Fire Camels - Sid Meier's Civilization 7 - Augustus Rome ep 6

Welcome back my Roman citizens. It's time for us to continue our Civilization VII playthrough with Rome, with Warlord Superbius, with Augustus Caesar, baby. We are at turn 74, the year 2175 BC, and we've had a lot of things going on. The war against Benjamin Franklin has kicked off, and we burnt Alabama to the ground. We got our third city of Napoli up there. And I'm starting to figure out a lot more about this game, right? Playing it on my own, getting the series going for you guys. And I keep them thinking to myself, man, I've made so many mistakes from losing our first Legatus. We have two more out there. I could have been building up his upgrades and getting settlements down. I got my second city down in Capua, but I didn't realize that when you put down a city, it's not a city yet, it starts off as a town. And when it's a town, you don't have any production. The production goes to gold. So my grand idea to get the pyramids down here in the Petra, that didn't really work out. So I converted the city, which means we have less gold now. Should have had three towns supporting Rome. I know, trust me, I've learned my mistakes. But we're one turn away from the pyramids getting complete. And when that happens, we can then build up our fishing boats, as the great pyramids will give an extra production and gold to navigable river tiles. That's all these tiles right here. And even these river tiles right there as well. So Capua, gonna have to work on the food for Capua. It's only at 11 food. The production is there as well. I think in this video, what we want to accomplish is reinforcing our northern, western shelf of this continent. Saw some comments saying, Johnny, you got to go after Athens. You got to go after Greece, that city of Dubai, way too close. You know, there's tons of ground for us to make up some new cities right now. I could throw a city right here and get fresh water and lock them out. And then I'd be at four of four settlements. The problem is that if I go to four to four settlements, if I go back to war, and in fact, I'm still at war with Isabella, who's somewhere down there. She declared war on me because she was an ally with Benjamin Franklin. You know, I'm gonna have to deal with unhappiness if I'm then at war with four cities. So part of me thinks that I should just keep three cities and keep that open because we know Benjamin Franklin is going to re-declare war on me. I ran away, I tucked my tail between my legs and ran away after I saw the units that he was bringing to bear. Declare war, that's going to be unavailable for 10 turns. So I'd be willing to bet that he might declare war on me on 10 turns. Isabella, any chance that we can... Nope, no peace. Isabella will reject this deal. So Isabella is still bloodthirsty right now from seeing Alabama burnt to the ground. So we got to talk about strategy. What are we doing next, right? So I want to increase the settlement limit. So if we go to our civics, right now we're working on organized military. This is going to be really good because it's going to give me conscription. I want to build up my military with all the new upgraded units and they're going to cost gold. And so if I get conscription, one minus maintenance per unit, that's going to give me free legions and free archers and all that. So seven turns, we'll get that done. Then we're going to make the switch back to Roman civics and we're going to get all these suckers done. Next up, we got civis romanus. I can build the basilica and that's going to give me a base yield of four gold. Also influence. And now I know what influence does. It helps you influence the war. So I need that. We'll move on to mastery. Two plus gold in the capital for every town you own. Again, I should have had Rome surrounded by towns. With that, I could have been rich. Instead, I got two cities right now. Going to have to make it work. That will then open up legatus pro praetor. Gain a free infantry unit and new settlements that you found. That's pretty nice. One plus settlement limit. That will put me up to five, right? And then we can plop down the new city and still go on the attack. And the last one, another settlement limit. So yeah, looking back, perhaps we should have started with the Roman civics and just built this up. The senatus populus romanus. One plus social policy, princeps, civitatis. And it actually gives you the coliseum there as well. You don't actually have to go for entertainment. So this is what we're going to do. We are going to focus on the Roman civics to get our settlement limit up there. We're going to pick up some influence. But we also have to worry about happiness, right? Now that I have two cities, I want to get more and more buildings. Which means all of these happiness buildings. The Temple of Jupiter, the altar. And I'm much more familiar with the districts now. I'm going to show you guys how to build up districts, all right? So you know that for our civic policies. For our technology, we just got bronze working, which will allow us to get the legion, the spearman, and the archer. Now I saw the units that Benjamin Franklin was bringing. And he's here. So I can't go to war with my slingers and my warriors anymore, right? But other than bronze working, I mean, we've unlocked everything. I could continue to go forward. The arena looks really nice. Base yield, four plus happiness. So again, I need happiness. Engineering, that's culture. I'm all right for culture right now. And navigation, I'm not exactly a seafaring civilization as of yet. We don't have a navy. So I got my eyes set on currency. This is going to unlock the bath, which gives me four plus food. And also adjacency bonuses. I need to build up my cities, get that population up there. And also the market. That's two plus gold. And it gives me specialists. I don't exactly know what specialists do just yet. But we are going to go for currency. We're going to go for the Roman civics. You can see our civic tree. We're getting culture. We're getting gold. Again, two plus gold in all settlements. Oh my god, I could have been rich. I could have been rich. Didn't know what I was doing in this game. But that's the whole point, right? We also have our resources. Only two resources. Gotta start to improve more resources around here. Like the marble resource. Like the kaolin. Like the dates. Like the wool. There's so many around here. We're going to have to go after that. We have our great works. Our codex. Which is giving us two plus science. We have our religion. Which is the god of war. So we can produce units. But only in cities with an altar. Which means I gotta get an altar down here in Roma. The second that I'm building up those military units. We also have a legatus in Roma. Which the logistics recruitment upgrade. 