CBRX Season 4 Episode 6

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“The Martyr’s Key” Current Draft: 11,820 words

like Sands Through The Hourglass these are the turns of our cylinder welcome to cbrx season 4 episode 6 shifting Sands Vu welcome mcbr Al CBR to CBR it’s time for another Journey to the cylinder to check in on our favorite goofballs and their horrifying cycle of Blood Sport and murder when we left off last week conflict had erupted in Australia the OOTS in fighting and South America was boring I know I know tell us something we don’t know this is laxx aerosol AKA LAX AKA your showrunner and former Chief power ranker narrating this episode while simultaneously watching the CBR tick by in real time we’re almost up to turn 800 so as ever it’ll be a bit of a head [ __ ] to teleport a few Millennia back in time but before we get to the action it’s time to check in with all our regular weekly shenanigans explosive watermelon whose tireless coating is a huge reason as to why this game is running at all is embarking on a project to draw all of the X4 leaders I particularly like this take on murderer and house arrest Enthusiast Elizabeth B really captures a certain Gena I think it’s the mouth full of canines that does [Music] it NOP copter has produced this loving tribute to the yellow knives and their strong pacifist traditions in tests akaio was very timid and hesitant to settle so honestly I’m just happy that he’s been expanding a little more freely this time even if that comes at the cost of uh any military at all here’s where I should tell you to donate to the Kofi but honestly in all the time I’ve run CBR I’ve never received a coffee or coffee allowance from kyot so I think it’s all a scam granted the proceeds from the Kofi did pay for the PC on which I run the CBR as well as an expansion pack I apparently did not have installed which this season wouldn’t run without come on where’s my chai latte [Music] huh a big winner in this week’s PRS the Nar not only reached the top 20 but also leapfrogged the palawa beating them by just a single rank they certainly took the initiative in the first war to break out in the Great Southern land but a war is far more than a single battle and the next episode should be a big test for the traditional West Coast underdogs We Begin our regular proceedings with a look at a breakout star of episode 5 the longsuffering kmti we had a tough tough time getting aljanabi Infamous brins anything close to their real life counterparts with their flat desert start kneecapping their early growth and expansiveness fortunately we found an answer coral one of the custom resources in CBR we slightly altered it to give a production bonus which gave them a couple of decent Coast tiles to work early and it helped a bunch plus it’s not even inaccurate to Real World Geography so that’s a bonus bandar ausher is safely Ki now but shiras is still firmly on the front lines with offered units prowling close by a Mongolian Army is steadily making its way through the Hinterlands of cup territory close enough to their cities to make voni though not so close that he’s firing warning shots there’s nothing to fear from an army of that size frankly more worrying is the dungar settler about to snap up some Prime real estate just over the AL Mountains from narim still you’d be hard pressed to say the cups haven’t come flying out of the gate as they rapidly approach a double digit City count [Music] D yet have a very pleasingly shaped Empire tracing real life Vietnam’s spindly Coastline with a somewhat oversized head stretching into LA and yunan that’s great because it doesn’t look like they’ll be settling much more they becoming remarkably boxed in they have a settler over on lzone but they’re surely too late there are no available City spots on the northern half of the island and cam looks sure to eat up the southern half soon Jang fight off a piy gogoro naval assault the fight for the Outback rages on as the palawa begin a renew defensive in Prime position to retake M teim while a sizable Fleet blockades the port of pinara but the Nar still have the definite advantage on land Fielding a good number of their unique spearmen which don’t function all that different to regular Spearman just free pillaging and cloning any captured civilians they should be able to ensure both Frontline cities will eventually be settled in their favor the real test being if they can progress the war to Kwa oh gushy gushy why I mean uh the benevolent holy leader of the kosut people make another generous offering to their oat Brothers in Arms with gang only a warm-up gift for their true sacrifice the grand city of Lassa right in the heart of kosut territory usually when a Civ gives away a random core City in a peace treaty it just becomes a cus belly for a future Reconquista but the terrain in Tibet is so unforgiving that they might be hard pressed to easily Liberate the city next time these two go to war the haraa Army is looking strong I promise I’m not gifting them extra units to comeo will be thankful that war