How difficult is It to play Kongo? I’ve been looking at them for a while and want to try them; but, as I always rush a religion, I’m really at a loss as to how you play them. Any tips, help or information would be appreciated!!
Play as Australia, AI doesn't seem to want to give you a production buff by declaring war. I got all the way to the industrial age before a war was declared on me.
Counterintuitive advice: declare war on the enemy while your troops are not too close to their cities. They will send their units to *your* capital which means you're unlikely to have to worry about as many archers or garrison units. Trivial reminders: unpromoted archers don't help with putting a city "under siege" (preventing healing) as they don't exert area of control (all non-mountain tiles around the city must be under your area of control for the siege to take place). Also, counterintuitively, conquering bigger cities first makes it easier to manage loyalty (the citizens in the conquered town immediately project loyalty pressure for you). Last cheesy advice: leave the enemy with a single pop city at the edge of your large conquered cities. They should rebel, which means none of the other countries will blame you for killing them.
@@gaIIowsCaIibrator One caveat to this is that killing the last city of a civ gives you 5 era score while leaving them to rebel does not although you do get 2 era score if a free city joins you via loyalty.
archers puts a city under siege ofc. but they just only exert their own square. so 6 archers (or 4 sides of the city is impassible, 2 archers) will put the city under siege. nice advices btw
I know this is weird but 70% of my diety wins were with a religious victory. Some science and some diplo. But thanks to your best domination leaders vid I used Suleiman to absolutely crush my first diety domination victory. Thanks bro!!
@@Fasterfingers yep that’s what I do. Never won with the same leader twice. Gotta mix it up if you’re a real fan. Why do the same run through a million times smh
@@Fasterfingers also, please learn to read. I said 70% of the games I won were a religious victory. I did not say I have won 70% of my diety games played lol
Thank you, we need more of these. There is so many layers to this game, it takes a long time to learn everything, but having these type of videos simplify the process.
well I suggest you play first with settler difficulty, abundant reslurces, pangaea world, small map size, and legendary starting position (in the create game options menu)
Yeah all these "complete beginner guides" are a bit shit like that. I am just looking for an honest to god guide on how these mechanics interact with one another..
Honestly your the reason why I am actually decent at civ 6 and I totally loved the vid so I would be very grateful for you to do a mid and late game guide.
For cultural victory, I usually try to build walls in almost all my cities for the +1-3 tourism you get with the conservation civic . And it also helps for defence a lot.
I agree it's good to remember this. It doesn't even need to cut into your production schedule heavily, just build the walls anytime before researching conservation, it's very easy for most or all of your cities to get ancient and medieval walls in only a couple of turns by waiting to start the projects. High production cities or one near an aggressive enemy can get renaissance walls. It adds up to a lot of tourism.
Nice video, but the old "scouts only have one more movement point than other units" is a hackneyed trope. It doesn't take long for a scout to level up, letting you select it to ignore hills or jungle/forest, and they speed up like *that*. Sometimes, you can get them to level up a second time (or find the matterhorn) and make it so that you ignore all terrain.
Not building scout is a game changer for me, they're usually get fucked by a barb archer or something, it gets pretty annoying. Now i just build horsemen if i can otherwise warriors and archers and send them to every direction, basically doing two birds with one slinger.
@@cataclysm7256 if you go full ranged, -especially like an ancient rush to deity- scouts are the only units which can go 3 tiles (beyond city's attack) before turn 50. Most of the time, around turn 70-80, i get my all archers to level 4, so scout is my precious ;)
When it comes to scouts, it really depends on my early production. If I can pump out a scout in 5 turns, I will do it. Goody huts can give you some great momentum.
I find it worth it sometimes in a culture game to go for early war just for generation of antiquity sites, especially as sweden. The extra yields in the late game always help
I just came here to say, after entering the series at Civ V and spending 1,000 hours on Civ VI, THIS VIDEO helped me achieve my FIRST DIETY WIN!!! I have watched a few tips and tricks videos, read a few guides and never crushed this game like a god. Specifically, your tips on city placement, planning, and an ABUNDANCE of early settling was key for me to finally spank these angry leaders. I was close to 10 cities by turn 100. Settled 7 myself and picked up closest rival capital and another city. Then the snowballing began in my favor. I was able to secure a science victory with Seondeok nearly 40 turns before my nearest rival. Sure, it took me ages to catch up with science, but I eventually caught up after the Mars Launch. By that point, I had easily become the dominant military for half of existence and could have gone domination 50 turns earlier. 18/20 diplo points without even attempting that. Could have even pushed culture win as the AI gave up on really any victory condition and would willingly sell to my ridiculous treasury. I tend not to mess with religion, but am looking forward to working that in to my next playthrough! Thanks for your videos and your unique style commentary. You gave me faith I never knew I had. May even attempt to play against Gandhi now...Cheers!
