The Civilization 5 Military Academy

[Bibor]

Welcome to the new youtube weekly:
The Civilization 5 Military Academy!

Regular casters: MadDjinn, Bibor
Channel name: youtube.com/civ5MA

What is the Civ5 Military Academy?
The Civ5 Military Academy will gather the best minds in the civ5 civfanatics community and provide detailed video analysis of real situations that happen in players' games. Two or more casters will provide the commentary on submitted games and present guidelines on how to proceed.

When and how will it be published and in what format?
The Academy will be published weekly (saturdays or sundays) on youtube, each game will be covered in a 15-20 minute video. The number of weekly uploaded videos will vary depending on the availability of casters. We are going to create a new channel on youtube and provide you with a link as soon as we have it.

How can I submit my saved game for an analysis?
You need to register on these forums (if you haven't already) and make a reply to this thread. Attach your saved game to your post and then write down the following information:
- general info about your game (difficulty, map type, special rules you enabled)
- what DLCs you own (Mongolia, Inca&Spain, Babylon etc.)
- a brief description on how you plan to win the game
- a few notes about what happened in the game so far and what you have trouble with
note: please do not submit games that use MODS that alter gameplay.

How can I participate in the cast?
Participation in the cast is invitation-only. If your game is being analysed or if you're a well known strategist in the civ5 community you can expect an invitation a few days before the recording. We are trying to keep these videos short, so we can cover as many of the submitted games as possible.

When will my submitted game be featured?
Depends on the number of available casters, on the number of submitted saves and on the free time we have to make these videos. It's first-come first-served.

Please use this thread only to submit saved games and to discuss the series. Thank you!

Regular casters: MadDjinn, Bibor

 

[Bibor]

Current submissions:

1. Kamex - on youtube! link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alWzcxelwlA
2. King Patrick - on youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrjn_TdasMs
3. hellgoat - on youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RBaYLyZSLg[/url]
4. cdjflip
5. SilkwormTR
6. Smorfty

 

[Bibor]

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[SilkwormTR]

I played Kamex's immortal game. Washington has the Stonehenge (+8 culture). Even with current units you can easily overpower America. I added a few musketman and trebuchet for good measure.

All the rest are on different continents. I don't think any of them can muster any invasion. You got 200 culture/turn and can be increased as game progresses. Looks like %100 winner to me. But as I said I find these wins boring as from now on all you need to do is check your cities add culture buildings as necessary, find radio (for broadcast tower) find all other city states, ally cultural ones and voila by turn 270-290 you should be winning.

 

[Bibor]

The first intro video should be up tonight, and we also recorded the first save and should be up tomorrow (MadDjinn will be uploading).

 

[Alien.Traveler]

Guys, why video?
Videos are slow and boring. Could you please analyze in plaing (and fast) English?

 

[Bibor]

Guys, why video?
Videos are slow and boring. Could you please analyze in plaing (and fast) English?

What an unexpected comment. I think it's a quite logical next step for two people that made 30+ videos each on Civilization 5 to make video commentaries.

 

[Alien.Traveler]

What an unexpected comment. I think it's a quite logical next step for two people that made 30+ videos each on Civilization 5 to make video commentaries.

Why unexpected?
It is well known throughout human (and even alien) word that videos are for slow people. It is reading that makes people think fast.
Jokes aside, I tried to watch one of the videos. I think I could not stand it for longer than 2 minutes. Or was it one minute? It's slow! Really slow!!!

 

[Camikaze]

Guys, why video?
Videos are slow and boring. Could you please analyze in plaing (and fast) English?

Moderator Action: If you have no wish to view the video(s), please don't bother posting in this thread. You're more than welcome to start a thread purely for written analysis.

 

[neilkaz]

I'm still posting written comments in the "High Command" thread. I trust that is OK. I struggled for a few hours from turn 230 with Silkworm's Napoleon game. The problem is that Siam is too strong, has too much money, and fights very hard for CS allies, and also is ahead in tech.

 

[Yarghaz]

What an unexpected comment. I think it's a quite logical next step for two people that made 30+ videos each on Civilization 5 to make video commentaries.

This is my first post, but I felt inclined to do so. Bibor you are a class act. I for one enjoy your videos, and appreciate all you do. Thanks.

