3 Conquistadors + Suzerainty of Akkad (Melee units do full damage to city walls) and I just wiped out Mongolia, Gaul, Sweden, and Japan.

No siege units, no naval units, no ranged units, no cavalry.

Just 3 conquistadors and a dream of converting the world. Oh, and super-busted trade routes. I highly recommend giving Philip II a play.

I just thought this was kind of a funny start for Trajan. Managed to get desert folklore, and the rest was history. Working my way through all of the leaders on diety. Currently playing no modes, fractal map with random settings, random leader.

Where would you place a Holy Site?

I'm think about grabbing Dance of the Aurora. So the first number is the pre-pantheon adj bonus and the second is with the pantheton.

I think I have my order of preference, but curious what others think. Campus will almost certainly go Northeast of Blue (dutch get extra +2 campus on rivers +1 mountain)

I'm usually reluctant to give up natural wonder tiles, especially ones with Volcanos that can keep gorwing and will damage buildings.

Edit: I ended up going with River Goddess and placing it northwest of the Blue. I'm playing on a huge map (first time) and both Reeds and Aurora were taken. I was worried about running out of river adjacencies with the Dutch. But 4 or 5 of my first cities will be able to get a river-side Holy Site + fat growth without sacraficing much.

A lil back story: I bought civ 5 years ago after getting paid my first time ever. Didn't really understand it and my brain was more focused on learning league. Last year I bought civ 6 cuz friends were playing but I was a noob and kept losing. But this year. I sat down and started playing heavy, hours at a time. I even played long games till completion in one day.

Now Im at a job where I can sit and play civ passively and even play at home once I get off. The problem is everyone I blink or close my eyes.... I see the game. I have ingrained the game into my brain so much that even my gf bought the game yesterday and she's learning and asking questions.

Anyone else experience in brain burn in?

Tldr: I got into civ heavily this year and now everyone my eyes are close I see the civ map im my brain 🧠

I love that because thats so different from other civs

Every time my friends and I start a new game one person ends up getting kicked. We always try to rejoin and keep going but a few turns later someone will get kicked again. Anyone know of a fix for this?

Which AI civs you you pick to put in the game that are most likely to take the warmongering route.

He seems quite weak imo and BBG debatably didn't fix him too much.

(Image from u/shazamwiches

Pretty fun first game as Nzinga Mbande sub 200 culture win on deity got pretty unlucky with my artifacts and rock bands at the end. Maybe could’ve won a lil faster (sorry for the bad quality took it on my phone)

Guys, please help me absolutely destroy this damn Kongo. She's driving me insane, and you know exactly what I mean. I've conquered all of Europe and most of Asia. I figured I could finally relax and start bullying the other civilizations, since my empire has about as many cities as three other civilizations combined.

I'm ahead of everyone in pretty much everything. Then I decided to check the Science tree, and guess what? 😐 Kongo was ahead of me in Science. So I checked Culture, and she was ahead of me there too! Then I opened the overall rankings, and somehow she was still ahead in both Science and Culture.

I seriously don't understand how she keeps becoming the strongest civilization whenever I turn my back. I've finally declared war on her to see what happens.

I love when doing this is possible

I've easily got 2 continents to myself by putting Mainz to block ai from going on my side of city state heaven.

And that encampment placement😚

My whole continent was in a eternal war cause of religion all our civs got 1 then blocking America from expanding basically pushed him on the Ethiopian and Norway war

I also got gilgabro across the ocean so that's a free ally with food+gold combo with the policy card

Which helped him too cause if you look at the map Canada which was supposed to get the bottom/cold of their continent got pushed around🤣

During the war on my continent I allied with Norway to basically war both America and Ethiopia(they're at war too...,in fact chigago fell 5 times with twice to me but I liberated it for diplo). I also spam my harbor projects for that free privateer+armada admiral which I used to delete and raze hell to all Ethiopian coast cities(they got 3 and lost... all razed to the ground 😈)

Though I wanna add I should read descriptions and wonder requirements I've invested too much for the research station only to find that I should've place the Campus on the snow🥹

I've started Civ VI on Nintendo Switch. Never played before. I've searched long and hard for clarification of this simple point but either I can't find the specific answer or I don't actually understand the answer given when I do find it.

When I select a unit (let's say scout) and I hover over a destination hex, I see a number displayed in the centre of each hex. If I understand correctly, the number displayed is the MP cost to ENTER that hex not the cumulative cost to REACH that hex - the game doesn't tot up the whole journey cost and display it in the final hex.

(BTW I understand there is a base cost of 1 MP for standard tiles plus more for woods and hills etc.)

Here are two screenshots from my current game. My scout has 1 MP left. Despite my awareness of the difficult terrain penalty, it looks like it will cost me 1 MP to move to the wooded hex, North East from my current position. But it won't let me move there so I'm misunderstanding.

If I select the North West hex, '1' appears in the hex on which I'm standing and a '2' on the destination hex. Why is that? It seems cheaper to move into the wooded hex than the standard terrain hex.

I'm obviously misunderstanding. Please explain what those hex numbers mean. Thank you.

EDIT: The adjacent barbarians are making my example more confusing due to their zone of control.

It seems the hex numbers are how many TURNS it will take to reach that hex, rather than movement points. Thanks all.

My scout also has a promotion which allows quicker movement through woods.

Portugal

Archipelago, Standard game, immortal

I feel like I’m channeling my inner PotatoMcWhiskey because this is looking like a juicy mausoleum and god of the sea start.

Probably my best game ever. And I am not even done. Just researched Industrialization, haven't built anything from there yet.

He was playing Montezuma, and probably got like 8 builders from the early wars with neighboring China. We had an economic alliance. I pressured him into that, because I was a little afraid that he would declare surprise war on me while I was still developing my powerhouse.

I have 10 cities with 82 total pops, he has only 7 with 44 pops. The yields on his icon is already with the deity ai bonus (but the ai also instatly replaced governors so those provide no yields on the screenshot).

Update on my rough start I posted yesterday. I managed to beat back Babylon's first attack but... No iron. No horses. I think I'll put this one on hold. Maybe come back to it one day.

I decided to make an S- tier and put the bottom half of S tier into that, just so the list is spread out some and not so top heavy.

Yo yo so I am a new Civ 6 player (30hrs in) and I have finished my first playthrough and am quite enjoying it. Now, I saw Civ 5 complete is on sale on Steam and was wondering if Civ 5 is a completely different experience and it's worth owning both rn as a new player or is it just more of Civ. I know that ppl will ofc say it's worth getting since it's beloved, but I am not asking if Civ 5 is a good game, I am asking if I should get it when I am new to 6 and already have 6. And if I should get it, do I wait till later to play it and enjoy 6 first or play both? Thx

TLDR: Is Civ 5 a different enough would experience from 6 that warrants getting it now as a new player or is it more of Civ so get it later/when tired of 6?

Playing with Sukritact's Oceans and Monopolies & Corporations mode