I actually prefer horsemen over swordsmen for early rushes. I can use archers to get trough walls, they usually end up doing about 20-30 dmg to archers per shot, which is very little so you can get trough walls in a good 5 turns, which isnt exactly fast, but if you are fast you should face 1 walled city at most. And horsemen rushes have massive advantages over swordsmen: 1: more movement allows for you to hit earlier and pillage better 2: you get archers early, so you can declare war and then have the horsemen come in later, thus hitting them way before you could get a swordsmen rush going 3: easier and more guaranteed eureka path 4: if you dont get horses, you can go with something else, but by the time you get bronze working but dont have iron its kind of to late to stop, so you have to settle some stupid city for iron, which can cripple you. Or if you just dont have someone else nearby you can pull out and sim earlier. 5: coursers are better than men at arms since they arent in the ass side of the tech tree and are stronger, and very close to trebuchets to keep the war going if you want to 6: you can sell some horses you get since you get them early enough to then have them stack, and the extra gold is nice
Yes I kept failing swordsmen rushes. Takes too long to accumulate 60 iron, have to settle shit cities for it and they have low movement. I tried horsemen rush one game and just dominated
@@tweeze123 I have had several games where the horses were far away, which weren't always reachable in time for me to do an early-ish rush, so then it had to be swordsmen.
Just played my first game. Had no idea what I was doing. Went for a science victory, Greece was beating me so I conquered Greece and by that point I was so far ahead that tanks and bombers wiped out everyone else within 100 turns
Great video as always funny and informative.i basically went from prince to emperor difficulty over night.i can hold my cities usually in higher difficulties but fall behind in science and stuff.i like the intensity of deity pressure of war and whatnot but the pace can seem overwhelming.
Interesting, I actually rushed archers and spammed them out in my most recent game and it worked super well for early domination. I’ll have to try swordsmen next time…
I started with CivRev and learned my way up to level 6 on Civ 6 (like 1 level higher than king, 2 away from diety) such a blast but I'm sure there are things I'm prioritizing wrong still. Like I don't *always* know where I want my next city to be exact tile and rely on advisors probably making a less intelligent decision than if I knew what I was doing
Also went from. civrev2 to civ6 deity but I only play domination on earth and continents maps. Biggest difference is they buffed city defenses way too much as well as ai bonuses. Oh well at least the ai is worse and don’t build many units and are terrible fighters.
Well I don't like shuffle map for warmongering because there's always some random civ hiding in an island. I also like the clover and terra.@@mindseyemusicreview
The Pokemon example you tried to give is best said as such: it's like if Ash was given a Magikarp and told to fight the first gym leader who has an Arceus.
Make a mid and late game! Also was hoping to see your siege on Arabia strategy in real time in this video, but a guide on siege would be awesome to. Great vid. I started playing civ for the first time ever like 4 days ago and just completed my first game. Won with science and could’ve won with culture. Had it on emperor difficulty so I felt good about that after just starting with my first civ game ever a few days ago. On to diety!
TheCivLifer is the most CoD/Fortnite type of content creator ever and his videos are about Civ. I just love the irony how Civ is probably the furthest removed game from the type of humor/attitude he has - it totally goes against what you expect from a civ vide lmao
Please DO build scouts if you are fighting any human players. Since humans are usually smart enough to not war early. The winning edge becomes your city placement and era score. Which are both boosted by early scouts. The most popular start rn is scout -> scout -> settler
I CANNOT. I watched this at 3am and was aiming to get knowledge on how to properly start on civ 6, not only did i get that, i also laughed my ass off at the jokes which properly scared my neighbors
I always start out going for a science victory then usually switch to domination and drop nukes on everyone in the 1700s when they have no chance to defend against my air force and navy.
I think you are wrong about scouts. With one promotion scouts can also move though hills of forest tiles without penalty which speeds up quite a lot in a lot of cases. My build order is usually scout, slinger, settler, monument or scout, slinger, monument, settler. If I have an aggressive civ ner close I would maybe go for another slinger.
The problem is trying to get promotions with scouts, you lose a scout, that means you wasted time making one and if you keep two scouts together to battle in order to get one upgraded without one dying that renders the extra moves pointless because you essentially wasted one of your scouts movements to keep the other safe... In any high difficulty game, the barbarian scouts are going to demolish your scouts one on one and you never want to move your one and only warrior troop that far from your first base until you get established, essentially rendering scouts useless unless you are lucky.
@@lamarmahomesbakesmecakewhe8520 I'm not really trying. But you can clear a barb camp and you are almost there. If you find one or two tribal villages the scouts has already paid for it self. You also don't need them to stay back and defend. You just want them to explore and keep them alive as long as possible. The goal is to explore most of the continent you are on.
