I talked about settling cities and early game strategy - Civ 6 Overexplained Arabia Let's Play Ep 1 

4:04: "A lot of people mistakenly think that Arabia is a civilisation that wants to go for a science victory. That is somewhat true, but I think they're far better of for a science victory." Exactly what I thought.

That's why less than 50% of players finished a game according to steam achievements. They just didn't get past turn 1

The longest first turn in the history of RU-vid, All I can say it's I got time

Me, clicking on this video: Uhm, problably not gonna watch this whole video, because it takes OVER AN HOUR... Me, one hour and 18 mins later: Well, that was pretty short Amazing video, learned so much!!!

Very exited to spend more hours watching this series than actually practicing the game and still get better

Threat levels: Wolf Tiger Demon Dragon God *Barbarian Scout*

When you send a delegation to a civ who's capital is undiscovered to you it should then reveal the location of that city; after all, you just sent you delegation to it, they'd let you know where it is. That has always annoyed me, it's nonsensical.

Potato, I want to complement you on your ability to semi-impromptu such a well thought out walkthrough and deliver it so well. I’m someone who practices public speaking in a few capacities and your ability to think quickly and on your feet without rushing through key moments or using filler words really shines in this video! Really well done!

14:31 Civ6 AI: "Hey, you should settle your nation's capital on this 1 tundra tile island"

Rome: *merely exists* Potato: _Your cities are so close. Your troops are so strong. You are making me nervous!_

"... your ones are more intelligent because they're controlled by a player." Whoa there buddy, let's not make any assumptions.

Watching this video is equivalent to playing 10 games in terms of experience and fun.

"A lot of people think Arabia wants to go for a SCIENCE victory, that's somewhat true, but Arabia is better off going for a SCIENCE victory."

The first impression thing is from the difficulty. Settler gets +2 relations boost, prince doesn't have anything and deity is -6

The first turn can’t possibly tak- oh my god it’s over an hour long he wasn’t memeing

So when it comes to First meetings, this is what i found. - When you meet another civ, one of the three different scenarios will happen: 1. If you meet them within 6 tiles of their nearest city, they can ask you to sample their hospitality. If you agree, their nearest city is revealed to you. 2. If you meet them within 6 tiles of your nearest city, you can ask them to sample your hospitality. Same effects, but other way around than in scenario 1. 3. If you meet them outside of the 6 tiles range, you can propose to exchange locations of capitals. Capitals are revealed for both of you. - Making a favorable first impression: First impressions are determined by the first of your units your rival sees. The effect eventually wears off. - Satisfying/ going against their agenda, So basically the first impression is random score.

i personally think this is amongst the greatest pieces of content you have put out there, easily TOP 5. I remember when i started playing civ and i had such a hard time, that a playthough like this would have helped out a lot. Thank you so much potato for doing this. You are an amazing content creator!

I just started playing Civ VI in the past few days, and I've plowed through about a dozen of your guides. I have never, ever, watched something on RU-vid that is an hour long. Your videos are so dense with useful insight that I would feel disadvantaged if I don't watch everything I can. Hats off! You've turned the learning curve into a mere speedbump.

Is it at all possible for you to do over explained Civ. traits videos on each Civilization/leader? I really liked how you broke down the traits of Arabia and stated what victory types that their Traits are geared towards. Love the Video!!!!

This is why we love you man! Sometimes we can recreate but not understand, watching this informed me of all my mistakes that I do within the game. Really appreciate it man, if you have the time you should do Over Explained series for all the victories you can do.

UI = 'User Interface' in the spirit of overexplaining :D

The first turn took 28 minutes, not 30. RU-vid is going to demonetize you for clickbait.

You missed one point about the scouts which I learned from one of your (!) earlier videos: Scouts can be very rewarding when you meet city states first. Two scouts are often very good because when you meet for example a cultural city state it's like an extra monument you get as a gift (+2 culture). If you meet only one city state first it's just fine, but often you meet two or three first and this is the point when I realized that scouts are extremely useful. Just think of the science or production bonusses you can get from them!

