Sid Meier's Civilization VI News

• Units receive +3 Combat Strength or Religious Strength for each Holy City converted to Byzantium's Religion (including Byzantium's Holy City). Byzantium's Religion is spread to nearby cities when defeating an enemy unit belonging to a civilization or city-state. +1 Great Prophet point from cities with a Holy Site district.

• Classical Era unit that replaces the Quadrireme. These units have greater range than the Quadrireme and +10 Combat Strength against units.

• [Base Game or Rise and Fall] Replaces the Entertainment Complex. Provides +3 Amenities, and cheaper to build. When the Hippodrome and buildings in this district are constructed, receive a Heavy Cavalry unit.
• [Gathering Storm] Replaces the Entertainment Complex. Provides +3 Amenities, and cheaper to build. When the Hippodrome and buildings in this district are constructed, receive a Heavy Cavalry unit. Units granted from this district do not have a resource maintenance cost.”

• Heavy and Light Cavalry do full damage against cities following the same religion as Byzantium. Gain the Tagma unique unit when the Divine Right civic is discovered.

• Medieval Era unit that replaces the Knight. Land units within 1 tile of the Tagma receive +4 Combat Strength or Religious Strength.

• Likes civs following their religion.
• Converts civs to their religion.
• Dislikes civs who do not have Byzantium’s religion as majority.

• Mines provide a minor adjacency bonus for all districts, a Culture Bomb of unowned territory, and receive +1 Culture. Specialty districts do not receive a minor adjacency for being adjacent to another district and cannot be built adjacent to the City Center.

• Ancient era unit that replaces the Warrior. This unit has increased cost and receives +10 Combat Strength when fighting units with a higher base Combat Strength. +5 Combat Strength against district defenses.

• Cheaper and available earlier than the district it replaces, the Industrial Zone. The Oppidum district is defensible with a ranged attack. When the first Oppidum is constructed, the Apprenticeship technology is unlocked. Major adjacency bonus from Quarries and strategic resources.

• Gain Culture equal to 20% of the unit’s cost when a non-civilian is trained. Anti-Cavalry, Melee, and Ranged Units receive +2 combat for every adjacent military unit.

• Likes civilizations with lots of units (not necessarily the strongest units).
• Dislikes civilizations with tiny armies.
• Tries to build a large army.

• Without Dramatic Ages enabled: When making Dedications at the beginning of a Golden Age or Heroic Age, receive the Normal Age bonus towards improving Era Score in addition to the other bonus. +50% Production towards defensive buildings.
  
• With Dramatic Ages enabled: While in a Golden Age, gains an extra Wildcard Policy Slot, and may use Dark Age Policies. +50% Production towards defensive buildings.
  

• Mandala State: +4 Culture for every Wonder. Each Wonder in your cities cause foreign cities within 9 tiles to lose 2 Loyalty per turn.
• Free Inquiry: Commercial Hubs and Harbors provide Science equal to their Gold bonus. Campuses provide Gold equal to their Science bonus.

• Praetorian Guard: Wounded units can heal +10 HP per turn. +2 Production to Encampment districts and buildings.
• Exodus of the Evangelists: +2 Movement for Missionaries, Apostles, Gurus, and Inquisitor; newly trained ones receive +2 Charges. +4 Great Prophet Points
• Monumentality: +2 Movement for Settlers and Builders. Civilian Units may be purchased with Faith. Builders are 30% cheaper to purchase.

• Sakdina: While your projects are active each of your Citizens exerts +0.5 Loyalty pressure to their city. When your projects complete, receive +10% additional Great People Points for every Building in that project’s district.
• Reform the Coinage: Your Traders cannot be Plundered. International Trade Routes provide +3 Gold per specialty district in the foreign city.

• Culture Industry: +1 Culture per Specialty District for each city. Cities receive +25% Production towards Non-Specialty Districts. May purchase Entertainment Complex and Water Park buildings with Faith.

• Heartbeat of Steam: +10% Production towards Industrial and later Wonders. Campus district’s Science adjacency bonus provides Production as well.
• To Arms!: +50% XP to all units and +25% Production towards military units.

• Solidarity: All Governors exert 2 additional foreign Loyalty pressure. All your cities with governors receive +25% Gold and +25% Faith.
• Wish You Were Here: +100% Tourism to all National Parks and +50% Tourism from World Wonders.
• Sky and Stars: +30% Production to Spaceports and Aerodromes. +15% Science and Production to Cities with either a Spaceport or Aerodrome.

• [Gathering Storm] Popular Front: +100% Favor from Suzerainty of City-States and Alliance Level. Your Trade Routes to City-States provide +4 to all yields.
• [Gathering Storm] Military-Industrial Complex: All improved Aluminum, Oil, and Uranium resources yield 2 additional resource per turn. All combat units receive +5 Combat Strength and, if the unit has a range attack, +1 Range.

• Flower Power, Rogue State, Cyber Warfare, Automated Workforce, and Disinformation Campaign Dark Age Policies are unchanged.

• Monasticism: +75% Science in cities with a Holy site. BUT: -25% Culture in cities without a Holy Site.

• Inquisition: Start Inquisition with 1 Apostle charge. All religious units are +15 Religious Combat Strength in friendly territory. BUT: -15% Science in all cities.
• Decentralization: Cities with 6 or less population receive +4 loyalty per turn. BUT: Cities with more than 6 population receive -15% Gold.
• Elite Forces: +100% combat experience for all units. BUT: +1 Gold to maintain each Spy and military unit.

• Isolationism: Domestic routes provide +3 Food, +3 Production, and +3 Gold. BUT: Can't train or buy Settlers or settle new cities.

