New Civ Game Guide: Inca

[FXS_Sar]

Introducing a new Exploration Age civ, Inca!​

Tawantinsuyu, "the empire in four parts," was ruled by the Inca, and extended across the Andes mountains, building roads and waystations, terraced fields and silver mines – an empire in the sky. Under the Inca was a diverse collection of subjects, languages, and cultures, but no writing or coinage. Yet the empire came to a crashing end upon the arrival of the Spanish, and smallpox.

Attributes:
Expansionist
Economic

Unique Ability:
Apus: Mountain tiles can be worked. Gain additional Food and Production on Mountains.

Unique Infrastructure:
Terrace Farm: Improvement. Gains a high yield of Food, but can only be built on a Rough tile adjacent to a Mountain.

Unique Civilian Unit:
Chasqui: Unique Scout Unit. Has increased Movement and Sight, and can see through Mountains and Rough tiles.

Unique Military Unit:
Warak'aq: Unique Ranged Unit. Has high Movement and ignores Rough penalties during Movement. Has increased Combat Strength when attacking from Rough tiles.

Associated Wonder:
Machu Pikchu: Gold Base. Increased Resource Capacity in this Settlement. Increased Culture and Gold on all tiles adjacent to this Wonder. Must be built on a Tropical Mountain tile.

Starting Biases:
Mountains
Desert
Plains
Coast

Check out the full game guide for more info & civic trees: https://civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/game-guide/civilizations/inca/

 

[Fummy]

Inca was one of my favourites in previous games. lets hope they are just as fun in 7, as long as you spawn near mountains.

 

[moysturfurmer]

So stoked to see Machu Pichu has to be built on a mountain again, I admit, Petra had me worried.

I get the impression Inca will be best suited for Scientific Legacy Victories, ironically. Despite their Expansionist/Economic attribute focus

 

[moondog385]

I see a unique Scout unit, I like.

I hope we get an ancient South American civ like Tiwanaku at some point. Maya into Inca, which I presume is the path, is odd. But I’m glad the Inca are in!

 

[Atlas627]

Game guide calls it Machu Picchu, but this post calls it Machu Pikchu. I assume the game guide is correct.

 

[Siptah]

So, Pachacuti + Inca = food, food & food (TM). I guess I would rather choose another leader for them in that case.

Hooray for getting rid of some Spanish spelling and using something similar to Quechua instead (Pachacuti instead Pachacutec and Machu Pikchu instead of Machu Picchu). Actual Quechua would have been even better though

 

[Ryansinbela]

Game guide calls it Machu Picchu, but this post calls it Machu Pikchu. I assume the game guide is correct.

It ain’t no Pokemon

 

[gdr_willter]

So, Pachacuti + Inca = food, food & food (TM). I guess I would rather choose another leader for them in that case.

I think food+population play will definitely need more happiness, so Pachacuti's specialist happiness cost bonus will be helpful.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

So, the Terrace Farm is a building and not an improvement? That's weird

 

[Josephias]

Machu Pikchu

It’s actually Machu Pikachu. It provides lighning bolt attacks to all your units.

The “mountain tiles can be worked” brings in some questions and ideas:
- “working” a tile now means placing a rural district: is it any of the ones we know (farm/camp/mine), or does it mean inca get “double” unique infraestructure? (I get probably will be mine)
- gameplay wise, this means inca can count on easy access to “other side of the mountain” resouces that for other civs will be difficult to reach.

 

[Guandao]

Does this mean we get the Inca theme soon on Youtube? Hopefully.

 

[Xandinho]

I really liked that they brought back the bonus for working mountain tiles; it was a very fun bonus in Civ6 and made the Incas quite unique.

Overall, I enjoyed it a lot. It will be very fun when there's a pre-Incan Andean civilization to play for a more immersive experience.

 

[stealth_nsk]

Terrace Farm: Unique Building. Gains a high yield of Food, but can only be built on a Rough tile adjacent to a Mountain.

Is it really building an not improvement? I believe so far most unique buildings come in pairs and together with their unique district.

I would rather choose another leader for them in that case.

Since it's exploration age, it's more like you choose civ for leader, not the other way around. If you get a lot of mountains. And since Pachacuti has mountain bias, he's likely to be in situation where Inca fits best.

 

[8housesofelixir]

Terrace Farm: Unique Building. Gains a high yield of Food, but can only be built on a Rough tile adjacent to a Mountain.

People are going to really hate the terrain generation RNG for this one. Incoming ten different "I spawn near 20 Mountain tiles with 0 Rough tiles next to them" posts on Reddit.

 

[Jkchart]

Jeez this is like the “greatest hits” of Inca returning
-Pachacuti from every Civ game since III (except 4)
- the latest Inca unique unit from VI
- the beloved Terrace farm and mountains bonuses
- the oldest Inca unique unit returns from Civ III!

 

[Krajzen]

I am not happy at all that we apparently get absurd Maya to Inca transition, having obvious Maya -> Aztec pathway (or hell the only opportunity in civ series to do Olmecs justice) with Inca being worthy the entire separate evolutionary line and ancient Andean predecessor...

 

[stealth_nsk]

I am not happy at all that we apparently get absurd Maya to Inca transition, having obvious Maya -> Aztec pathway (or hell the only opportunity in civ series to do Olmecs justice) with Inca being worthy the entire separate evolutionary line and ancient Andean predecessor...

Aztecs are really likely to come in Right to Rule DLC pack.

 

[tedhebert]

Yeah it's a copy of pretty much all previous inca civs...

But still, I think there needs, gameplaywise, to be a mountain using civ since it's so very cool... Who else than the Incas ?

 

[queenpea]

It’s actually Machu Pikachu. It provides lighning bolt attacks to all your units.

The “mountain tiles can be worked” brings in some questions and ideas:
- “working” a tile now means placing a rural district: is it any of the ones we know (farm/camp/mine), or does it mean inca get “double” unique infraestructure? (I get probably will be mine)
- gameplay wise, this means inca can count on easy access to “other side of the mountain” resouces that for other civs will be difficult to reach.

"Working" the mountain tiles may just mean that the mountain yields are included in the overall city yield?

 

[Xandinho]

I am not happy at all that we apparently get absurd Maya to Inca transition, having obvious Maya -> Aztec pathway (or hell the only opportunity in civ series to do Olmecs justice) with Inca being worthy the entire separate evolutionary line and ancient Andean predecessor...

Indeed, Mesoamerica and the Andes should each have their own historical paths. It seems they decided to treat Mesoamerica and South America as one big historical bloc: Latin America - however nonsensical that may be.

The Incas not having a predecessor is quite strange; I hope this gets addressed soon.