Civilization VI Leader Spotlight: Basil II
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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Basil II is the leader of Byzantium in the New Frontier Pass! He is an extremely strong religion-domination civ with some of the best synergy out of any leader in the game. His unique Tagma and Dromon are both quality units and are a lot of fun to use!
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Basil: Amazing civ, amazing spice
Amazing Rathbone.
*herb
@@jigglyjeffjumpsjoyously4297 I was about to comment the same thing.
Herb
“I’m not even gonna attempt to pronounce Basil’s first ability.”
*proceeds to attempt to pronounce Basil’s first ability*
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I think Basil II is the official "snowball" leader in the game. As cities get converted, your religion and your troops just get stronger and stronger...I think he is just going to be an unstoppable freight train by the mid-game. It will be interesting to see if the AI can properly leverage his attributes when Basil is an AI enemy.
Ayyeeeee basil is just Spain but better, ironic
Spain its a lot better in naval maps and its playstyle its very different, but i do agree that Byzantium its fucking overpowered. I think they should lower the pressure per kill, remove the free cavalary per building and reduce the bonus for having holy cities following your religion from +3 to +2.
@@Tiago-rz2hr in my game (immortal) spain was my neighbor and i steamrolled him and his religion (he also got a dark age in dramatic age which made it even easier to stomp him)
Darkest Libertarian yeah but the main concept behind Spain as a civilization was religion mixed with military and it can’t do either of those things very well. Byzantium on the other hand has their abilities play into each other in the way Spain should have.
I have fun going science spain with the mission.
iammaxhailme you do you my guy but in my opinion Spain is simply not what it wants to be
Basil has the opposite problem of most Domination civs. Most have to worry about losing to a religious victory. Byzantium will probably win a religious victory by accident by just killing enemy units.
The should low that number lol. For me, it should be like 100,50 pressure instead of 250 pressure.
Just turn off religious victories
I hate that, it happens to me a lot. I usually just turn it off
The Dromon might look underwhelming compared to the rest of his kit but it shores up the one flaw you might run into when you are planning on a religious domination game with chariots into Tagma's; what if ur enemy civ spawned just across the ocean (or is super defended with mountains ect). That 2 range on it's attack is almost incomparable good in how much extra pressure that will give a naval attack vs coastal cities that would normally only be attackable with 1 or 2 ships.
In the Renaissance Age, Egypt kept talking sh!t about how strong my military wasn't playing Byzantium. I built several more cities, built holy sites into shrines & temples. Created a couple of theatre districts for culture. Got Chichen Itza on a HUGE rainforest plain. Built hippodromes until to 1 turn left and hit Divine Right. Got Crusade earlier and just STEAM-rolled all of her cities with two left. This Civ is super duper strong.
From what I heard from either Reddit or CivFanatics (can't remember), but when an Entertainment District from another Civ is converted into Byzantine's Hippodrome when you capture a city, you get the free heavy cav units. You don't get them from repairing districts, so this gives you incentive to not pillage and target cities with Entertainment Districts.
intriguing, and even more snowball ontop of the already large snowball. assuming the AI actually builds entertainment districts...
Now add crusade to this and watch everyone rage quit lol
Well, spoke too soon lol maybe I should have waited to post that.
What happened?
You can launch a crusade in civ 6?!
@@dantheanimator5072 no it’s a religious belief you can choose to increase your combat strength in enemy territory following your religion.
Technically you can also get religious emergencies and holy wars but they aren’t regarded as crusades
@@matthaeus5373 ok thanks. Just saw that the other night
@@matthaeus5373 honestly I feel confused as to why that card was given the name “crusade,” given that you get the bonus strength when fighting cities following YOUR religion, whereas historically crusades were (mostly) fought against followers of different religions…
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I think that's it's actually hard to win a domination victory because by the time you are winning a Dom victory, you probably already won a religious victory lol
If the last civ ur fighting has a religion then they'll probly have couple k in pressure, so wont be a problem if you beeline right for their capital.
