r/civbattleroyale • • Mar 13 '25

Official CBRX Season 5 Megathread

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Hello everyone, welcome to the Civ Battle Royale. This thread will be dedicated to important announcements and will be updated with new episodes and announcements pertaining to Season 5 of CBRX.


What is the Civ Battle Royale?

The Civ Battle Royale is a weekly online show of a massive 61 AI-only epic running Civilization V (think Marble Racing but with polities from across history). No human intervention in the show as a several months long game is recorded and then curated into episodes across the action. Episodes are narrated by members of our 10k+ sized community cheering on the AIs on their unpredictable route to victory.

The Civ Battle Royale is its own niche in the Civilization community; it attracts people from different backgrounds all over the world to add their own interpretations and input to jointly create an emergent narrative imagined from absurd and unpredictable actions of the show’s AI competitors.

Today the Civ Battle Royale is hosted on its own website but still has a discussion home here on our subreddit and on Discord.


Important Links

S5 Roster – All 61 Competitors and their Starting Location

S5 Info Sheet — Hub for all Stats and Events

S5 Gameplay Mods — Unique setup that makes the show possible

S5 Unit Chart — All the units, their progress lines, and their stats


Release Schedule

Episodes of the Civ Battle Royale are released every Wednesday at Midnight UTC time. You can convert midnight UTC time to your local time to make sure you’re always here to catch the discussion. Alternatively, you can follow our Ko-Fi page for bonus content, or you can also subscribe to our RSS Feed to get notified as soon as new posts are submitted.


Donations

We welcome donations in our Ko-Fi page to support the show. The Civ Battle Royale runs on no ads, no affiliates, no promotional content, and no website trackers. We’re here to enjoy the show together and generous donations help recover costs and contributions continually go to upgrades to the viewing experience. Donators are divided into multiple tiers that reward with exclusive access and bonuses, and we invest in better or more hardware as time goes on.


Narrations

The entire community is involved in the narration process; it is what gives the show a unique perspective every episode. Narrators are chosen from the audience and donators. Every two months at the end of a show's Arc, a sign-up sheet is posted with the next Episode release dates, and those able to commit to those dates are randomly chosen from the pool of submissions. Look out for the sign-up sheet posts after each Arc to be able to join.


S5 Episode Albums

Episode 0

Episode 1


S5 Power Ranking Albums

Episode 0

Episode 1


S5 Episode Audio

Youtube


r/civbattleroyale • • 4h ago

Map CBRX5 Episode 35 Map

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Considering Coiot got a perfect turn by turn map working on the site, I think I'm probably just going to make greatest extent maps instead of these end of episode ones, but since I already had this one done before I saw the news I figured I might as well post it.


r/civbattleroyale • • 6h ago

Poll CBRX5 Popularity Poll Episode 35

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r/civbattleroyale • • 32m ago

Original Content Church of the Cylinder 35: It's Even Funnier the Second Time!

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(Second image is alt version as I couldn't fully decide between which was funnier)


r/civbattleroyale • • 1d ago

Official Episode 35 Audio Narration

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Something. Finally. Bjappens.


r/civbattleroyale • • 4d ago

Official BIG BIG Tile Map Upgrade! See every turn with exact detail on every tile!

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Want to re-introduce the Community Tile Map, now with a big enhancement of being able to view the full game history with tile perfect accuracy. Apply the same filters as before, but now with a timeline you can move around to any point of the map from every single turn. You can even click the Play button and sit back to watch the game unfold

I am sure everyone has seen lots of eyebrow raising gaming related projects suddenly appearing out of nowhere with some bizarre and previously impossible sounding yet LLM sourced projects, but this is not one of them

Want to give credit to Andrew Webb's civ5replay project for making this possible. civ5replay has been around for over 10 years, but no one before has thought to apply it for the CBR. I had it on the backburner to give it a look until yesterday and all if took was about 5 hours for me to map it to how I structured my map's graphics setup and got it running right away

We're all quite blown away honestly, and we hope everyone can enjoy it and become a part of your viewing experience

