Rome's Onslaught | Civilization VI — Glory of Rome 12 | TSL Giant Earth King

Hello Legion, this is Hadrian. Thank you for being here. Let's play some more Sid Meier's Civilization VI in our Glory of Rome series. So we need to perhaps consider implementing this policy, Professional Army, 50% discount on all unit upgrades. But the issue is that we really don't have anything that we can... I mean, the extra production in all cities could potentially go away. We'd lose a little bit of production, but we have a lot of production otherwise. I might save that until I actually have upgrades to do, but we're going to need to implement that soon. This pikeman, I'm going to give him, ooh, double support bonus. If you need a reminder, actually I need a bit of a reminder, but let's look at combat bonuses. Support bonuses, when defending against an enemy attack, a defending unit can gain a plus two combat bonus for every adjacent friendly unit. So they do better. Yeah, let's do that. Let's give them a double support bonus. We captured this settler, so we can now found a new city. We could put a city there, actually. Let's do it. It's already in our borders. As long as we got all three of those That would be a pretty good city actually and there's a there's a city that would that there's a Roman city that was there It wasn't originally Roman, but Rome conquered it at one point So we'll work on that if I go for diplomatic services, we can go ahead and start training spies. So I'm gonna do that There's also a merchant confederation, but yeah, let's go for medieval fairs first and then spies we need spies Don't get me wrong, but we need that other we need the other thing first. All right Let's go for the armory in Rome for the extra production. Let's repair the Cathedral in Pella Do you have an additional envoy option? Mohenjo-daro, maybe? Yep, extra culture in every Theater Square district. We're gonna need that as much as possible, and plus we're moving towards trying to take suzerainty of, um, suzerainship, suzerainty, however you pronounce it, of, um, Mohenjo-daro away from... what's-his-face, Gilgamesh, that guy. Let's go ahead and start moving some of our units out here, specifically... hang on, we need to take care of this knight. All right, so that builder is safe. All right, I do need to heal these units up a little bit before I do any fresh charges But I want to get them in good defensive positions Actually, Varsovia might be able to fire on these units with their... that's fine though. It's not a huge issue. Let's move you there and The catapult can come up there. We'll move you there. Yeah, we need to just move all these units forward. The settler has orders You move there, you move there. So that went well last episode. Pretty damn well if I do say so myself. And then And this builder, hmm, come back there and just build a lumber camp. Help with production in that whole area. This legion can just stay put. Pipe men can stay put. Catapult can stay put. Horseman is ready to come up and do more stuff, so why don't you come up here to Leopolis? All right, that stone has been improved. Let's go ahead and improve those spices near Constantinople. I'm pretty sure I already have spices, but I could. That'll help Massalia grow faster. Not going to give additional housing. Do the armories give better? Yeah, armories do not provide housing. I'm surprised we haven't gotten a great general yet. We had some great general training happening. Ooh, Rome's about to hit 13 citizens. We can do another district there. We had some great general training happening in Rome, but it apparently wasn't enough. Oh, wow. Might lose this. Ah, damn. That was one of my horsemen. Might have even been a level one horseman. Ooh, Gandhi's willing to give me... He wants gold and spices. He's going to give me 19 gold and furs. Sure. He's far enough away. I mean, I could use the additional amenities right now because we've got enough war weariness from this war with France and the war with Alexander and everything. Well, I think our war weariness from Alexander went away, but ugh, okay. So Boudica is now in Warsaw. So this Great General is going to be a pain in the butt. I wish there was an easier way to kill Great Generals, but there's not. What would be... We need to get the pikemen up on the front lines. Let's get that catapult there, that catapult there, the view there. That horseman needs to stay back because we've already lost one horseman. I could buy another one, of course. I could buy another knight, actually. It's actually probably... To tell you the truth, it's good that we lost that knight because we need to get rid... or the horsemen, because we need to get rid of them. We train them up, and we actually don't really need them as much as we need other things that we can buy with faith like, for instance, actual knights. And then, yeah, armory and weapons, we definitely need