Recent content by Callduron

The GGs do stack but not all of them appear in each game. Usually there's only one Classical/Mediaeval and no Ancient ones at all.

Skip religion. Build an early Encampment and race for the first Great General. (ie spam projects). If you get him your Varu mob is now strength 45, move 3, -5 strength per adjacent Varu to enemies. Take 6-8 of them with the General, a ram and a tower and go round knocking over cities. Once...

I didn't follow Civ strategy before Civ VI so I'm coming to it without those prior heuristics. First and most obviously is the tiles. The game seems to present you with tiles where the equivalency is 1:1 except gold that's 1:2. I think gold is worth a little less than that, it's not worth half...

One of the more complicated things in Civ VI is pondering the relative value of different resources. Cutting through those complexities like a spearhead of Sherman tanks is my patent SHERM system. 1 Food* = 1 Production = 1 Culture = 1 Science = 1 Faith** = 3 gold = 0.66 housing = 0.33...

if you want higher production: - Build production buildings (IZ, watermill) - Click the production priority button. - Get it within the area effect of a factory or power plant - Put mines on any hills. - Run internal trade routes from it to your best production route.

There's probably a case for building a large amount of ancient era units such as spearmen or archers, running Conscription, the 1 gold off maintenance costs policy, then you could present a large military strength number without it costing you money. Also if you did get invaded you could tech up...

That's awesome.

Throughout the game you get messages like China has built the Pyramids etc. Generally I just click them off or leave them unread. Even when I glance at them I can never remember who built the Great Lighthouse or whatever. It sometimes becomes relevant. What I would love is a report sheet...

As a proud Englishman I love it that Victoria is so expert in using Sea Dogs commanded by Nelson to rule the waves!

Unfortunately I now have a burning desire to play Kongo and lose myself a game by handing an AI civ a religious victory.

There's an interesting interaction between Mosques and Apostle promotions. Clearly +1 spread isn't that effective with apostles that would be getting extra spreads anyway (Orator and Pilgrim). But it's very powerful with the Apostles that get "super" spreads: Proselytizer eliminates all other...

Sure but if it's basically free it all helps. Also if you're in a situation on a high difficulty where you're not routinely collecting all the theatre great people because of AIs like Russia or Brazil the free culture from manipulating world church into all your cities is more relevant. Before...

The way to check is to look at the numbers in the combat predictor. It tells you what flanking bonus your attack gets and what support bonus the defender gets. A similar effect comes with Varu, the Indian elephant unit. Each adjacent Varu applies a -5 penalty. For some reason I find using them...

Knight Plains Plains X (bad guy) Knight Plains Campus When you select the first knight the game will show you a big red crosshair and the instinctive thing to do is charge in. Here's how you get more damage. Move the bottom knight to the campus. Charge the top knight in for a...

We can probably put some numbers to the beliefs. Let's calculate for a hypothetical 10 city civ in the mediaeval period, size 10 cities. Follower Beliefs Divine Inspiration. In a typical mediaeval game state you might have 3 wonders in the capital (12 faith/turn) and one somewhere else (4...