New to CIV 6 game. was just casually clicking here and there, building settlements and shit. didn't even realize 6 hrs has passed me sitting in the same position as before not even going to toilet haha
I got the Xbox one version and honestly the passage of time when you play this game is absolutely crazy. Feels like I’ve been playing 10 minutes and two hours had gone by.
I agree. THAT is the reason I buy a slinger early on. Even if he wants to stay "near" the capital, I use him to explore around a bit. Good video! Thanks.
@@PMMagro you miss the point, its not about that, its about being able to get the boost on the research, if you don't get early you'll research archery before it ever happens and lose a few turns of research effectively
The early build order will vary greatly based on the situation, you had very good tiles (many 2:2 or better) and rain forest, this would have made a builder virtually worthless for a significant amount of time. However, in a city with poor food/production getting up a pasture, a mine etc would have a lot more value comparatively. The need of early settlers (Always good to get at least 1) would also change depending on how close you are to people and your availability of land, otherwise you can wait for Magnus and early empire. There's also the terrain to consider, forest and hills. A warrior won't be able to do is usual share of scouting so getting a 2nd scout could provide great value.
I just realized that I always played the game in kind of a weird way. Thoughts about victory types, tech boosts and such don't really come up. I'm more likely to think stuff like: "The scout discovered a natural wonder. My nation thinks that its the home of their gods and they try to move there. I build a settler"
I've been playing Civ since I was about 8. I started in Civ 3 (the master piece). So for me roleplaying in Civ is a nice way to mix things up, and its makes the game more challenging.
Scouts sent off into the blue yonder pick up “friendly villages” and those little buggers are so valuable, providing either gold, or even more useful, speeding up research.
I go 1.scout 2.settler(or slinger if pop 1) 3.campus 4.slinger/settler 5.settler/trader 6.settler/archer I'll usually wait till 4+ pop before making builders
I would always rush a scout first, purely to get that free first envoy from city states and goodie huts, can be a free builder or population, then I usually end up spamming settlers, I might actually get a slinger from now on before spamming settlers, its usually the line between another population, which makes the settler go faster
Slinger, settler, slinger. Send your warrior out to scout at first. Make a scout after you found your second city. Rush campus and archery. Try to have 3 slingers before archery is done.
That's because that's your playstyle. Nothing wrong with. In some situations that would be wrong, in some that would be right. It would also depend on AI difficulty or human enemy. I'm new so I play at easier AI, I always go for early Tech boost like what you do. But I've won at harder levels too, although it's cutting it close. AI at harder levels are aggressive so I don't use what you mentioned.
For me it is 1 scout, 2 builder 3 slinger 4 traderoute (second city if that one is up). Settlers, not just one, when you have pop 2+ in between the others . With some luck, villages /barbarian camps, you shoudl be able to buy something cheap. If you buy a trade route or slinger/warrior or even a thrid scout or monument that is a real boost.
Love the short guide and that each episode is labeled with the topic. Makes it easier for a beginner like myself to go to the topic im currently struggling with in game. Cheers!
I like to hammer out 3 slingers right off the bat then spit out a settler and builder from then on its what I need. I just like getting those three slingers before researching archery because it's easier to just upgrade slingers than hard build archers.
Just a small correction, you say getting +1 culture with the monument doesn't worth the 12 turns. While I agree with you, but it gives +2 since you'll have 100 loyality in your starting city triggering the additional culture making it +2 overall from the monument.
@@CorsetLebelle It absolutely is that important. It makes you get all those super important early civics twice as fast. The turns you shave of getting those 50% production for units or settlers are probably enough to repay for that monument by itself.
@@alex2005z Dont be too scared of barbs. You have a warrior, thats a good start. Add 1 unit (barb or slinger) to that after the monument and you should be fine for the first 40 turns in 90% of your games with standard barb settings. Maybe some games are exceptions, you'll need to learn how to recognise them. The more of the 360degree arc around you is empty land, (as opposed to a CS who keeps the area clean, ocean that doesnt spawn camps, or mountain walls that act as natural protection) the more dangerous it is. If its very dangerous you may need a 3th unit. If a scout has spotted you, you MUST stop him from gettig back to camp. So don't let those few units you have go too far away from home. They are there to scout your expansion spots and kill barb scouts, not to do long distance scouting and meet many civs. You'll do that later. That said, i certainly dont always start with a monument. If there is amazing improvable land i may very well start with a worker first. PS: sorry to sound arrogant, but i have played every itteration of civ for 1000's of hours each. Deity exclusively. I know this game. If you disagree it's morely likely there is something to learn for you than for me.
There are certain cases in which you would want to build a builder first, especially with the Inca since terrace farms are amazing (though they didn’t exist when this video was made)
1. Scout or slinger 2. Settler or slinger (slinger if you haven’t already build and when you worried about barbarians/other ai) 3. Settler (to build even more cities), but third built not so important Wrote down for myself
I think the important thing is to be flexible. My general build order is: slinger -> scout and then the rest depends on what's going on around me. If I've found a barbarian camp by the time I've completed my scout, I'll make another slinger and go hunt it down with my warrior. Or if I'm on a large continent (based on my initial game settings), I'll make another scout. If I found an awesome second city location, I'll make a settler to snatch it up. And sometimes - rarely - I'll make a monument third (eg. if I've determined by this point, from the first few turns of scouting, that I have the continent to myself so I can just focus on infrastructure). My general rule about my first worker is, never build one if you don't have enough citizens to work three tiles or the tech to use at least three tiles (though I try to time it so it's available as soon as the conditions are met). So typically, my first worker comes when I've hit 3 population, which usually happens naturally after I've finished building necessary defence and exploration forces. My first settler - unless, as mentioned before, there's a city location I want to snatch up - usually comes right after that. In my most recent game (still ongoing), Russia spawned really close to me (Indonesia) so rather than make a settler, I started pumping out warriors and slingers. Peter built a second city right on my capital's border and I took it before I even researched the archery tech. Then I took his capital, so I had three cities all in the early ancient era - a pretty strong start, if I do say so myself.
should go (tech - archery) 1 - scout (find an enemy) 2 - slinger 3 - slinger 4 - slinger 5 - slinger kill a barb with a slinger attack nearest enemy before they can make walls (bonus: find/intercept enemys early settler)
for a better build consider 1st scout- this is incredibly important at turn 1 goody huts are incredibly good (eg extra pop, free builder/scout or if your lucky a relic) finding citystates first will award you a delegation if not you still get a quest for a delegation (if you get 1 delegation the scout pays for itself ie +2culture from a culture citystate for half the cost of a monument).it also allows you to find barb camps,roaming enemy scouts and places to expand you could consider getting a 2nd scout if you are on a large landmass as they are cheap and pay themselves off early game 2nd builder- the timing is situational to a small degree but basically you want to be expanding as fast as possible and builders are important for this. basically you want farms to increase the population of your city then they will support civilians working production/ other resource tiles later then once you have these farms building mines or collecting luxury resources. note pop uses 2 food so changing a 2 yield tile to a 3 yield gives 1 food surplus or a 3 yield to a 4 yield tile doubles the surplus from 1 to 2 also pop gives yields in it self that is 1 pop is .5 science pt and .3 culture. so for example having 4 pop gives 2 science + .9 culture and 4 worked tiles which makes it the 2nd most efficient way to get resources behind the scout 3rd warrior- you could get this before the builder but preferably afterwards as it will slow down your production basically at this point you need a warrior and you're wasting your starting warrior if you leave it in your capitol it should help your scout explore or be clearing encampments also dont leave this in your city at the very least if you're worried about units in fog have it 3 or four tiles out basically you want this warrior to be standing in your city if enemies start to invade at close to full health to fend off any attacks. at this point in the game it has the highest combat strength so adding it to the city strength makes it difficult for a city to be taken especially if you fortify it. so basically warriors are most efficient at this point to clear barb camps and defend cities. i realize some people will ask why not use a slinger as slingers are cheaper and my main advice would be look at a guide on combat strength as just 2 or 3 more combat strength more then the unit your fighting will make a difference but basically the added combat strength from warrior added to city makes it last longer and deal out more damage to warrior attackers you would need twice the amount of slingers to take a city then warriors and there best use is a support troop basically use them alongside warriors attack with slingers to weaken the enemy melee troop then your melee troop has a advantage and can finish it off. were warrior are cost efficient damage and provide the the area of affect slow on surrounding tiles(forget the name) while the range attack from slinger weakens the enemy warriors combat strength so your warrior has an advantage. 4th settler- so the reason for the settler is the same as the builder you want to get a city> grow pop of the city> work the production and repeat till you win or lose the reason why settler is fourth is that the first settler is kinda cheap relative to other settlers/the warriors needed to "liberate" another civs city. also other cities wont be close enough in that if they see your warriors four tiles away they have the time to produce a warrior by the time they get close enough to siege so generally just pay for a settler for your 2nd city 5th- so this is were you have to follow what is happening in the game you want to keep expanding so ether build settlers/warriors(with range units as support where 2 warriors have no more then 1 slinger for support) to take cities make sure worked tiles are improved then consider cranary-if more population is needed(the food is useful if you buy it on new cities to quickly get them running) traders these are a lower priority early game but can be useful for getting extra food/production useful for roads main use is for moving units from one side of your borders to another so you dont need units for each city or speding up growth for new cities or speeding up production of wonders just have traders going out from the city it is built in beforehand. districts are probably next in line late game you will use the districts projects to win religious/science/culture victories. monuments are super low priority early game and are very situational you will get culture through citizens and citystates to unlock the civic tree which doesnt have enough impact on winning to validate allocating resources away from expansion ie build 2 monuments and know another player could have 3 more warriors so now your military is weaker and your city is worth more for a enemy to take which is the same for wonders ie i could go into detail but oracle comes at the cost of a small army this is just a basic guide it doesnt take into account alot of factors like unique units, exploiting ai players(deity ai might seem more difficult till you realise they just get more resource so they will trade a luxury for enough gold to buy the units to take over there cities), island maps or weird start positions that give off a situational advantage/disadvantage but is a solid base to make a build around. basically it's built aorund what the more efficient option is, if you can build off of it you can win against 95% of other civ players but at the cost of facepalming every time you hear a potato giving advice on how to civ6
@@boobiedefloop6097 is there a better build?.. when you used it what failed for you? against low skill opponents you could risk going greedy and rushing settlers or warriors before builders but i wouldn't really count that a valid guide as you rely on your opponents letting you take advantage of them. this was written with the idea of being used against players that know what there doing and would take advantage of a weak build
Scout, settler, slinger that's my order as well And my thinking was like easy.. i wanna get those goody hoods before someone else does. And i wanna automate my settler production as soon as possible. I rather wanna have 11-12 small cities than just 3 big cities until late game. The more area/cities i can throw and claim between my capital and other players the better. And going the same pathway it's also more valuable to chop trees for the pyramide and the nice garden. Every bit of growth helps, bonuspoints for large rainforest areas with frequent catastrophies. I like them burning hot while having some marshmallows ready. It also seems like the bonuses doesnt stack between having a volcano beside a flooding river tile. The flood wins and the volcano does nothing on the tiles.