that for production reasons. And move that direction in and cover that little bit of fog. Let's move the legion up a little bit farther that way so Minsk is better protected. Moving these units through this area is going to be a little bit rough. I'm going to just fortify this knight. I don't think we can actually fortify them this turn, but we'll get there. All right, this pikeman gets into position. Now the only issue here is where we just left this area a little bit undefended So we're hope I'm hoping she concentrates her defenses here and doesn't start spreading out again We've got two trade routes working in Constantinople right now, which is quite nice. All right, let's go to the next turn Interesting. She moved one of her Knights out and she's gonna try and fire from afar Yeah, she might actually be trying to spread out just like I said, she might here it is She's starting to offer peace. Let's go ahead and refuse deal We might make peace that we might not we might not do all this in one war Although I would honestly like to I would like to take as much of her territory if not all of it as possible and just get it over with, because it's, we're moving into, it's 237 BC, I mean, the mods for syncing up, the mods that I'm using are good for giving us eight ages, but they're not good for syncing up the calendar quite well. I'm still working on finding good combinations to do that. Interesting. Okay, so Russia's impressed with me, that's good, they're no longer disappointed, and now we can build the printing press, we need to get on that as soon as possible. I'm also going to go ahead and go for astronomy, so we have access to Patalopolis, if we can get that next as well. That would be amazing. Oh, the Holy Site District is done here. Excellent. Let's go ahead and buy the shrine, and then I think I can purchase... No, I can't, but I can buy the temple with faith, so let's work on that. Minsk. Yeah, let's have you on food focus. I want you to grow fast. Leopolis still has a lot to repair. Let's go ahead and repair the monument next. The city's not really going to be in good shape until I'm not at war anymore, but we're making progress here. All right, can't fire just yet. That's fine. We need to surround the city here. So I'll do that. Let's see. I need to go ahead and get this legion into position to where their battering ram can knock down these walls next turn. This pikeman with you here. Have you fortify. Fightman can come there. Legion can come there. Knight can come here. Awesome. Alright. Slowly moving everything into position. All these woods are just slowing us down a good bit. Happened last episode too. Alright. Can't fire on Barsavie with the catapult this turn, but we'll be able to next turn. City should fall pretty fast, I think. We can go ahead and attack, actually, but I'd rather keep some of these units back this turn. I really wish we had our own Great General, but if we keep doing well, we will get one soon. All right, big surprise. They're attacking the catapult, which probably wasn't the smartest decision. Oh, we just had a trade route plundered. What happened? Trade route... dang it! Enipons to Pella. All right, Enipons needs that trade route, so we're gonna need to buy another trader. Oh, they've got a knight down here. That's annoying. I'll have to purchase another pikeman with faith here. So she's gonna troll me down here. Thankfully, both of my defenses can fire. Let's go ahead and purchase a pikeman with faith. Enipons to Pella's trade route. Yeah, so let's go ahead and buy another trader here. Yep, all that gold. I needed to save up that gold, but we need Enipons. See, Enipons isn't growing anymore because I lost that trade route. That's kind of frustrating. Forbidden City can be built in Mediolanum. It would take a long time because we've got the... Yeah, see, Mediolanum's production is not that great now. Let's have a look at what tiles we could potentially give Mediolanum to help with that. We could give them that one. Ooh, this tile doesn't... this is Enipons' tile. Let's give that to Mediolanum, and let's make sure Enipons is still growing after that. No it's not. See, we just took away a little bit of food. Let's give that to Enipons then. All right, good. That helped. A little bit of food there from that tile. All right, Mediolanum just got a little bit more production. Tell you what, let's take you off production focus, put you on that focus, and then let's see about the Forbidden City. Yeah, significantly faster, but it would have to go on a food tile, and I don't like that. It's going to take a long time to build this thing, too. I'm not I'm not a fan of how long it's gonna take well. They're both wheat tile So I mean I'm gonna keep one wheat tile regardless. I love that that that aqueduct is so straight and perfect, too Let's go ahead and put it here. Let's just do it. We need the Forbidden City. We