I agree that Scouts can be extremely valuable but it takes an experienced player to maximize their value by obtaining the +20 ambush promotion. I especially had fun with the Inca warak’aqs (2attacks/turn 40 ranged strength) and becoming Kabul’s Suzerain which gave me double XP. I had so many units with the +20 ambush promotion they were unstoppable… and cheap with no resource requirement! In general practice I’ll build at least a few scouts depending upon how much territory I’ll need to discover, and will build more if they can become worthy military units like the warak’aq or the Scottish Highlander. If I become invested in many recon units I’ll even plug in the Survey policy card and gain double XP.
If you play deity alot and are tried of wasting time trying to get a decent start theres a mod that lets the starting settler move much farther I definitely recommend this since it really only save you time
I started the game and its crazy how little the game explains. They tell you how to play, yes. But they don't explain what the trees do, how to win, how to do certain things. Civ 6 is not friendly to newcomers. Thanks for the video
Some wonders are really woth it. Those that give extra civic slots are so good - Big Ben, Forbidden City, Alhambra e tc. They can really make a difference if you have 2 or more of them
If you win an early game war, then you're almost guaranteed to win but if you don't want to do that I think scouts are good because you can make up for your small empire with city states. The AI get huge bonuses but I find they don't actually use them to take all the tribal villages.
I recently lost a surprise culture defeat while going science because I spawned ridiculously far from anything else, literally like 1/4 of the map was mine and my science was crazy high for where it was in the game. I was already researching rocketry in the industrial era. Then I got the notification that the Mayans had just become dominant over me and only needed one more civ to win...in 8 turns. My army could have destroyed them but as I was bottom left of the map and Maya was top right I couldn't get there in 8 turns. That's what I get for focusing on the science speed run when apparently no one else went for any culture on deity.
I always rush 4 slingers and then change them to archers asap and siege enemy cities with them. While rushing on diety i always rush all my neighbors and aquire 8 to 9 cities and some setters by turn 100 on marathon.
I find your build order 2 slingers + monument disgusting…..ly good! I tried the potato guy’s build order with 2 scouts and honestly it’s fucking terrible in comparison so thanks for that! Diety is a cakewalk now with all the useful shit you’ve shown me so thanks for ruining the challenge on the higher difficulties. And whoever said getting a scout out to secure a goody hut, this might be ok but on deity you’ll likely be attacked, and promoting the first slingers you built will save you from getting prolapsed. Alternatively they can be used to transition in to an early war without wasting extra precious turns on building slingers because your st**** a** built some scouts.
I've played enough games to sort of 'know' whether it's a meh build, or whether I was blessed with excellent map placement, and most importantly Hammurabi isn't a competitor. One may as well start over if that's the case LOL.
Invade one or two civilivations in the first 100 turns. Although this will sacrifice your Diplomatic Victory, you can have the option of winning in other ways. Because you have much more land and cities and resources.
I blame Religious Settlements for me falling behind in my last Immortal game. I started next to Roraima and got its 3 faith tile for the first pantheon. I took Religious Settlements when, meanwhile, 90% of the rest of the landmass I was on was Marshes. I was also fighting for my life against Horse Barbarians, so that didn't help... Lady of the Reeds and Marshes is an insane pantheon if you get a lot of Marshes (I had, like, 15 there). You can't improve them, but you also don't need to either, not with a 3 food and 2 production tile on turn 10. If you get Etamanaki, the game is basically over, with you rolling 3 food, 3 production, and 2 science tiles in the Ancient Era.
The only thing I have found spear and pikemen too good be good for has been taking out barbarians who already have horsemen or enemy cities that already have horsemen. I only ever build one scout and once he dies I never build another one but I always do it early game just to start opening up the mat more because once they level up they can move a lot faster across certain terrain
i am an actual beginner and i am sooo confused this guide is for people that have been playing this game already lol i been playing for like 1 hour and the tutorial of the game is kicking my ass .
I think scouts are grate because they get faster over time and I typically use them to circumvent the global. You will also need the extra speed to get vilages fast before the ai does. I sometimes even clear barb camps with them and I sometimes even go for 2 scouts! They are quite useless in mid and late game but my mindset when playing civ is how can I snowball as fast as possible? Encampments and villages are busted and early scouting overall is game defining. Why wouldn't I use the best scouting unit and use them to scare off barbarian scouts that report my city location?
My games always seem to be me getting 10+ cities by turn ~~110 but just being laughably behind on science, even on immortal the ai is at atomic when im in industrial 💀💀pls help, u are really funny
Thank you for a couple of concise intros - just also got through your "First 50 Turns" vid - and together with your suggestions in this post, I'll give Civ VI another shot - the last time I did that, I believe it was called Civ Revolutions? Afraid I won't be able to match your methamphetamine intake, but I'll go old-school with shots of bourbon neat and chasers from my local microbrewery. Cheers from Vienna! PS: Btw, why are Habsburgs and the Austro-Hungarian Empire no longer represented in Civ VI? Yes, I read there's a Maria Theresa Mod somewhere, but surely, the people who kicked off WW I deserve more than that? True, today they are referred to as Germany's Gaza Strip, but given their historical importance, they must be worth as much as some of these other civs which seem to have crawled out of a swamp just last Tuesday (and no, dear PC police, this is not a racial comment, it's a "some civs suck the big one and it's good they're gone" comment).