A little addition or probably more advanced stuff: Scout for other civs. Try to cover all directions and make out map borders. once you find a map border try to explore in a different direction and try to eliminate big blank spots on the map around you so you can't miss a civ. While doing that your second unit is and must always be a settler. Unless rare cases where you city is under siege by barbarians. But usually you can amass enough gold to buy units whenever you need them in the start phase. Talking of gold: Look out for strategic and luxury ress and trade them to other civs once you find them. Even if that gets you negative amenmeties at the start. Just make sure you get a proper price for them. With this gold you can leave some in stock for safety buying a slinger/archer in a city which is in danger. While scouting make plans for your second city already. Try to place it as close to another kingdom as possible. Therefore expand away from the closest map border and try to determine the outer boundaries of your territory right at the beginning. You can settle at up to -8 loyalty and manage to keep the city. -8 loyalty is difficult to keep, but -6 or less is no problem. Next steps: Get Magnus and once he is established, chop settlers. If you need a governor to get your loyalty up in another city chop government plaza and ancestral hall once philosophy is done.
Good points. On the monument, if you find a cultural city state early on, that will boost your culture more than the monument would have. One side question: Why slinger instead of warrior for defense? I've found that early on, slingers die much more easily to barbs than warriors. Is this mainly for the upgrade to archers later on/boost? Also, this build order is why I love Gilgamesh. Need Scouting? War cart. Need defense? War cart. Need offense v cities states? War cart. No matter the task, war cart does it best. Cart, Cart, settler. Your army moves seamlessly between defense, killing barbs, scouting, and offense.
Slingers are great cause they can attack and not take damage. So if you keep them on they city, or within another ZOC, then they are safe from being attacked :)
@@TheSaxyGamer, I've come to find out that if you have two Slingers keep one perpetually guarding your Capital City. Use the other Slinger to hunt alongside your Warrior. This way when both get to or near a Barbarian Encampment the Barbarian, I forgot the name of the Pikemen predecessor, unit that Barbarian unit usually will abandon it's Encampment to go after your Slinger. This serves two general purposes. Unless if your Slinger is already low on health your Slinger will survive and get a hefty EXP boost due to the melee attack on them. The second general purpose is this gets that Barbarian unit to come out of it's Fortify status and stance. Rarely does this Barbarian unit bother to re-Fortify should they ever fall back to their original Encampment. This will enable you to sometimes one-shot that Barbarian unit. If they're inside of their Encampment when you do this you also clear it out in the same turn to yield all of those associated bonuses. Now once you've upgraded your Slingers to Archers this becomes an even better strategy so it's usually your Warrior or Swordsmen who wind up tanking instead of your glass cannon Archers. I've also noticed that unit EXP level upgrades do alot more for the units in Rise and Fall than in Gods and Kings as well.
Imagine purchasing when it's always free on torrent site...lol but really it's a way better deal on steam getting all the content except the new pass for 47$
@@Jason-jr6xz Good to know Im not the only one. UA-cam videos are too slow, People talk too slow in general and much of what they say is fluff. I listen to all on at least 1.5 so I can get the information im looking for
So here I am, buying it on steam sale, thinking I'm just gonna try it (really skeptical).... Next thing I know, I haven't been moving for about 5 hours playing in tutorial. This game rocks.
I try to build a settler as soon as possible so I can settle and claim land before the others do. The first thing I build is a scout, because by the time the scout is built, the population of the city will have increased to 2, which makes building a settler possible.
The fuck are these "you talk fast" people talking about? This dude talks at a normal pace! Hell, I even watch on 1.25 speed and I still can understand it. What's going on.
The majority of time I do "scout -> monument -> scout/slinger -> settler". Starting warrior goes radially, 1st scout runs off, 2nd scout/slinger wanders closely until the settler is almost ready and they both go settling. In 2nd city "monument -> slinger" or the other way around, depends on the map and barbs. That lets me kind of not very safely (but not very reckless either), but get first three civics faster and i find it very crucial in my games.
Settler as your 2nd or 3rd unit and on city size 2 is really early. I prefer to go scout-scout-builder. Then scout for barbarian camps, nearby cities and expansions and either build a military unit or a building and only build a settler once the city is size 3 or 4 and has 3 improved tiles. Then either more military or a building and a builder to improve 3 more tiles before a second settler. Using slingers or warriors to scout may be worth it for their extra durability, but scouts are slightly faster.
Monument first isn't a terrible idea. It's not something I do often, but there are cases where it is optimal such as if you plan for grow fast (like if you are Egypt and hit your flood plane bias, or you start next to sugar), then getting early culture and so border expansion will save you moneys you won't have and give you better tiles to work which pays off in food/hammer/whatever else earlier and opens up your luxuries too, which you'll need if you're prioritizing growth, and also give you 5-10% more city yields. Another benefit is rushing down the early culture tree which is great for getting to first Governments, getting your early governors set up sooner, getting an early culture district/great writer, or one of the wonders. Also one of lesser import but still a thing that's worth considering is that it's a "safe" thing to invest in. Workers give improvements which can be raided by barbarians, Districts can be pillaged, and units can be killed, if these things happen that investment returns nothing -and these things do happen. City center buildings on the other hand are not vulnerable to barbarians, so if you're expecting to be attacked a lot early game, they are the safer investment.
When I first got started I suck so bad lol..I played this on ps4 civilization 2 and this one is 10 time better.i love this game. Thanks for your cool videos
I go scout, scout (or galley), builder then jump to granary, monument and possibly a quick wonder if my starting production is higher than normal and barbarians aren't beating down my door. My first district is always a holy site ,even if I'm not planning a religious victory. If you don't have a religion during the game you are at a major handicap, get it always. Try and place it in a tile that will be on an future roadway to help move your religious units out faster as well. Love this game, definitely the best strategy based ever!
Personally, I start with a slinger, using the warrior to explore. 2nd is usually a scout, sometimes a builder (depending on what's in my city) 3rd will be settler or builder and past that depends on what I've found so far and how fast my city is growing
huh... I always get a builder first because improvements. The thought of getting a settler before my capital is mostly set up never occurred to me before
Imo builders are pretty much useless unless you have 4+ pop. I usually build scouts first and then either spam settlers or units and try to get at least 15 cities(At least 6 before turn 100) per game. Due to the district system, playing tall was severely nerfed. This is just my opinion. Play however you like
I tend to go Slinger - Slinger - Builder - Settler, sending all military units out to explore in different directions, and either send one back or build a new one to defend the civilians. I play on Epic speed, though, so the timing works out a bit differently.