15% production towards training land units. So if I get the altar in Roma and I leave that legatus there. We will be pumping out those legions and those archers immediately. All right. Grow city. Okay. So here I am now. I am ready to go with this. I know what I'm doing. So we want to start building up the district. But the district has to connect to your capital. So you're always going to have the tiles for that. We have the pyramids coming in the next turn. So if we're going to grow this city. Let's get even more fishing boats. All right. Boom. Fishing boat right there. Get it done. Unfortunately, I think Rome is. I think Rome took that tile. Can you switch tiles from city to city? I would have preferred this tile to belong to Capua. But because I upgraded this woodcutter. It took the borders away. Oh man. So many mistakes. Right? Augustus has made peace with Benjamin Franklin. We know that. Okay. So other than that. No, that's the unlocks. I don't need to look at that. And last but not least. They're the yields. Right? So 26 gold per turn. We're killing it for money. And I could have done even better. Influence. We're at 10 per turn. Science. I want to improve that. But we're basically tied for second. Culture is good. Happiness is good. And we got three cities. The most of everybody that we've met so far. All right. So I think that is a good enough. Long enough. Boring intro. Let's move on into the future. In Civilization 7. Whoa. Napoleon Bonaparte. Soldiers from the summit of these pyramids. 40 centuries of history. Looks down upon you. And look how beautiful they are. Before they got stripped of the gold. And the marble. Oh my god. The great pyramids. Constructed in our second city of Capua. In the year 2150 BC. Beautiful man. Hell yeah. All right. So you can see what that does. Oh that frustrates me so much. So I pose a question to my Roman citizens. Is there any way to get that tile to be worked by this city? Or once a tile flips. It's there forever. Please let me know. Because now I got these two tiles. Some production. And an extra gold. You can see why this tile doesn't have the extra production. Or the gold. Right. So all of a sudden. That tile. Boom. All of a sudden. These tiles right here on these rivers. Extra production. Extra gold. Right. Look at this tile right down here. The camels. Three production. Two gold. Oh baby. Next up. I was thinking about building the Petra in Capua. But that is the wrong thing to do. Right. Because the amount of desert tiles that I would be working. It's there. There. Let's not do that. I've learned my lesson. Let's not go down that route. I can now start to build up military units here. But I want to build up all of these other ones. Right. So with Capua. All you got to do is look at the top. Right. We're happy. We got some gold. Got good production. We need food. If we're going to grow. And that thing is looking right at me. The garden. Plus seven. Where are we going to get the plus seven? The plus seven is going to go over here. All right. That is a desert tile. It's not being affected. I'm not building up the Petra. It is a lot of production. But unless you improve it. It doesn't matter. I've got to get my district going. That garden is way too good to pass up. Boom. Get that garden down. Right there on that coast. All right. So grand fields have erupted in one of the deadliest explosions. Known to mankind. All right. Well, there it is. The gods are still angry about the Alabama situation. And look at what we got here. A little Isabella freaking scout. Taking a look at my new city of Napoli. We can't have that. Wait a minute here. We can always practice with our new. What's it called? What is this thing called again? Hang on. I'll get it. Yeah. The ballista. Which way is he going to go? All right. Chase him away. I want to use the ballista on the scout training. All right. Here we go. Now, first, I want to get my great general next to it. So I can get some. What's it called? Experience for this. You can see the Roman army marching north, baby. Look at these guys trying to steal my dates. Ain't going to happen, buddy. Ballista. Take aim. Take aim, buddy. Hang on. Take aim. There you go. I love watching this aim. Ready fire, babe. Oh my God. What have we done for XP? The poor scout. He's like, what the ****, man? You could just take me prisoner. You don't have to use the freaking siege. Look at them and reloading and everything. Oh, that's so cool. So cool, man. All right. So we're going to be growing Napoli now, right? So when I look around Napoli, what do we want? I already have the plantation down on the incense to help out with the science, right? So I think I want to just continue to improve that camels. That camel resource right there. In fact, when I look at my resource allocation, yeah, I want to get a camel. And I want to get this camel right here. And I want to put them both in Roma. Camels are really good because it increases the number of resources that can be assigned to a city. So we can actually, oh, it's all about the support. I get it now. The towns are there to support the city. Ah, messed up big time. All right. So grow city. Ah, yeah. I'm not going to be my district is going to be down this way. So I might as well extend my borders this way. Don't even worry about what that tile is going to get us. It's about the districts. All right. So with these towns right now, we're just going to slowly build up all the extra production and gold to just go to Rome. That would be nice. All right. Speaking of Rome, we got the walls. Oh, my God. Hang on a second. Let's take a sexy look at this. That's Rome. All right. Oh, my God. We are growing, ladies and gentlemen. Warlord supervious. I love the districts. Now the garden and the library with the river in the background is beautiful. All right. So what are we building next? Now the altar for military production. What's the big one that I want here? We're not going after any wonder. We already got the one wonder here. Now that allows me to put maybe a monument alongside of the