is something that’s happening around them at the moment moment Keen to fulfill M’s prediction that Shaunie will not be the first to die damn it instead they watch on as the Osage continue to fight off threats from east and west as the peblo hold fire while the senica engage in Kentucky corn planter has taken a break from planting corn to enhance the Sena religion which we’ll get a good look at right now they elect to expand their pagota complexes to in INE vast basilicas making a tidy profit from tithes in the process while also establishing sacred orders in order to better recruit poitiers to the faith not the flashiest beliefs and it’s still a very culture focused religion but with shaune Lutheranism right on their doorstep this should help them establish guyu as a dominant faith in its own right after an uncharacteristically feeble start Nestor mno is finally coming into his own besieging his former Black Sea Jewel e catarinos slav and close to capturing the Latvian Outpost of resek it’s worth saying though that should these battles go smoothly it would give movia just five cities much less than most cives have through settling at this stage there’s clearly still a lot of ground to make up here elsewhere pontic troops swarm through the Caucasus without making so much as a dent on lagan’s defens does Lagan not sound Irish to anyone [Music] else nongo matamba are currently at war with just about every one of their neighbors excepting the one with only two cities this is proving to be far less of a problem than you might expect none of their cities have taken a lick of damage yet with eswatini unable to get close to gabasa kanim boru’s Horsemen being kept away from konga by an afarid Scout and sabad emit just uh maybe the DMT is getting to them the only actual threat is to their newest city kambe which is unprotected and facing a real test from mogadishu’s unlikely land army they should feasibly be able to rebound and take the city back if worst comes to worst especially as the only Civ on the block with composite Bowman Mogadishu are yet to build up much of a Navy but having now unlocked the ability to Embark they are starting to stretch tentacles across the local pond establishing the colony of afgoi on Madagascar with another Bleak desert start Mogadishu were also a Civ I worried about in testing so I’m glad to see a strong start from them this time around as I’ve said many times before if coyat let me have my way I’d manually rename every city on the cylinder to accurately reflect their real life counter Parts Shani evidently agrees with me settling balk on what I’d call the perfectly accurate tile a sexy move but maybe not a particularly strategic one as they are still at war with haraa who Loom menacingly close by on the Kazan front alista is safe and secure though further progress seems unlikely at this point dang it’s been a good few turns for Desert start civs warms my heart it does [Music] I feel guanga to’s Thunder has been somewhat stolen by the more glamorous Shang just to the South but he’s building a steadily more and more impressive Empire in the Amor Basin joining the 10 City Club with the founding of yoong they’ve also built a few of their unique Horsemen Replacements the guy mamusa which enjoys rough terrain like the forest of the Gogurt North I do think the icon looks a bit like a rhino but as as far as I’m aware they do ride horses Mongolia also have a new city up Tiff on the shores of Lake Bal the invasion of Korn continues and mag might have just enough of a Navy to flip the city this time though um not to burst the hey bubble but wagi will assuredly flip the city back if so kudarat just doesn’t quite have the Firepower to win a prolonged flipfest so Kuno will likely be the only spoils he takes from the war bim’s Revenge might come through sneakier methods as a wagy settler makes its way up the Philippine Coast the Pharaohs for whatever reason are almost always stats leaders in any game they appear and they’ve sure lived up to expectations so far commanding a mighty production score as well as superlative science and population their second city of kvik has a higher population than most capitals that surplus of people is being put to good use most of them being press ganged into the Navy it seems that’s a much bigger Fleet than we’ve seen from any other Civ so far even the other early sailing sies kudarat captures corn but with four Spearman in tow the wagi will easily take the city back next turn and only a tremendously timed piece treaty would see mndo keep the city at this point mendo’s Reserve Fleet consists of a single Trine this area of the world is also pretty high population wag’s bonds actually outclasses the capital of Mount Hagan while mag’s cities of simu and lamitan are also pretty little [Music] metropolises and as the last screenshot teased the city of a catarinos slav has finally been liberated by movian forces please ignore that it was mno who gave the city away in the first place R should be next though mno should beware the Latvian forces mustering around leaya as his