I always leave the numerous free scouts I get as sacrifices near AI cities to ste- AGH I mean ACQUIRE settlers and honestly that's been working out for me so far ahaha I'm sure in the higher difficulties they'll krump the scouts but getting a settler that early that I don't have to to pay for OR waste 10 or so turns is sooo nice I mean how else am I gonna spam more archers D=
You should make a video on how to manage the random tech/civics option. It's so hard to survive with that option on Deity, people could probably use advice. Cheers
An advice i would give is to never make an industrial zone as the new Julius ceaser. If you can claim 2 barb camps early or at least one you will snow ball out of control. I made the mistake of making an industrial zones for better troop production in every city only to find that i own 50 cities and i have purchased all my units with gold from the 8 or more barb camps i am farming 😂. Save it for later when you are going for a space race victory 😂. I also make 1 theater for every 2 campuses. When the deity AI finaly reaches musket men i will be upgrading to infantry and on my way to mechanized infantry. No AI will even come close, most they will have is knights.
I'm a tad bit confused If I want a culture victory should I make holy sites and theater squares first or campus/harbor then holy sites and theater squares
Yeah I thought that I was gonna get my first ever Deity win ( I only played on emperor until I got the gathering storm which I finally decided to spend 40$ on💀) But I lost to nzinga’s Congo cause he had 600 science and culture per turn with a satellite at turn 170 and he was on a different continent and my best unit after snowballing two nations was line infranty
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How difficult is It to play Kongo? I’ve been looking at them for a while and want to try them; but, as I always rush a religion, I’m really at a loss as to how you play them. Any tips, help or information would be appreciated!!
You put random furry-bashing in the first five minutes, what a hostile twit move.
A Civ tutorial channel should stick to Civ talk.
Tip: Don’t get dragged into a 3000 year war of attrition with Alexander and Sulemon.
I feel like bro coming for me keeps telling me ion fight for my people
Sounds like fun tbh
Play as Australia, AI doesn't seem to want to give you a production buff by declaring war. I got all the way to the industrial age before a war was declared on me.
@@sosvegas2964 facts, finma show him who fights for his peoples
@@sosvegas2964 then bro start tell me I’m a war monger like what you want for me
Counterintuitive advice: declare war on the enemy while your troops are not too close to their cities. They will send their units to *your* capital which means you're unlikely to have to worry about as many archers or garrison units.
Trivial reminders: unpromoted archers don't help with putting a city "under siege" (preventing healing) as they don't exert area of control (all non-mountain tiles around the city must be under your area of control for the siege to take place). Also, counterintuitively, conquering bigger cities first makes it easier to manage loyalty (the citizens in the conquered town immediately project loyalty pressure for you).
Last cheesy advice: leave the enemy with a single pop city at the edge of your large conquered cities. They should rebel, which means none of the other countries will blame you for killing them.
Also: spearmen are reasonable if Tomyris is nearby.
That last one is absolutely disrespectful and I love it
@@gaIIowsCaIibrator One caveat to this is that killing the last city of a civ gives you 5 era score while leaving them to rebel does not although you do get 2 era score if a free city joins you via loyalty.
archers puts a city under siege ofc. but they just only exert their own square. so 6 archers (or 4 sides of the city is impassible, 2 archers) will put the city under siege.
nice advices btw
I know this is weird but 70% of my diety wins were with a religious victory. Some science and some diplo. But thanks to your best domination leaders vid I used Suleiman to absolutely crush my first diety domination victory. Thanks bro!!
ayy happy for you
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Gotta use random leaders and civs to say you have a 70% win rate. Cant just pick the same civ over again...
@@Fasterfingers yep that’s what I do. Never won with the same leader twice. Gotta mix it up if you’re a real fan. Why do the same run through a million times smh
@@Fasterfingers also, please learn to read. I said 70% of the games I won were a religious victory. I did not say I have won 70% of my diety games played lol
So your saying that scouts are the most overpowered unit in the game and you should always start by building three of them, got it
lol
Thank you, we need more of these. There is so many layers to this game, it takes a long time to learn everything, but having these type of videos simplify the process.
As a newbie, this is so MUCH information I don't know where to begin
well I suggest you play first with settler difficulty, abundant reslurces, pangaea world, small map size, and legendary starting position (in the create game options menu)
Yeah all these "complete beginner guides" are a bit shit like that.
I am just looking for an honest to god guide on how these mechanics interact with one another..
Honestly your the reason why I am actually decent at civ 6 and I totally loved the vid so I would be very grateful for you to do a mid and late game guide.
*You’re… lol
@@bmak76 yor*
@@thinkabout8469 yeur*
@@bmak76 Maybe they copied the spelling in the video thumbnail 🤦
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For cultural victory, I usually try to build walls in almost all my cities for the +1-3 tourism you get with the conservation civic . And it also helps for defence a lot.