wonder because the monument gives you adjacency bonuses for mountainous terrain. And oh, wow. So the monument going right there gets a bonus from that. And that that is 100% where I'm going to put the monument. The villa. Oh, man. Yep. Okay. So I'm going to be putting the villa for happiness and influence in that tile. I'm going to be putting the monument for culture and influence on that tile as well. That's perfect, man. But that's going to take some time to grow. So let's spend some time on some production buildings. Barracks. All right. So now also you got to remember the barracks that's going to cost me two gold per turn and minus two happiness. I only have two more gold per turn for Roma, but the happiness is fine. We're going to be building that back up when we get the bath and currency done, right? So we're going to go for the barracks. Barracks. I get the most out of the barracks in these two tiles right here. Okay. So what buildings do I have in? I have the gar- I don't have a granary, right? Granary? I don't have a granary. That's perfect. So if I don't have a granary, I don't have to feel bad about building on these farm tiles. All right. We'll get food from our river and from the bath that we're going to build and all that good stuff. I need production right now. So we're going to go after the barracks and we're going to slap it down right on that farm. All right. You must convert an urban district to build a barracks. Yes. So bye-bye farm and hello barracks. All right. That's going to take five turns to complete. We lose out on the extra food that that farm was going to bring us, but overall that tile will be more productive when it's all said and done. Grow city. All right. So we're growing this city as well. I wanted to get more resources. The marble resource, 10 plus production towards wonders. All right. Well, I will be building wonders right there. Is that grassland? That is grassland. Yeah. Let's do it. Let's get that right now. Don't worry about all these other tiles. Uh, get the resource tiles. There you go. So we're going to get that marble and that's going to allow us, it'll probably pop up the next turn. Yeah, it'll pop up the next turn. Uh, you guys, you guys were all right. I can't move anybody else out. Uh, the Legatus is still back there. What is this extra? What is this guy doing in there? Yeah, the slinger. You don't need to be back there, buddy. You can move up. I can move you into this army right here. The Legatus is enough to, uh, protect Roma for right now. I don't see any bad, uh, encampments up here. So if any bad guys are going to come, they're going to come through these two cities right here. Napoli and Capua. I'll have time. Oh, my general as well. He can maneuver very quickly. Okay. So there you go. Let's continue into the future. Five more turns for our civics. Seven turns for our science. Uh, we still had a minus one for Isabella. Isabella, can we end this nonsense? Proposed peace? Of course not. Bloodthirsty Isabella. She's a vampire. All right. Sounds good. Um, all right. These scouts are running away. The scout is going to be faster. I'm not going to go scout chasing right now. Uh, but we have our army. So in the army, uh, one slinger. Yeah, that's fine. Two warriors. I just keep the, uh, but the ballista will move so much faster if it's in the army. Yeah. I'm going to take one of the slingers and I'm going to unload them. Boom. And I'm going to get the ballista and put them into the army with the, uh, with the Legatus. All right. We're going to move that army back to Napoli and we're just going to defend it for right now. There's no need to go on the attack anywhere. I do want to farm some experience and build up my, uh, my levels for my Legatus. Uh, but, uh, take the time. Heal up, buddy. You know what? Yeah, you can stay up there just in case I got enough down here in these other cities. If I need to send this guy out to Capua, he'll be not. Yes. You can stand right on the terracotta army. All right. There you go. That's a pretty nice place to chill. How about an ancient wall just to have it up? Because that would be the first city to get attacked and it would suck if I spend some money and then I'm below 140 and I need it and I don't use it. So you know what? I've just talked myself into it. This is our frontline city. It's only 140. I'm going to do this bag. There it is. It needs to have it because all of a sudden they could have a general with an army stacked and boom, they walk right into my, uh, uh, to my borders. Uh, we need happiness as well. John happiness is all right right now for Napoli. I got all the happiness buildings. I'm coming in the Coliseum. Um, is it the Coliseum? It was another bit. Oh man, it was another one. I'm remembering the freaking bonuses from previous games. We'll get there next turn. Let's move into the future. So I do want to make peace with, uh, Isabella. What do we have here? The open markets diplomatic action targeting you has completed. All right, good. Isabella. This is foolish. Come on. All right. She's not going to say okay to peace until I teach her a lesson and spill some, uh, it's not Spain, Egypt, right? Egyptian blood. Uh, next turn. Yeah, we're good. Two more turns for my civic policy. Listen to freaking music, baby. Ooh. Oh, hell no. What do I do? There's nothing I can do. That is a Benjamin Franklin, Mississippi in a settler. Are they going up here? You've got all this space down here, Benjamin Franklin. What is your problem? We need military. I'm going too far with this. Yep. It is time to pump out those military units, ladies and gentlemen, legions. All right. I don't want to waste the money upgrading, and that means I am weak right now. We need to have my generals, both with an army ready to go. So that means two archers for each one and two legions for each one. That's eight military units. Let's get to work. All right. I got two cities, so that's pretty good. I can use both of them. We're going to get this civic done in one turn. We are good. Let's keep an eye on this Mississippian settler right here. Where are you off to? Where are you going as they disappear? Oh, they're going to the freaking alcohol. Yeah, I'd do it too. Civic discussion of public policy at public meetings. Cicero. Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meeting. Look where it all started. You don't know who you can trust, right? Change policies. All right. So culture is still good. Gold is good. I do like this because we are going to be constructing units right now. Training an infantry unit grants culture equal. Oh my god. If I'm going to be training all these units right now, it should Cersus Honorum be in place of charismatic leader. I mean, I'm warlord supervious. I'm about as charismatic as it gets, but that one looks pretty damn good, right? That's got to be better, especially if I'm producing all those units right now. 5% production towards military units in the capital. Auxilia, I could throw that out there as well. Do I want gold? Oh man, take away the gold. It's only like two gold or yeah, it's only two gold or six gold per turn. I can deal with that. Give me more freaking production. Scout movement, science influence. Yeah, we are doing this for the next little bit. I am focusing on military construction. Here we go. I want the camels. Bang. Camels have been taken. Now, when you go to a resource allocation, right? Watch Roma. You could get four different resources in Roma. These resources all do different things. Incense is improving the science by 10%. Gypsum is giving me two plus production, right? If I bring camels over there, watch what happens. Oh, look at that. I got like two extra ones. It's like it didn't even take up. So if I take it away, I have two extra. If I put them in there, I got four extra. I can turn Rome and just into the resource capital of the world, baby. Because I got two camel resources I'm going to stack in there. Come on. The Achilles River is flooded. Oh, man. They're getting some devastation over there. Although that can be good, especially if you got money. So we're still doing the Roman civics, right? Mastery. Yes, I'm going to get mastery. You know what? That actually will fix the gold that I'm just missing out on, right? Two plus gold in the capital for every town you own. So that's only going to give me two plus gold. But I'm going to have another two towns on the way. There's an extra four gold. It's a nice one to pick up, right? Let's do it. It's the Roman civics production. All right. So this is our city of Capua, right? Now, I want to build up other things here as well. But we are in the great military production. So even though it's going to take a little bit longer, the fact is it'll still get done. You can work on the archers. The unit that costs more, the Legion will be produced in Roma. The unit that is going to take a little bit longer, but it's also cheaper, will be built in Capua. Woo. All right. So what do we got? The Methena volcano has erupted. Thankfully, damage appears to be light. Volcanoes are still exploding. What do we got? A wonder. Machiavelli has finished constructing the world wonder, the Mausoleum of Theodoric. So, oh, no. The Mausoleum of Theodoric. Three plus production is the base yield. 100% yields in HP from pillaging. I dare you to come pillage my lands. And one plus militaristic attribute point. Damn, man. If I knew that, that would have been a wonder I should have gone for. What? With a one plus settlement limit as well. There it is, ladies and gentlemen. The beautiful Roman legions. They are on the battlefield. Look at those suckers, man. With their javelins and their shields. I don't even like to think about what it must have been like in like, Bronze Age warfare or like medieval. Not even medieval. Ancient warfare, right? It's, oh my god. It's just terrifying to think of. So many bodies and just chaos, man. What would the smell be like? That's the thing that gets me, man. You watch movies and you see action scenes. You see gore, but just wait to the future where we get smells in movies. I guarantee you it's gonna happen. All right, so I think we are good. One more turn for currency and then we can start getting our gold back on track. I like the sound of that as well. Please wait. Boom! Oh, that one hits deep, man. How I wish I could go back to a time where you didn't have to worry about money. And now it's like every decision you make. Every ******* thought that goes through your head. It's all about, can I afford this? You know, can I make that work? How, oh my god. Currency. Damn currency, man. So what did that unlock for us? Currency. That's gonna give us the bath, right? Food. That's gonna give us the market. Gold. And that's also gonna give us one plus specialist limit in all cities. Now, I am not familiar with the specialists. I know that when you get the option to grow, you can basically, I think you can put specialists into buildings like the library or the market. And instead of growing on your land, you just make the market or the library more effective. So you lose out on certain yields. But obviously, if you put a specialist in the library, what do you get? Science, right? Same thing with the market. You get gold. So we'll worry about that a little bit later. But I wanna just spread out and get as much land as I can and get these settlements done also. Then this, another volcano. Oh my god, they're all going up, man. Oh, that's currency. It's five, oh, I'm an idiot. Yeah, five turns. I was wrong. You were right. See, this is why I like to bounce some ideas off the Roman citizens. My goofy ass. You know, I'm too worried about war. You guys help me out. Thank you very much, my YouTube and Twitch scouts. That is absolutely the right call. We are going to go for writing mastery. Get that codex. Get more science. And that will make military training easier to obtain. So my older units that I'm not going to upgrade because I don't want to waste the money. They can stay on defense. I'm not going to throw them just into the meat grinder as cannon fodder. That's just going to get in the way. I want to bring my real army to bear. You know how I will use the fortifications and all that. So we are going to leave our slingers and our warriors behind to defend. But our legions and our archers. They're going to make their way to the great general. All right, general. You're good, buddy. All right. So now you stay in there for now. Stay until I'm ready to go. I'm not unpacking my military. I need a quick response force. If anything crazy happens. All right. I think we are good. The map looks clean as well. Isabella, anything? Proposed peace. Still nothing. My woman. What is the problem? Freaking declare war on me. You do nothing about it. I haven't seen no army. Haven't seen anything. Me and your ally, Benjamin Franklin. We made peace. Although, oh man, it might just be peace for one more turn, man. Hang on a second. All right. Here we go. Next turn, ladies and gentlemen. Let's see what it brings our way. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. What is that? Oh, that's the. That is. Okay. That's okay. That's a trader. That is the unique trader that's coming from Chickasaw. Not trator, trader. They're trading goods with us, right? Bringing gold back to Capua. So I'm all right with that. As long as we still good. We still good, brother. Declare war. I can declare war on him and it'll be a formal war and I'll have support on my side. Thank you very much for that early boost that we got, but I'm not looking for that right now. I feel like I'm on the back foot right now. I have to get everything back under control so that I can begin to dominate. I had a horrible start to this playthrough, but all in good fun, right? That's what Civilization VII is. Roma, continue to get those legions done. I want an entire army. Okay, we are good. Let's take a quick look at the yields here for these guys. Have we fallen off? Whoa, look at Isabella's gold. 50 per turn. Now, the thing about Isabella, she is a, she is very good at gold. She starts gain 300 gold every time you discover a natural wonder. If she explores, she's going to get gold. It's all gold, right? It's all gold. Unique building. There we go. The Moratory Temple. Mortuary. Oh my god. Unique building for gold. Jeez. Next turn. Here we go. Mortuary. Yes, that's the one. Thank you, Donny Hines. What was that? Oh yeah, Cicero again. We got Civis Romanis. Two plus gold in the capital for every town you own. Boom. All right, so that should go up a little bit now. Do I have to slap on the policy? No. All right, so I'll get gold back. We'll get gold going again. Choose celebration. Woohoo. We love the Tyrant Day. Tyrant superb, man. Everyone loves them. What do the Roman citizens want? Now, I can really, oh my god. Science or production towards infantry units. And just spend the next 10 turns flying them out, man. Oh my god. It might be too much, though. Hang on. You're already doing good. Your military is already doing good. You know what, guys? I think this is one where we got to go for science. My military is already there. Every turn that passes, I get stronger and stronger. And the fact that I'm not at war right now, what I mean by that is, I don't have front lines where I'm sending units off to die just yet. I'm pretty good, man. You can already make them in one turn. That's what I'm saying, right? So the Roman citizens are spamming production. I am a tyrant for a reason. Science it is. All right. Yeah, there might be riots in the Roman streets right now. The unit that I'm going to be building the most in this game is range units for defense. I'm going to conscript archers. I'm going to do it. We'll see what happens. I don't know if that was the right call, but 50 gold, that's not enough. If I can get 15% production on range units for the rest of the game, and I don't know if that's the case. Maybe it's just the rest of the era. I don't know. But that's way too good to pass up. All right. So we got mastery done for Civis Romanis. That's going to give us more gold. We got to get Legatus Pro Praetor. Gain a free infantry unit. Yep. Settlement limit. Yes. And what's this? Latin, Latinitas? 10 plus food, gold, and culture in towns with a specialization. Oh, 10%. Okay, not bad. What the hell? What happened to my... Oh, no! The camels, they got ******* burned to a crisp. They're in between two volcanoes. No wonder my resources got taken away. Holy crap. Well, oh my God. There's even lightning in this smoke, man. Well, you know, it is what it is. It sucks to be there, but I got to get that back. What I really like about this game is you don't have to waste time getting workers over there to repair. You can just spend some money. All right. Repair the camp. And wha-bam! The camels are back, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah! I'm fighting the gods! And Warlord Supervius as well. Oh, ----. You know what? Never mind. Don't taunt the gods, you idiot. Do not taunt the gods. We're at that time. No, no, do not taunt the gods right now. Those freaking volcanoes are going to be going off over and over again. Resort. Thank you, camels. They're back. Roma's got it again. Wow. Now, we take our general, our level three general. We already got the Ballista in there. Well, welcome to the army, Mr. Legion. Boom, baby! Next up, the archer. He can't move just yet. Neither can you. You're on your way. Boom, boom, boom. Get up there. All right. So this is going to create this army. Once I have this army, then I'm going to create another army for this guy. Maybe the second guy, I don't need a siege unit. And the second guy, maybe just all archers. Because he's like the maybe three archer. I don't know. We'll get there. Just keep constructing the units right now. You. You can just fortify because this city is going to be under siege from either Greece or these guys down here. So build up your fortifications and see what you got. Same thing with you. Over here, build up those fortifications. All right. So Napoli is defended very nicely. Staying off the volcano tile, staying off the river tile so we don't get any natural disasters hurting our Roman units. We are good. Three turns for writing mastery. 12 turns for the Logatus Proprietor. OK. We are good. Isabella, any chance for peace? Suing for peace? Hallelujah! Peace deal to end the Roman war. Was that even a war? It was a cold war. We didn't even have any freaking. I attacked their scout. I used their scout for freaking target practice. Thank you. All right. Yes, yes, yes. Now, go away. How dare you, woman? You're the one who came up here to me. I don't even know where you are. Go away. So I'm still looking around. I need that settler count to go up. Happiness is going up real well. Oh, my God. One plus food, one plus production. Oh, no. The camels, they got it again. I just spent. How much does it cost? 20 gold. That's probably like the equivalent of like 20 million or some ----, man. What the hell? All right. Get back in there again. There's 50 gold that I just spent on you goofballs. Yeah, the gods are angry at me. I'm fighting the gods right now. See, I shouldn't have freaking. I shouldn't have tempted the gods. I shouldn't have freaking talk my ----. The camels are in between two volcanoes. Pyro plastic flow just going down there and