Empire’s Western flanks look a little vulnerable lvia meanwhile has already replaced the lost city founding Jala at the foot of the Gulf of Finland pontic sied chariots continue to raid the abkhazian Highlands [Music] an oasis in the heart of the GOI desert korum’s wondrous Hanging Gardens must be a tremendous sight for travelers and a tremendous waste of water for residents should be a decent Little Wonder for Mongolia anyway we often see our Central Asian cves be low food powerhouses which usually leads to an insurmountable Tech Gap by the late gain though the the erroneously placed Lake Victoria a little north of them should help too GA xang former midfielder for Ching da wangai might seem like an odd pick for a great General and that’s because the name actually refers to a Three Kingdoms era general of Shu Han he’s been tasked by inzinga with the defense of konga and he’s likely finding it a breeze with kanen boru having only fielded a small force of Horsemen famously not great at taking cities of more interest is kambe which has steadfastly Shrugged off the assault of Mogadishu Dongo are looking very secure for a Civ embroiled by War there are an awful lot of Chinese generals and this ones stayed a little closer to home princess pingyang in our timeline a distinguished General who helped found the Tang Dynasty is tasked with pacifying anang it’s got a bad case of having its citizens murdered by a vicious vulpine empress it feels like every time we see Shang they’ve added another city to their empire with xun in the far north being the newest edition but there is trouble a foot as Jang soldiers cross the Yang and penetrate far into the woods around machang it’s a little too disorganized to constitute an attack but it’s a warning got to admit I was skeptical when I first saw Bora Bora sending settlers to Patagonia but they’ve got a very healthy Army garrisoned in their two cities now they could do with more Spearman to match the Big River Horsemen mind you with that said their War seems like a bloody stalemate at the moment I’m disappointed in R Grande they were very expansive in most of the tests we ran but they’ve been completely outs settled by tanaku and New Holland this time around the Tela being disappointing is a little more predictable but they do at least have another settler out [Music] yagan means business the palawa counter offensive on May team is brushed away and Nar forces now close in on crwa exposed and open terrain as it is there is more than a good chance it’ll be flying the orange and gray before the episode’s over but this offensive has come with a risk much of the land Army defending pinjara has been remobilized leaving the port very vulnerable to paa’s Naval assault with no melee units close by to flip the back if needs be I think it’s worth the Gambit though it wouldn’t be hard to redirect the Army back to pinjara after taking Kwa and an already damaged City wouldn’t be a difficult capture the peblo make white peace with the shauni disappointed I’m sure to find tumsa has no spare cities to give away in the treaty Pope’s peblo are still at war with the oage though but for a small Skirmish outside neod you be hard pressed to tell despite early successes there they backed off for Mo Agra their unique Bowman the L qu is up and running its most pertinent bonus is a bonus against wounded units there’s often a lot of those about in a CBR you know as was inevitable Korn falls back to the wagi Maggie could certainly flip the city back though I do think it will likely end the war in the beautiful Plum shades of w mag and wag are both cves that tested very well which made me a bit nervous to be honest we just had a winner from this area could another one be anywhere near as special would it cheapen teor Lee’s achievements though it looks like they’re both tiring each other out this time around lva improbably kept hold of reek a little longer but it’s surely only a matter of moments now they’re already preparing ing to replace the city mind you with settlers scouting out the northern reaches of Russia they might have to watch out for the fins who have their powerful Bowman YuYu online the cine and Huntress when these gals damage great people or Naval units it damages every other enemy unit of the same type nasty they could tear apart a whole Navy with just a couple of units not to mention that when stationed on Coastal Hills they get to attacks [Music] burgundy have come out of a series of Wars rather less scathed than we anticipated they could do with blitzing those English cities in Normandy before the English Navy is powerful enough to turn that campaign into a flip vest at the moment England can only spare a couple of TRS to raid the northern visigothic coast burgundy have finally built a coastal city mind you with amen though I still wouldn’t fancy their chances on the high seas the Romans also have a new city up finally settling the south of the Italian Peninsula before Sierra Leon could forward settle them there too trun has a very very low bar to clear to become the best ever Roman