I agree it's good to remember this. It doesn't even need to cut into your production schedule heavily, just build the walls anytime before researching conservation, it's very easy for most or all of your cities to get ancient and medieval walls in only a couple of turns by waiting to start the projects. High production cities or one near an aggressive enemy can get renaissance walls. It adds up to a lot of tourism.
You don't even need to finish Renaissance walls. Put one turn in every city before you get Steel and finish then whenever you want.
4:35 I love when I get a shout-out
big man right here
Nice video, but the old "scouts only have one more movement point than other units" is a hackneyed trope. It doesn't take long for a scout to level up, letting you select it to ignore hills or jungle/forest, and they speed up like *that*. Sometimes, you can get them to level up a second time (or find the matterhorn) and make it so that you ignore all terrain.
Not building scout is a game changer for me, they're usually get fucked by a barb archer or something, it gets pretty annoying. Now i just build horsemen if i can otherwise warriors and archers and send them to every direction, basically doing two birds with one slinger.
@@cataclysm7256 if you go full ranged, -especially like an ancient rush to deity- scouts are the only units which can go 3 tiles (beyond city's attack) before turn 50. Most of the time, around turn 70-80, i get my all archers to level 4, so scout is my precious ;)
@@enderaslan7998 huh, that's actually pretty good use for them lol. I'll try that when I play Nubians in the future.
@@cataclysm7256 my fav civ :)) amanitore, watchful queen of nubia :D
When it comes to scouts, it really depends on my early production. If I can pump out a scout in 5 turns, I will do it. Goody huts can give you some great momentum.
tats a fair point but tbh on higher difficulties the ai has so many units that you wont get more then 1 or 2 if you built a warrior
If you have the production to get a scout in 5 you can get a slinger in 6. Its just a better early unit
scouts are good but on open fields, and if you can upgrade it i basically only make one scout in the entire game.
in short, build scouts, spearman and granaries, you have won.
big brain
What about heroes?
I find it worth it sometimes in a culture game to go for early war just for generation of antiquity sites, especially as sweden. The extra yields in the late game always help
thats actually a pretty good strategy, only problem is sweden early war is ehhh
@@TheCivLifeR I like to go against city states too because the city state artifacts are like wildcards
Always turtling until carolean as sweden.
My fav enemy is teodor. The backstabber. War with him worth for wonder.
you're the definition of "never let them know your next move" eveything you say is funny AF. Keep it up.
Frrrr so funny 😂
I just came here to say, after entering the series at Civ V and spending 1,000 hours on Civ VI, THIS VIDEO helped me achieve my FIRST DIETY WIN!!! I have watched a few tips and tricks videos, read a few guides and never crushed this game like a god. Specifically, your tips on city placement, planning, and an ABUNDANCE of early settling was key for me to finally spank these angry leaders. I was close to 10 cities by turn 100. Settled 7 myself and picked up closest rival capital and another city. Then the snowballing began in my favor. I was able to secure a science victory with Seondeok nearly 40 turns before my nearest rival. Sure, it took me ages to catch up with science, but I eventually caught up after the Mars Launch. By that point, I had easily become the dominant military for half of existence and could have gone domination 50 turns earlier. 18/20 diplo points without even attempting that. Could have even pushed culture win as the AI gave up on really any victory condition and would willingly sell to my ridiculous treasury. I tend not to mess with religion, but am looking forward to working that in to my next playthrough!
Thanks for your videos and your unique style commentary. You gave me faith I never knew I had. May even attempt to play against Gandhi now...Cheers!
I actually prefer horsemen over swordsmen for early rushes. I can use archers to get trough walls, they usually end up doing about 20-30 dmg to archers per shot, which is very little so you can get trough walls in a good 5 turns, which isnt exactly fast, but if you are fast you should face 1 walled city at most. And horsemen rushes have massive advantages over swordsmen:
1: more movement allows for you to hit earlier and pillage better
2: you get archers early, so you can declare war and then have the horsemen come in later, thus hitting them way before you could get a swordsmen rush going
3: easier and more guaranteed eureka path
4: if you dont get horses, you can go with something else, but by the time you get bronze working but dont have iron its kind of to late to stop, so you have to settle some stupid city for iron, which can cripple you. Or if you just dont have someone else nearby you can pull out and sim earlier.
5: coursers are better than men at arms since they arent in the ass side of the tech tree and are stronger, and very close to trebuchets to keep the war going if you want to
6: you can sell some horses you get since you get them early enough to then have them stack, and the extra gold is nice
Yes I kept failing swordsmen rushes. Takes too long to accumulate 60 iron, have to settle shit cities for it and they have low movement. I tried horsemen rush one game and just dominated
@@tweeze123 I have had several games where the horses were far away, which weren't always reachable in time for me to do an early-ish rush, so then it had to be swordsmen.