This Jungle/Hills will slow your early game down but it is good defense. The major priorities are to get that Classical Golden Age which can be frustrating actually to get 24 era points. So you need Agoge to get units produced faster. If your on the Coast you want the Naval Card and chop galleys. If you have horses you need Military Tradition to chop Horses. Next you want to get Magnus up asap and 3 builders to chop your way into victory. In all cases you are better off neglecting Science and building an Army to crush your neighbors ASAP while they are vulnerable. All of this is easier said than done because if you start getting into builder mode or make a few mistakes it will collapse your plan rather quickly. Not that you will lose the game but it can cost you 50 to 150 turns more to complete the game.
Mmmh that's a good idea! but I suppose if you have no forests around you but more moutains you go science right? or rushing settlers? at what pace would you get another settlement?
O snap on Emperor difficulty i always rushed like 1 settler with gold and the 2nd with the gold purchase and still making this :/ no need to mention that i get involved in war from everywhere :') I always thought that building military early is waste of time in the development but you gave a good advise of defending yourself first!
I usually like getting an early monument, because you just get the boost towards settlers faster. So pretty much that's free production in the long term
ReLoadXxXxX i don't consider that promotion to be very useful. Most of the time your capital will be housing blocked anyways and you will have enough food so your cap will grow as quickly as you build settlers
I would still advise against an early monument. Even if you want to wait to produce your settlers, I would much much much rather produce military units or a builder or two. With more units, you could either defend yourself very well as you expand or take over a nearby city state or player. The monument provides a rather small bit of culture and takes quite a few turns to build in the early game so I don't think its a great option to get it early on.
Slinger first. Then decide if I need warrior or slinger next. After about 6 to 8 units I produce a settler. Then a builder . Then finish with about 11 units. Then get swords then catapults or siege tower depending on surrounding cities
If you not got lucky and dont have the best tiles available in the first ring around the city, i would recommend monument to extend borders significantly faster. But its a hard choice
Shoshone start with more tiles in Civ V - get to chose which culture upgrade when discovering ruins - pathfinder upgrades to compound bow vs archer - downsize long build time
If you play Deity and Pang/Cont Maps you can't build a Monument First because you will get rolled but even if you have mountain and ocean protection you should go builder/settler first which is stronger than Monument First. In any case you are always better going Military First and if you want Classical Golden Age, which you do, the Scout is very important. After that you need some units to clear Barb Camps which help to get +2/+3 Era Score. You also want to the Army to protect when you Forward Settle the AI which you want them to attack you to kill their Army and to get the Boost for Declaration. Play how you want but if you read up on Civfanatics and watch the Pros this is how they do it.
I’ll grab a builder early on if there are luxuries. You could sell those luxuries to the AI for gold and buy whatever unit you need. You often get about 120-150 gold per luxury in the early game. Also I do grab a few builders as China for any upcoming wonders.
i always build a builder first. no matter what speed you will always get your first tech before the builder is done so if you get mining you can get some chops to speed up a slinger. never get a scout first. you want a dark age first, then its supper easy to get a heroic the next era. a slinger first is not a bad idea thought, but the boost to archer can wait a few terns considering your going to want writing or irrigation first most likely
These days if I have a good enough I'll go for Scout/Settler/Settler, if not it'll be Scout/Builder/Settler because by the time the builder pops out Il have got at least one starting tech that will enable me to put down some improvements appropriate to the location. I typically find myself buying my slinger with gold, mainly because I typically play on King and so can afford to wait a bit on it.
With that spawn I'ld have gone for 2 scouts, and then a settler, thus not making any slinger at all. I mean, slingers are cheap, so if an occasion presents itself for the boost, I'ld just buy a slinger.
The Saxy Gamer, I like to play as France in Civilization VI: Rise and Fall. I've learned that this is the optimal build order for at least France with Technologies: 1. Scout - Pottery 2. Builder - Mining 3. As many Slingers as possible till Astrology is completed. This is best when you have one or more Stone tiles adjacent or within one tile to your City Center. This way you can immediately begin to build Stonehenge. This will enable you to get the first Great Prophet therefore giving your Religion the potential to become the most OP Religion in the game. I've come to learn it's best to establish our Religion as early as possible. This way you have a good or better chance at spreading your Religion like crazy or keep it around to prevent an AI opponent from easily achieving a Religious Victory. I've come to find out too, The Saxy Gamer, that the optimal "Search Pattern" early game is doing light exploration with your Warrior unit. If they find any Villages be sure to gather them up as soon as possible. Otherwise don't go out of your way to go finding them. You go out of your way to find Barbarian Encampments instead with your Warrior unit. Generally you attack the Barbarian Encampment twice then heal up. Rarely does the Barbarian AI outright attack you the turn you get into range or attack and easily kill you when your Warrior unit is in the red HP level. This is super effin' annoying to me when it happens though. Usually though attack twice and on the third attack phase choose Heal instead of attack. Heal till you're in the green HP again. Unless if said Barbarian Encampment happens to be getting attacked by one or more other AI units which could very well kill-steal as well as rob you of that needed military boost and 50 Gold which is extremely important in early game. One of the most crippling things I found out when I first played vanilla Civilization VI was radically different the Barbarian Encampments work compared to Civilization V: Gods and Kings. In Civ 5: Gods and Kings you can select the Barbarian Encampments to become as super hostile and pump out unit after unit in up to extreme rapid succession. In Civilization VI and Rise and Fall Barbarian Encampments generally are of no real threat to anyone till their Scout finds your Civilization, a City-State, and/or another Civilization's border(s) who then immediately, or usually immediately returns back to their spawning Barbarian Encampment. Often times the very next turn they get within one or two tiles away from their Encampment they'll spawn a Horseman, Slinger, or Warrior. They spawn any of these units it's always best to fall back to your own Civilization immediately or try to kite the Barbarians back to your Civilization so you can try to get that boost to that Military tech that reveals Iron. If said Barbarian Encampment spawns a Horseman just know your Warrior can very well be killed within two turns, sometimes just one turn. So yeah, Horsemen are way OP this early in the game and it's universally the Barbarians who are up to vastly more OP than all of the Civilizations put together. Sure I am making it sound as though this is all taking within 100 to 200 turns, but no I am talking about the first 60 turns when chances are you're struggling to pump out Settlers, have a Military unit to Link them to so they can safely be escorted to wherever you're sending them such as a Plains Hill, River tile that has one or more adjecant Luxury resource tiles. Nothing sucks more when it's turn 40 something and you've gotten your first Settler, but you're just aching to settle your new City right next to or two tiles away from an incredibly useful Natural Wonder only for a Barbarian unit to run up and snatch your non-protected Settler. The single best improvement as far as I'm concerned Rise and Fall has over Gods and Kings is the Captured Settler "system". Gone are the days when you'd capture a Barbarian Settler one way or another and the second you do the Barbarian Settler turns into a Worker unit. Nope! You capture a Barbarian Settler and it becomes *your* Settler. It doesn't matter if said Settler was originally from another Civilization. What's even better is these newly recovered Barbarian Settlers do NOT count to the purchase and build prices to new Settlers in your Civilization. When I found this out by accident I nearly screamed, "FUCK YEAH!!" in real life. lol So always remain vigilant about capturing really any non-standard Barbarian units this includes Workers too.
On diety I usually find that building a scout instead of a warrior is bad unless you plan on never going to war. This is because barbarians are everywhere and the ai is very warmongery early on. Plus half the time a scout can only move 1 anyway. I find a warrior to be not catastrophic in exploration and goody hut purposes as appose to a scout while being much better at fighting and you can train him up for war.
I'm new to civilization VI and am having a hard time understanding it. My friends love it so I want to understand it but I'm having a hard time learning as I go.
Scout in order to find other players, then settle in their direction so that they can't steal valuable land from you. Make sure you stand on tiles with hills and/or trees on them when your troops are defending to get a defense boost. I generally like to go for science victory as it is one of the easier ones and your troops get more advanced as you progress. I don't know if you have the dlc, but kupe is extremely op on maps with separated land masses, as he can immediately send settlers across the ocean and form empires on multiple continents. The most important thing is to grab up as much land as possible, as more land = more cities and more cities = more districts and more tiles per city = more population and more production. Find a good balance between settling and defending. If you're playing with rise and fall, learn how to use the loyalty system. There's a policy that gives +6 loyalty for a governor, and another one that gives you +2 when a unit is in the city center. A monument gives you +1 loyalty, and the greater the population of your city the more loyalty it will have. Focus on food and growing the population if your city is losing loyalty. Use the production gained from domestic trade routes grow newly settled cities quickly. Don't forget you can buy troops with gold if your city is in trouble, and if youre playing a religious game don't forget to use your faith before it all piles up. If you want to use nukes, remember to use a military engineer to build a missile silo or build a nuclear submarine to actually use the nukes. Don't forget to use builders to improve luxury tiles to keep your citizens happy.