Empire the CBR has ever seen and I still don’t feel confident saying he’ll manage it the singularis their Horsemen YuYu have a neat teleporting ability that I’m not convinced the AI will know how to use and its other bonuses all pertain to Barbarian encampments so that’s a shame nice colors though as if we didn’t have enough purple cves ooh this is nasty inevitably top 10 Kazakhstan recently voted the most disliked Civ of the season for some reason strike a blow on bukara descending their huge Army of spearm directly onto a virtually defenseless herat this could end incredibly sourly for shap Bon whose remaining Army is spread very thinly across his Emirate if that off shared Empire hanging around the Caspian were to join in this would be a bloodbath as it is the invasion is survivable though probably not without concessions mno is officially up to five cities for the first time conquering rosek but he’s taken so long to do it that almanis has actually mustered a counterforce with a decent enough composition that a quick reconquest looks likely this war is far from over though with both Nations having plenty of reserves for the long fight ahead is it just me or has Kazan beefed up a little in recent turns accidental Lake Victoria decent band name has been claimed but not by Mongolia out of nowhere the dungar have snuck two cities underneath the Mongolian Army’s noses the terrain here is rough enough that I think they could reasonably hold on to them for a while blue is blue I suppose mongolia’s Army seems incredibly understaffed but to be honest no one nearby looks like a threat at the moment European cves must be looking on in deep Envy at this Blissful [Music] safety the Jiang Army rampaging through henon province has been defeated no thanks to Manfred Snoopy versus the Red Baron V Ren who’s been holidaying on the Yellow River for the duration of this war not that his talents as a flying ace are likely to be of much use in an era before gunpowder Shang may be big and damn are they big but they’ve really only concentrated an Army in their core and any sudden movements from the Mongolian Nations to their West would be a little frightening even the Kuts might fancy a shot at daan Co I’m not entirely convinced kudarat is aware that Islands north of the visayas exist as sayam claimed the southern half of lzone bad luck D yet to compliment the Jen Outpost of Tao founded last episode the city’s very exposed to a naval attack which Siam currently are completely ill-prepared to ward off so I doubt it will remain in Rama’s hands for long in fact there is an awfully suspicious Singaporean Fleet sailing up the coast of kinina as we speak they’re not currently at war with anyone so keep an eye on those guys the oage start to turn a defense against puebloan forces into something of a Counterattack but it’s a bit of a bluff they haven’t got nearly enough reserves to sustain an attack long enough to actually make territorial gains to the north damage numbers remind us that the crow and yellow knives are still at War it can’t be all that interesting given I apparently didn’t take any screenshots of it Joe crows also got a settler roaming Ontario probably confused as to why all the street signs are an old Norse if I had to guess Yan’s Gambit is paying off as Kwa helplessly surrenders to his mighty force of gel Boral but while the palawa Navy has been decimated in the bite there might be just enough strength left there to flip pinjara still look at Taran nera’s land forces I count four archers and a Spearman on the mainland yagan has nothing to fear from a palawa fight back now and can refocus his troops on defending the Port City from the last drgs of the palawa Navy oh there’s our shot of this war and much as they were last episode The Crow forces continue to be a bit confused as to how to go about attacking a city in inside Lake Winnipeg a larger force is just starting to descend on undo though it could do some reasonable damage while the Canadians are squabbling the alaskans are spreading as two Tuli settlers sail past aatii in search of the mythical pharaohs a quick breather as we look at the religious spread most religions haven’t left their birthplaces just yet though Pueblo were very quick off the block to spread their faith across their empire and both mndo and Iko iki are getting off the ground by far the most widespread religion of the classical era though is Vietnamese Mahayana already embedded in Southeast Asia the Sami faith is virtually uncontested in Europe and is likewise off to a strong start in the recent popularity poll m looks attracted almost no interest whatsoever it’s not hard to see why look at all that wonderful fertile land they’re completely ignoring at the very least they’ve built another settler though I will remind you that Shang are currently sitting on 12 cities Saba have another setler on the go too apparently due to settle their ancestral homeland of Yemen lvia do indeed manage to flip rosek though I doubt this is the last we’ve seen of this battle hungary’s intervention on either side of this