trapping them. They're burning to death. They're choking to death on the smoke. It's just an absolute hell hole. But whatever. I got to get my traders going. So camels get back there to Roma. Thank you very much. But also, yeah, look at these tiles. Now this tile has become a hell of a tile. This tile is getting better as well, right? So improving these tiles around the volcanoes might not be a bad idea. Every time that the volcano goes off, I'm going to have to repair it. But that's pretty damn good, man. But I still want more resources right now. You join the military. You, you go over there. You down here. Join the military. All right. And that's going to give us two legions, an archer, and a ballista. My grade three legatus, my second one. No, he's my first one, right? Because he came back. No! Oh, I had somebody in there. Oh, OK, my bad, my bad. Go back to Napoli. There you go. All right. So now you, you can go back to Roma. We're going to go with that guy then. So two. So I'm done the legions then. And then I got to just send you up there. And I got to send you over there. So I'm done. I'm done producing military units. Next turn. Fortifications complete. 75 gold. Oh, that was the, the trader from the Mississippian. Oh my god. Not again. The fill green fields have erupted. Jesus, these volcanoes, man. Benjamin Franklin has established a new trade route. Oh, I'm getting 12 gold per turn because of Benjamin Franklin's trade route. Thank you, Benjamin Franklin. We are becoming friends again. The agenda of Isabella has changed your relationship. Oh, I'm hostile. Yeah, hostile with Isabella. Hostile with Benjamin Franklin. But I'm happy here with Machiavelli. So everyone's saying that I got to go and attack Machiavelli. Right now, you know, he's unfriendly with Isabella. And he's hostile towards Benjamin Franklin. Sun Tzu, art of war, right? Like everybody's my enemy. If your enemies are making mistakes, don't interrupt them. I need these two borders to connect. So these two are battling one another. You know what I mean? I will have that happen. So I don't think it's in our best interest to go after what's his name, Machiavelli. Johnny, ask him to be friends. I don't want to ask him to be friends because if he then settles near me, I want to be able to go to war with him and denounce him, right? I also don't want to do any cultural exchange or anything because now I know about influence. And I want to save up influence for inevitable wars. I know I'm going to be at war. That's what I want to build up the villa to help out with the influence. And the same thing with the monument, right? Alongside of my wonder in Roma. The bath is available right now. And it wouldn't be Rome if I didn't clean up my Roman citizens. The Romans, what were they? One of the first, if not the first, to have public baths and everything. Keeping their citizens clean. First world nation, come on. We can't be having body odor out there on the beautiful streets of Roma. Let's go. Bath. All right. So they want me to put the bath right there. That is the perfect place to put the bath. On the river with the fishing key. Fresh water from the Ofanto River, baby. Get it done. It's also going to give me some culture and I think some science as well. Five turns for that. Gonna get it done. Get it done. One more archer. We are good down here. Command units. All right. So you, sir. I'm pretty good. I don't want to go away from my empire. I've learned my lessons with that. The unfriendly hostile villages can pop up based on events. So I know, you know, you kind of feel like you want to do something. But you're in a good spot. I'm on my frontline city, Napoli. I have my backline city capital blocked by these two guys. I can easily get my general over to here in three turns. And these guys would be able to hold out for three turns for sure. I can even sacrifice them, right? So we're in a really good spot right now. We're getting the freedom to grow. And in this game, if you stay at war, it's just like in real life. You know, war doesn't actually work out for anyone long term. Except for the war profiteers. You know what? I should take that back, actually. But we're not there yet. We're not at the military-industrial complex just yet. Next turn, ladies and gentlemen. Let's move into the future. So what is that? What is that? Is that the... Oh my god. Not... No! The camels! Not again! Generation after generation of camel keep getting burnt to a crisp. Mount Etna, what have you done? I gotta stop talking ---- to the gods, man. Walter Benjamin. All right. So with that, we get one plus science on our science building. So the one library that we have. But I get a codex. That's huge, man. And I can also steal technology now. So if I go to my codex, what did that give us? Science, right? Yes! So I got myself four plus science just for my two codexes, right? So now that we finished that, we wanted to get that second codex, right? Which will improve our science. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hang on. Science for military training. Yeah, but that's still 16 turns away. Let's get the next codex from the currency mastery. It's only seven turns. Let's pick up these masteries. We're in a nice calm spot right now. Well, everything's calm except for the... Oh, Jesus Christ. All right, here we go again. Repairing the camp. 20 gold, 20 mil, just like that. The gods. Every time I repair the camp, there's a freaking thunderbolt from the heavens that come down and ignite the volcano again. I'm sorry, Jupiter, Venus. Please just let me build up my camels, man. What's your problem? Damn, didn't I sacrifice enough to the freaking... To the gods in my war against... I must have done something wrong. All right, so you know what? Let's take a... Let's switch off then a little bit here. If we're going to build up science and happiness and food over here, let's just start with the culture and the influence over here, all right? Yeah, because we're falling behind on those two. Let's get the... Especially the influence. So you know what? I'm going to start doing that. The villa and the monument is going up, all right? So it's saying if I build it here, but that's going to be on a farm, and that's got some good production right now. I'm going to take this tile right here, all right? Tile right there is next to the pyramids. Oh, but it's not next to the mountain then. I want that tile. No, no, no. I'm done. Whatever. I messed