Civ Cast

Civ Cast was a weekly Civilization-themed podcast by Kyle Dempster Studios. The first episode was published on September 17, 2016 and the show ran until June 2018. The podcast was hosted by Kyle Dempster, Dan MacDonald, and Wouter. The show focused entirely on Civilization VI and received a total of 63 episodes.

How to listen

The podcast is available in a few different services, listed below. Note that new episodes may appear to different services in somewhat different times, so if you cannot see it in, say, Google Play yet, check out Stitcher instead, etc.

• Google Play (US and Canada only, thanks to Google)
• iTunes
• TuneIn
• Stitcher

Civ Cast is also on Twitter and Reddit.

Civ Cast Challenge

Monthly Civilization VI challenges

Each month, the the Civ Cast hosts put together the Civ Cast Challenge for listeners to compete in. The challenge runs from the first weekend of the month to the last weekend. Previous challenges can be found on the Civ Cast subReddit.

Episodes

#	Date	Title	Length	Description
1	Sep 17, 2016	Welcome	53:50	02:25: Kyle and Mike introduce themselves. Kyle describes himself as a casual player with some 500 hours of Civ5, whereas Mike says he's more of a "min-maxer" with some 1300 hours of Civ5. 05:45: Breakdown of the newest published civs: Kongo, Norway and Greece 07:25: Mike and Kyle reveal the civs they are the most excited about. Mike picks China and Aztecs (after his compulsory first game as America), Kyle's first choice will be England 09:35: City-states briefly discussed 11:45: Religion and the religion video are discussed 14:00: Kyle and Mike select their dark horse (possibly unexpectedly good) and "light horse" (underwhelming) civs. Kyle's dark horse is Germany and his light horse is the Scythian civ. Mike's underwhelming light horse is Norway and his dark horse is India. 22:10: Lengthy discussion about the map, Districts, and Tile improvements, as well as how information is displayed in Civ6 vs. in Civ5, where lots of data was "hidden" in sub-menus of sub-menus. 35:55: City-states and Envoys discussed again in the context of bonuses they provide to Districts and your civilization 42:15: Discussion about specialized cities and tile adjacency bonuses to Districts 46:40: Final thoughts and closing notes
2	Sep 25, 2016	Let's talk Rome	45:15	03:35: Minimum system requirements discussed 05:15: Rome discussed 06:35: Tech tree and Civics tree 12:15: Rome again 23:50: War 34:55: Housing and amenities 38:00: Modding
3	Oct 1, 2016	When in doubt, drop a nuke	45:33	02:45 Sumeria discussed. Neither Kyle nor Mike is too impressed with it, but they remark it might be a good civ in multiplayer, continuing the discussion around the theme of multiplayer and joint war. 11:35: Arabia is discussed: Kyle is not big on Religion so he's not excited about it at all, while Mike thinks Arabia is awesome and pitches it to Kyle. 17:15: Game of "pitch this civ": Mike throws Germany to Kyle and asks him to pitch the civ in one minute as if it was the best civ ever. Kyle then asks Mike to pitch Norway. 24:45: Arumba's Let's Play Civilization VI Rome videos discussed. 29:00: Nukes and IGN's nuke video discussed.
4	Oct 8, 2016	Let's play a game	50:05