war would be very tasty and it’s hard to tell but is Lagan still undamaged nrtis what are you [Music] doing speaking of flip-flops kin is back in cat’s hands for now kudarat actually has a catapult back home in suoi which would be handy for his current War efforts but it’s such a drag moving units across the map you know the wagi are also starting to look a little exhausted and I think this war will probably be over [Music] soon nzinga is playing a true game of Champions right now piecing out with her Southern neighbors and taking an Indian Ocean port in the process swindled from eswatini in the peace process there are few continents where the front runner is quite as pronounced as as Africa and nongo and with them now able to focus entirely on their Northern Wars this might not even be their ceiling for the episode excellent stuff from the leader with the biggest score to [Music] settle not only is lagon completely undamaged the colics actually have an escorted settler traversing Armenia apparently unbothered by the massive pontic Army station in the area it’s a really baffling for myrtis who has apparently decided to add another failed War to his resume with a declaration on hapless neighbors the mamluks alongside Sierra Leon their tiny Navy also harasses a catarinos slav to no avail this is pathetic elsewhere the carians have safely secured shiras and look to close in on Kerman sha while nadere Sha’s Army slowly makes its way back through Parthia to the front lines and Rio Grande bloodless peace out with Mexico the war I’m sure you were all incredibly invested in the results [Music] of Ah that’s disappointing Singapore do declare war but not against Siam which would have been fascinating instead D yet are the targets whose nearest city bakang is just Inland enough that Singapore’s largely Naval based forces won’t trouble it Dan haa also looks to be insulated enough against any incursions sayam settle another city though rabri which should prove an important Naval Base should war with Singapore ever break out for [Music] real as feared pinjara is captured by the blooded palawa Navy but the nearby Horsemen alone could be enough to retake the town the Nar do have a Navy of their own too stationed outside their Capital though it doesn’t look like yagan wants to deploy them for whatever reason the palawa Army is so depleted that once pinjara is retaken nipuna seems like a very credible new Target the balance of power in Australia tends to get decided early and already it’s looking like the first Continental power is establishing itself the Visigoths meanwhile peace out with their two irritating neighbors who have raided their Shores but not done any lasting damage on the Iberian Kingdom their guard a Horseman replacement that gets bonuses for being present for City foundations and which can eventually settle cities of its own is somewhat wasted in a crowded continent like Europe with peace with England restored though that settler up near Britany might get a chance to make a home for itself soon in Taven probably the biggest city in the world do not quote me on that a holy Temple to All the known gods and several of the unknown ones is completed the Parthenon isn’t a super useful Wonder in CBR terms but hey someone’s got to build [Music] it as previously teased in the corner of a screen the carians have begun an invasion of Kerman sha this will be a trickier Target than their previous conquests hidden among the hills of farce rather than being out in the open Plains of Mesopotamia but it’s eminently conquerable with the varied and sophisticated Army that aljanabi is Fielding especially if he can get those catapults on dry land elsewhere haraa sort of descend upon Bal come on Lads we can do it and vagina gar sends an army uh somewhere cooch doesn’t look like a great place for a holiday so I assume there’s some sneaky business going on here we’ll have to wait and see [Music] kazak Spearman start knocking or prodding on the walls of herat bukara really are in a fragile place here their bordering cities are largely on flat terrain and with such a thin defensive Force it’s easy to see Kazakhstan ripping through their lands with ease at least the afarid have gone home and neither Kazan nor the dungar are seeking to press home any advantage they might have in their ostensibly ongoing War [Music] one of the cylinder longest conflicts comes to a close as the queblo and the oage finally agree to peace terms ending the war having ultimately exchanged no cities it’s clear neither side could create a credible offensive anymore and both Nations have more pressing matters the oage still wage war against the Sena to the east while peblo must have noticed the Yellow Knife City that’s just popped up on the shore of the Great Salt Lake the colics and pontis also make peace than God as do Rio Grande and Bora Bora their powerful armies were better spent unwasted on each other as bigger fish like kiaku and New Holland Loom close a wise decision for both nations in my opinion they’re better off cautious allies than enemies but a