Meanwhile me: "The advisor lady gave this tile more check marks I'll settle here"

One thing I've noticed is that exchanging information with a civ when you first meet them increases their First Impression score. I tested this by reloading and trying both options. I don't remember the exact value of the difference (I did the test over a year ago), but it was enough that I tend to just be nice to every civ I meet IF I can afford a delegation with them the next turn. That seems to be a reliable way to keep the AI from attacking in the very early game.

42:41 I feel like horses being "all tan genital" was under-explained.

When i know I'm on a peninsula, I usually send the warrior towards it. Since the scout is faster than the warrior, I try to send the warrior towards the smaller part of the map. That way, it tends to stay closer to my capitol to defend against barbarians. The scout can cover more ground, so it's better suited to exploring the larger part of the map.

Does that mean the entire game will take years?

Main critique, players being smarter that the AI is taken as a priori. Lol. Great content Potato.

42:42 “tangenital” Oh myyyy... Wasn’t expecting naughty trigonometry in a Civ vid.

30 minutes wow the pain thank you sir may I have another?

I’m playing as Saladin rn and while the production ain’t as good as I like the faith is insane. I was able to spam Lahore units and just roll over Colombia and Zulu. Not sure how good that strat is on higher difficulties but usually dom is hard early game for me and this was stupid easy

250 hours and I never knew about rotating the map. I learn something new every time I watch your videos! This one was great

This is great. I learn the MOST when you're actively commentating your thought process and everything you consider when making decisions. Really does help learn the game.

You can see the adjacency bonuses for districts by hoving over their pin icon, makes it a hell of a lot quicker than opening up ths civopedia :)

I appreciate this series because I’ve only played like 20 hours so this is really helping me learn the game. I’m not fully new to Civ games, I know the mechanics more or less, but for reference on how long it’s been, my last Civ game I played a lot of was Civ Revolution. So while I have the idea down I felt like I was playing with 200 years of rust build up.

Ik you tend to repeat yourself a lot by explaining your early game in every video. But this kind of video is still sooooo helpful and I learn something new every time you come back to this topic

One useful tip with early game scouting, I like to check the settler lens (4) periodically, because sometimes I will see some red tiles which will point me in the direction of a city-state's 3-tile border area (or also the loyalty markers for another civ's city). Easy way to know which way to scout.

I've actually learned a lot from this episode, hopefully next one comes out soon. Good job Potato!

I'm so excited for this series, I have watched only a portion, but it's clear you have put a ton of effort into it.

I find these videos a lot more helpful at improving as a player. I still enjoy the let's plays but I like the longer videos where you explain things in more depth

Just wanna say I recently got onto the game and after watch you I’ve exponentially gotten better. I was able to shave off 100 turns and get some solid victories.(playing on prince because I’m still new.)

I have not played the game for more than 5 hours but i will watch this.

Thanks for putting these together! I was struggling with prince before finding your channel and have worked my way up to Deity since. Great content!

32:35 i was so hyped for the little concept you were about to explain and then the text appeared lol

i don't even play civ anymore. i just keep watching you do it.

I'm just about to start my first game after playing the brief tutorial, and this was extremely informative. Thanks so much!

As a casual (I can only win on Prince) - Listening to the full thought process is nice. Thanks.

Barbarian Scouts (and other Barbarian units) do not go rogue. They start attacking the civilization or the city-state that cleared the Barbarian Outpost those Barbarian units were connected to

Thank you for Overexplaining! Civ 6 is more fun when you learn the game deeply it makes you think constantly

This is a series I didn’t even know I wanted but now I do

Just started this playlist and already learning a lot. Thank you for all the effort you put into this.

"If you die, all of your investment goes down to zero" In other words, if you die, you lose the game

I was only able to finish a game on King before watching your videos. Now I've been able to easily win 2 games on Emperor. Here I come Immortal!

Every time I see Saladin I forget he has that little cone with the point on the top of his hat.

Thank you for this series, Potato. I've been struggling with the transition from Emperor to Deity. This will help. If I may make a suggestion: consider doing a short series about a CivFanatics Game of the Month, since they are widely played with the same map.

