When did barbs start spawning a literal army, 4 slingers and idek how many warrs I lost count 7-8 maybe like what am I missing here? Immortal difficulty- gathering storm- monopolies and secret societies active.

I recently decided to try out Hammurabi because I thought it would be fun to speed run science while all the other players were stuck in the Stone Age. It was not the cakewalk this community portrayed it to be.

My plan was to isolate myself for the most part while being friendly with any civ who comes near me and that worked. I never had anything other than positive interactions with other civs in the game.

I was trying to read ahead on the tech tree and map out all the eurekas I would need to unlock the tech to get me to Mars.

For crying out loud the production was absolutely abysmal!! I was not generating nearly as much gold, faith or production as I would have expected. The lack of science was expected but did not bother me because I knew I could boost through with eurekas.

But even then, you have to produce buildings, units and districts to get those powerful boosts and it was taking FOREVER to build/buy anything.

I had my traders all running internal routes just to get the city production high enough to produce anything but it was very hard to crank out pointless units I knew I wouldn’t use (and seek out barbs to kill with said units) when I wanted to actually advance my cities and science.

Eventually I met Pericles who was the only leader remotely hostile to me and his science was off the charts. Still, though I had already unlocked spacefaring and built three spaceports (blasting through dozens of builders to chop all the woods around to get the dang things built!).

Once I launched my first satellite I was alone on the science victory screen as the only person exploring the final frontier. So I felt good about my chances of winning.

At this point I was around turn 300 which was a shockingly late turn to still hope to win, but still I was ahead of everyone else.

Unfortunately, I hit a snag because some of the later techs I needed had to be boosted with spies or great people. Little did I know, this delay was all Pericles needed to slingshot past me and finish the science win while I was still 20+ turns away on my Mars missions.

It was infuriating to have played so long and grinded so much to still lose by so much!

What did I get wrong? Why do people say Hammurabi is broken when the lack of every kind of production more than makes up for the science boost you get with eurekas?! Or did I just get an unlucky start location? Admittedly it was pretty barren.

EDIT: After reading everyone’s comments I’m realizing now what I did not know before: the broken part of Hammurabi is not his ability to advance in science (at least not for a science win) his ability to get advanced WAR units much earlier than anyone else. It feels silly I didn’t realize that before but here we are. As for the production issue, I spawned in a pretty barren area and was kind of freestyling to try to boost my way to a science type win and wasn’t really paying attention to what the most logical order was to maximize my production (such as building mines to get industrial zones, etc.). If I try it again I will have a much better idea of what to do. Thanks!

So I've been playing Civ6 on my Nintendo Switch for years at this point, and I always thought it was a FANTASTIC game. But I never had any DLC or anything, just base game, and I never had GDR or any of those tier 4 governments

Yesterday, I realized I had a computer, and could just get civ6 on my computer. So I did. And I also grabbed gathering storm. GENUINELY SO GOOD. Oh my goodness I absolutely loved it. How have I gone so long without all this stuff? It's amazing.

That's all.

How the World Congress looks at you when you defend yourself from a surprise war against someone with 150 grievances towards you:

This is right off the start. Immortal difficulty. Gathering storms expansion.

How can I view or hover over special unlocks description in Civ6 on console? I have tried every possible button combination by now I think..

I may not have a large army at home but I have nukes and death robots and he has… adorable weak units from eras past.

I managed to get two industries in two of my cities during a Border Control Treaty event in the World Congress. You can really pop off your cities by doing this since the modifiers from these industries stack.

Hey everyone!

I’m “kind of” new to the game. I’ve been playing for a while and getting my victories at prince level. The thing is, I’m a little scared of raising the difficulty, mainly because I don’t feel confident with the district placing, planning where to settle, the whole “optimization” part.

So here’s what I thought: can you recommend a few leaders to try and use? Maybe by changing leader (and bonuses) I’ll be “forced” to think a little different, try different play styles and therefore get a little better.

So far I’ve used Rome a billion times and Germany a few. I’ve had scientific, cultural, domination and religious victories.

That’s all I guess! If you have any suggestions I’m open.

Thank you so much!

So, Poland had a dark age and the city nearby, Lódz, rebelled and stole this settler. I feel like it's impossible for it to escape the barbarians, but if it was somehow able to, would it be able to settle a city?