 

[MadDjinn]

First video is up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhSlDkR1sK4

 

[BammBamm]

Kudos for taking valuable time out of your busy schedules to offer insight into this most fascinating game!


MadDjinn's videos have proven to be an absolute godsend and, while I have yet to become acquainted with Bibor, rest assured that studying this Civilization 5 Military Academy series will no doubt enhance my ability to put the smackdown on the AI at a level greater than 'Prince', and may even lead to a few victories over an actual human, one of these days!


Excellent work, gentlemen. Thank you!

 

[MadDjinn]

The first of 2 videos for our analysis of Kamex's game is now up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alWzcxelwlA

I'm uploading part 2 now.

 

[MadDjinn]

part 2 is up as well.

As an extra bonus, I played out the next 16 or so turns and posted what happened on my blog.

 

[vexing]

hey guys, i watched your kamex videos. may i suggest you formulate a very clear game plan in all respects for going forward? you did it fairly well regarding military but the other things weren't so clear.

eg for kamex's game i would:

switch to astronomy and rush buy caravel when it's done - it'll pay for itself very quickly. after that'd i'd take machinery to get ironworks in capital. after that work toward archaelogy. you can take out washington with current forces so getting to chemistry isn't overly important.
switch all cities to manual specialist control, assign workshop specialist in tombouctu, queue up garden there.
you want to build sistine chapel if it's still available.

set up military to take at least atlanta, philly, washington when the peace agreement expires. they all have incense so should build monasteries and mpms for at least +11 culture per city, washington has stonehenge so it'll be at +18 with constitution.
i'd also open a trade window for washington's cities to see if he has others hidden in the fog.
avoid eliminating him completely - you already have warmonger hate from eliminating caesar and will have more from the second declaration against washington, other civs won't be friendly at all if you eliminate washington as well.

for policies take left side of freedom, then representation (another -12.5%)

 

[Bibor]

Vexing that's a very valid comment.

 

[Arimae70]

Much appreciate the effort guys - keep up the great work

 

[Smorfty]

Hi, here's my game:

I'm playing on King difficulty. I have beaten a game on King once before and I just wanna nail everything down before going for higher difficulty levels.
I'm not using any kind of mod and I have all of the leader DLCs.

I'm trying to go for cultural victory with my 4 cities. Since I don't have iron I dediced not to bother with conquering anyone and just went really defensive. Hoping to rack in the culture from fending off all the other the greedy and jealous civs

Alexander was the first one to declare war on me and I easily defended his poorly managed attack. He declares war on me a couple of more times, all failing. Before the last war (which is currently ongoing in the savegame) I denounced him which I think Oda and Bismark liked.

later on I decided to maybe bloody Alexander's nose a bit by getting iron from Stockholm but both Elizabeth and Ragnar attacked it just after I had sunk my money into it and the iron stopped flowing ;(

Just before the save, Alexander declares his third useless war and his units seems just as outdated as before. But right after that Ragnar (who has been friendly most of the time) decides to attack me. He has iron so he can build Berserkers (which out-techs me). He also, unlike Alexander has a siege weapon unit. And he goes straight for my weakest and youngest city.


- I'm guessing this is something I could manage to fend off (or retake ). What do you guys think?
- Could I have avoided Ragnar attacking me somehow? A way that doesn't involve getting iron from some other city state earlier and being all aggressive would be nice.
- If I manage to fend off Ragnar and go to peace with him, how can I avoid future attacks?

Screens:

Spoiler :

The eastern front, toward Alexander:


The western/southern front toward Ragnar:

 

[BigChiefLizzy]

Smorfty, I tried to load your save but can't as I don't have all the DLC you do so these comments are just based off the screenshots...

You don't seem to have many units, and in my limited experience of the beserker unit is it will kill off your pikemen with ease. I see you are building a knight; I would sell of as many luxuries as you can to try and raise money to rush buy as many as you can, even one more may help.

I think you are going to lose texcoco straight away anyway, then probably the city on the coast as well. Least you have a city wall in the capital and it's on a hill, it may hold out long enough to hold off the beserkers.

Ask for peace after each city is taken?

I think it's going to be very tough

If you had four knights or so before, you would have been able to fend off the attack or at least slow him down (or maybe he would have attacked someone else, I think your military is too weak for the time period).