the initial startup screen.
personally I like Civilization IV's Opening Cinematic more.
Source: Official Youtube Channel of Civilization VI
The Main Menu. umm yeah I use an Ultra Wide Monitor now.
Game Description and Information.
Civilization VI is a turn-based 4X strategy videogame developed by Firaxis Games, published by 2K Games, and distributed by Take-Two Interactive. The Mobile port was published by Aspyr Media.
I have the mobile port in my phone, it's really good.
Civilization VI is the sixth installment in 'Civilization' Series. (not including spinoffs such as Alpha Centauri, Civilization Colonization, Civilization: call to Power, Civilization Revolutions, Civilization Beyond Earth, and others.)
Civilization VI is the third game to use Hexagonal tiles over the discontinued square tiles.
Comparisons Civilization VI's Hexagonal system to Civilization IV's Square system.
Note: Civilization IV is the last game in the series to feature square tiles
- Civ VI has over Civ IV:
- Hexagonal Tiles. (in square tiles moving diagonally has an advantage).
- One Unit type per Tile. (No 'Stacks of Doom', you can only have one combat unit, one civilian unit, one trade unit at a time.)
- Units with Range Attack. (Civ games based on square tiles do not have this feature)
- Cities can defend itself via City Defenses.
- RNG in combat is removed.
- it's so complicated for the A.I. that it ends up being garbage.
A trebuchet attacking a city. a ranged unit.
- Civ IV has over Civ VI
- Square Tiles. you can zoom zoom the map diagonally.
- Stacks of Doom!. you can fit unlimited combat units in a single tile.
- No Range attacks. 'Ranged' units such as an archer gets a 'first strike' bonus though.
- Cities needs a unit to defend it or else it will be captured. cities have bonus defense power to units defending it.
- RNG in combat, I have seen a barbarian armed with a club destroy a tank.
- Bombard City Defenses. siege units can reduce the bonus defense power of a city to 0%.
- Collateral Damage. some units(mostly siege units) can deal damage (up to a certain point) to all units in a stack of doom.
- A.I. is great.
- Other differences:
- Civ IV is the last game to feature Vassal System. it's where a losing empire can surrender as a vassal under the winning empire. A vassal can declare independence though, but highly unlikely. I missed it.
Let's play a game and I will describe things along the way.😆
Walkthrough
Benchmarks and if your Hardware is up to spec.
Graphics Benchmarks. FPS and Frame TIme mostly.
Doesn't matter much as this is a turn-based game.
AI Benchmarks refers to Turn Time, or how long will you have to wait per turn.
Personally , I suggest you do not play this game if you think you have a weak processor.
Game Setup
There are many Leaders to choose from, but in this playthrough we will playing as Frederick Barbarossa of Germany, for we are focusing on a Domination Victory.
the perk 'Free Imperial Cities' is really good, allows us to build one more district than what is normally allowed. a district is a specialized improvement on a tile. a 'Campus' District focuses on increasing research. Guard them well as they are significant targets for pillagers.
Advanced Setup, in case there are specifics you want to change such as 'No Barbarians'.
But I will play on the default setup, Map type: Pangaea, Map size: Duel, and Game speed: Online.(Fastest)
Note: fast game speed should be play on smaller maps while slower game speeds are preferred in larger maps.
Loading Screen. the first paragraph changes depending on which era you load. this was a bit later as I forgot to take a screenshot in the initial load.
Game Start
I decided to found my first city one tile southeast of the initial location. this is because there is just too much desert tiles (yields nothing) and we get access sea.
notice on the research screen on the left, below the technology called 'sailing', it writes 'found a city on the coast.'. by doing this " mini quest" which I did, It accelerates the research by half. while it's not mandatory to do so it does give advantage.
Technology, Civics, Governments, and Policies.
The Technology Tree(above) which is researched by 'Science'.
and, The Civics Tree(below), which is researchable via Culture.
The Technology Tree focuses on unlocking 'physical stuff', while the Civic tree focuses on unlocking Governments, Policies and others of the like.
This is the policies screen. Chiefdom is the initial Government and Discipline, Survey, God King, and Urban Planning are policies. they are color coded. as you research the civics tree you get to unlock more of the policies that best suite your playstyle.
Note: Changing Policies on the fly costs gold, but it doesn't cost gold if it's after a Civic research.
Building a Cult Religion.
the number on the right of the city name represents the number of citizen. citizens are required to 'work' at a tile in your city's territory. a citizen requires one food to maintain.
as you can see here we have improved the tiles on the eastern territory into farms increasing the food yield. we have created another city, Berlin, on the north. and I am planning to build a 'Holy Site' District. so we can be the ones to have a Religion (Limited).
you get bonus faith depending on which tile you build it and so does what adjacent tiles it has. the +2 Faith comes from the adjacent mountain and forest.
Note: best to build districts in desert tiles as a district will remove all tile yield.
After a few turns of building faith, we get our first access to 'Pantheon'. it's a nice bonus. our aim is to get a 'Great Prophet' to start a religion, to get even more bonuses.
A few turns in and we meet one of our rivals, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt.
This is the 'Great People' Screen. it shows how close you are in getting a Great People of a category. we are so close in getting a Great Prophet.
Our Great Prophet arrives and we are now ready to found a Cult!
you get to choose the name and icon.
Best of all is you get to pick a few more perks.
Barbarians, City-States and Unit Promotions.
Archers are your first unit to be able to fire at an enemy from a two-tile distance.(except from special instances such as elevation.) for example, your archer is on a plain tile and between your archer and the target in a two-tile distance is a hill tile. your archer get a range penalty unless your archer is also in a hill tile. Elevation, Plains = 0, Hills = 1, Forest = 1, Hills + Forest = 2.