Update: The reason is because of p0kiehl's Better Coastal Cities and Water Tiles. Forgot I was using it. Glad we figured that out 😎

Might be stupid (probably stupid) but I don't get this detailed map tack. I place it to space out my city centers. It shows a yield of 3 food, 3 gold, and 3 production, but I don't know how it calculates that.

ok silly question, but I've never finished a full game start to finish besides a single 4 civ game that i was lowkey jus kinda messing around in {I lost to a faith win by germany i think it was? lol}

I don't have concrete settings really but ik I wanna do a huge map with about 16ish civs, and prince difficulty or close to it cause I'm newer n Deity scares me and hoping to do a domination victory!

The pic up above is the civs I have access to, wondering who would be fun to play as but also not an absolute struggle or a total breeze. I want a game that will feel earned but not a constant struggle for survival if that makes sense? {open to suggestions for civs to be opponants/setting suggestions too tbh}

Short and sweet, Gilgamesh I hate you , despise you, every single game that you are on my map you cause me issues and waste my time with stupid wars. I am over tryin to be nice to him. From now on, it's on sight!

R5: Acted like how an AI John Curtin would play against me but this time, I'll be doing the shitty moves. Forward settled, warred their city-states, surprised war them, stealing their settlers, builders and razed their lands. They hated me, but do you see how the man is unfazed? He is even smiling. It didn't bother him because he wanted it. Its all for the purpose of getting that juicy 100% production bonus. Now I finally understand.

Anyway this is an exhausting campaign of min-maxing and I will stay away from science games for a while.

Game modes are deity, small map with 8 players, standard speed, barb clans mode, legendary start then default all.

You can conquer and wipe out 3 other civilizations and get a diplomatic victory simply because you constructed the Statue of Liberty, Potala Palace, and Mahabodhi Temple as well as knowing what the AIs usually vote for just to reach the arbitrary 20 points. I've gotten a diplomatic victory playing as Zulu when I literally conquered Mongolia and the Dutch. There's really nothing diplomatic about that. I find myself disabling it for games these days.

I primarily play deity and at this point win the majority of my games with no rerolls or advantages, and frankly it has been getting boring. Well, this week I played as the Ottoman Empire for the first time ever on deity (continents, 6 players) and I spawned on a peninsula with Genghis Khan to my north, hemming me in, and Babylon immediately west of him.

I didn’t have niter, coal, oil, or uranium near any of my first 5 cities. Everything felt stacked against me and I almost quit several times. Had to overpower Mongolia in the industrial era just to get the strategic resources, which was only possible through military alliances and the crusade religious belief.

Recognizing that I had no path to a domination victory (Babylon had GDRs when I had just unlocked infantry) and I had done a poor job of optimizing for anything else, I decided “why not” and went for the science victory. At the time of this decision, Babylon already had a Mars Colony and I hadn’t even started building spaceports. Ended up with a down-to-the-wire victory where my exoplanet expedition was traveling 13 light years per turn, and I clipped Babylon by literally one turn. Screenshot above which shows my late game push.

Super exciting win, but also makes me feel like I am ready to take time off or move on from Civ VI. This felt like a poorly played game for parts, and the deck was stacked against me and I still won. Playing the formulaic deity style just isn’t all that fun.

How is Civ VII evolving? Getting better? It might be time.

I'm a newish player who has only played vanilla before. I want to try a R&F leader for a culture victory. The guides I've seen haven't really highlighted a clear culture person. Who should I try?

I want to raid that clan. However when I do that, Georgia steps onto my warrior, deletes the clan and then steps off. How. Two military units cannot be on the same tile as far as I know and you have to be on top of the clan to raid / pillage. So she has to be cheating right?

I need some tips in civ 6 like what’s the best leader and other Stuff ty

Aztec is god level for domination victories.
Prince -> King -> Emperor done. Going for Immortal next.

Learnings :
1. spam eagle warriors initially but ensure that you upgrade them as and when possible. The builder's aren't worth much when you have multiple cities.
2. Build religion and put all beliefs into production. You'll need it for the army, builders, markets and traders.
3. Try and aim for 50+ production cities by age 150-175 to boost some wonders to get more card slots specially colosseum and zimbabwe.
4. Gameplay: Make enough slingers and trebuchets early and keep upgrading till the end. Start making navy into corps to save $.

Played a couple of games on Prince or something and then said. Why not try out deity? Won my first ever deity game with Trajan as domination victory. And lost the second one because I didn't turn off diplomatic victory but would have won a culture victory.

Anyway, where would you settle? I would settle on the Stone personally.

Playing with Germany