Recent content by Gtdead

My favorites are geneva, kabul and toronto. Toronto is obvious, efficient IZs are game winners. It usually doesn't make much difference in my production powerhouse cities, but it really helps the satellite cities. Geneva allows me to hit better timings for key techs, kabul allows me to make...

I generally do Political Philosophy (government)->Feudalism(serfdom/farms)->Exploration(government, getting mercenaries on the way)->civil service (meritocracy)->enlightenment (rationalism)->nationalism (corps)->natural history or urbanization, depending on whether I need amenities or housing...

I start pumping them nonstop when I have the policy card and enough pop to work the best tiles. The first settler comes earlier though. In a perfect opening, I will do slinger->builder->settler->trader and then pump military units till I'm safe and the city is big enough to work the best tiles.

Well, even if you give the AI a +100 combat bonus, as long as it keeps reshuffling, not claiming obvious kills and retreating without any apparent reason, it's not going to be any good. It will just make combat tedious. I'm not sure exactly how it worked, but in Civ 5, AI was really good at...

Since the patch, if you put the balloon on the same hex as the siege unit, it won't give the extra range and indirect fire. It needs to be to an adjacent tile. Maybe that's what is causing your problem? I've used GG with artillery without any problem in my last game.

The most consistent opening for me is slinger->builder->settler->trader. This opening will give me inspirations and eurekas for archery, craftsmanship and early empire, and even if I'm under attack, with Agoge and 2 cities, I can spam units like crazy. I also usually have enough gold to buy a...

I would just settle as much cities as possible in my starting territory, get shipbuilding after apprenticeship and once that's done, sent a settler by sea to the desert location. By the time he arrives, I'd probably have researched mathematics. I'd also settle to the northern part of the...

Stables only pretty much. I find it inconsequential anyway, especially if Kabul is in the game. In any case, melee units are too slow for domV. They take forever to move from city to city. Now that balloon stacking got nerfed, I hardly even use artillery due to their speed too. I just spam...

Thanks for this. I wanted to give a try at that myself but I didn't know how to collect enough data.

Not every civ is supposed to be equally good at everything. Take your India vs Germany argument. Who is more likely to survive having Scythia as their neighbor for example? Germany without any early bonuses at all, or India with Varus? Of course, if the question is "Who is more likely to win a...

Just happened to me on a post patch game. Turn 240, only Aztec's and Russia's capitals remain to complete a domV. Capturing either of them crashes to desktop. Second time this happens since I started playing Civ 6.

Giving more bonus is lazy and not really a fix. And it's not like a +10 will make it competent. It's gonna be like beating America. AI needs to get smarter and trade more instead of reshuffling all the time. Also it needs to be more decisive when it attacks cities. Right now, it will only ever...

In my experience, the faster the speed, the higher the difficulty. AI snowballs really hard, while you get bogged down with barbarians and possible early DoWs. I never had AIs getting double and triple times my score on standard speed. This is how the majority of my online speed deity games...

You are going to be left behind early, and pick up the pace later. The AI loves crappy cities with theater districts and holy sites. Once you get your 8-10 cities running with factories and universities, grab the rationalism policy for science and the other one that gives culture per district...

I like getting one medic with my army. The main function is to heal the units that got injured assaulting a city. They become progressively less useful as I build more units and upgrade them through experience and tech tree, but for that initial push, it's nice to grab one. I just wish that they...