your scenario, Mr Whiskey, sir. lol

Beat the challenge a few days ago. It was insightful to compare my nub try on it with a pro approach to review my mistakes in culture building. I never knew this would be a nice suitable way for me to learn this game when I was playing it since its release lul

moksha first might have been a better play, you will be drowning in faith. buying districts for faith was hilarious in my playthrough of your scenario.

1:58:13 mine and most of the community’s definition of a tall build is where you immensely prioritize making big super cities over more, smaller cities.

"bro roles a natural 1!" I flat out died when you said that!

BTW, only *old-growth* woods grant an extra appeal to their own tile (in addition to adjacent tiles). Second-growth woods only grant appeal to adjacent tiles.

So i had to restart this challenge and will be trying a third time. I learned a good bit watching you play this, so i thank you for that. I do have 3 laughable gripes tho. 1st is you found gilgamesh and didnt make a friend with him turn 1 after you mentioned it. 2nd is you didnt build angkor wat in the angkor wat (i understand why you didnt, i just figured for the meme) 3rd is you had a valletta (which is my favorite militaristic city state) cause when i crank out faith, i just faith purchase all the stuff in my city center being suzerain of them regardless, love your videos, good sir and again ive learned alot from watching you play over the years

I had a crazy etemenanki + reeds and marshes pamtheon game for this challenge. 20+ marsh tiles within my first 4 cities. Was very fun!

Ive been very excited for this drop. What kind of input did you have in the game conditions?

You deserve it, Mister McWhiskey. I wouldn't have any wins in Civ VI above the easiest difficulty if it weren't for your tutorial series.

I love how you give instructions for how a segment should be edited, and the instructions don't get edited out 😂

Most educational civ video I've seen, even if I had to watch it over 2 days

Here I was thinking I had a pretty decent game, watching potato with so few cities by turn 100, thinking somehow he was going to take 200+ turns to win.... then he turned on the national parks. Nice win and showed me why Potato is the best at explaining the game.

Regarding declaring friendship to the AI and Gilgamesh in particular, as far as I know it's always possible to immediately declare friendship to him the same turn you met him. Which will probably last the entire game, since by being friends with him you fulfill his primary agenda... making him more likely to declare friendship again once it's run out.

They did this weeks ago Potato! I completed the Emperor challenge in mid May!

Is anyone else dying inside because he built the Etemenanki on the floodplains instead of the marsh, subsequently losing 4 food and anything else from future floods.

Hey, you finally convinced me to buy the civ6 pack, I hope you get your cut after all the civ6 videos from your channel ;)

I actually went in a COMPLETLY different way with my first few cities, specifically because of some of the problems you mentioned. It's easy to get population as Kamer, so my focus went in the other direction. I founded my city on the luxury, and set up several fidget spinner industrial zones. By the mid game (forget the late game) I had several cities that could produce wonders with ease, and were still at well over 10 pop (some over 20 pop). Combined with rural cities producing national parks and the win was a breeze.

1:26:30 that commercial hub placment argumentation is wild to me 😂

I love your content dude! 🥔🥔🥔 Can u tell us what's that mod that keeps track of amenities and housing on the top bar?

Hey potato i just got addicted to civ 6, and Ive been following you

28:00 puts in diplomatic league for good reason. 1:00:20 Still the diplomatic league card in instead of charismatic leader.

Chinese letter -> English sound (approximately) Q -> CH Z -> Z ZH -> J X -> SH

So pleased that you've got to the point where Firaxis are actually paying you to play their game; it's a dream that so few of us will ever get to experience, being paid to play our favorite game by the very makers of said game! Good for you mate! Now I've just got to work out how to get Valve to pay me to play CS...

Man I was hoping they added Ireland to the game with you as the leader 🤣 But I still enjoyed this video!

went on to play other day and was like...PotatoMcWhiskey - i watch him on youtube hahah

Funnily enough I just saw this yesterday! Unfortunately you're not allowed to participate if you're running it on a Mac for some reason but I did start up a game with the same settings and very quickly had a holy site with 16 production/food/faith lol. Edit: Since you mention the UI changes, something I've been wondering for a while - is it default behaviour for the diplomatic HUD ribbon to show the science, culture, and faith of other civilisations straight away? In my game I can only see the gold and everything else just says ? but in every video and image I see it has all the information.

Had a rough time on this one - Greece snowballed on the second continent (16 cities) and was sitting on 500+ culture. Wasn't able to shift-end-turn-til-win until hitting the earliest "wish you were here" golden age.

I say this not to disparage the goal but out of genuine curiosity: How many people can there be who haven't bought this game yet who still might? Surely the vast majority of people who might play it (and Spuddy viewers!) own it already?

Yes Potato! More Civ! Do some of the mods that UrsaRyan is doing. Please do more Civ so I can hear less awful puns.

Thanks for another 2 and half hour long video! P.S Do you have any plans to do Endless Space 2? they recently fixed up the last DLC and its actually playable now and i have been enjoying the hell out of it

managed prince, couldn't do the harder one so looking forward to this

We need you to be the bridge between the gamers and developers for civ 7. I have a feeling you gave them a ton of input already though

On the last Khmer monthly challenge I tried so hard to rush the great bath and temple of Artemis on top of a holy site and the aqueduct adjacent it got insane to say also if you can get a harbor in your capital with those it was pretty giga chad to say the least

I played and beat the Prince version when it came out. I loved the opportunity to play as Khmer and focusing on River holy sites, as I would not have chosen him otherwise!

