Pyre's Experience in Screenies

[PyreStarite]

Hello hello, I knew I had an account here so I dusted it off so I can show the yields of my experiences with Civ6 so far. I will do so... sadly not in song, but I brought some screen shots. Album can be found here at Imgur.
http://imgur.com/a/iJLY1

Now we begin the narration.

This is my first game. I played as china because I thought it suited my industrious play style, preferring to sit in my corner and build away. Unfortunately for me tho, I didn't get to use like half of my civ's benefits because I spawned on my own personal continent. 1st world problems everyone. This screenie shows my lucky 3 city state allies, my only issue here is that [Insert state name here] has a disturbing amount of troops, and will continue to make an insane number of warriors and not be able to upgrade them. For the entire game. Also, an improvement, CS can have trade routes now, neat.

I will get less talky from here. I was exploring away the not-so-new worlds when I noticed this...

If you can't see it, a City State has a Settler Unit. First off, HOW? Only logic leads be to assume that it captured yet another unescorted settler during a war, another fault of captured settlers not turning into workers like in V.

Teddy, why the hell are you even trying...

Also, while I'm here, someone link me to a solid page that explains Amenities. I know Luxuries only cover 4 cities but I'm more curious what copies can do for a wide empire, let alone when to trade luxuries away.

Now here I am, very late game, making other people study and become smert so I don't have to due to college PTSD. All of a sudden France declares a surprise war against me, I made a few preperations to plink off the few inevitable warriors about to come within range of my field cannons when all of a sudden...

I didn't even know I was winning via culture, in Civ V they let you know when you are influential and the like, but I wasn't even trying to hard, I got a few culture GP for the kicks. Guess I shouldn't have started back in on Warlord.

Second Game, now I'm on Prince, I promise, not gonna rush it. Picked Aztec for essentially the same reason as China, so I can Speedy Gonzales my Districts. I managed to snag a Natural Wonder (Kilimanjaro) as well as a few Luxury colonies, then I notice...

What the hell?!

Mudder Fudging Kongo Forward Settle Much?!

All and All, I'm enjoying the game tho, even tho I'm out of Screenies and can't prove it. It different enough to feel new and familiar enough settle back in easily and still know I'm playing the game... essentially. One thing I do like especially however are all the new techs and the optional descriptions, and I find quite a few of them amusing, such as this gem.

That wraps this up, my only issues are with the AI and UI and those can be fixed, which they better or I'm not stickin' round very long.

 

[PyreStarite]

Shameless self-revival

That's a bug

WHO HAS THE IMPRESSIVE MILITARY NOW?! NOT YOU, THAT'S FOR SURE!

 

[PyreStarite]

Wow this thread got swept into back room. Anyways, Third Game

HOLY SHET GUYS, THIS START.

Wait, Copper isn't a luxury anymore? Oh, not as great then, but still great.

The barb spawns and the terrain are surprisingly in my favor this game, which is odd because I'm so used to being swamped with Horseman at this point. This is legit fun now.

Ok, Start paying real attention now, I have a legit question. I managed to secure a pantheon real early thanks to God-King and Mercury, my question is that I'm split between Religious Idols and God of the Sea. I will provide a screenshot of what I have uncovered so far, which is what tears me. This is a Island Plates map btw.

Idols will give me faith for every Bonus and Luxury Mine, and not quarry. If I take this, it will give me a strong religious game, but if I take God of the Sea, I get production for every sea resource, being fish, crabs, and the whales I spotted. Please help me decide my pantheon quick like. I can wait a short while.

 

[redwings1340]

Both could be pretty good. If you want to go with a religious game, you have some amazing mountain chains for future holy sites, and I'd start getting them asap. If you do, try to get to the +great prophet points card, and maybe even get a holy site/shrine in your capital to make sure you get a religion, it doesn't come from faith alone anymore. With god of the sea you'd start going costal, and maybe place campuses on those mountain chains.

Personally, of these choices, I'd lean towards idols, because of the immediate benefits for your capital (you don't have many sea resources yet), and because of the ridiculous mountains you can claim with holy sites when you expand. I see a few +4 sites, and... is that a potential +6 in the middle of the mountains, or is that just another mountain? Get the double faith adjacency bonus and play a strong religious game.

 

[PyreStarite]

First of all, I found this tech's dialog to be amusing.
Second of all, what is this shenaniganry over with Bordeaux?

I was pretty certain that you could found a city right next to someone else's borders. I am certain, however, that the game just glitched as France for some reason wanted to put a city there, prolly for the incense, but I saw it coming and bought the tile just before the settler could pop. The glitch part comes from the fact that the settler just stood in that spot for the next 50 turns, unsure of what to do, then it eventually popped regardless. Now France is just surrounding me with military units but has not declared war yet.

 

[ShinigamiKenji]

You can found a city 4 tiles away from another city, regardless of tiles or city owner. That's what happened there.

If Cathy's trying to intimidate you, show what a sharp katana can do At least she's building a Holy site for you.

On a side note, if you're looking for a more optimal play, you should found more cities. Civ 6 really favours wide over tall. I've been playing Rome and I was able to have 20 cities by turn 100 (I play Emperor, so the AI has an extra Settler, which just means one more extra city)