5	Oct 15, 2016	Greece has multiplied	53:00	02:00: Gorgo and the concept of multiple leaders discussed 09:00: Discussion: will you select random civs into your first game, or will you pick your enemies? 12:40: Firaxis Civ6 AI Battle Royale (Oct. 19 on Twitch) discussed 17:25: Listener feedback is read, and Kyle and Mike reveal their Steam handles: kyledempster7 and Themariners10 respectively 22:05: Kyle and Mike discuss their hours in game and how many years they've actually been playing Civ 26:20: Christopher Tin and the new theme song, and the music in general, discussed 33:05: Self reflection: Civ Cast and podcasting in general are discussed 35:00: What is the one thing that you are most excited about in Civ6? Kyle picks the Civics tree, Mike picks the government system. 38:45: Mike says he despises the new movement system, Kyle does not judge it yet. Movement and city combat discussed.
6	Oct 22, 2016	The British are coming	33 min
7	Oct 30, 2016	Drinking with Peter	55 min
8	Nov 6, 2016	Pin that Map!	60 min
9	Nov 13, 2016	Don't nuke my border	59 min
10	Nov 20, 2016	Let there be patch notes!	70 min
11	Nov 27, 2016	Let's Reddit	63 min
12	Dec 3, 2016	Min/Maxing with Innocentius69	62 min
13	Dec 11, 2016	German Industrial Tea Complex	69 min
14	Dec 18, 2016	I pronounce it Ngao Mbeba	58 min
	Dec 13, 2016	Dan's Historical Extra: Philip II	31 min
15	Dec 24, 2016	“Home is where the heart is” - Montezuma	71 min
16	Jan 1, 2017	Brick, Mortar and People	59 min
17	Jan 8, 2017	Moving Cities!	76 min
18	Jan 15, 2017	The show must go on	59 min
19	Jan 29, 2017	Take a walk	58 min
20	Feb 5, 2017	Power to the kakistocracy!	65 min
21	Feb 12, 2017	Corporate Happy Meals	50 min
22	Feb 19, 2017	Free Market Communism	56 min
23	Feb 26, 2017	DIGGAH (Australian Summer Recap)	58 min
24	Mar 5, 2017	Don't touch my envoy!	62 min
25	Mar 12, 2017	Trade Agreements with England	60 min
26	Mar 19, 2017	A Civilization Education	58 min
27	Mar 26, 2017	Killer of Cyrus	71 min
28	Apr 2, 2017	Apa-BORING	61 min
29	Apr 9, 2017	Gandhi Nukes All	56 min
30	Apr 23, 2017	That's one sick Dutchman!	59 min
31	Apr 30, 2017	Stroopwafels, stroopwafels for everyone!	52 min
32	May 7, 2017	Digital bang for your digital buck!	60 min
33	May 14, 2017	Catherine, greatest mother of all?	60 min
34	May 21, 2017	You want lists, we've got lists!	54 min
35	May 28, 2017	We'll Do It Live!	59 min
36	Jun 4, 2017	Everyone is a unique unit	53 min
37	Jun 11, 2017	When Dan is away...	67 min
38	Jun 18, 2017	Y n0 n3w leaderz?	59 min
39	Jun 25, 2017	Let's Talk Civ 5!	63 min
40	Jul 2, 2017	Let's talk Civ 5! Part 2	60 min
41	Jul 9, 2017	Send me all your trade routes!	58 min
42	Jul 16, 2017	Let's Talk Combat	64 min
43	Jul 30, 2017	Nubia & Patch Notes have arrived	62 min
44	Aug 6, 2017	Unleash the Navy!	56 min
44.5	Aug 13, 2017	A very solo Civ Cast	14 min
45	Aug 20, 2017	Nubia & Patch Thus Far...	62 min
46	Aug 27, 2017	But what district do I place?	66 min
47	Sep 3, 2017	It belongs in a museum!	59 min
48	Sep 17, 2017	Trade Routes and What's to Come!	59 min
49	Sep 24, 2017	Tutorial taught you what?!	63 min
50	Oct 8, 2017	Which wonder is right for you?	50 min
51	Oct 22, 2017	Fall 2017 Patch Notes pt 1	62 min
52	Jan 28, 2018	The Return	44 min
53	Feb 3, 2018	Alliances and Emergencies	54 min
54	Feb 10, 2018	New leaders!	57 min
55	Feb 17, 2018	Patch Notes	59 min
56	Feb 24, 2018	Golden Ages	54 min
	Mar 4, 2018	Feb Civ Cast Challenge Recap	20 min
57	Apr 18, 2018	Rise and Rise	59 min
58	Apr 26, 2018	GG Nub(ia)	61 min
59	May 3, 2018	Holy Righteous King Wouter	60 min
60	May 11, 2018	You Can Ngao Your Own Way	56 min
61	May 16, 2018	Making Domination Helle-easy	65 min
62	May 25, 2018	Shaka It Off	60 min
63	June 17, 2018	A Rough Ride	67 min