I think Basil deserves an F in domination victory. Because you almost certainly convert the cities you capture on the way to the enemy capital, it is impossible to capture the capitals of all other players without winning a religious victory before then 😆
what if you just bypass everything and go straight for capitals
@@gumballking5479 you won't be able to hold them due to loyalty pressure
Herro Friend but it's technically not impossible if all capitals are on the edge of their empire or something
Not true, I got a domination victory as Basil in my first game as him today.
Holy crap, your so right! It's POSSIBLE to win a domination victory but shit, you almost have to avoid trying get a religious victory!They're even talking about it on the Sid Meier channel! xD
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Man I'm so new to this game and I try so hard to learn more and get better, its a slow process but thanks for your videos :)
2:21 “I’m not even going to attempt to pronounce this” *immediately tried to pronounce it*
*Gotta go fast!*
I get the analysis here but if you watch the dev stream, they talk about pacing issues what trying to execute that strategy which I definitely ran into with my first play through yesterday.
Went Byzantium on Diety/Highlands/Standard Map/Standard Speed. Early game went pretty well, got a +3 adjacency holy site and still had to do a project to just barely grab the last great prophet. Unlocked Monarchy with about 10 turns to spare until Renaissance, pre-built chariots to upgrade, pre-converted the first city and timed the denounce before declaring war. Captured my first city and was halfway through the second before France rolled in with Gardes.
My take is that Byzantium is a high risk strategy on Diety where you have a narrow window and you have to do everything right with a bit of luck to execute. Some advice:
- focus on culture early game, you need to rush to monarchy
- save up some cash, upgrading chariots can be expensive without the 50% discount and you don’t have time to grab it before attacking
- don’t forget about iron, need it to upgrade, I was able to trade but depends on your diplomatic situation
- know your neighbors - like I said, having France with a very defensive unique unit was unlucky and I should’ve planned my first target better
I know this comment is late but surely instead of having gold and iron to upgrade chariots, building hippodromes was the way to go?
I played this civ and I took the pantheon that gives you +10 combat strength towards cities that follow your religion. I am wiping out civs big time even if they had higher teched units. Also this new era update is crazy. I seen Eygpt wipe it self out after back to back dark eras.
It'll be really important to use apostles, inquisitors and policies to keep Basil's religion out of your territory.
@@cometmoon4485 the problem was I got my religion so fast that When the other civilization declared war on me i had already conquered religiously. it was over and done for them. I wipe them out so fast. I conquered most of canada 🇨🇦 and had like 20 cities.
The algorythm is not in your side my dude. I searched "civ6 byzanthium saxy gamer" and had to scroll for like 2 minutes until I found your video. And I'm a sub!! Come on youtube!
Porphyrogennetos. Two words. Porphyro-gennetos. Basically born in the purple, which refers to the child of a Byzantine ruler being born while held the title of an Emperor. It was somewhat of privilege but also meant their lives were a constant preparation for taking over the rulership, as well as intrigue. Being siblings eventually meant at best ending up in a monastery - somehow - or at worse dying to some repeat assassination attempt despite having been successful at warding those off in the past. It certainly meant you had to defend your holdings even against relatives - being of same faith, rank and even blood meant little at times in the Byzantine Empire.
Amazing naming, literally means born in royal red. I always Wonder at how they end up with the names
Basil approve this video!
This civ is beyond ridicolous, i'm unstoppable
Gran Colombia its jealous lol
@@Tiago-rz2hr yeah lmao
Great video! Yeah this Civ is crazy powerful. I won tonight w/a Science victory...which wasn’t my plan lol. Was going for domination. But played with dramatic ages mode. As AI lost cities, lost their capitals...was able to steam roll right through. First Civ game where I had multiple victory type possibilities simultaneously....everyone’s capital but 1, converted all religions but 1...& had something crazy like 700 science. I played on Prince...too easy. Will try on Deity & see
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Honestly Basil deserves an F in Domination. It's almost impossible to win a Domination victory with Basil unless you turn off religion, because it will trigger first ;P
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Once you go Basilik you never go benelik
I've been playing a Gaul game, holy crap are their mines incredible.