"I always used to build monuments first" Same man, until I realised the border growth wasn't worth the production resources, unlike civ 5. Too used to the civ 5 mechanics.
I think building monument first is now viable and potentially underrated because you can recruit heroes with it. if you found either Hercules or Anansi a monument start would grant you HUGE advantage depends on your early game plan. The +2 culture per turn is also huge because it almost doubles your culture output so you can get to political philosophy much faster. I'd say if you were spawn on a hill and mountain heavy terrain building scout wouldn't be worth it because exploration wouldn't be efficient and you'd better off do something else with the production.
its risky because of loyalty problems. if you have someone like Eleanor nearby and they have even one relic from a village you can start losing your second city
I play immortal and diety... build order is warrior settler... maybe maybe scout if you can knock it out in like 5 turns and be pop 2 on city to build settler. its all about getting city to two and getting settler then build another settler right after that .. all new citys should be on warrior.. slings do not add any city defence so they trash early.
I never tried immortal or diety, i'm stuck on Emperor, I'll take your tips, sounds really interesting because i'm often in trouble when i rush settlers and expand fast vs the IA.
I have to disagree with much of what you said. Firstly, having your warrior circle around your city exploring is a bad idea. Have him "go long" and look for the goody huts AND city states AND get boost for new continent. Getting the first envoy free from a city can give valuable boosts. Meeting 5 or 6 city states FIRST is huge. Build three or four scouts. THEY will explore around your city for for you. East, West, North, and South. If your warrior already looked in an area these will be "dead zones" for your scout. Why go over same area twice? It is not a mistake that one of your first government slots boosts XP for scouts. Build more than one. Proof can be found in the fact that other Civs get angry if you find too many huts! They are invaluable. Building settlers too soon with seriously stunt growth. Try to get Magnus to his second ability before your build settlers, this will keep your population from getting trimmed. See that Barbarian nest? Kill it. Era bonus for removing it, gold for removing it, XP for the warrior (he is gonna need it if more barbs pop up), also triggers eureka, also helps trigger Bronze Working. I would have AGGRESSIVELY sent that slinger to do the last bit of damage and triggered Archery. It was NOT that far away. Lastly, that was not a very good opening settlement area. Impossible to get eurekas/civics boosts until much later in game. Usually excellent videos but this one was well below par.
@SonOf McGringus yeah scouts arent that great a slinger will do the job and defend you from barbs. You can also hold the AI of with 2 slingers and 2 warriors if you do it right.
If you're playing on emperor or deity you can bribe rival civs into good favor fairly easily and quickly - just give 10 gold every 5 turns till you befriend them
Building wide as early as possible in Civ VI is usually the best strat. The game doesn't really reward you as much for building one or two huge cities like it does in Civ V A Civ like the Civ V version of Venice wouldn't work in this game
When your starting location involves a lot of tree, or bonus resources like rice etc, would you recommend to exploit it to fasten your prod/pop? or just keep it with the adjency bonuses or bonuses from later tech era?
Why is a monument giving you +2 culture every turn not worth it as a starting build? Doesn't it increase the rate of border expansion and don't you want your capital to get big quick? Great videos by the way!
Bc you will get destroyed by barbs. You need a slinger first, then you want settler to get some cities, and only then a monument if you dont have good tiles to improve or want to get your campus on science game
I've won on deity as japan in a religious victory. I had the religious governor with the additional promotion to apostles and popping off those apostles and gurus. I somehow managed to survive as I was on an island and AI couldn't build ships? So for me the starting tech was to get the religion asap (I spawned next to a natural wonder) and do the prophet training project to ensure I had the religion.
I kind of don't agree with this order. I find very useful going for a builder as soon as my population grows to 2 so that if we can build a mine the following units will come to produce faster.
Do you generally settle all your cities as early as you can, ie. pump out, say, 7 settlers in a row if you're aiming for 8 cities? Or do you make 4, then do some other builds, then another 3?
I generally like to start churning out all of my settlers in a row once I get the +50% production towards settlers card. I also tend to get 2 promotions on Magnus so that my cap can still grow while I make all of them. The exception would be if I am planning to go to an early, in which case I'd then build a bunch of military units and get my cities that way.
Noob strategy :) Builder then settler, if you face very aggressive enemy then army instead of settler or in meantime. Builder gives you production, the most important element in this phase. Remember that order is not fixed, you must always choose the best strategy for a particular moment that is why you must switch production order very often. Warrior is enough for scouting, just keep it close in max 8 hexes range, you can collect your points after first expansion. This game is not about running all-ins. Production + information > permanent army.
How do you get the markers for campus/city/commercial hub? i only have the default ones and i have trouble planning my cities due to this. I love these videos, it really makes me rethink my strategies. I had a routine and i didn't think things through before civ 6, from civ 3 to 5, i was more rushing wonders and not worrying about other cities development.
I would personally install CQUI (by subscribing to it in the steam workshop: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1125169247) it has the special markers, production queue and other great UI improvements like hovering over cities to see which tiles they are working and which tile the city is growing to. :)
New to CIV 6 game. was just casually clicking here and there, building settlements and shit. didn't even realize 6 hrs has passed me sitting in the same position as before not even going to toilet haha
Same
That is what Sid Miers Civ is all about. Time traveling into the future.
Hahaha
I got the Xbox one version and honestly the passage of time when you play this game is absolutely crazy. Feels like I’ve been playing 10 minutes and two hours had gone by.
Water closet**
Starts 0:21
Make a Scout
Scout around
Make a slinger
Make a Settler
Ends 5:28
good video fam
oh finally a video that is not 3hours long
Ikr!
only bc he talks like a minigun
All three of you have the same pfp and I am annoyed. Not exactly the same, but still
And despite that he takes 3/6 minutes to say "build a scout normally, a slinger if you want more defense".
I'd like, but you are at 666 likes
Slinger killing a barb for the archer boost is important in early game.
I agree. THAT is the reason I buy a slinger early on. Even if he wants to stay "near" the capital, I use him to explore around a bit.
Good video! Thanks.
@@iamspamus8784 : and the warrior killes faster with a littel Slinger help. No scout
Yeah, I often skip a scout.
Sure but 60 gold to improve the sliger > archer is not a big problem.
@@PMMagro you miss the point, its not about that, its about being able to get the boost on the research, if you don't get early you'll research archery before it ever happens and lose a few turns of research effectively
The early build order will vary greatly based on the situation, you had very good tiles (many 2:2 or better) and rain forest, this would have made a builder virtually worthless for a significant amount of time. However, in a city with poor food/production getting up a pasture, a mine etc would have a lot more value comparatively. The need of early settlers (Always good to get at least 1) would also change depending on how close you are to people and your availability of land, otherwise you can wait for Magnus and early empire. There's also the terrain to consider, forest and hills. A warrior won't be able to do is usual share of scouting so getting a 2nd scout could provide great value.
I just realized that I always played the game in kind of a weird way.
Thoughts about victory types, tech boosts and such don't really come up.
I'm more likely to think stuff like: "The scout discovered a natural wonder. My nation thinks that its the home of their gods and they try to move there. I build a settler"
C Filmer I agree :)
Not as easy to have fun with Civilization. I’ve been playing it since Civilization II on the old grey PlayStation.
Peace!
You're getting role play in my 4X
Roleplay is a pretty cool playstyle and it can definitely be viable for victory types.
this is so me, even like a continent distant away i would settle lol
I've been playing Civ since I was about 8. I started in Civ 3 (the master piece). So for me roleplaying in Civ is a nice way to mix things up, and its makes the game more challenging.
Scouts sent off into the blue yonder pick up “friendly villages” and those little buggers are so valuable, providing either gold, or even more useful, speeding up research.
I go
1. Scout
2. Slinger
3. Settler
4. Settler ( or builder if my population is at 1)
Builder!?
I go
1 builder
2 settler
3 settler
4 settler or campus or trader
I go
1.scout
2.settler(or slinger if pop 1)
3.campus
4.slinger/settler
5.settler/trader
6.settler/archer
I'll usually wait till 4+ pop before making builders
I go either
-Scout
-Scout
-Settler
Or
-Scout
-Settler
I usually go scout,
Builder or settler
holy site
I would always rush a scout first, purely to get that free first envoy from city states and goodie huts, can be a free builder or population, then I usually end up spamming settlers, I might actually get a slinger from now on before spamming settlers, its usually the line between another population, which makes the settler go faster
New to civ 6 excited to learn more!