need it yesterday We have room for an additional trader as well So what I'll probably do is buy another trader as soon as I can or maybe this this one that I set up in Anapons I'll bring down to Mediolanum to support the construction of the Forbidden City Massalia needs what now? Oh I can train another trader here too. Let's do that We need to keep our economy going as much as we can. Settlers arrived. This should automatically name the city. Uh... Mostly correct. I'm going to change that slightly, just to keep it simple. This is, um... hang on one second. So this is... I mean, this is, I guess, the Roman spelling. I guess we'll stick with that. I'll trust the modders on that. It is Chersonesus, but the Greek spelling is what I have on my map. Because it was a Greek colony, I believe. Let's go ahead and... Let's buy things with faith that'll help with growth. Yep, we'll do a monument there, and continue moving forward. I think we have some options here. Let's see, this catapult should be able to... You know what, I'd rather swap your positions, so that that catapult's not in danger. Alright, so next turn we'll be able to use that battering ram to full effect. I'm going to move that knight there, move this knight here, this crossbowman there. I'll move you there, just to give the city something else to fire at. Done, done, done. Okay, there's that. And there's that. Let's go ahead and just start doing a little bit of damage to the city since we can. Good, that unit's promotable as well. Wasn't expecting that necessarily, but we can do a lot of damage with these knights, actually. We can take care of their walls and significantly reduce their ability to do damage. But we would also open these knights up to vulnerabilities. I'm not necessarily a fan of that, so let's keep those knights in place for now. Keep that pikeman there, too. We're going to keep all these units just in place. You there, so you're moving forward a little bit. Same with you, and then you can come up here. a little bit closer. Excellent. We're finally in position to improve that sheep. Eight turns away from our new settler in Icosium. The sheep might help with that a little bit. Yep, seven turns. All right, so we need to get that trader in Mediolanum quickly. Oh, it just happened. We just lost another trade route. Anapons to Pella and Pella to Roma, or Pola to Roma, maybe. Nope, Pella to Roma. All right, so that knight is definitely harassing me. We can take care of him. No, no problem. Definitely haven't seen housing and amenity problems as the empire grows, but that's fine. We just need to keep moving. Apologies. I will look elsewhere in the future. It's very unlikely I'm going to settle another city in that area, so I'm just going to apologize to him and hope he doesn't take it too badly. All right, moment of truth. It is now time to just start firing with everything we've got. This crossbowman is ready for promotion. Let's give him incendiary, so they're going to need that. Legion core. Yep, go ahead and attack. Now Varsovii can no longer recover health. Let's move you there, and we'll start firing with this catapult. Pikemen. Pikemen might not be necessary. I might move them back down. Move you there, too. Move you there. I'll I'm going to move you there so that you can move forward, and then this crossbowman will be able to fire probably next turn, I think. That crossbowman would have been able to fire this turn, actually. It might... Actually, it still might be able to. Hang on. No, can't move. We're just surrounding... We have too many units in the area. It's not a huge problem, but it's good to be aware of it. All right, so Pella needs a new trader. Let's go ahead and just train one. It'll take five turns, but I don't mind the wait. Two new envoys. Excellent. So we can move towards... We're still suzerain of Valletta and Carthage, which we need. we could become suzerain of Armagh. I just want to keep moving towards Mohenjo-daro. Let's put both of these envoys towards that, and then this scout is gonna keep going that direction. Yep, we could start hitting them. We really could. Let's go ahead and do that. Move you there, just to take away the movement point from having to move out of the woods. Promotion available. Was that for that knight? I think it was. That's good news. Improved those spices. Very good. We already have spices, I think. Alright, Aenopons! So was it Aenopons to... I think we just need food for Aenopons. It doesn't matter where we do this. So if I set it up for Rome, he'll be in good shape. And we now need to go ahead and start firing with some of these units. This crossbowman can do a lot of damage to that guy. All right, good. We can finish off this knight so that this area won't be in danger. We need these farms to stay intact. That's a lot of our growth. This quadarii is going to need a promotion. They might have just arrived back, actually. All