32:56 I love your save file names lol "I was wrong about pillaging 01-06" "Proving a Point" etc. I need to start naming my saves like that!

This was a great series man. The first few episodes were so insightful. Thanks for taking the time and I hope you do it again with another Civ

Others: Yes! I settled my city oh boy I can't wait to build my first district! Let's just wait for the other players. PotatoMcWhisky:

Excatly the type of videos that I needed to grasp the basics of CIV 6. Also watched the aztec series. You changed a life of a noob today :) Great work. Kudos to you.🤜🤛

Petition to make #OneLastTurn in the Description #OneFirstTurn Also, holy hell. 30min first turn. That's almost as much as his Let's Play videos. Marathon speed has nothing on PotatoMcWhiskey. Love it.

watching 2 of your vids an me realising how bad i actually was (i just played 2-3 games tho until now) instantly getting better with just the knowledge and turn up the difficulty to the 2nd hardest. thanks for overexplaining, i love things to think about ♥ and it actually made the game way better for me, so i can enjoy science and culture strategies too

Love the video. Hope you can make a video sometime showing how you tactically try to defend against an early invasion with limited defensive units.

Very nice guide, most information isn‘t new for experienced players, but there are always little concepts even veteran players don‘t really know or think about... so even for me as a hardcore civ fan it‘s pretty useful! Great thanks potato!

This game is getting played to its conclusion, right?

Settle one tile SW is a slam dunk to me. Benefits: Sugar turn one for rapid growth, Silk as first territory growth giving you early culture, moving one tile away from the basically useless water tiles, and one tile closer to several tiles the volcano will improve, and your warrior just revealed another luxury you would pick up in the third ring. This settle would be like a shot of adrenaline in the start of your game, and incredible late game potential. The tile you settled is probably equal for a period of time in the middle game, but having great tiles to work early is probably the biggest move you can make in the entire game to get your civ ahead. So..slam dunk.

One thing I’m still trying to figure out is when to extract the resource and when to improve it.

I had worked a good bit of this out myself, I've played several hundred hours. This is the first strategy video I've watched. The way you used your scouts in the early game was very informative for me. Loved the content. OH! the hotkeys, thanks so much! I didn't know about those.

When girls say "You couldn't handle thisss" so you go as long as possible to prove a point

One thing to keep in mind: the +50% bonuses you get from the Enlightenment civic now require +4 adjacency instead of +3, and 15 population instead of 10. I'm not sure when they made that change; I've been watching these videos to catch up since I haven't played in a while.

I would love to have the instant tornado over a barb camp mod, what is the hot key for that ? lol. I actually cheered when that happened, finally, justice for those times when 3 barb camps all spawn at the same time and I face multiple horsemen, horse archers and swordsmen with only a warrior and slinger to sort them out. Great content as always, thankyou :) Avidly wait to purchase a " Im a spuddie" mug , or " left click should NOT mean move!" T shirt, keep up the good work !

It is like trying to learn to add from a collage Calculus professor. There is so much information here I might have to watch it 3 times. This is awesome but, wow the stuff that is going on in your head. Thank you for the video.

I’m not sure how many people share this opinion, but I prefer the longer, single game videos over the multi part let’s plays, similar to the recent maya video

You have a good way of explaining. I appreciate the long form video tutorial. I always struggled with the new Civs even though I’ve been playing the series since Civ I on SNES. You r explanation about the tile product in the starting location intrigue me. I’m inspired to test this out!

You could have also mentioned when you were first talking about policy cards and Discipline vs Survey If you're playing as Germany, because they don't HAVE to make that choice. Iin fact, they don't get a choice at all. They HAVE to take BOTH of them because their ability gives them a military policy card in all governments. But since this is an Arabia game, I forgive it ;) Also, Arabia's ability to get a religion is REALLY good. On paper. It's been my experience that if you don't get the first belief, you won't get the religious beliefs you want. Feed the World and Meeting Houses (it WAS Warrior Monks before one of the patches, but it's Feed the World now) On promotions. One thing I've discovered is that your units don't gain XP if they're ready for a promotion. It's not like D&D where any XP you gain after you gain a level, but before you take the level, rolls over to the next level. Any XP over what's needed for the level is lost. That's why I take a promotion immediately.