I like that your video didnt start with an irritating intro. Information delivered quickly and efficiently, cant go wrong with that
Slinger, settler, slinger. Send your warrior out to scout at first. Make a scout after you found your second city. Rush campus and archery. Try to have 3 slingers before archery is done.
Me: build a frick ton settlers and make them settlr in places with shiny stuff.
I was waiting for him to say
"rap god rap god"
I'm weird. If I spawn near wheat or rice, I will get a builder first to get the irrigation boost and guarantee hanging gardens.
That's because that's your playstyle. Nothing wrong with. In some situations that would be wrong, in some that would be right. It would also depend on AI difficulty or human enemy.
I'm new so I play at easier AI, I always go for early Tech boost like what you do. But I've won at harder levels too, although it's cutting it close. AI at harder levels are aggressive so I don't use what you mentioned.
But why? Hanging gardens isnt that good
For me it is 1 scout, 2 builder 3 slinger 4 traderoute (second city if that one is up). Settlers, not just one, when you have pop 2+ in between the others .
With some luck, villages /barbarian camps, you shoudl be able to buy something cheap. If you buy a trade route or slinger/warrior or even a thrid scout or monument that is a real boost.
Love the short guide and that each episode is labeled with the topic. Makes it easier for a beginner like myself to go to the topic im currently struggling with in game. Cheers!
I can usually pick it up from after this point. Early game I've always struggled with. So this will help a lot thank you
I like to hammer out 3 slingers right off the bat then spit out a settler and builder from then on its what I need.
I just like getting those three slingers before researching archery because it's easier to just upgrade slingers than hard build archers.
Tremendous idea!
It's really more beneficial to build combat units when you have the policy Agoge.
Just a small correction, you say getting +1 culture with the monument doesn't worth the 12 turns. While I agree with you, but it gives +2 since you'll have 100 loyality in your starting city triggering the additional culture making it +2 overall from the monument.
Yeah, it should indeed be +2, thanks!
It’s still not that important off the first city
@@CorsetLebelle It absolutely is that important. It makes you get all those super important early civics twice as fast. The turns you shave of getting those 50% production for units or settlers are probably enough to repay for that monument by itself.
@@antondegroot6061 yeah but then you get run over by barbs. Its good but get it later
@@alex2005z Dont be too scared of barbs. You have a warrior, thats a good start. Add 1 unit (barb or slinger) to that after the monument and you should be fine for the first 40 turns in 90% of your games with standard barb settings. Maybe some games are exceptions, you'll need to learn how to recognise them. The more of the 360degree arc around you is empty land, (as opposed to a CS who keeps the area clean, ocean that doesnt spawn camps, or mountain walls that act as natural protection) the more dangerous it is. If its very dangerous you may need a 3th unit. If a scout has spotted you, you MUST stop him from gettig back to camp. So don't let those few units you have go too far away from home. They are there to scout your expansion spots and kill barb scouts, not to do long distance scouting and meet many civs. You'll do that later.
That said, i certainly dont always start with a monument. If there is amazing improvable land i may very well start with a worker first.
PS: sorry to sound arrogant, but i have played every itteration of civ for 1000's of hours each. Deity exclusively. I know this game. If you disagree it's morely likely there is something to learn for you than for me.
1 - scout
2 - slinger
3 - monument
4 - slinger (if barbarians) / builder
There are certain cases in which you would want to build a builder first, especially with the Inca since terrace farms are amazing (though they didn’t exist when this video was made)
1. Scout or slinger
2. Settler or slinger (slinger if you haven’t already build and when you worried about barbarians/other ai)
3. Settler (to build even more cities), but third built not so important
Wrote down for myself
The only reason I’ve ever felt like building a monument first is if you start on an island.
I think the important thing is to be flexible. My general build order is: slinger -> scout and then the rest depends on what's going on around me. If I've found a barbarian camp by the time I've completed my scout, I'll make another slinger and go hunt it down with my warrior. Or if I'm on a large continent (based on my initial game settings), I'll make another scout. If I found an awesome second city location, I'll make a settler to snatch it up. And sometimes - rarely - I'll make a monument third (eg. if I've determined by this point, from the first few turns of scouting, that I have the continent to myself so I can just focus on infrastructure).
My general rule about my first worker is, never build one if you don't have enough citizens to work three tiles or the tech to use at least three tiles (though I try to time it so it's available as soon as the conditions are met). So typically, my first worker comes when I've hit 3 population, which usually happens naturally after I've finished building necessary defence and exploration forces. My first settler - unless, as mentioned before, there's a city location I want to snatch up - usually comes right after that.
In my most recent game (still ongoing), Russia spawned really close to me (Indonesia) so rather than make a settler, I started pumping out warriors and slingers. Peter built a second city right on my capital's border and I took it before I even researched the archery tech. Then I took his capital, so I had three cities all in the early ancient era - a pretty strong start, if I do say so myself.
So do I ever get to build the damned monument
lol
Nah, screw that, just buy it later.
Yeah, because the monument and granary speed up production.
Just go as Romans
Just buy it
My build order is (1)Warrior=>(2)Builder=>(2.5)BUY a Slinger=>(3)Settler=>(3.5)BUY a Slinger=>(4)Settler=>(4.5)BUY a Slinger
Best early start is archer spam has kept me in the game every time, works gud if you are good at war strategy
should go
(tech - archery)
1 - scout (find an enemy)
2 - slinger
3 - slinger
4 - slinger
5 - slinger
kill a barb with a slinger
attack nearest enemy before they can make walls
(bonus: find/intercept enemys early settler)
Does this really work?
Since diety starts with 4 warriors, not really
for a better build consider
1st scout- this is incredibly important at turn 1 goody huts are incredibly good (eg extra pop, free builder/scout or if your lucky a relic) finding citystates first will award you a delegation if not you still get a quest for a delegation (if you get 1 delegation the scout pays for itself ie +2culture from a culture citystate for half the cost of a monument).it also allows you to find barb camps,roaming enemy scouts and places to expand you could consider getting a 2nd scout if you are on a large landmass as they are cheap and pay themselves off early game
2nd builder- the timing is situational to a small degree but basically you want to be expanding as fast as possible and builders are important for this. basically you want farms to increase the population of your city then they will support civilians working production/ other resource tiles later then once you have these farms building mines or collecting luxury resources. note pop uses 2 food so changing a 2 yield tile to a 3 yield gives 1 food surplus or a 3 yield to a 4 yield tile doubles the surplus from 1 to 2 also pop gives yields in it self that is 1 pop is .5 science pt and .3 culture. so for example having 4 pop gives 2 science + .9 culture and 4 worked tiles which makes it the 2nd most efficient way to get resources behind the scout
3rd warrior- you could get this before the builder but preferably afterwards as it will slow down your production basically at this point you need a warrior and you're wasting your starting warrior if you leave it in your capitol it should help your scout explore or be clearing encampments also dont leave this in your city at the very least if you're worried about units in fog have it 3 or four tiles out basically you want this warrior to be standing in your city if enemies start to invade at close to full health to fend off any attacks. at this point in the game it has the highest combat strength so adding it to the city strength makes it difficult for a city to be taken especially if you fortify it. so basically warriors are most efficient at this point to clear barb camps and defend cities. i realize some people will ask why not use a slinger as slingers are cheaper and my main advice would be look at a guide on combat strength as just 2 or 3 more combat strength more then the unit your fighting will make a difference but basically the added combat strength from warrior added to city makes it last longer and deal out more damage to warrior attackers you would need twice the amount of slingers to take a city then warriors and there best use is a support troop basically use them alongside warriors attack with slingers to weaken the enemy melee troop then your melee troop has a advantage and can finish it off. were warrior are cost efficient damage and provide the the area of affect slow on surrounding tiles(forget the name) while the range attack from slinger weakens the enemy warriors combat strength so your warrior has an advantage.