Im 150 moves in. Holy crap my cities are impenetrable. Lol
@@shannonblack3513 oppidums are wild crazy good. Getting 6 era score from building them is awesome, and you can literally just crank shit out as your production skyrockets lol
I would've thought they would have Varangians as a unique unit for him. IIRC Wasn't the Guard started with Basil II? Didn't he marry his sister Anna to Vladimir and the Rus converted due to that? As thanks, the Rus' Ruler provided bodyguards that would be loyal to the emperor only.
Please, don't put ads in the leader spotlight series, it really spoils the final result who is, otherwise, very interesting.
Damn you did this video fast, good work Saxy!
This guy is super OP and I love it. I played him today and had the pleasure of learning that having a city-state you are suzerain over kill an enemy civ unit actually also spreads your religion. I had the pleasure of completely destroying Georgia's religion because of this.
The sexy hand reveal
Dromons are great to spread love overseas ! Basil on land and grilled meat on seas
This must be one of the most random video sponsorings, but thoose wallets really look nice ;)
I love this power rank.
Thanks... Looking forward to your take on Ambiorix
Liked the video for the wallet thief alone
We need to give some love to the letter E, Saxy doesn't even know it exists
as soon as the patch hit I started a Bazil game on highlands
Oh, I remember this boy, wasn't he just born yesterday? How do you have his work history and job experience?
I only played a third of a gaul game untill now and i must say big fun in combi with sanguine
Isnt this fast
Unit vs until in the weakness page
Will you be putting up a Byzantium game series soon, please?
They need to buff the other unique entertainment complexes with how op the Hippodrome is, or get rid of one of the extra amenities you get from it. It makes the other unique ones obsolete
I disagree dromon is actually really powerful I was playing on true Earth start locations and I was able to build one and it defended my cities against rifleman took them out within two turns and they couldn't even attack them
As a weak point I would add the need to establish a religion. On diety this means to funnel all your resources into this. If there is an aggressive AI nearby you are fried.
I think that sometimes you will win by religion on accident. Going for a domination and end up coverting everyone else because of taxis.
The first ability is literally "Born in the Purple" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in_the_purple
I just finished a game with him. I don't like religion or domination, so I went science. I waited until I got combustion before I started building hippodromes. I built two with all the buildings so I got 8 tanks. I combined them together to make 4 tank corps. Then Norway attacked me with coursers, a couple musketmen, and three bombards. My tank corps and two mechanized infantry destroyed them lol.
I just played Gaul, very fun
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Do u have any games where u playas basil?
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Hey Saxy Gamer, when are you going to do a leader spotlight for Bull Moose Teddy?? Very eager to watch that video
Think they'll be one of the overall easiest to play Dom/Rel just like Simon (probably even easier!) but their bonus comes a little late. I still think Suleman is number 1 (for domination) just because of how early you can declare war with him. That being said, just like Simon and his bunch of bonuses, once you get your religion he might be the best in the game! This is the one time I'll let you slide on the B rating lol, just cause imagine taking the science belief for every follower! xD This civilization might be the best overall civ in the game with all that! That being said feel like it's very much feast or famine with them.......
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Bro, you just angered the most OP Civ in the game, the "Feline Empire". Stealing his Gold angers him greatly, and he now has grievance against you. Prepare for war.
probably should get a D in diplomacy since they want to go to war so bad
I really wish they would add era stops as a feature in the game....!!
I won the Religious Victory as Byzantium, Saxy Gamer!
I never clicked so fast
What would happen if Basil II and Suleiman started in the same “real-world map starting spawn” game since Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul are three names for a single city? Would Suleiman start in Ankara?
My first game was basically just building one holy site and building a shit ton of hippodromes. I don't think built a single encampment for that domination victory?
That's was actually a really good plug...wtf
This man is pure cheese
I think Byzantium has interesting and unique playstyle, but damn is everything about them so overtuned. At least it's not dumb op like Gran Colombia, I like that apart from it pretty much all the new ones have been fun and synergistic. But many are really, stupidly overtuned.
The civ ability is a bit like Motezuma's ability, in a sense that you essentially gain combat strength by expansion. Not sure which one is stronger though. The built in religion spread ability on top of that in turn is there to ensure that the insane leader ability is pretty much always active. And as this all is so religion reliant and they possibly can't have a weakness of not reliably being able to get one, let's just throw a nice prophet bonus in there.
