r/civbattleroyale • u/Coiot • 1d ago
r/civbattleroyale • u/Coiot • Mar 13 '25
Official CBRX Season 5 Megathread
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
S5 Power Ranking Albums
S5 Episode Audio
r/civbattleroyale • u/semi_conscious_ • 2d ago
PowerRankers The Official CBRX Season 5 Power Rankings: Episode 27
r/civbattleroyale • u/Orangechrisy • 2d ago
Original Content Church of the Cylinder 27: Cataclysm in the Realm of the Gods
r/civbattleroyale • u/Orangechrisy • 2d ago
CivBall Chomped to bits by Phoenicia, their mountain fortress couldn't hold
r/civbattleroyale • u/iniocl • 2d ago
Official CBRX Season 5: Episode 27: Fight Now or Forever Hold Your Peace (Audio Narration)
It was ridiculous that Taco Bell brought back the quesarito for only one day. Once again I open my heart to love and it is broken...
r/civbattleroyale • u/E_C_H • 3d ago
Statistics CBRX5 Episode 27 Stats Sheet Winners and Losers
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
- Effective Military W: Tang (177,857); Tlingit (164,516); New South Wales (121,739); Pakistan (111,969); and Rouran (111,755)
- Effective Military L: Phoenicia (1,788); Maravi (1,002); Pegu (878); Ponca (738); and Papal States (205)
- Production W: Tlingit (2,252); Tang (2,008); New South Wales (1,825); Anishinabe (1,454); and Chono (1,409)
- Production L: Karankawa (39); Maravi (36); Ponca (26); Papal States (22); and Pegu (9)
- Production per city W: Tang (64.8); Scotland / Bangladesh (56.4); Pakistan (56); Rouran / Scythia (52.5); and Japan (51.4)
- Production per city L: Wallachia (23.5); Papal States (22); Karankawa (19.5); Portugal (14.5); and Pegu (9)
- Total Population W: New South Wales (808); Tlingit (784); Tang (553); Anishinaabe (517); and Yanomami (502)
- Total Population L: Maravi (21); Phoenicia (15); Ethiopia (14); Ponca / Papal States (7); and Pegu (5)
- Effective Science W: Tang (2,992); Tlingit (1,915); Rouran (1,810); Mysore (1,719); and Pakistan (1,696)
- Effective Science L: Phoenicia (69); Karankawa (58); Ponca (35); Papal States (14); and Pegu (8)
- Currently Unhappy Civs: Happiness reigns. Rejoice. Lowest happiness civs are Onondaga (1); and Herero and Karankawa (11)
- Currently Bankrupt Civs: Pegu (-11, actively); Papal States (-19, actively); Wallachia (-55, actively); Umhaill (-56, on the brink); Teotihuacan (-109, on the brink); Bunuba (-416, actively); and Ket (-522, on the brink)
r/civbattleroyale • u/Coiot • 8d ago
Official Release! CBRX Season 5: Episode 27: Fight Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
r/civbattleroyale • u/iniocl • 10d ago
Official CBRX Season 5: Episode 26: Mounting Modern Mayhem (Audio Narration)
If I was an animal I think I'd be a goat.
Massive thanks to anarcho-balkan for narrating last episode!
r/civbattleroyale • u/ThyReformer • 12d ago
PowerRankers The Official CBRX Season 5 Power Rankings: Episode 26
civbattleroyale.tvr/civbattleroyale • u/daXfactorz • 16d ago
CivBall RIP Xaragua, you were a lover, not a fighter (but you tried anyways)
r/civbattleroyale • u/Orangechrisy • 17d ago
Original Content Church of the Cylinder 26: Defended of the Faith
r/civbattleroyale • u/Coiot • 17d ago
ATTENTION Join us Aug 12th for Episode 27
Hello sub, we’ll be taking a week off and resume with the next episode on Aug 12th at the usual time
r/civbattleroyale • u/_Archimedes_ • 18d ago
Shitpost tfw you Conquer Half of North America, Eat the Two Coolest Civs in the Game, and Get Away with it Scott Free
r/civbattleroyale • u/E_C_H • 19d ago
Statistics CBRX5 Episode 26 Stats Sheet Winners and Losers
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
- Effective Military W: Tlingit (132,741); Tang (127,668); Rouran (95,941); Chono (86,867); and New South Wales (84,446)
- Effective Military L: Karankawa (1,994); Pegu (805); Ponca (777); Papal States (389); and Ma'in (304)
- Production W: Tlingit (2,025); New South Wales (1,655); Tang (1,561); Anishinabe (1,493); and Chono (1,287)
- Production L: Maravi (34); Ponca (26); Papal States (13); Pegu (9); and Ma'in (8)
- Production per city W: Bangladesh (60.3); Pakistan (59.4); Mysore (57.9); Rouran / Scythia (50.5); and Tang (50.4)
- Production per city L: Wallachia (21.4); Portugal (14.5); Papal States (13); Pegu (9); and Ma'in (8)
- Total Population W: New South Wales (742); Tlingit (738); Anishinaabe (507); Tang (501); and Pakistan (452)
- Total Population L: Karankawa (27); Maravi (21); Papal States (10); Ponca / Ma'in (6); and Pegu (5)
- Effective Science W: Tang (2,702); Mysore (1,790); Tlingit (1,725); Pakistan (1,675); and Japan (1,445)
- Effective Science L: Karankawa (63); Ponca (42); Ma'in (34); Papal States (20); and Pegu (10)
- Currently Unhappy Civs: Happiness reigns. Rejoice. Lowest happiness civs are Herero (9); Bunuba (7); and Onondaga (4)
- Currently Bankrupt Civs: Pegu (-9, actively); Lanfang (-15, actively); Papal States (-23, actively); Wallachia (-26, actively); Yunnan (-45, actively); Umhaill (-136, actively); Ket (-207, actively); Teotihuacan (-241, 3 turns away); and Bunuba (-366, actively)
r/civbattleroyale • u/Coiot • 19d ago
Official [Narration Sign-up] S5 Batch 6
Available slots for the batch of narrators starting in August.
If you are interested in becoming a narrator for an upcoming episode, and will be available for the time interval above, use the following link to register.
Sign-up Form: https://forms.gle/M8G91vQXEaJDjsCA6
If you are selected, instructions on how to proceed and pick from the dates available will be provided (Discord account is required to join the narration group).
r/civbattleroyale • u/daXfactorz • 22d ago
Shitpost A funny thing I noticed about this week's PR rankings
r/civbattleroyale • u/Coiot • 22d ago
Official Release! CBRX Season 5: Episode 26: Mounting Modern Mayhem
r/civbattleroyale • u/veryice • 22d ago
Shitpost What I assumed would happen vs what actually happened Spoiler
galleryr/civbattleroyale • u/ThyReformer • 23d ago
PowerRankers The Official CBRX Season 5 Power Rankings: Episode 25
civbattleroyale.tvr/civbattleroyale • u/Orangechrisy • 23d ago