A mid/end game guide would be great
Just played my first game. Had no idea what I was doing. Went for a science victory, Greece was beating me so I conquered Greece and by that point I was so far ahead that tanks and bombers wiped out everyone else within 100 turns
Great video as always funny and informative.i basically went from prince to emperor difficulty over night.i can hold my cities usually in higher difficulties but fall behind in science and stuff.i like the intensity of deity pressure of war and whatnot but the pace can seem overwhelming.
I have over 1000 hours in this game and I learned so much from the first 5 minutes of this video…
Interesting, I actually rushed archers and spammed them out in my most recent game and it worked super well for early domination. I’ll have to try swordsmen next time…
I started with CivRev and learned my way up to level 6 on Civ 6 (like 1 level higher than king, 2 away from diety) such a blast but I'm sure there are things I'm prioritizing wrong still.
Like I don't *always* know where I want my next city to be exact tile and rely on advisors probably making a less intelligent decision than if I knew what I was doing
Also went from. civrev2 to civ6 deity but I only play domination on earth and continents maps. Biggest difference is they buffed city defenses way too much as well as ai bonuses. Oh well at least the ai is worse and don’t build many units and are terrible fighters.
@@me-pk2kb I always play on shuffle map. I like the completely random world you can get
Well I don't like shuffle map for warmongering because there's always some random civ hiding in an island. I also like the clover and terra.@@mindseyemusicreview
The Pokemon example you tried to give is best said as such: it's like if Ash was given a Magikarp and told to fight the first gym leader who has an Arceus.
Make a mid and late game! Also was hoping to see your siege on Arabia strategy in real time in this video, but a guide on siege would be awesome to. Great vid. I started playing civ for the first time ever like 4 days ago and just completed my first game. Won with science and could’ve won with culture. Had it on emperor difficulty so I felt good about that after just starting with my first civ game ever a few days ago. On to diety!
I'm whipping off the cheeto cheese on my shorts to write this. You nailed it
There may be a few other bigger civ channels but I always come back here for your jokes 💯 pure gold. And good tips !
TheCivLifer is the most CoD/Fortnite type of content creator ever and his videos are about Civ.
I just love the irony how Civ is probably the furthest removed game from the type of humor/attitude he has - it totally goes against what you expect from a civ vide lmao
Please DO build scouts if you are fighting any human players. Since humans are usually smart enough to not war early. The winning edge becomes your city placement and era score. Which are both boosted by early scouts. The most popular start rn is scout -> scout -> settler
I CANNOT. I watched this at 3am and was aiming to get knowledge on how to properly start on civ 6, not only did i get that, i also laughed my ass off at the jokes which properly scared my neighbors
Okay
“Nice knowing you guys. I just found my 13th Fucking reason.”
This is why I liked and subscribed. Holy fuck you’re pretty damn funny.
5:45 ah i see, youre a man of culture as well...
I always start out going for a science victory then usually switch to domination and drop nukes on everyone in the 1700s when they have no chance to defend against my air force and navy.
I think you are wrong about scouts. With one promotion scouts can also move though hills of forest tiles without penalty which speeds up quite a lot in a lot of cases. My build order is usually scout, slinger, settler, monument or scout, slinger, monument, settler. If I have an aggressive civ ner close I would maybe go for another slinger.
The problem is trying to get promotions with scouts, you lose a scout, that means you wasted time making one and if you keep two scouts together to battle in order to get one upgraded without one dying that renders the extra moves pointless because you essentially wasted one of your scouts movements to keep the other safe... In any high difficulty game, the barbarian scouts are going to demolish your scouts one on one and you never want to move your one and only warrior troop that far from your first base until you get established, essentially rendering scouts useless unless you are lucky.
@@lamarmahomesbakesmecakewhe8520 I'm not really trying. But you can clear a barb camp and you are almost there.
If you find one or two tribal villages the scouts has already paid for it self. You also don't need them to stay back and defend. You just want them to explore and keep them alive as long as possible. The goal is to explore most of the continent you are on.
I agree that Scouts can be extremely valuable but it takes an experienced player to maximize their value by obtaining the +20 ambush promotion. I especially had fun with the Inca warak’aqs (2attacks/turn 40 ranged strength) and becoming Kabul’s Suzerain which gave me double XP. I had so many units with the +20 ambush promotion they were unstoppable… and cheap with no resource requirement!
In general practice I’ll build at least a few scouts depending upon how much territory I’ll need to discover, and will build more if they can become worthy military units like the warak’aq or the Scottish Highlander. If I become invested in many recon units I’ll even plug in the Survey policy card and gain double XP.
Been playin civ since like 2015 but i still watch your vids like this even though i don’t need the advice fully. Love your content brother
If you play deity alot and are tried of wasting time trying to get a decent start theres a mod that lets the starting settler move much farther I definitely recommend this since it really only save you time
Love the energy - especially the hate on scouts 🤘
Variation of the thumbnail: "This is how you're righting you're wrong: your".