4th settler- so the reason for the settler is the same as the builder you want to get a city> grow pop of the city> work the production and repeat till you win or lose the reason why settler is fourth is that the first settler is kinda cheap relative to other settlers/the warriors needed to "liberate" another civs city. also other cities wont be close enough in that if they see your warriors four tiles away they have the time to produce a warrior by the time they get close enough to siege so generally just pay for a settler for your 2nd city
5th- so this is were you have to follow what is happening in the game you want to keep expanding so ether build settlers/warriors(with range units as support where 2 warriors have no more then 1 slinger for support) to take cities make sure worked tiles are improved then consider cranary-if more population is needed(the food is useful if you buy it on new cities to quickly get them running) traders these are a lower priority early game but can be useful for getting extra food/production useful for roads main use is for moving units from one side of your borders to another so you dont need units for each city or speding up growth for new cities or speeding up production of wonders just have traders going out from the city it is built in beforehand. districts are probably next in line late game you will use the districts projects to win religious/science/culture victories. monuments are super low priority early game and are very situational you will get culture through citizens and citystates to unlock the civic tree which doesnt have enough impact on winning to validate allocating resources away from expansion ie build 2 monuments and know another player could have 3 more warriors so now your military is weaker and your city is worth more for a enemy to take which is the same for wonders ie i could go into detail but oracle comes at the cost of a small army
this is just a basic guide it doesnt take into account alot of factors like unique units, exploiting ai players(deity ai might seem more difficult till you realise they just get more resource so they will trade a luxury for enough gold to buy the units to take over there cities), island maps or weird start positions that give off a situational advantage/disadvantage but is a solid base to make a build around. basically it's built aorund what the more efficient option is, if you can build off of it you can win against 95% of other civ players but at the cost of facepalming every time you hear a potato giving advice on how to civ6
Bad advice
@@boobiedefloop6097 is there a better build?.. when you used it what failed for you? against low skill opponents you could risk going greedy and rushing settlers or warriors before builders but i wouldn't really count that a valid guide as you rely on your opponents letting you take advantage of them. this was written with the idea of being used against players that know what there doing and would take advantage of a weak build
Scout, settler, slinger that's my order as well
And my thinking was like easy.. i wanna get those goody hoods before someone else does. And i wanna automate my settler production as soon as possible. I rather wanna have 11-12 small cities than just 3 big cities until late game. The more area/cities i can throw and claim between my capital and other players the better. And going the same pathway it's also more valuable to chop trees for the pyramide and the nice garden. Every bit of growth helps, bonuspoints for large rainforest areas with frequent catastrophies. I like them burning hot while having some marshmallows ready.
It also seems like the bonuses doesnt stack between having a volcano beside a flooding river tile. The flood wins and the volcano does nothing on the tiles.
props for the short videos with a set subject, rather then the hours long tuturial video series where people kinda just do a playtrough.
i just started yesterday and honestly trade as much as you can, bring up that bread and you’re set son
A little addition or probably more advanced stuff: Scout for other civs. Try to cover all directions and make out map borders. once you find a map border try to explore in a different direction and try to eliminate big blank spots on the map around you so you can't miss a civ. While doing that your second unit is and must always be a settler. Unless rare cases where you city is under siege by barbarians. But usually you can amass enough gold to buy units whenever you need them in the start phase. Talking of gold: Look out for strategic and luxury ress and trade them to other civs once you find them. Even if that gets you negative amenmeties at the start. Just make sure you get a proper price for them. With this gold you can leave some in stock for safety buying a slinger/archer in a city which is in danger. While scouting make plans for your second city already. Try to place it as close to another kingdom as possible. Therefore expand away from the closest map border and try to determine the outer boundaries of your territory right at the beginning. You can settle at up to -8 loyalty and manage to keep the city. -8 loyalty is difficult to keep, but -6 or less is no problem. Next steps: Get Magnus and once he is established, chop settlers. If you need a governor to get your loyalty up in another city chop government plaza and ancestral hall once philosophy is done.
Haha, you've predicted the next few episodes worth of Tips videos right there XD
oh, pardon me for the unintended spoiler :-D
Good points. On the monument, if you find a cultural city state early on, that will boost your culture more than the monument would have.
One side question: Why slinger instead of warrior for defense? I've found that early on, slingers die much more easily to barbs than warriors. Is this mainly for the upgrade to archers later on/boost?
Also, this build order is why I love Gilgamesh.
Need Scouting? War cart. Need defense? War cart. Need offense v cities states? War cart. No matter the task, war cart does it best.
Cart, Cart, settler. Your army moves seamlessly between defense, killing barbs, scouting, and offense.
Slingers are great cause they can attack and not take damage. So if you keep them on they city, or within another ZOC, then they are safe from being attacked :)
You want the slinger because you need to kill a unit with it to obtain the Eureka! for archery
Sumeria is superb got my 1st W with them. This game is great on the switch. Using cyrus of persia now
@@TheSaxyGamer, I've come to find out that if you have two Slingers keep one perpetually guarding your Capital City. Use the other Slinger to hunt alongside your Warrior. This way when both get to or near a Barbarian Encampment the Barbarian, I forgot the name of the Pikemen predecessor, unit that Barbarian unit usually will abandon it's Encampment to go after your Slinger. This serves two general purposes. Unless if your Slinger is already low on health your Slinger will survive and get a hefty EXP boost due to the melee attack on them. The second general purpose is this gets that Barbarian unit to come out of it's Fortify status and stance. Rarely does this Barbarian unit bother to re-Fortify should they ever fall back to their original Encampment. This will enable you to sometimes one-shot that Barbarian unit. If they're inside of their Encampment when you do this you also clear it out in the same turn to yield all of those associated bonuses.
Now once you've upgraded your Slingers to Archers this becomes an even better strategy so it's usually your Warrior or Swordsmen who wind up tanking instead of your glass cannon Archers. I've also noticed that unit EXP level upgrades do alot more for the units in Rise and Fall than in Gods and Kings as well.
Okay, subscribed. You passed my 5 random video test. Thanks for the tips!
Awesome, no problem!
imagine purchasing when its free on epic rn
Imagine playing the base game in 2020
@@sherrifal whats that
Me
Imagine purchasing when it's always free on torrent site...lol but really it's a way better deal on steam getting all the content except the new pass for 47$
@@chazz0418 try playing online through official servers with a pirated copy
play it on 0.75 speed
That's goofy af rofl
You're right, the speed of his voice makes me anxious. lol
No way, i usually watch videos at 1.5, i have him on 1.5 and its fine.
I usually watch videos at 1.5x or 2.0x. I didn't need to speed this guy up. Great.
@@Jason-jr6xz Good to know Im not the only one. UA-cam videos are too slow, People talk too slow in general and much of what they say is fluff. I listen to all on at least 1.5 so I can get the information im looking for
So here I am, buying it on steam sale, thinking I'm just gonna try it (really skeptical).... Next thing I know, I haven't been moving for about 5 hours playing in tutorial. This game rocks.
"Just one more turn...." :)
I try to build a settler as soon as possible so I can settle and claim land before the others do. The first thing I build is a scout, because by the time the scout is built, the population of the city will have increased to 2, which makes building a settler possible.
Dude, I can speed up video on my own if I chose to...
You would have dragged it to 10 mins and stuck an extra ad in
You can also slow down if you chose to
The fuck are these "you talk fast" people talking about? This dude talks at a normal pace! Hell, I even watch on 1.25 speed and I still can understand it. What's going on.
@@theascendunt9960 agreed. Could talk even faster
@@geraldfjord2383 some would even argue he SHOULD talk faster
FINALLY, civ6 tutorials!! Subbed!
The majority of time I do "scout -> monument -> scout/slinger -> settler". Starting warrior goes radially, 1st scout runs off, 2nd scout/slinger wanders closely until the settler is almost ready and they both go settling. In 2nd city "monument -> slinger" or the other way around, depends on the map and barbs.
That lets me kind of not very safely (but not very reckless either), but get first three civics faster and i find it very crucial in my games.
Wow. I really suck. I always build monuments and construct everything before building settlers. My instincts are completely backwards.
Some easy tips, but also some things I never considered. Thanks!
Love the vid really helped me get use to early game mechanics. Wish you could add a video on the civic early build order as well, but great vid
Settler as your 2nd or 3rd unit and on city size 2 is really early. I prefer to go scout-scout-builder. Then scout for barbarian camps, nearby cities and expansions and either build a military unit or a building and only build a settler once the city is size 3 or 4 and has 3 improved tiles. Then either more military or a building and a builder to improve 3 more tiles before a second settler. Using slingers or warriors to scout may be worth it for their extra durability, but scouts are slightly faster.
Monument first isn't a terrible idea. It's not something I do often, but there are cases where it is optimal such as if you plan for grow fast (like if you are Egypt and hit your flood plane bias, or you start next to sugar), then getting early culture and so border expansion will save you moneys you won't have and give you better tiles to work which pays off in food/hammer/whatever else earlier and opens up your luxuries too, which you'll need if you're prioritizing growth, and also give you 5-10% more city yields.
Another benefit is rushing down the early culture tree which is great for getting to first Governments, getting your early governors set up sooner, getting an early culture district/great writer, or one of the wonders.
Also one of lesser import but still a thing that's worth considering is that it's a "safe" thing to invest in. Workers give improvements which can be raided by barbarians, Districts can be pillaged, and units can be killed, if these things happen that investment returns nothing -and these things do happen.
City center buildings on the other hand are not vulnerable to barbarians, so if you're expecting to be attacked a lot early game, they are the safer investment.
Units:
1. Scout / slinger / warrior (if rushing city state)
2. Settler / slinger
3. Settler (if none yet)
Research: animal husbandry/mines, pottery
Short AND useful. Thanks, more please! :)
When I first got started I suck so bad lol..I played this on ps4 civilization 2 and this one is 10 time better.i love this game. Thanks for your cool videos
I agree with these build orders. I use this order in about 80% of my starts, great info!