right, so that knight's dead. It'd be nice if that unit was promotable from that. All right, no, they're not ready for promotion yet, but they will be. That'll be a battleship eventually. Let's go ahead and improve that iron as well. It's going to be production for us. Constantinople is one turn away from their harbor being done. That's fantastic. That is wonderful news. Uh-oh. Crap. No, no, no, no, no, no! No, France. No peace in our time. Did we lose another trade route? Mediolanum to Roma is no longer active. Corallus to Roma is no longer active. How did they get the one from... Oh, okay. He survived somehow. I thought we killed the unit, but once again, a decisive victory is not a decisive victory. Oh my god, game. I hate this. I really hate that. Why would you say decisive victory if it's not decisive? It just doesn't make any frickin' sense. Let's have this pikeman finish him off because I want you to get the experience. All right, we've got some units that are promotable. We just lost some trade routes, though. So Mediolanum to Roma, no longer active. God! All right, this knight. Yep, let's give them charge. Let's go ahead and give these guys all we've got. I need to get some of these ranged units into position. So we're going to put you there so we can try and take this city. I'll move you back one if that's what it takes. That's fine. Plus, it's just good experience for them. We need all these units to be in tip-top shape. I need to eliminate this knight. That would be the best way to do it. Well, another option I have... Actually, I might be able to use this knight to take Warsaw. Let's try that. Let's see if that works. If this works... No, it won't work. Unless I were to attack with another unit that I don't think I have. I might lose this knight. I'm going to try to take it nonetheless. The game lies to me about victory types, so... Nope, didn't get it. Didn't get it. Well, at least we can use this horseman to take the city. That's a shame. It would be saying keep city right now. Oh, wait, no, did we get it? We got it. Nice. Okay. I thought it would have said keep city sooner because that's just the way the display works. Let's go ahead and keep the city, and then we're gonna use this, um... Actually, we're not gonna use that unit just yet. We can use that one, but I don't want to do that either. We need... This encampment's gonna be... a little bit difficult to fight off. Let's go ahead and... Oh, yeah, I can use this knight. Let's do that. There we go. Problem solved. I'm going to move this pikeman up, and we're going to start moving on Frankfurt Sir Loder. Actually, I have to say that took longer than I thought it would. But as we continue to get stronger here and level these units up, it'll get better. All right. The lighthouse is the next thing I need to build here, obviously. Constantinople can have it done. Actually, never mind. Different focus wouldn't change anything. Forget what I was about to say. Let's definitely build ancient walls with faith, and we still have some more faith. So there's a couple different things I could do with that. I think I would rather have a unit, honestly. What else do I want in this area? I've got plenty of units. Maybe an Inquisitor would be best. Let's do an Inquisitor. We need to make sure we continue to cleanse the area. Varsovia, just go ahead and work on a monument. We'll buy more with faith when we have the opportunity. Keep that horseman there for now. Quadrine stays there. That crossbowman, just go on alert status. Now, I thought we had a... Oh yeah, that's right. We just lost our trader from Mediolanum. Crap. I really need to get a trader set up there again. Because that's affecting our Forbidden City. I don't know that I ever actually transferred the one that I set up in Enopons to Mediolanum. So I thought I did but now it's looking like I didn't that might have been the last episode So I need to make sure Mediolanum has, what does Mediolanum have right now? Mediolanum Depella That's it. Mediolanum needs like three trade routes going right now. Insalia is done with its trade, there we go Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and go for I hate to do this, but I've got so many envoys right now We're gonna do we're gonna benefit more from this and we'll try and get back Diplomatically if we can build the Potala Palace, excuse me, Potala Palace, however you pronounce it All right, so that's going to give us a little bit more gold income. Actually a lot more. We're at 16.2 now, but we're about to jump up to 34.2, nice! This pikeman can... Let's go ahead and give them combat strength versus cavalry units. Let's move this guy to Mediolanum, and then we need additional traders, I think. Yep, just keep cranking out traders. We need to replace some of those lost trade routes. We can buy a watermill here with faith, but I'd rather not, I'd rather save that for units at this