up my organization earlier on. I got to just move into the field. I'm only giving up one happiness by putting it here. We're still next to the... Yeah, do it right there. Bang, all right? So that's going to help us out with some happiness, and it's going to help us out with some influence as well here in Capital. We got our military built up. Now I got to get everything else going. I'm going to have to get that fourth city as well. Don't know where I want to put it. I don't know where I want to put it. Got to build up the rest of the cities, and I need a military to be able to protect my next city as well. Let's move into the future, and we're going to get some growth in Napoli as well. Already up to five population. That's good. Ah, we can grow this. All right, so what did I say, right? I wanted to start going after... Yeah, I want to start going after these resources. The elefantes, the wool, all this. Yeah, I want all this. Oh my God, can I even get this? One, two... No, I can't get the wine. That's all right. All right, so just... Yep, I want to unlock all of this. I want to get that next. All right, so Napoli. We're going to try to get as much food there as we can. I don't need the granary. That's fine. Command units. All right, so you and you switch. There it is. This guy. Boom, right into the army, and you, sir. Got to get out of the river. No volcano... Oh my God. Well, that's good and bad news. Bad news, the river flooded again. But that's going to add more food to all these potential tiles that I want to work. I just want to get this tile for Capua, man. Capua. Do I have to repair any boats? Nope, don't have to repair anything. And also, if I want to build the fishing key, which will give me one plus food on fish... Oh my God. In hindsight... Well, you know what? One, two, three. If I could build the fishing key over there, but I'd have to have the district connected to that. It's a big pain, man. It is a big pain trying to figure out where you should build things. And you start... Oh, filigree fields is no longer active. Finally, I have defeated the go... I mean, I mean, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I said no such blasphemy. I do apologize. Please don't go active again. Legatus. Yes. And boom. All right. So to give you guys a visual on the screen, this is my second Legatus. My at-home Legatus. He's got the bulwark, but he's also got the 15% towards land units. The recruitment, right? So this guy stays at home, but he also has himself two legions and two archers. So this is the guy I move around to protect, right? He's going to stay in Roma. That way he can reach Capua or Napoli if he needs to, right? So I'm going to sleep him right there in Roma. All right. And then over here in Napoli, I got myself the aggressive Legatus. He's got a ballista, two warriors, and an archer unit. And if anyone attacks me, this is the one that's going to be sent right out. Okay. There you go. We got some growth for Roma. Narrative choice, ladies and gentlemen. A Roman Argentarius emerges from the baths only to find that his clothes have been stolen. Oh, come on. I try to help the people by getting rid of BO, and now people are using that as an opportunity to steal from others. There is only one response to this offense. A cursed tablet. He pulls out his stylus and a thin slab of lead. Thieves deserve ill health. 25 science. Thieves deserve sleep deprivation. Oh, my God. How would I punish a thief? Giving someone poor health, that's pretty shitty. You know what I mean? That ain't cool. But sleep deprivation, you can always recover from that from just getting a good night's sleep. So we're just going to keep them in a noisy light room for a few days. Yeah, that seems pretty good. Don't be stealing people's clothes when they're in the bath, you dickheads. Culture it is. There it is. All right. I'm not having that. I can absolutely make that call. It's not like it's an execution. Well, I'm not sentencing somebody to years in prison. That's just a little sleep deprivation. Fine. Sleep is so important. I know, but you know, so is your health. I don't like the idea of making someone permanently ill, man. Like, what am I, Big Pharma? Oh, God, what have I done? Continuing. Oh, you know what? There you go. Some more resources. Yeah, let's get that science. Let's get that science. Is that going to mess with... Oh, hang on a second. That might mess with this tile. No, that tile still belongs. I can't attack those tiles. That tile still belongs. So I'm going to go for this incense right here. 10 plus science. We're going from 27 science per turn up to 30 science per turn. Little things like this. And if I go back to my resources page, right, it should pop in. Yeah, there it is. Two incense now in Roma. Working four different resources. I want more. I want more, baby. So now in Roma, what are we going to build up? Don't need a wonder. Don't need any more units. You know what? I do want to continue to build up, but there's something that I need to take care of right now. And I don't want to... How much is it going to cost to get them? Scout, 120. Save the money. I'm going to spend a couple of turns in getting scouts. We need to get back to exploring the entire world. All right. Are you guys in agreement with that? I got to go find out where Isabella is. I got to go discover the water as well. Can I even go in the water? I got sailing. I need navigation probably, right? Mathematics, future tech. I need to get explorers out there. Okay. Building up the explorers for my Roman citizens. They want to know what's out there. Well, well, well. The city of Cusa. And this time Benjamin Franklin positions his settlement in a very defensive fortification. Mountains everywhere. Making it so I have to funnel my armies in here. I can't just overwhelm them. However, ladies and gentlemen, this is where I bring back my lesson about Sun Tzu. I was not going to expand here next. I had the idea of expanding here. Lots of land up here. Lots of resources, right? So I could just get this whole thing and try to incite a war between Benjamin Franklin and Greece. Let the others fight each other. So if I go to Greece right now, and if I go to... He's hostile with Benjamin Franklin. He's hostile. Why would I get involved in that? Now their borders are touching. You know they're going to be going to war against one another. I think that's the way to go, ladies and gentlemen. I think that's the way to