I got a turn 164 win on emperor for this. I went with cross-cultural dialogue and bee-lined flight (after unlocking aqueducts), ignoring everything else. After that I looped back around for medieval and renaissance walls and printing. It helped that Valletta was in the game so I could get the walls up quickly once I got conservation. Also, I noticed what I assume is a bug in that Medieval walls provided 3 tourism and Renaissance walls provided 2 tourism, when I think it is supposed to be the other way around. This is the first time I've been purchasing walls with faith while paying close attention to my tourism, so maybe it has always been that way, or maybe it was a bug just in this scenario.

The challenge was quite fun. I had a population of about 250.

Cries in lady of the reeds and marshes 😅

I think you should have taken Desert Folklore. A Holy Site on a river surrounded by desert and with +100% adjacenty bonus for holy sites and the craftmansship belief would give you +16 Faith, Food and Production with only one district and no buildings.

Literal YEARS I watch this channel... Never knew of the Diplo favor exploit LOL. You should make a exploit compilation video

Hey potato, I have one question. I understand you want the amenities for your holy sites, but would it make more sense to take lady of the marshes this time. You had like 20 swamps around you

I like that Potato forgot that he turned off barbs lol

Great build, I was a little worried when I saw 1 city on turn 62. I just have one comment. With that faith income, I would have liked to have seen a push to divine architect on Moksha. I feel like you could have loss surplus logistics, possibly a later one on Pingala past conn/research, and possibly Liang to get that. Then you chop with Magnus and move Moksha around to use the faith to convert to theater squares and holy sites. But regardless, great game.

Does anyone know what mod Tater has that lets him drop tacks without opening up the tack menu at the bottom left? He seems to just click the wheat tiles and the Add Tack detail pop up appears... I'm sure its a shift+click or a ctrl+click or something along those lines but whatever it is, I want it! I already have the advanced map tacks mod, so I know that isn't it... unless you can go into controls and bind 'add tack' to something custom??

What mod is that tourism UI? It’s not in the Modpack list?

Is there any difference between this "challenge" and a normal Khmer wetlands game with classical start and random map seed? I could not find any in my own games.

Is there a turn timer limit for the "Reach for the Heavens" challenge? I am locked in a never ending game where I am leading, but cannot win. I just hit turn 500 hoping it would end, but then turn 501 rolled around and the game is still going. Am I going to need to male war on the other civs to end my misery? I maxed out all Colonization land, techs, and civics 150 turns ago

me screaming cause pot8o forgot to declare friendship with Gilgamesh on the first turn of meeting him.

Potato, do you have any plans for playing another (non ui) modded game of Civ 6? There's this one called Sui Generis that's been around since 2019 an I like to use it on normal games when I just wanna relax. It exxentially acts as another civ ability, but instead it groups civs based on regional/"cultural" groupings. For example: Norway and Sweden have a "Viking Legacy" bonus, Rome and Greece have "Imperium," Arabia and Mali have "Ships of the Desert," etc. Some of those might include more civs than I mentioned and some might be wrong because it was just off of memory. The bonuses tend to be stronger than a standard civ ability, but some can be really, REALLY broken when things fall into place. I'd be interested on your opinion on it and seeing how brokenly strong you can get with it.

congratulation with your own challenge. Amazing... started the challenge (half way), how much did you have there to design the challenge. Didn't see any tribal village and barbarians so far so think they are out (also not finish the video ;) )

potato, when you were planning your third city beside bologna, you forgot that you can culture bomb and steal tiles from them with holy site.dropping it where you have aqueduct would steal the wheat farm.

Would love to try this challenge out, buuuut, civ is bugged and does’nt show me the challenge of the month stuff

The Title "Firaxis put me into Civilization 6" Made me think of a PotatoMcWhiskey Civilization for some reason.

I kinda just messed around with this 'challenge' yet somehow won on turn 180 which is about the same as ol' Tato. Went with the pantheon for desert adjacency then the belief of adjacency into production. Plugged in the double holy site adjacency civic and never looked back. Late game I took a desert Paititi city via pressure, and got a +20 holy site (6x1 desert + 2x2 wonder)x2. Way too late to matter but it felt good.

Because of you I've played my very first game for a long time and the very first as Khmer after buff. Slightly dissapointing t189 victory on emperor as I am not used to culture victory :( I had Greeks south close and limited them to few cities to be no thread, but Wilhelmina and Korea very far away went megaculture, so haevy rockbands game. Now I see it is random map o_O and you have amazing start! MIne was coastal, but very managable and pleasant (good HS and campus adjecency from mountains, riverside mountains

you know what, that IS how I play my civ games. Autosave reloads and tedious 1 gold sales to get that one build purchase. I feel seen :)

Would love to see le Blob game where you play as French Eleanor and make the only victory condition be "paint entire map pink".

Firaxis put you in Civ 6, you put a vast desert for Khmer.

I see Potato, I hit the like button