Okay, one thing i gotta say, is that your jokes are on point 😂
as a person who just got into civ 6, no matter how many videos i watch i always get overwhelmed and still dont know how to play 💀
I started the game and its crazy how little the game explains. They tell you how to play, yes. But they don't explain what the trees do, how to win, how to do certain things. Civ 6 is not friendly to newcomers. Thanks for the video
Some wonders are really woth it. Those that give extra civic slots are so good - Big Ben, Forbidden City, Alhambra e tc. They can really make a difference if you have 2 or more of them
If you win an early game war, then you're almost guaranteed to win but if you don't want to do that I think scouts are good because you can make up for your small empire with city states. The AI get huge bonuses but I find they don't actually use them to take all the tribal villages.
I recently lost a surprise culture defeat while going science because I spawned ridiculously far from anything else, literally like 1/4 of the map was mine and my science was crazy high for where it was in the game. I was already researching rocketry in the industrial era. Then I got the notification that the Mayans had just become dominant over me and only needed one more civ to win...in 8 turns. My army could have destroyed them but as I was bottom left of the map and Maya was top right I couldn't get there in 8 turns. That's what I get for focusing on the science speed run when apparently no one else went for any culture on deity.
Spies?
the occasional bitter "anything but a surprise religious victory" makes me happy because im not alone
I produce nothing but scouts when I play. Once they become rangers, I quit the game.
Love your content but I can’t forgive that typo in the thumbnail
lol unforgivable
I always rush 4 slingers and then change them to archers asap and siege enemy cities with them. While rushing on diety i always rush all my neighbors and aquire 8 to 9 cities and some setters by turn 100 on marathon.
I find your build order 2 slingers + monument
disgusting…..ly good!
I tried the potato guy’s build order with 2 scouts and honestly it’s fucking terrible in comparison so thanks for that! Diety is a cakewalk now with all the useful shit you’ve shown me so thanks for ruining the challenge on the higher difficulties. And whoever said getting a scout out to secure a goody hut, this might be ok but on deity you’ll likely be attacked, and promoting the first slingers you built will save you from getting prolapsed. Alternatively they can be used to transition in to an early war without wasting extra precious turns on building slingers because your st**** a** built some scouts.
I've played enough games to sort of 'know' whether it's a meh build, or whether I was blessed with excellent map placement, and most importantly Hammurabi isn't a competitor. One may as well start over if that's the case LOL.
what i like to do is just build a settler and no other unit or build a scout first. I just reload if it get captured and try to get a relic fast.
This is the first video of yours I’ve seen and I will be watching many many more you’re so awesome
A guide that doesn't bore me to death? Appreciated
I love your videos, highly informative and you are so funny. keep the good work.
appreciate it
At least I know to use you’re instead of your😂
Invade one or two civilivations in the first 100 turns. Although this will sacrifice your Diplomatic Victory, you can have the option of winning in other ways. Because you have much more land and cities and resources.
you're * in the thumbnail (still got my like :P)
Love your vids man, doing god's work. Question, why are you putting the harbor in the lake?
adjacent to capital which means I get housing for it. Its a pangea so navy isnt worth it and if I needed it id build a canal
@@TheCivLifeR thanks buddy! Truly appreciate all the videos and the quick response!
Your commentary is grade A my guy. Keep shining ☀️
Dude wishes he was PotatoMcwhisky so badly.
I blame Religious Settlements for me falling behind in my last Immortal game. I started next to Roraima and got its 3 faith tile for the first pantheon. I took Religious Settlements when, meanwhile, 90% of the rest of the landmass I was on was Marshes. I was also fighting for my life against Horse Barbarians, so that didn't help...
Lady of the Reeds and Marshes is an insane pantheon if you get a lot of Marshes (I had, like, 15 there). You can't improve them, but you also don't need to either, not with a 3 food and 2 production tile on turn 10. If you get Etamanaki, the game is basically over, with you rolling 3 food, 3 production, and 2 science tiles in the Ancient Era.
Wow, I think I'm the pinnacle of Human Revolution now 😂 this shit made me cry. So good this guid I bet everybody's listing in slowmo to you 🤣.
The only thing I have found spear and pikemen too good be good for has been taking out barbarians who already have horsemen or enemy cities that already have horsemen.
I only ever build one scout and once he dies I never build another one but I always do it early game just to start opening up the mat more because once they level up they can move a lot faster across certain terrain
You watch this guy for guide, I watch it for humor. We are not the same.
I burst out laughing at "that's gonna get me cancelled on Twitter" after you struggled to pronounce a name
i am an actual beginner and i am sooo confused this guide is for people that have been playing this game already lol i been playing for like 1 hour and the tutorial of the game is kicking my ass .