horrible decision for my Google Map because their similar colors make them really hard to distinguish and I was really hoping one would mop up the other the tel to the South are certainly not in the business of making enemies instead declaring friendship with the far off Sena another somewhat less interesting Peace Tree as sabad de EMT clo an apparent diplomatic tiff with Hungary and celebrate by resettling their ancestral suban lands with the foundation of TNA to the north the momls actually might settle a new city though not on the Nile of course and wait are they actually attacking pontis theatis you have so so much to answer for the dungar actually look pretty tasty we’ve never really seen a Civ from the tarim Basin look this strong unless you the Mojave they’re allegedly still at war with bukara but they don’t seem too interested in it the Kuts to the South are Keen to cut off any communication that dalan Khan could have with his new Southern exclave of Lassa and have sent a settler to consolidate Northern Tibet woof we all love a forward settle and we’ve not seen a better one all episode than this one from maximilan I actually don’t think this is no hope or undefendable city though actually I think it might be a stroke of Genius Ecuador doesn’t have any coastal cities on the Caribbean nor is there a Panama Canal to funnel ships from the Pacific over so this effectively neuters Ecuador’s ability to sustain pressure on Mexico’s Caribbean coastal towns and also probably ensures Mexico could comfortably flip the city time and time again should War arrive of course the too might have something to say about that as they’re the only ones with an actual Navy in this neck of the woods as it stands past me highlighted the singulares but I’ve already talked about them oh no instead I’m drawn to that Bavarian settler awkwardly funneling down the eastern coast of Italy not that there’s any space on the peninsula left to found another city as I’m writing this the CBR has in real time just ticked over to turn 800 a very very auspicious turn if you know you know Emil carara the no not that one of carthaginian generals is appointed to oversee a kazanian army that is U not doing a whole lot they’re ostensibly still at war with bukara but you certainly wouldn’t be able to tell from this image nor the multiple times we’ve seen them just out of shot in previous slides meanwhile reek is now firmly in movian hands and the cmics celebrate peace with pontis by getting kind of Hench as some uninteresting peace treaties are signed oage Mexico and Jang gogoro the episodes Banner War rages on no cities have changed hands since we last checked in but the nature of the war has changed yagan firmly presses down on pinjara now but Taran orera has managed to Cobble together a few more boats and suddenly it feels like we might be watching this city flip for some time on land though the palawa are still spent so Kwa is still very much safely in the hands of [Music] yagan with all of this being said I wouldn’t count the palawa out just yet with the foundation of luam Manon on North Island they’re now up to 10 cities were we to assume pinjara would fall back to the Nar that would put the city split between the two Rivals at 99 and palawa arguably have the more obvious expansion options with melanesia still largely [Music] unsettled alas the carians won’t be entering Persia proper as peace is brokered between the two Nations NAD Sha’s nose has been really bloodied here and even with his army descending back through Persia to the front lines he’s done well to stem the red Tides there’s certainly been a shift of power in the region though it hasn’t shifted toward pontis that’s for sure even as they found Tora and Assyria just on the corner of the screen are haraa finally closing in on balk come on Lads I believe in you my babies and Saba Peaks out with another European Shield distan this time [Music] burgundy oh spicy spicy spicy spicy Shang faces a double declaration of war from the East as gogoro and iiki put aside their differences to take the local superpower down a notch shang’s newest settle of Zing Jang looks exposed but much of the combined Army at the moment looks to have clustered in the Yellow Sea ready to launch an attack on yanhi to the South Iko iki and Jang forces could potentially launch a Pinsir attack on anang but that City looks much more well staffed against invasion at what’s probably the perfect time for yagan the palawa sue for peace leading the Nar safely in control of their two conquests and a recently re flipped pinjara this has been an unbelievable success for Australia’s underdogs and they celebrate the only way a classical Civ knows how enhancing their improbably Christian [Music] religion well looks like I might be missing an XML file there oops alongside the mysterious Tor Gates though which I assume is a faith purchased building like all the others the Nar take an excellent belief just War which would massively help them if they were able to spread their religion beyond their borders unfortunately for them they’re