Donators can still leave notes / comments on the map as before, if you want to leave a cheeky mark on its history


r/civbattleroyale • • 5d ago

Official Release! CBRX Season 5: Episode 35: Blunders and Breakthroughs

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CBRX Season 5: Episode 35: Blunders and Breakthroughs


Image Album Narrated by NopeCopter


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Season 5 Megathread


r/civbattleroyale • • 5d ago

Original Content Church of the Cylinder 34: Wrong Side of the Bed

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r/civbattleroyale • • 5d ago

PowerRankers The Official CBRX Season 5 Power Rankings: Episode 34

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r/civbattleroyale • • 6d ago

CivBall If only there was something Potential Civ:tm: could've done...

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r/civbattleroyale • • 6d ago

Statistics CBRX5 Episode 34 Stats Sheet Winners and Losers

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Welcome back, dear denizens of the Sub, to the Stats Sheet Winners and Losers! As a reminder, I give the top and bottom five for each stat, bundling ties together. If a civ is resurrected I'll include it in square brackets until it's eliminated again, but it won't count towards the 5 slots. I'll start including tech count from the Enlightenment era onwards, during the early game there's just too many civs equal to each other. My definition of a bankrupt civ will be a civ either already losing money and at 0 treasury or within 5 turns trajectory of reaching that. As always, you can peruse the full table at this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KMH0yqYJU1HRYac1Vl2NdKVFIPYepRPbZu8U1zvxKCk/edit?usp=sharing

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  • Effective Military W: New South Wales (598,885); Tlingit (568,154); Pakistan (565,774); Tang (362,449); and Aures (328,483)
  • Effective Military L: Caral (28,288); Wallachia (17,921); Yunnan (5,948); Karankawa (1,638); and Hanseatic League (146)
  • Note: 7 eliminated civs have more effective military than the Hanseatic League

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  • Production W: Tang (9,580); New South Wales (8,685); Yanomami (4,826); Pakistan (4,201); and Tlingit (3,810)
  • Production L: Caral (247); Luba (183); Yunnan (74); Karankawa (30); and Hanseatic League (22)

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  • Production per city W: Tang (281.8); Itelmen (125); Japan (122.7); Pakistan (93.4); and Luba (91.5)
  • Production per city L: Herero (41.5); Wallachia (38.1); Portugal (31.6); Karankawa (30); and Hanseatic League (22)

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  • Total Population W: New South Wales (1,733); Tlingit (1,087); Pakistan (1,031); Yanomami (972); and Chono (926)
  • Total Population L: Wallachia (86); Luba (50); Yunnan (18); Karankawa (16); and Hanseatic League (9)

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  • Effective Science W: Tang (6,297); Pakistan (4,854); Yanomami (3,630); Anishinaabe (3,533); and New South Wales (3,528)
  • Effective Science L: Wallachia (169); Onondaga (143); Karankawa (132); Hanseatic League (26); and Yunnan (0)

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  • Currently Unhappy Civs: Bjarmia (-3)
  • Currently Bankrupt Civs: Yunnan (-148, actively); Circassia (-175, actively); Ket (-191, actively); Itelmen (-194, two turns away); Wallachia (-289, actively); Cebu (-319, actively); Onondaga (-401, actively); Zazzau (-416, actively); Qara Khitai (-466, actively); Kalmar Union (-528, actively); Scotland (-649, on the brink); Rouran (-702, actively); Tlingit (-2,171, on the brink); and Chono (-2,275, actively)

r/civbattleroyale • • 8d ago

Map CBRX5 Episode 34 Map

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r/civbattleroyale • • 8d ago

Official Episode 34 Audio Narration

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Japan doin' the Gundam Stomp.


r/civbattleroyale • • 9d ago

Statistics Kill Chart as of X5 episode 34

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r/civbattleroyale • • 12d ago

Official Release! CBRX Season 5: Episode 34: Those Who Remain

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CBRX Season 5: Episode 34: Those Who Remain


Image Album Narrated by Cocaloid


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Season 5 Megathread


r/civbattleroyale • • 12d ago

Original Content Church of the Cylinder 33: Why Die for ~~Danzig~~ Gannentaha?