I think scouts are grate because they get faster over time and I typically use them to circumvent the global. You will also need the extra speed to get vilages fast before the ai does. I sometimes even clear barb camps with them and I sometimes even go for 2 scouts! They are quite useless in mid and late game but my mindset when playing civ is how can I snowball as fast as possible? Encampments and villages are busted and early scouting overall is game defining. Why wouldn't I use the best scouting unit and use them to scare off barbarian scouts that report my city location?
My games always seem to be me getting 10+ cities by turn ~~110 but just being laughably behind on science, even on immortal the ai is at atomic when im in industrial 💀💀pls help, u are really funny
still my favorite game
Thank you for a couple of concise intros - just also got through your "First 50 Turns" vid - and together with your suggestions in this post, I'll give Civ VI another shot - the last time I did that, I believe it was called Civ Revolutions? Afraid I won't be able to match your methamphetamine intake, but I'll go old-school with shots of bourbon neat and chasers from my local microbrewery.
Cheers from Vienna!
PS: Btw, why are Habsburgs and the Austro-Hungarian Empire no longer represented in Civ VI? Yes, I read there's a Maria Theresa Mod somewhere, but surely, the people who kicked off WW I deserve more than that? True, today they are referred to as Germany's Gaza Strip, but given their historical importance, they must be worth as much as some of these other civs which seem to have crawled out of a swamp just last Tuesday (and no, dear PC police, this is not a racial comment, it's a "some civs suck the big one and it's good they're gone" comment).
i love that u specify “civ 6 or civilization 6” in every single video 😂
lmao gotta be specific
dude, had a whiskey or 6, have to keep rewinding to catch what you just said, so fun though.
lmao
Wow. was gonna watch this video with my kid to learn the basics but it was NOT kid friendly
I always leave the numerous free scouts I get as sacrifices near AI cities to ste- AGH I mean ACQUIRE settlers and honestly that's been working out for me so far ahaha I'm sure in the higher difficulties they'll krump the scouts but getting a settler that early that I don't have to to pay for OR waste 10 or so turns is sooo nice I mean how else am I gonna spam more archers D=
What would turn 100 in standard speed be in online speed?
Do you play much multiplayer? Would love a good multiplayer tips vid, love the videos bro 👍
I just noticed this came out today
lol a couple hours ago actually
@@TheCivLifeR ya I just meant I thought it was an older video
Anyway I just subbed and my *[REDACTED BY FEDERAL AUTHORITIES]* grew six inches, what do I do now
"STFU, your parents don't love you"
Damn bro, why'd you have to cut me so deep?
Great humor in the vid man, kept me engaged the whole time
this is the first video of yours ive ever seen and i was dieing from laughter for the for the first 5 minutes
Did this guy do a line before recording this?!?? Either way I fucking love this guy easiest sub ever.
You should make a video on how to manage the random tech/civics option. It's so hard to survive with that option on Deity, people could probably use advice. Cheers
An advice i would give is to never make an industrial zone as the new Julius ceaser. If you can claim 2 barb camps early or at least one you will snow ball out of control. I made the mistake of making an industrial zones for better troop production in every city only to find that i own 50 cities and i have purchased all my units with gold from the 8 or more barb camps i am farming 😂. Save it for later when you are going for a space race victory 😂. I also make 1 theater for every 2 campuses. When the deity AI finaly reaches musket men i will be upgrading to infantry and on my way to mechanized infantry. No AI will even come close, most they will have is knights.
Do the snowball effect only work on higher difficulties? 8:31
UA-cam aperently haven't got a AI filter for "bad words"😄😁😆
omg i just realises that I wasn playing this game so wrong.. I was unlocking everything one by one xD
It's you're honey. If you're going to tell me I'm doing it wrong please try to get it right.
I'm a tad bit confused If I want a culture victory should I make holy sites and theater squares first or campus/harbor then holy sites and theater squares
The only justification for scouts is when you want a Quick eureka which requires having 3 corps.
Nobody is gonna mention that he used the wrong “your” in the thumbnail? It’s “you’re” lol
I like how he talks dirty. That's how we know he's not in preschool anymore.
You're*❤
Always played civ but never watched it on youtube I can confidently say the civ UA-cam community wild af (in a funny way)😂
I had no idea you harvested the resource you settle on….. I thought you’d be wasting it
Yeah I thought that I was gonna get my first ever
Deity win ( I only played on emperor until I got the gathering storm which I finally decided to spend 40$ on💀)
But I lost to nzinga’s Congo cause he had 600 science and culture per turn with a satellite at turn 170 and he was on a different continent and my best unit after snowballing two nations was line infranty
lmfao the fucking "thats going to get me fucking cancelled on twitter"
diplomatic victory is so easy that i got that accidentally once and I had to reload because I was going for science.
best guide ever
Whats the reason for building aqueducts when your city already has fresh water?
14:13 what do you press to organize the science research order that way? I tried many buttons and it didnt work, is it a mod?
Please do make a mid and late game guide! :)