in direct competition with the palawa faith so that might be tricky Europe is really Eerie when it’s at peace look at all those standing armies just standing there burgundy’s newest General Assyrian King sarib is surely preparing for the inevitable there isn’t much to separate any of the armies of Europe right now though frustratingly for burgundy England looks to be doing a decent job reinforcing their Norman [Music] colonies the vast Sahara lies largely unpopulated with just a few very low population outposts scattered throughout the desert but one patch of the Alo white desert has some sort of military buildup going on it’s not really clear where they’re headed yet but I wouldn’t be surprised to see war declared and battle come down sooner or later the mamluks have their fourth city out and it’s somehow terrible even by Saharan standards but Nile remains vacant [Music] suddenly war engulfs Europe as Hungary faces Invasion from uh the Umami and the carians never mind it’s still quiet too quiet on the busiest continent pontis have squeezed the city into what little space was left and settled gazura on the lower danu it is wide open for a Hungarian Invasion at some point mark my words [Music] Keen to cement their Caribbean Holdings but unable to squeeze a settler onto Cuba with all the tyo Warriors hanging about Mexico settle Merida on is De huvent tiwanaku are interested in these developments and send scores of scouts out to monitor Florida are still technically in the CBR so England weren’t just reinforcing they were preparing former CBR Champion ABD alaman has planned an invasion of burgundy while staying safely at home in London himself that’s probably because he’s already realized that uh England might get massacred here I’m not sure they’ll lose any of their cities but I certainly don’t think they have enough of an army to make much of a dent on The Burgundian Homeland still winning wars against the odds against French people is sort of Henry VI’s whole thing so I’ll withhold judgment for now the race for the icy North is on though it’s somewhat one-sided Kazakhstan is throwing out four settlers to lvia and the cell cups won I’m never quite certain how useful a bunch of low pop cities right at the top of Russia tend to be but hey if you don’t settle it someone else [Music] will as white peace Reigns between the rosvi and Mogadishu and Kazan and the afari s the uneasy peace of Europe continues to come crashing down as lvia declare war on Hungary Latvia are to the best of our knowledge still at war with movia so this is risky at best and Incredibly foolish at worst neither side look to have made an approach as of yet mind we shall watch on with interest going into cbrx 4 one of the little battles I thought would be most interesting was rosev versus watini in tests it had been pretty 50/50 as to who came out on top though it was usually settled very early on it certainly was settled early on this time too with the winner being very comfortably nongo matamba eswatini can rejoice in at least spawning one of their unique great General Replacements the uyama which provide nearby melee units a bonus ranged attack you have to say for how relatively pathetic they are to most of the cylinder they could still probably annihilate the rosie little victories you [Music] know the Singaporean Fleet to the north is a flash of damage numbers but that’s something of a distraction I think instead I’m more interested in the race for Indonesia Java is newly settled by mnda now but leanu is right on their tracks sending a settler out to the western side of the island the maluku islands are still Prime real estate meanwhile for mndo the wagi or perhaps even the yongo there are a fair few surprisingly powerful cves here and the next couple settles could be decisive in deciding this Region’s Fate The War of the four kingdoms begins in Earnest as gogurts fake rhinos descend upon xinyang while Keno sends his fleets to harass yanii I’m unsure why the Korean boats are currently sailing South but I’m sure it’s all part of guang’s grand plan Kinga doesn’t look to be getting too involved for now preferring to wait and see if his allies initial attacks make any progress having bounced his armies off Shang City walls for centuries [Music] now this is strategy face it you may not like it but this is what Peak Roman tactics look like Ski’s brand new signature form Le line coming to a war near you the Tuli land on the shores of nunut probably depressed to find it’s just as cold as where they set sail from now this is turnup the down andout colics fresh off their uh victory over pontis have launched a surprise attack on movia I think mno has enough of an army to comfortably defend against The Invasion so so long as lvia don’t start putting up a fight again but I admire the boldness courtesy of their new general nzinga who uh Google Google Google yep that’s Justin Zinga again well given her successes in her Homeland I have full faith Julia pole will be calmic by the end of this episode The Umami might not have really done a lot but they are