I go scout, scout (or galley), builder then jump to granary, monument and possibly a quick wonder if my starting production is higher than normal and barbarians aren't beating down my door. My first district is always a holy site ,even if I'm not planning a religious victory. If you don't have a religion during the game you are at a major handicap, get it always. Try and place it in a tile that will be on an future roadway to help move your religious units out faster as well. Love this game, definitely the best strategy based ever!
Personally, I start with a slinger, using the warrior to explore. 2nd is usually a scout, sometimes a builder (depending on what's in my city) 3rd will be settler or builder and past that depends on what I've found so far and how fast my city is growing
huh... I always get a builder first because improvements. The thought of getting a settler before my capital is mostly set up never occurred to me before
Imo builders are pretty much useless unless you have 4+ pop. I usually build scouts first and then either spam settlers or units and try to get at least 15 cities(At least 6 before turn 100) per game. Due to the district system, playing tall was severely nerfed. This is just my opinion. Play however you like
Ha! I used to build monuments first too! 🤦🏻♂️
For me its the other way around, i used not to, but now i do.
I tend to go Slinger - Slinger - Builder - Settler, sending all military units out to explore in different directions, and either send one back or build a new one to defend the civilians. I play on Epic speed, though, so the timing works out a bit differently.
This Jungle/Hills will slow your early game down but it is good defense. The major priorities are to get that Classical Golden Age which can be frustrating actually to get 24 era points. So you need Agoge to get units produced faster. If your on the Coast you want the Naval Card and chop galleys. If you have horses you need Military Tradition to chop Horses. Next you want to get Magnus up asap and 3 builders to chop your way into victory. In all cases you are better off neglecting Science and building an Army to crush your neighbors ASAP while they are vulnerable. All of this is easier said than done because if you start getting into builder mode or make a few mistakes it will collapse your plan rather quickly. Not that you will lose the game but it can cost you 50 to 150 turns more to complete the game.
Mmmh that's a good idea! but I suppose if you have no forests around you but more moutains you go science right? or rushing settlers? at what pace would you get another settlement?
Thats when you want a domination game, and sometimes you either cant bc of your start or just dont want to
I kind of agree on the monument. The early culture will expand your city border faster and allow better tiles to be used
It just depends on what victory you are going for.
Its useful but you need early unit on deity bc of barbs
O snap on Emperor difficulty i always rushed like 1 settler with gold and the 2nd with the gold purchase and still making this :/ no need to mention that i get involved in war from everywhere :')
I always thought that building military early is waste of time in the development but you gave a good advise of defending yourself first!
I usually like getting an early monument, because you just get the boost towards settlers faster. So pretty much that's free production in the long term
Yeah and you can easily get Magnus and his promotion to not consume population.
ReLoadXxXxX i don't consider that promotion to be very useful. Most of the time your capital will be housing blocked anyways and you will have enough food so your cap will grow as quickly as you build settlers
ReLoadXxXxX bit Magnus definitely is the right choice as you can chop your settlers
I would still advise against an early monument. Even if you want to wait to produce your settlers, I would much much much rather produce military units or a builder or two. With more units, you could either defend yourself very well as you expand or take over a nearby city state or player. The monument provides a rather small bit of culture and takes quite a few turns to build in the early game so I don't think its a great option to get it early on.
+2 culture is not small when your total culture is like 1.7 lol.
Slinger first. Then decide if I need warrior or slinger next. After about 6 to 8 units I produce a settler. Then a builder . Then finish with about 11 units. Then get swords then catapults or siege tower depending on surrounding cities
If you not got lucky and dont have the best tiles available in the first ring around the city, i would recommend monument to extend borders significantly faster. But its a hard choice
Even so, it would be far more worthwhile to simply have moved my settler and settled on turn 2 rather than take 12 turns to build the monument.
Sometimes it isn't that easy (water supply for ex.).
Shoshone start with more tiles in Civ V - get to chose which culture upgrade when discovering ruins - pathfinder upgrades to compound bow vs archer - downsize long build time
If you play Deity and Pang/Cont Maps you can't build a Monument First because you will get rolled but even if you have mountain and ocean protection you should go builder/settler first which is stronger than Monument First. In any case you are always better going Military First and if you want Classical Golden Age, which you do, the Scout is very important. After that you need some units to clear Barb Camps which help to get +2/+3 Era Score. You also want to the Army to protect when you Forward Settle the AI which you want them to attack you to kill their Army and to get the Boost for Declaration. Play how you want but if you read up on Civfanatics and watch the Pros this is how they do it.
I’ll grab a builder early on if there are luxuries. You could sell those luxuries to the AI for gold and buy whatever unit you need. You often get about 120-150 gold per luxury in the early game. Also I do grab a few builders as China for any upcoming wonders.
I always build a slinger as a second build specifically for protection and hopefully get the boost for archers
i always build a builder first. no matter what speed you will always get your first tech before the builder is done so if you get mining you can get some chops to speed up a slinger. never get a scout first. you want a dark age first, then its supper easy to get a heroic the next era. a slinger first is not a bad idea thought, but the boost to archer can wait a few terns considering your going to want writing or irrigation first most likely
The boost can wait, the barbs cant
@@alex2005z this was years ago lol
Scout, scout, slinger/worker, depending on surrounding. No camps, worker. Camps, slinger. Then do the other.
I really love your vids, for the most part :P
These days if I have a good enough I'll go for Scout/Settler/Settler, if not it'll be Scout/Builder/Settler because by the time the builder pops out Il have got at least one starting tech that will enable me to put down some improvements appropriate to the location. I typically find myself buying my slinger with gold, mainly because I typically play on King and so can afford to wait a bit on it.
With that spawn I'ld have gone for 2 scouts, and then a settler, thus not making any slinger at all. I mean, slingers are cheap, so if an occasion presents itself for the boost, I'ld just buy a slinger.
The Saxy Gamer, I like to play as France in Civilization VI: Rise and Fall. I've learned that this is the optimal build order for at least France with Technologies:
1. Scout - Pottery
2. Builder - Mining
3. As many Slingers as possible till Astrology is completed.
This is best when you have one or more Stone tiles adjacent or within one tile to your City Center. This way you can immediately begin to build Stonehenge. This will enable you to get the first Great Prophet therefore giving your Religion the potential to become the most OP Religion in the game. I've come to learn it's best to establish our Religion as early as possible. This way you have a good or better chance at spreading your Religion like crazy or keep it around to prevent an AI opponent from easily achieving a Religious Victory.
I've come to find out too, The Saxy Gamer, that the optimal "Search Pattern" early game is doing light exploration with your Warrior unit. If they find any Villages be sure to gather them up as soon as possible. Otherwise don't go out of your way to go finding them. You go out of your way to find Barbarian Encampments instead with your Warrior unit. Generally you attack the Barbarian Encampment twice then heal up. Rarely does the Barbarian AI outright attack you the turn you get into range or attack and easily kill you when your Warrior unit is in the red HP level. This is super effin' annoying to me when it happens though. Usually though attack twice and on the third attack phase choose Heal instead of attack. Heal till you're in the green HP again. Unless if said Barbarian Encampment happens to be getting attacked by one or more other AI units which could very well kill-steal as well as rob you of that needed military boost and 50 Gold which is extremely important in early game.
One of the most crippling things I found out when I first played vanilla Civilization VI was radically different the Barbarian Encampments work compared to Civilization V: Gods and Kings. In Civ 5: Gods and Kings you can select the Barbarian Encampments to become as super hostile and pump out unit after unit in up to extreme rapid succession. In Civilization VI and Rise and Fall Barbarian Encampments generally are of no real threat to anyone till their Scout finds your Civilization, a City-State, and/or another Civilization's border(s) who then immediately, or usually immediately returns back to their spawning Barbarian Encampment. Often times the very next turn they get within one or two tiles away from their Encampment they'll spawn a Horseman, Slinger, or Warrior. They spawn any of these units it's always best to fall back to your own Civilization immediately or try to kite the Barbarians back to your Civilization so you can try to get that boost to that Military tech that reveals Iron. If said Barbarian Encampment spawns a Horseman just know your Warrior can very well be killed within two turns, sometimes just one turn. So yeah, Horsemen are way OP this early in the game and it's universally the Barbarians who are up to vastly more OP than all of the Civilizations put together.
Sure I am making it sound as though this is all taking within 100 to 200 turns, but no I am talking about the first 60 turns when chances are you're struggling to pump out Settlers, have a Military unit to Link them to so they can safely be escorted to wherever you're sending them such as a Plains Hill, River tile that has one or more adjecant Luxury resource tiles. Nothing sucks more when it's turn 40 something and you've gotten your first Settler, but you're just aching to settle your new City right next to or two tiles away from an incredibly useful Natural Wonder only for a Barbarian unit to run up and snatch your non-protected Settler.