point, especially if France were to make some progress unexpectedly. All right, this knight just needs to... oh cool. Yep, let's give them charge, and these units need to heal up a little bit before I move them forward. I don't mind moving this legion forward. He can take a few hits to move these units off of Alexander's borders. We're gonna heal both of these catapults before we go anywhere. This catapult needs to be promoted. Let's give them Grape Shot. This catapult I don't think needs a promotion, but we'll find out soon. Let's actually move you across the river so we can move this unit a little bit farther up. Quadrant, you just go on alert. I don't need you doing anything until you're promotable. Yep, Fortified Till Healed. You stay put. You stay put. You stay put. You, Fortified Till Healed. You can... Yeah, stay there. We'll move you next turn. Prague still has some Catholic influence. A couple of my cities do, in fact. That's kind of annoying. I'm going to cleanse Prague, because the more we can keep our religious influence growing there, the more pressure we're going to put on France. I can already tell that... Hang on, if we look at the religious lens... Yeah. Our religion is already going into France's territory a good bit, so... Interesting. They're firing on that knight, and it's taking some damage, but it's not dying, so... Oh wait, now it might. They just moved a quadrime up. Interesting. Alright, so we need to move that knight out. Yeah, yeah, you're not happy. I get it. So now we're actually... Our territory borders Alexander again. He might declare war on me again. It might be worthwhile to go ahead and just conquer him, but... We need to focus on taking territory away from France, because France is going to be one of the most powerful AI... ...until we can take most of this from her. We need to get the Colosseum as well. We have lots of reasons to attack France, basically. All right, and then this knight... Yeah, I need to move this one out. Let's get you down here, way away from harm. This horseman probably as well. Get you out. Fire on that guy from a distance. And actually, I can also do that. Hang on. Let's move you down here. Praga can fire on that guy. Move this knight into Praga. Let's move this inquisitor down to a quincunx and also protect them in the same moment. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and move this pikeman down here too start defending against anything they send into my territory. Now let's go ahead and move this crossbowman in. You should be able to fire on that unit and win decisively, very good. So maybe you'll get a promotion from that, I doubt it though. Ah no, you'll need more experience than that. All right, so this unit's ready to go because we've promoted them. Need to start getting my ranged units into position next turn. Let's move this pikeman up. All right, Mediolanum, yes, more production. Let's have you trade with Anapons first and foremost. I'm really surprised at the slow rate of construction on the Forbidden City. I'm a little nervous that we might not get it, in fact. I'll do what I can to buy additional buildings. Actually, can I? Is there anything in Mediolanum that I can outright buy? Like, maybe an armory? Yeah, I can buy an armory outright. That's extra production. Let's do that. That helps. And we'll go to the next turn. Big surprise, they're attacking the unit that was in the same spot as the knight they were attacking last turn. Ah, putting up a bit of a fight at last, France. I mean, France still has a lot of territory. She's got a lot of cities, so she's still... she's got a lot of fight left in her. Like I said, I want to try and do this in one go, but I just good that legion is going to be promotable now All right, let's start getting our units into position here We need to eliminate that encampment as a threat as soon as possible, which means getting this legion moved up But first hang on let's promote the legion that got asked give them amphibious because we don't need to worry about those penalties And then can we move? Yeah, I need to get pikeman move forward. Let's keep that pikeman there for now this legion actually yeah Let me go ahead and move you here because they'll survive and that way I can move this crossbowman here and ooh I can fire Excellent start doing damage. I didn't anticipate that. We've got a couple of crossbowmen that are able to contribute here Yep, you I'm gonna put you in Leopolis and just oh this knight this horseman's been here the whole time just fortified nice All right, let's move you there and let's see what we need to do. Pola can do what exactly? Oh, yeah, let's is this your entertainment district. Yes it is Let's go ahead and build an arena there because we're gonna need better buildings in that area so that that Benefit can spread to definitely do a trader. We're gonna try and rebuild all of our trade routes Yeah, we