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[Knowtalent]

Civilization VI - Game of the Month 90​

Welcome to the 90TH game in the 6OTM Series! These games will allow new and old GOTM fans to try out the new features in Civ6 in a friendly environment. Participants are encouraged to post questions, stories, advice, tricks and failures in the dedicated game threads (described below). Each game will specify the Civ you will play and the Victory Condition to strive for. We will be working to refine the 6otM concept as we move ahead with the series.
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Civ VI - 6otM 90 Details:
Player (You): Chandragupta
Victory Condition: Domination but all other VCs are enabled.
Difficulty: Emperor
Civs/City-States (including player): 12/18
Map Type/Size: Pangea /Huge Size
Game pace: Standard
Disaster intensity 0

Chandragupta's's Unique Attributes:

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Chandragupta's Special Ability: Arthashastra - Can declare a War of Territorial Expansion after gaining the Military Training Civic. +2 Movement and +5 Combat Strength for the first 10 turns after declaring a War of Territorial Expansion.

Unique Ability: Dharma: Receives Follower Belief bonuses in a city from each Religion that has at least 1 follower.

Unique Unit: Varu: Indian unique Classical era heavy calvary unit. Adjacent enemy units receive -5 Combat Strength. Requires the knowledge of Horseback Riding to build them.

Unique Infrastructure: Stepwell: Unlocks the Builder ability to construct a Stepwell, unique to India. +1 Food and +1 Housing, +1 Faith if adjacent to a Holy Site district. +1 Food if adjacent to a Farm. Cannot be built on Hills or adjacent to another Stepwell. Requires the knowledge of Irrigation to build them.

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[CappyAA]

I've been getting into Civ over the past couple months. I'm not at the level as some of the crushers in here, but I'm looking forward to diving into this. I need to work on my domination strategies.

I'm leaning towards moving my settler to the cocoa for my first city. Waiting until turn 4 to settle seems risky but the extra gpt, ability to sell the lux, and the 2f/2p plains hill tile could pay off nicely. Other option seems to be to just settle in place and work the deer. I think I'll move my warrior west and make the decision.

 

[Eyswein]

Definitely bold. I'm generally not inclined to move my settler that far unless it is really good and we already have a plains hill. Most likely will SIP and try to get Varu early since they don't require any resources, though very expensive to build.

 

[CappyAA]

Definitely bold. I'm generally not inclined to move my settler that far unless it is really good and we already have a plains hill. Most likely will SIP and try to get Varu early since they don't require any resources, though very expensive to build.

Yeah the more I think about it, it’s probably better just to SIP. On the huge Pangea map, it’s going to be important to get scouts out there meeting other civs and city-states. I’ll fire this up tonight and try it out.

 

[lordofcivs]

What's SIP?

 

[lotrmith]

Settle In Place.

I plan to SIP and make horses and varus (varus got nerfed so only one instance of -5 combat applies to an adjacent unit, no stacking debuff).. as many horses as resources allow, filling in with varus when out of horses.

 

[Atimati]

Which version? Which DLCs needed?

 

[Fluphen Azine]

Not going to play but would most likely come off the hill to get closer to the Marble, for the Early Culture Boost.
Settle an Expo directly on the Chocolate most likely.

 

[Eyswein]

Yeah the more I think about it, it’s probably better just to SIP. On the huge Pangea map, it’s going to be important to get scouts out there meeting other civs and city-states. I’ll fire this up tonight and try it out.

I generally do one scout (at least on standard size) - ideally finding a religious city state for an early pantheon (please, please a free settler; else generally military production or culture), finding places to build a 2d/3d city, and then finding other civs. After that my scouting would normally be seeing how many other civs the civs I meet know and generally head in the largest direction all else being equal. Resources, current wars between civs, and toughness definitely can make a difference.

For military, horsemen are the bulk of my early armies - and light cav make great combat scouts if you haven't found everyone. I generally don't like to go to war until I have overwhelming force, which can be as low as 3-4 horsemen in the right situation. Magnus to black market (State Workforce + Early Empire + Gov Plaza does it, but at the expense of other governors) and chopping can make a large horsemen army quickly - assuming the capital or 2d city have horsemen in them so you already have a stockpile. Forward build swordsmen and battering rams for anyone with walls. Bypass anyone too tough (like India with Varu when I only have horsemen if we weren't playing India). Ideally make them friendly and joining other wars with you so they deplete their military and make wars easier. Playing as India, you can hit tough civs later by adding a couple Varu and a GG to that army...and with Chandragupta a Territorial War; the triple combo can be a 10/15 strength difference against cities/units.

 

[Knowtalent]

Which version? Which DLCs needed?

I have disabled Aztecs, Gran Columbia, and Maya. all other dlc is in play

 

[enKage]

Pretty amazing having 4hammers start, and +4 campus in 1st ring... And probably quick 2nd city for 2f2h/3g cocoa.

It doesn't look like challanging start, but having huge map domination is quite chalanging on its own