City-States are neutral single-city NPCs (unless threatened or allied with a civ you are at war with). you can do their quests or send 'envoys' to improve your relationship with them, granting bonuses such as +2 Culture, +2 Production, or +2 Faith. you get the initial bonus when you send your first envoy with a city-state and additional bonuses at third and sixth envoys.
you get Suzerain status on a city-state if you have 3 or more envoys and if you are with the most envoys in that city-state. a city-state in which you are named Suzerain gives city state specific bonuses along with allegiance, territory vision, friendly territory, and the ability to levy it's military units.
we talked about 'friendly territory', but what is it exactly? well, naval units can only regenerate health on friendly territory, land units will regenerate 20 health per turn in a city, 15 health per turn in friendly territory, 10 health per turn in no territory, and 5 health per turn in enemy territory. (Open borders doesn't count as friendly territory.)
there could be other bonuses such as Leader specific traits, Policies and Religion specifics as well.
as your military units fight so does their experience rise, which in turn let's you choose a promotion.
Note: taking a promotion will also regenerate 50 health points but will end the unit's turn.
And so our conquest begins.
and Qin Shi Huang of China.
and that is pretty much everyone. It will only be a matter of time before our territories clash. for this map is not big enough for four of us.
Soon enough I get access to the Oligarch Government. the +4 Combat Strength will help us as conquer these lands.
Soon enough we are able to construct walls. this allows a city to defend itself by doing a two-tile range attack per turn. notice the Blue Health Bar in the city of Berlin, that is 'City Defense' health. unlike the normal City's health, the City Defense's health does not regenerate, takes reduced damage from non-siege attacks (with exceptions) and if depleted disables the Range Attack capability of a City. it is manually repaired after not getting attacked after a few turns.
It took a few more turns but eventually it happens. the tension on our borders rise. this is at Turn 70.
By Turn 115, I started my conquest, starting with the city-state Mohenjo-Daro. my soldiers armed with field cannons, trebuchet and pikes, against the enemy who uses crossbows and knights on horseback.
naturally I got condemned by Roosevelt,
and by Catherine.
to Capture a City. you only need to attack it with a melee unit doing a killing blow on a city's health. (There are ways to bypass City Defense Health)
But in my case I decided to destroy the City Defense as well. before finally using the pikemen to capture the besieged city.
Wars, Wars, and more Wars.
Let's declare war with Roosevelt.
It just feels so wrong watching an archer unit fight against a Field Cannon.
and just like that. well, carry on.
Along the way we get to see this Natural Wonder.
we also get to complete a wonder.
Eventually we captured all of Roosevelt's Cities.
it does look a tad bit overwhelming to manage.
it was kind of late but atleast I did made some trade routes. trade routes gives bonuses at both cities.
Might as well declare war with France.
Only now do I find a strategic resource, Niter. a required resource to be able to build Musketmen or upgrading Trebuchets to Bombards.
It's pretty cool that with every research they narrate a quote relating to it.
30 Turns after my initial invasion of France and I wasn't able to take a single city yet. they have destroyed one of my Trebuchets. but now. I have an Artillery, Machine Guns and Rocket Launchers.
after a grueling 40 turns since I have declared war with France have I captured the city of Paris.
We are now able to build Corps and Armies. which are unlocked by Nationalism and Mobilization respectively. in a basic sense. a Corps gets +10 Combat Strength vs Default and an Army gets +17 Combat Strength vs Default. those number might look small but they are really decisive.
there are two ways to get Corps and Armies. a.) Directly train them in a city with encampment district with the military academy building at a discount, or, B.) Get two units of the same kind adjacent to each other and combine them.
(you need two units for corps, and three units for an army.)
my Artillery have gained enough experience that it now has the ability two fire at targets three tiles away.
and soon enough all the French cities are captured.
And that just leaves you, Qin Shi Huang.
Musketmen vs Anti Tank Crew. wow you are really behind in tech.
Great Works. ...that's pretty cool.
Also a Great Work. Literature.
Great Works Screen.
Holy Hell, a barbarian Battleship. Lol!.
A barbarian Destroyer sinking my Privateer. Lol.
I decided to end the game by using a Modern Tank. looks cool.
and so it ends...
Ending Cinematic.
and finally the Victory Screen with the nostalgic 'One More Turn' Option.
Final Thoughts.
And that is pretty much sums it up on how a game of Civilization VI is played.
One thing is for sure is that the AIs didn't put much of a fight and this is because they didn't focus on making combat units.
I imagine this game is more challenging in higher difficulties. but it's just not fair because the AIs get numerical advantages instead of better AI.
As A Multiplayer game.... Yeah I can definitely see this as fun.
all in all it's a pretty good game, but Civ IV and Civ III are better. ha ha ha.
This game is gifted to me by @Akumagai. Thank you.
I would also like to brag that I really love my new Hardware.
I recently upgraded to a Ryzen 1700. I bought the CPU for less than $120 USD from years before the pandemic and has been stuck in storage ever since.
but now after buying a new pair of ddr4 ram, that oversized tower fan and a salvaged A320m motherboard, it is now alive.
I really want this specific CPU mind you. in full load the power draw of this CPU is only at 60 watts give or take. and look at the CPUs available right now. their power draw is at a staggering 200 watts or more, but yeah those are powerful compared to this one.
and then I got this refurbished Ultra Wide Monitor (LG - 25UM58-P). I really love it. but some games don't like Ultra Wides. and it has an audio jack, which is kinda crap.
Hehe. well that's enough from me.
It's Fun.
Thank You For Reading.
Cheers. 😊