• Samoderzhaviye: +50% Production in your Capital. BUT: All Governors are neutralized and cannot be reestablished.

• Robber Barons: +50% Gold and +25% Production in Cities with a Bank or Shipyard. BUT: -2 Amenities in all cities.

• Soft Targets: +10 Combat Strength when defending city attacks and attacking district defenses. BUT: -3 Combat Strength against units.

• Despotic Paternalism: +4 Loyalty per turn in cities with Governors. BUT: -15% Science and -15% Culture in all cities without a Governor

• Collectivism: Farms provide +1 production. +2 Housing to all cities. Industrial Zones provide Food equal to their Production bonus. BUT: Great People Points earned 50% slower.

• Requirements: Must be built adjacent to an Encampment with a Barracks building and on Flat land.
• Grants 3 Archers, 3 Spearmen, and a Battering Ram. +50% Production towards anti-cavalry units. +3 Gold per turn.

• Requirements: Must be built along a River adjacent to a Neighborhood district.
• [Base game and Rise and Fall] When completed receive 100 Science for every Marsh, Rainforest, and Woods in this city. +1 Appeal to tiles adjacent to Rainforest and Marsh in your empire. +8 Science.
• [Gathering Storm] Receive +200% Power for all Offshore Windfarms, Solar Farms, Wind Farms, Geothermal Plants, and Hydroelectric Dams. This building and these improvements provide Tourism equal to their Power. +1 Appeal to tiles adjacent to Rainforest and Marsh in your empire.

• Highlands - Test your civilization against a map dominated by hills and mountain ranges.

• Georgia’s abilities are now the same in Gathering Storm and Rise and Fall.
• Resources will now be removed when building Canal connections.
• Entering the in-game options menu now cancels the ranged attack arrow.
• +1 Food to Pastures bonus moved from Exploration civic to Stirrups tech.
• City-State placement has been updated to make invalid positioning less likely to occur.
• Fixed an issue allowing players to build a Secret Society unique buildings and also the equivalent replacement buildings.
• Fixed an issue with the Work Ethic Follower Belief where bonuses to districts were not being re-applied after a pillaged district was repaired.
• Grabbing a Tribal Village by owning the tile it occupies grants Era Score.
• Barbarians now move to valid tiles when converted in closed-border territory instead of disappearing.

• Alliance type is now displayed in the tooltip when the Agreements category is minimized.
• Government menu’s list of filters will now scroll when text overlaps the screen.
• Button styles in multi-select window have been unified.
• Unique units and infrastructure on Civilopedia leader pages are now presented more consistently.
• Fixed an issue where quantities for items were not updating after being edited when proposing demands or deals to a human player in the Diplomacy menus.

• Antioch City-State replaced with the Venice City-State.
• Fixed an issue that was causing map selection to break.
• Map visual update now occurs after a player has stopped panning the map to make hitching less likely.
• Fixed an issue where the “Are You Sure” prompt was not appearing when attempting to exit the game while on the Player Turn prompt during a hotseat game.
• Fixed an issue where the game could not be force closed except by the Exit to Desktop button when a player had been defeated during a multiplayer hotseat game.
• Additional text updates.

• Fixed a crash that would occur when a Builder cleared a Vampire Castle.
• Fixed a crash that would occur when defeating units with a GDR.
• Fixed a crash that would occur when slotting policy cards.
• Additional crash fixes.

Civilization 6's next Frontier Pass DLC pack launches this week with the new Byzantium and Gaul civs. After previewing Byzantium's Basil II leader a few days ago, Firaxis has lifted the veil on Gaul's leader, Ambiorix, who historically led the Eburone tribe of Gallia Belgica against Caesar's occupation in 54 BCE.

Gaul's unique ability is Hallstatt Culture, which makes mines provide an adjacency bonus for all districts, a culture bonus, and culture bomb unowned territory. The downside is that specialty districts can no longer be built next to your city centre, and they can't get adjacency bonuses from other districts. Ambiorix's King of the Eburones ability grants you bonus culture based on the unit cost of each non-civilian you train, and gives melee, anti-cavalry, and ranged units a combat strength bonus for every fellow combat unit that's adjacent.

The Gaesatae replaces the warrior as Gaul's unique unit - more expensive, but it gets a combat strength bonus against stronger units and district defenses. The unique Oppidum district is cheaper and available earlier than the industrial zone it replaces, has its own ranged attack, gets extra adjacency bonuses from quarries and strategic resources, and gets you instant access to the apprenticeship technology when you construct it.

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Hot on the heels of news that Civilization 6 gets Byzantium and Gaul in its Frontier Pass next week, developer Firaxis Games has unveiled one of the strategy game's incoming leaders: Basil II of Byzantium. He's described as a "distinguished general and administrator", who "reduced the power of the aristocracy, filled the empire's treasury, and expanded its borders". And, along with the Frontier Pass, he lands on September 24.

In the 'first look' video of Civ VI's new Byzantium leader - included below - the developer explains Basil II's unique ability is called 'taxis' - an option that grants the leader's units "additional combat or religious strength for each holy city converted to Byzantium's religion". Besting enemies helps spread the civ's religion, and cities that boast holy sites gain bonus great prophet points.

The leader also has a 'Porphyrogénnētos' ability, which lets Basil II's light and heavy cavalry units deal full damage against cities that follow the same religion as the civ. Oh, and "gains the Tagma unique unit when the Divine Right civic is discovered" - this unique unit being a replacement for the Knight, which lavishes extra combat or religious strength on "nearby land units". Neat.

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