The Hippodrome is just stupid. Street Carnival gets 2 Amenities, why is this straight up better with 3? Royal Navy Dockyard gives a free unit in very specific circumstances, and that is tied to the leader ability, not the district itself, but this one gives a more useful unit up to 4 times without needing to fill any circumstances. How is that balanced at all?
I'm okay with Tagma and Dromon. They are strong but not straight up OP, the questionable usefulness of early naval units in general is what holds Dromon down, and Tagma is kind of like Llanero or Black army, except that it swaps stackability for consistency. Or it could be compared to Varu or Toa, since they essentially do the same thing in many circumstances.
But overall, Byzantium could have been balanced without taking away the fun playstyle. Regarding abilities, maybe halve the spread from killing units? And maybe make Cavalry do 50% damage to walls, that's still way more than the 15% they would do normally. I'm actually okay with the combat strength bonus from holy cities, it is really strong but I don't feel like it's stronger than Montezuma for example. The Hippodrome should only give 2 amenities (or maybe even the normal 1, the unit spam is strong enough itself), and either give a unit only when it's costructed or only when buildings are constructed in it. Not both. Currently all of it is unreasonably strong.
Edit: Just came up with an idea for a nice little challenge. Religious victory without any religious units. Maybe apostles for evangelizing could be allowed, and maybe some limits to conquest as well so that you don't just conquer everything except one capital.
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Gennetos comes from the word geni that means beard in Greek.
Haha, that is a good one :)
First ability means "Born in purple."
More precisely, if I may, “born in royal red”. They used to get the color from a small sea cell called porfyra. In Greek “porfyro” is actually a color.
It's so funny watching people struggling to pronounce "Prorphyrogennetos". It's Greek and means "born in red", but its an obvious developer trolling.:P
It’s also a term used to describe Emperors born in Red room of the palace. However Basil 2 wasn’t born there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@pomamoba Yes, his real nickname wasn't political correct, i guess. "the Bulgar Slayer"
Menelik is Tamar but good, Basil is Phillip but good,
The only real weakness I can see is if, in spite of everything, you manage to NOT get a religion. It’s really unlikely but if that happens, you lose a huge chunk of your bonuses.
Gotta bone to pick with. Why does everyone just immediately write off the Dromon?
Check it out. Byzantium's early religion is almost assured unless you just ignore it. The Dromon unlocks early. The two are going to be coming online around the same time. The dromon then gets +10 against units- that includes land units and the +1 range ensures that many land units will be feeling the heat (see what I did there?😜). That means lots of religious pressure from a naval unit in the ancient era before most other religions have been founded and is spread without spending your valuable faith at a point in the game when your faith generation is low. If an opponent is foolish enough to found a religion in a coastal city, declare war, deploy your dromons, convert the city and peace out. Or just look for maurading barbarians, sign open borders, and kill the barbs for them while converting the city. The same goes for those sea-based city-states. Early conversion can mean extra envoys too. And nobody serious about war wastes their time using quadriremes for city capture anyway which is the worst possible use of the unit.
I argue that the dromon has the potential to be the most powerful opener for a coastal start and at the very least is an awesome secret weapon for building early momentum towards both a religious and a domination victory.
Saxy moving on up with the promotions lol
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just me or de hippodrome is way better than the carnaval district?
Seems a good leader to make some pesto 😂
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Ok...when did EC start giving adjacent bonus to theater squares?
Been a while. Maybe 6months-1year
Poor-feer-E-yen-E-tos
What do you mean no culture bonuses. entertainment districts give major adjacency to theater squares. Also you wont have to worry about investing into a military since u get it for free with said half priced entertainment complex
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@@TheSaxyGamer LOL! Sorry about that. Totally makes sense now.
Dude I need you to shit on Basil so I can play him with my friends :(
Plz god let me understand this game i gave so much money why
You pronounced it ok, the only mistake being the G. In this case It's pronounced more like the G in god.
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Not only yt comercials but plugging other shit too bye
I am sorry saxy lol.. here in holland at least 1/3 of screen time is tsken by comercials.. just seen 20mins of it.
You are one of 3 or 4 of my favorite things online.. excuse me
Armenian leader
Should be auto banned on multiplayer
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