42:42 "tangenital" - love it

Instructions unclear Montezuma is screaming at me at 15 eagle warriors are surrounding my capital.

I just really wanted to thank you for a video that helped me so much and required so much patience on your part! Loved it!

All my Civ 6 "god start" games (for instance, I started next to plains/Torres, on a river, near the sea in my current game) end up being disappointing...always. This was never an issue in Civ 5, and I've been playing Civ since the first one in the 90s, and have 1300 hours in Civ 6, so I'm not totally clueless. These games just end up being no better than when I get a half tundra start. It is to a point that I don't even get excited when I see one. Has anyone else experienced this?

Great video McJames. Keep up the great content. At this rate I have more time logged in your videos than actual game play time 🙃

When Rome says they like cities with a lot of land, is that in relation to how much land they control or does the threshold increase as the eras progress?

Coming as a long time Civilization player who wants to get better at making decisions and micromanaging as well as checking if I know all the mechanics. Thanks for making these series, they are exactly what I was looking for. I have a few questions about this first episode and the moves you made and just to make clear I don't think your decisions were any wrong I am just going for more possible gains or not. That part where you were deciding what to build and explained your early construction plan and went with the monument. Why not go for the builder - harvest stone for a faster second builder or military unit(then buy 2nd builder). With the second builder, you get to chop trees for the campus as well and finish improving 3 tiles for craftmanship which you can stop researching midway for the inspiration/eureka to happen. This was how I was thinking to proceed in that situation, let me know what you think while I am jumping to ep 2.

Excruciating detail? Count me in!

And this illustrates why you are such a good gaming 'educator'; clear unambiguous language very very rarely interrupted by 'uh.. er... um'... A joy to listen to. Best wishes.

Only the true fans will know the original title to this video before he changed it.

Love the depth of detail you went into! I came here straight from playing Civ3 so it's refreshing

The AI first impressions of you is determined by how many turns it takes to meet you ( not taking into effect hidden agendas etc) , not by the unit they meet. It improves by 2 points every 10 turns from a preset -10 at turn 1. You met Rome on turn 10 = 10 -2 = -8 You met Pachakuchi on turn 40 = -2 / You also met Georgia on turn 40 = -2 ( plus -2 for not having walls ) giving the -4 from her

This episode has earned my sub and attention. I have had Civ VI for years on Steam but never played it... Now I'm deployed with the military, with my gaming laptop, and have chosen to take a look at games that take more time to learn. Thank you.

4:09 yeah thats true. 4:16 wait what?

Really great video, I always was searching for some detailed explanations on plannig whilst progressing the game. I feel like a just blinked and the video ended. Cant wait on your next one! Greetings from Germany!

Me: *puts on 5 speed* Potato: *starts speaking faster*

Just wanted to circle back and say thank you for this series. It really helped me a lot; I won my first deity game (2nd deity ever, after an aborted random match that went awry early) after watching just the first 2-3 episodes. Even subtle things like choosing to be a harbor empire or a commercial hub empire. Keep up the great content - and thanks, again!

The game is very buggy right now on ps4 - but I’m gettin better thanks to watching some of your other content

Very well explained, Really glad someone out there is sharing this. Your videos have completely changes how I approach this game, Keep it up man.

Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf E overexplained

Great video... been playing this game for quite some time and been struggling ever since I started... watching this videos made me realize how much I don't now about this game!

Hi! Can you can explain one thing: You've decided to build a mausoleum on the hex next to the harbor and city center. Isn't it the perfect spot for the commerce district with an adjustment bonus for the harbor? And the mausoleum can be built on the coastal hex nearby. And generally is it worth trying to adjust harbor to the commerce district by all means or better to think of them separately?

This series will be very helpful for new players picking up the game now. Keep up the good work.

they should change religion so that it works like the culture victory. strong passive pressure and missionars should be like weaker rock bands

I've been playing civ for 25 years now, but i actually learnt a lot from this. Thank you. Your accent is kind of weird but i love your content and your analytic play style. You're so pro.