looking beefier and beefier by the day two new cities up in the far north of Norway and a hell of a lot of soldiers you can be sure rapan is not staying finish for that much longer for now though it seems faith is of more interest than war with them having spread their religion into nearby Finland already burgundy and Hungary go to war a fascinating conflict ruined by a stupid Bavaria neither burgundy nor Hungary have been at all scarred by their respective invasions just yet but it’s early days there King catboy continues to stream Celeste oh boy is it race for the tiny Islands time already Sierra Leon gets an early lead by settling saome with another settler in tow for moral support KB also found the city ofama in a very decent location hidden between some mountains while Sean forces attempt an invasion of indongo but wind up following a DMT induced hallucination into the jungles of central Africa instead harappa as has long been established are the eventual winners of cbx4 they have to be I have promised multiple times to Simply reset the run until they eventually come out on top so it is interesting to see them play the role of the underdog or dare I say it incompetent Civ in the early game having made seemingly no real attempt to invade The Sitting Duck City of Bal despite a thoroughly decent Army it at least makes more sense than whatever vagina gar is doing bretan 100 Years War veteran duin is leading a scattered band of men to the north to fight some foe they’re actually at war with Kazan and it’s very possible that Krishna dearia is trying to maneuver the Army all the way up to Russia as haraa incredibly cooly and sexily declares war on Hungary a terrible Civ no one likes gogoro really start to bring the heat down on Shang Zang is down to half damage and yanii faces bombardment on all sides from a combined Korean Japanese force Shang have possibly overextended themselves a little as their decently sized Army is struggling to reorient itself in time to defend against this twin pronged attack still even losing two cities would put them comfortably ahead of most other cves on the cylinder by City count as Mongolia and Kazan kiss and make up kazakstan throws out an equally uninteresting War Declaration on mno but more interestingly starts to wear Down the Walls of herat I think this city will take a few flips to secure but Nazar bayv absolutely still has the upper hand here a zunar army is starting to move too possibly set to descend on turkistan bad vibes for bukara all around o sage and Rio Grande broker much awaited peace as New Holland enhanced their religion I apparently didn’t take a shot of their new beliefs and I’ve literally just shut down the CBR for the night so they’ll have to wait until tomorrow probably the tel are the newest entrance to the one tile Island race settling coona on Isa deos estos a fleet of Dutch ships Maps the complicated Chilean Coastline as a Rio Grandes settler searches for yet more Awkward forward settle spots the rosv and Hungary whose emblems I always get confused for some reason make [Music] peace as ponas and the afsharid bring an end to a war that could have been but wasn’t interesting the first shots of the England burgundy War are exchanged amen is the surprising front line with English ships coming to bear on the newly minted French Port while the Norman front remains charitably a cluster [ __ ] elsewhere Henry V is playing Cromwell and sending settlers to Ireland as the crow and the yellow knives make peace off screen so much for Le line by skipio there’s a Mad Dash on to finish settling the med I spy settlers from burgundy the Visigoths Rome and the alawites all vying for a position among the improbable Sierra Leon North [Music] Coast speaking of Si Leon they have a new Saharan Outpost further complicating the Region’s messy borders with Kena the aloes respond with some new religious Bel leaves I did remember to take a picture of those so get incredibly excited for a few slides time as previously mentioned peace Reigns in North America unless you’re oage or senica of course ultimately much like the peblo and oage War this was a pointless war that went nowhere but it was at least entertaining along the way Tuli still haven’t settled any of those icy cities while while the crow also send a setler out to explore Eastern [Music] Canada the Sena meanwhile keep it a little closer to home founding chanuo near New York thus providing the world with 100% more bagel shops and dance punk bands Florida continues to be a Civ in this season of the Civ Battle Royale finally a look at the new fat rug beliefs SE system and missionary Zeal which are both completely unremarkable alas that’ll do for today’s episode of the cbx4 my name’s laxx aerosol reminding you that the conclusion is predetermined I know everything and thus anytime I offered any prediction or speculation in this episode it was with the full knowledge of whether I was right or wrong a fun reading into that and so from your humble writer and your humble narrator doc bid you good night and we’ll see you next time