definitely need that Are the benefits of the encampment district to be able to spread using the better buildings that are coming up soon? All right, we're gonna have access to the Patala Palace soon, which is nice inquisitor. Where else can I send you Pola? Absolutely. There's that. Still exploring in that area. Unfortunately not finding any goodie huts, which makes me sad, but I'll live. Move the knight up there. This pikeman can stay there. Oh, Congo doesn't like me. Who's shocked? I don't think I've ever had a game where Congo approves of me. Ever. Ever, ever, ever. I just don't think it's happened. Okay, so they're attacking this knight, which was the most vulnerable unit, so I'm not gonna act terribly surprised. Alright, so they did a fair amount of damage to that legion there. A little bit more than I would expected them to do. Alright, so that knight's promotable. Let's see what we can do to help them. Oh, interesting, they're firing on the crossbowmen too. Alright, so they're really going all out to try and stop me. I need to move this Legion back, actually, because I don't want to lose the Legion core. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. You're gonna get conquered. Just chill out, dude. All the AI hate me. Holy crap. I really hope this changes in a future version of Civ VI. I don't like just how... I mean, I'm using mods right now, and they still are so spiteful towards me simply because I'm conquering a lot like I mean what how when has this not happened in history what why does it make everyone hate you universally you know it's just it doesn't make any sense to me right this night let's give them charge and then we need to continue firing ooh I can hit that guy and get some experience but I'd rather fire on their encampment some more interesting I can hit this crossbowman yeah let's go ahead and do that that's gonna make this that unit really vulnerable but I think it's worth doing let's get this pikeman here to impose some zone of control on that knight, which I think it should do, right? And this knight I can actually attack with this one as well. Ooh, but hang on, I want you to come there. I can't attack anymore. I was gonna try and put it there and that would have put it in range of the city. Wasn't so much a fan of that. I need to get these units across. Let's move you down there so I can move these units towards their potential locations a little bit. They can actually do a little bit of damage. And we are 31 minutes into this episode. Where does the time go? Holy crap. All right, um, Rome can build a new district, actually. It can also build Palatine Palace, but you could probably benefit from a harbor, couldn't you, Rome? Oh, yeah, you could. Let's see. That would be a good location for a Brindisium harbor, but a Roman harbor could be here. I think that's actually pretty accurate to where the Roman harbor actually was, too. So it's not a harbor city, but there was definitely a harbor. Let's go ahead and build... You can buy a trader outright. Let's purchase one in Mediolanum. We're going to need that. I'll let one more turn cycle here just because I can't help myself, but we'll build up another trader in Massalia and Praga yeah stable you can train some better uh mounted units in Praga as a result of that and then Praga can now work on an armory for better production Pella yep another trader please okay this trader now Pella I think did lose a trade route let's take a look at where we have trade routes Mediolanum has a couple of them um I'm gonna go ahead and give another one to Mediolanum as soon as possible okay yeah all these woods are making the attack on France just like, such a slog, but let's see. Massalia, I think, already has a trade route. No, it doesn't. Alright, so in that case, let's trade with, yeah, trade with Leopolis. That's fantastic. A lot of gold, because it's going through some trading posts there, but I'm going to go ahead and stop this one here, and the next one we are going to continue pushing into France's territory as much as possible. Probably going to try and take Frankfurt. I would love to take, like, three or four cities in the next two episodes, but the issue is these woods and the units we have right now are not really conducive to doing a lot of fighting in woods. Once we get into this area up here, these cities will fall faster, but these strong 11, 12, 11 pop cities, they're going to be a bit of a chore to defeat, especially because I think she has encampment. She has an encampment there. She has an encampment there, which we're working on defeating now. So it's just, we've got our work cut out for us, but thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this one, don't forget to like the video and subscribe to follow along. New episodes are coming out every day at noon Eastern time. Comments are always welcome. Let me know what you think, and I'll see you next time.