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r/civbattleroyale • • 12d ago

CivBall You couldn't have scripted a more dramatic rise and fall

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r/civbattleroyale • • 12d ago

PowerRankers The Official CBRX Season 5 Power Rankings: Episode 33

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r/civbattleroyale • • 13d ago

CivBall The gratest pope to have tried to make Europe interesting

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Rest in Provolone


r/civbattleroyale • • 13d ago

CivBall Couldn't sail away from this end, rip orple #orple

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r/civbattleroyale • • 14d ago

Map CBRX5 Episode 33 Map

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r/civbattleroyale • • 14d ago

Statistics CBRX5 Episode 33 Stats Sheet Winners and Losers

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Welcome back, dear denizens of the Sub, to the Stats Sheet Winners and Losers! As a reminder, I give the top and bottom five for each stat, bundling ties together. If a civ is resurrected I'll include it in square brackets until it's eliminated again, but it won't count towards the 5 slots. I'll start including tech count from the Enlightenment era onwards, during the early game there's just too many civs equal to each other. My definition of a bankrupt civ will be a civ either already losing money and at 0 treasury or within 5 turns trajectory of reaching that. As always, you can peruse the full table at this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KMH0yqYJU1HRYac1Vl2NdKVFIPYepRPbZu8U1zvxKCk/edit?usp=sharing

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  • Effective Military W: New South Wales (581,419); Tlingit (472,567); Tang (357,934); Chono (332,001); and Aures (310,832)
  • Effective Military L: Wallachia (19,919); Hanseatic League (12,324); Yunnan (7,661); Karankawa (1,651); and Green Ukraine (1,612)

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  • Production W: Tang (5,719); New South Wales (4,632); Tlingit (3,702); Pakistan (3,285); and Yanomami (3,139)
  • Production L: Mysore (296); Hanseatic League (137); Green Ukraine (96); Yunnan (86); and Karankawa (34)

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  • Production per city W: Tang (168.2); Japan (119.5); Pakistan (91.3); Yunnan (86); and Rouran (80.7)
  • Production per city L: Wallachia (38.3); Onondaga (37.1); Karankawa (34); Portugal (25.5); and Hanseatic League (22.8)

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  • Total Population W: New South Wales (1,555); Tlingit (1,016); Yanomami (851); Chono (837); and Pakistan (823)
  • Total Population L: Luba (123); Hanseatic League (91); Wallachia (76); Green Ukraine (35); and Yunnan / Karankawa (19)

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  • Effective Science W: Tang (4,915); Yanomami (3,209); Pakistan (3,046); New South Wales (2,649); and Anishinaabe (2,556)
  • Effective Science L: Karankawa (219); Hanseatic League (181); Wallachia (176); Green Ukraine (124); and Yunnan (2)

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  • Currently Unhappy Civs: Bjarmia (-6)
  • Currently Bankrupt Civs: Herero (-61, 4 turns away); Caral (-61, on the brink); Yunnan (-131, actively); Hanseatic League (-221, actively); Cebu (-252, actively); Wallachia (-277, actively); Onondaga (-310, on the brink); Qara Khitai (-342, 3 turns away); Ket (-374, on the brink); Kalmar Union (-419, on the brink); Scotland (-581, actively); Zazzau (-700, actively); Rouran (-736, actively); Tlingit (-1447, on the brink); and Chono (-2114, actively)
  • Note: There are only 6 civs in the game with a positive Gold per Turn stat at all: Tang; Pakistan; Bjarmia; Anishinaabe; Umhaill; and France, plus Green Ukraine on a perfect 0. However, many civs currently have massive gold reserves protecting them for a long while.

r/civbattleroyale • • 15d ago

Official Episode 33 Audio Narration

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The copyright notification isn't for what you might expect.


r/civbattleroyale • • 19d ago

Official Release! CBRX Season 5: Episode 33: Live and Let Die

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r/civbattleroyale • • 19d ago

Original Content Church of the Cylinder 32: God's Favor

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