go. Although I could also get my Pax Imperatoria III up there by capturing that city. And then maybe it moves on to the next one, right? Oh God. What was it again? Hang on. Military. Yeah, I got to get this. Next task. Assemble an army including at least one siege unit. Then attack and capture another civilization settlement. I got that one. After that, Pax Imperatoria... What do I got to do? Found a settlement. I have to have six cities or something like that. And I have to have nine of them. Oh my God. So inevitably, I have to have like 12 settlements. Captured settlements count as two. Mine count as one. That's going to be a real big pain in the ass to go for. Narrative choice. What do we got? Omissive... Missive? Omissive to the divine. Oh my God. Sulis Minerva. The Argentarius angrily carves into the lead tablet. Oh, this is what I told. Permit no sleep to the criminal until he reveals himself and delivers my tunic into my hands. The cursed tablet splashes into the sacred well. Damn, there it is. All right. Sleep deprivation there. Oh, it's a curse. It's not even a sentence. Oh man, maybe the curse... Oh, you know what? Whatever. We're using Roman curses. Machiavelli has completed the milestone for wonders of the ancient world. Machiavelli is building wonders, ladies and gentlemen. He got the Petra done, you son of a... I wanted the Petra. And he's got the desert tiles to get it done. All right. Whoa. Oh, this is no doubt going to be a war. I didn't even see this. Did anybody else see this city get founded? I did not even see the city of Homa. What is Benjamin Franklin doing? He is laying claim to the entire continent right now. Coosa, Huma, Alabama, Chickasaw. That's not even his capital as well. Where is this guy going? Milestone, great library. Milestone, I got the science? What did I just do? Great library. Yeah, we got that, Oscar Wilde. Thank you very much. The Great Work Codex has been added to the library. Oh, right. I got another codex, ladies and gentlemen. So that's going to give me six science in total now. Beautiful. And that will allow me... Hang on a second. If I focus on the science tree now. Remember, we were talking about this. You guys wanted military training. Now it's only going to take 23 turns. So I forget how high it was up there before. Was it 20 turns or 28 turns or 23 turns? Now it's down to 13. So by picking up those, we might have actually made it faster in the long run. Maybe not faster in the long run, but much more efficient, right? Much more efficient. I'll take that. The volcano blowing up. Yep. And also, what is this? An unmet player has completed a milestone for Silk Roads. So is that culture? No, that's economy. Somebody is flying on the economy as well. I still don't really know how to read the victory condition screen. It's a little bit complicated. Not experienced with it just yet. Now in Roma, we got the... I got two scouts done now. Yeah, two scouts. That should be enough. So we'll send these two scouts down. They can uncover the rest of the continents. What are we doing now here in Roma? Making some gold again in Roma, which is nice. Don't need any of these wonders. The specialty buildings would be very nice, but I want to complete what I said I would do. That is the monuments and the villa for some happiness and for some influence and for some culture. All right, so let's go. Villa right there. Five happiness, two influence right alongside the Terracotta Army and the mountain and our capital of Roma. There goes that district right there. Beautiful. Please, God, go to war. Those who steal from one person spend their lives in shackles and chains. Those who steal from all people in purple and gold. Damn, man. So if you just steal from one person, you're a thief. But if you steal from everyone, you're the government. The Roman government. You wear purple and gold. It's crazy. All right, it's been happening for so long, right? Gain a free military unit in the settlement that you found. That's nice. One plus settlement limit. Bang, baby. And latinitis. All right, change policies. So you know what? If we got our scouts moving, to hell with it. It's going to play into our favor. Let's get survey going. And last but not least, you know what? We do need some culture. Let me throw it in there. Bang. All right, there you go. 23. Now our scouts are going to move a little bit further with every turn. Get it done, boyos. Civic. Let's see. So we got the Pro Praetor done. Next up is going to be the Senatus Populusque Romanus. One more settlement limit. And we actually have access to the Colosseum then. Which is going to be three plus culture for the base yield. And two plus happiness on quarters in this settlement. Now, what's a quarter? Is that like barracks? Is that like where infantry units would be? Does a library count as a quarter? I know there's warehouses, there's quarters. I got to figure out what that is as well. But you know what? I just want to get all of the Roman civics done. And then we can start focusing on this. So organized military is something we want to do. But we're making enough gold now where it's actually pretty good. We also have to spend that gold, right? There's no point in holding on to it. And now with my settlement limit at five. And it's going to be at six in 18 turns. I pose the question to all my Roman citizens. What should our plan be for the next three cities? Am I going to build one here? One here? And one here? Am I going to attack here? Here? And here? Do I go take Chickasaw? Do I just try to farm some experience, right? I am warlord supervious. But now that I have got my head wrapped around this game a little bit more. It's about making the right decisions, right? Thinking about how it's going to affect us going forward. So I don't want to go over the settlement limit. I don't want to be at war with happiness being a factor. So we're going to keep that nice and low. But I think we want towns to help build up Roma. I'd like to take a town right here. Take a town right here. That's two. That'll put me up to five. And that'll keep my one available that I can go and attack with. Romans, I need to know. Because the future is looking bright for your Roman Empire. But I do sense that war is on the horizon. Will it be us versus the Mississippian? Will it be us versus Greece? Or can I finesse this and actually get my enemies to battle one another? Let me know what you think. And I will see you all next time.