The single best improvement as far as I'm concerned Rise and Fall has over Gods and Kings is the Captured Settler "system". Gone are the days when you'd capture a Barbarian Settler one way or another and the second you do the Barbarian Settler turns into a Worker unit. Nope! You capture a Barbarian Settler and it becomes *your* Settler. It doesn't matter if said Settler was originally from another Civilization. What's even better is these newly recovered Barbarian Settlers do NOT count to the purchase and build prices to new Settlers in your Civilization. When I found this out by accident I nearly screamed, "FUCK YEAH!!" in real life. lol So always remain vigilant about capturing really any non-standard Barbarian units this includes Workers too.
On diety I usually find that building a scout instead of a warrior is bad unless you plan on never going to war. This is because barbarians are everywhere and the ai is very warmongery early on. Plus half the time a scout can only move 1 anyway. I find a warrior to be not catastrophic in exploration and goody hut purposes as appose to a scout while being much better at fighting and you can train him up for war.
Exactly the thing i was searching for! Thx!
I'm new to civilization VI and am having a hard time understanding it. My friends love it so I want to understand it but I'm having a hard time learning as I go.
Scout in order to find other players, then settle in their direction so that they can't steal valuable land from you. Make sure you stand on tiles with hills and/or trees on them when your troops are defending to get a defense boost. I generally like to go for science victory as it is one of the easier ones and your troops get more advanced as you progress. I don't know if you have the dlc, but kupe is extremely op on maps with separated land masses, as he can immediately send settlers across the ocean and form empires on multiple continents. The most important thing is to grab up as much land as possible, as more land = more cities and more cities = more districts and more tiles per city = more population and more production. Find a good balance between settling and defending. If you're playing with rise and fall, learn how to use the loyalty system. There's a policy that gives +6 loyalty for a governor, and another one that gives you +2 when a unit is in the city center. A monument gives you +1 loyalty, and the greater the population of your city the more loyalty it will have. Focus on food and growing the population if your city is losing loyalty. Use the production gained from domestic trade routes grow newly settled cities quickly. Don't forget you can buy troops with gold if your city is in trouble, and if youre playing a religious game don't forget to use your faith before it all piles up. If you want to use nukes, remember to use a military engineer to build a missile silo or build a nuclear submarine to actually use the nukes. Don't forget to use builders to improve luxury tiles to keep your citizens happy.
"I always used to build monuments first" Same man, until I realised the border growth wasn't worth the production resources, unlike civ 5. Too used to the civ 5 mechanics.
I think building monument first is now viable and potentially underrated because you can recruit heroes with it. if you found either Hercules or Anansi a monument start would grant you HUGE advantage depends on your early game plan. The +2 culture per turn is also huge because it almost doubles your culture output so you can get to political philosophy much faster.
I'd say if you were spawn on a hill and mountain heavy terrain building scout wouldn't be worth it because exploration wouldn't be efficient and you'd better off do something else with the production.
btw i think your speaking speed is fine. 3 years too late to say that though
thanks man, quick and simple
You’re supposed to try and hit dark age for the first era, so you can go heroic in the next one.
its risky because of loyalty problems. if you have someone like Eleanor nearby and they have even one relic from a village you can start losing your second city
Put it on .75 if you want normal speed
Builder rush ftw
China great pyramids ftw
I go
1 builder
2 settler
3 settler
4 settler or campus or trader
Hhhhhh, same here🤣
I play immortal and diety... build order is warrior settler... maybe maybe scout if you can knock it out in like 5 turns and be pop 2 on city to build settler. its all about getting city to two and getting settler then build another settler right after that .. all new citys should be on warrior.. slings do not add any city defence so they trash early.
I never tried immortal or diety, i'm stuck on Emperor, I'll take your tips, sounds really interesting because i'm often in trouble when i rush settlers and expand fast vs the IA.
For Aztec I just pump out warriors to get a ton builders and cities easily.
Could you do a video tips for multy civ games?
I have to disagree with much of what you said. Firstly, having your warrior circle around your city exploring is a bad idea. Have him "go long" and look for the goody huts AND city states AND get boost for new continent. Getting the first envoy free from a city can give valuable boosts. Meeting 5 or 6 city states FIRST is huge. Build three or four scouts. THEY will explore around your city for for you. East, West, North, and South. If your warrior already looked in an area these will be "dead zones" for your scout. Why go over same area twice? It is not a mistake that one of your first government slots boosts XP for scouts. Build more than one. Proof can be found in the fact that other Civs get angry if you find too many huts! They are invaluable.
Building settlers too soon with seriously stunt growth. Try to get Magnus to his second ability before your build settlers, this will keep your population from getting trimmed.
See that Barbarian nest? Kill it. Era bonus for removing it, gold for removing it, XP for the warrior (he is gonna need it if more barbs pop up), also triggers eureka, also helps trigger Bronze Working. I would have AGGRESSIVELY sent that slinger to do the last bit of damage and triggered Archery. It was NOT that far away.
Lastly, that was not a very good opening settlement area. Impossible to get eurekas/civics boosts until much later in game.
Usually excellent videos but this one was well below par.
How did it take you 6:30 to essentially say "go for slinger/scout then settler"?
yep, exactly this
@SonOf McGringus yeah scouts arent that great a slinger will do the job and defend you from barbs. You can also hold the AI of with 2 slingers and 2 warriors if you do it right.
If you're playing on emperor or deity you can bribe rival civs into good favor fairly easily and quickly - just give 10 gold every 5 turns till you befriend them
Why settlers so early? Shouldn't you worry about getting your first city up and running?
Building wide as early as possible in Civ VI is usually the best strat.
The game doesn't really reward you as much for building one or two huge cities like it does in Civ V
A Civ like the Civ V version of Venice wouldn't work in this game
When your starting location involves a lot of tree, or bonus resources like rice etc, would you recommend to exploit it to fasten your prod/pop? or just keep it with the adjency bonuses or bonuses from later tech era?
Hey Saxy. Can we get an updated guide after all the frontier passes are out?
Why is a monument giving you +2 culture every turn not worth it as a starting build? Doesn't it increase the rate of border expansion and don't you want your capital to get big quick? Great videos by the way!
You probably won't have enough enough citizens to work the new tiles.
Bc you will get destroyed by barbs. You need a slinger first, then you want settler to get some cities, and only then a monument if you dont have good tiles to improve or want to get your campus on science game
1:17 Well, these days, if you have heroes and legends mode from the new new frontier pass, you absolutely *must* rush the monument to get a hero.
I've won on deity as japan in a religious victory. I had the religious governor with the additional promotion to apostles and popping off those apostles and gurus. I somehow managed to survive as I was on an island and AI couldn't build ships? So for me the starting tech was to get the religion asap (I spawned next to a natural wonder) and do the prophet training project to ensure I had the religion.
I kind of don't agree with this order. I find very useful going for a builder as soon as my population grows to 2 so that if we can build a mine the following units will come to produce faster.
Good video, thanks.
I just get crushed by barb camps when I try this strat.
I always choose the 'no barbarians' options in advanced settings before I start a game so that isn't really much of a problem for me :)
Do you generally settle all your cities as early as you can, ie. pump out, say, 7 settlers in a row if you're aiming for 8 cities? Or do you make 4, then do some other builds, then another 3?
I generally like to start churning out all of my settlers in a row once I get the +50% production towards settlers card. I also tend to get 2 promotions on Magnus so that my cap can still grow while I make all of them. The exception would be if I am planning to go to an early, in which case I'd then build a bunch of military units and get my cities that way.
Thx ... 👍.. I need all the help I can get ...😀
Haha me too :$ I really want to try this immortal or deity difficulty!
Noob strategy :) Builder then settler, if you face very aggressive enemy then army instead of settler or in meantime. Builder gives you production, the most important element in this phase. Remember that order is not fixed, you must always choose the best strategy for a particular moment that is why you must switch production order very often. Warrior is enough for scouting, just keep it close in max 8 hexes range, you can collect your points after first expansion. This game is not about running all-ins. Production + information > permanent army.
How do you get the markers for campus/city/commercial hub? i only have the default ones and i have trouble planning my cities due to this. I love these videos, it really makes me rethink my strategies. I had a routine and i didn't think things through before civ 6, from civ 3 to 5, i was more rushing wonders and not worrying about other cities development.
The markers are part of a mod called Map Tacks, you can find it here steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1122081356&searchtext=Map+Tacks
I would personally install CQUI (by subscribing to it in the steam workshop: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1125169247) it has the special markers, production queue and other great UI improvements like hovering over cities to see which tiles they are working and which tile the city is growing to. :)