Sid Meier's Civilization VI News

With a new Civilization games comes new civilisations, and so we must learn their eccentricities and best playstyles all over again. In order to help our readers get better at the game and figure out the best way to achieve their chosen route to victory, we've put together this guide that showcases some 'best in style' civilisations for various victory types.

Due to the way Civilization VI was designed you no longer have the highly specific niche focuses of the previous game. Most civs still tend to favour one area over others, although it's more focused on victory conditions.

• Tomyris of Scythia (Domination)
• Teddy Roosevelt of America (Domination)
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Civ 6 Domination Victory

A classic route, Domination sees you conquering the world by strength of arms over your less fortunate civilisations. In Civ VI, you fortunately don't need to conquer an entire civilisation; you just need to control all of the capitals to score the victory. As military might walks alongside a healthy economy and scientific progress, you also need to pay attention to those instead of just spamming military units.

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If you've been pondering a dive into Civilization VI, now's your chance, as the strategy game is now having a free weekend on Steam. Between now and July 27, you can sample the sixth entry in the Sid Meier's classic series, from developer Firaxis Games, before potentially buying the full version at a heavy discount.

The free weekend coincides with the launch of the Ethiopia Pack, the latest content rollout in the 4X game's season pass. It brings the Ethiopia civilization, new leader Menelik II, a new district for diplomacy, and a new game mode, Secret Societies, that throws eldritch cultists and vampires, among other slightly off-putting additions, into the mix.

Civilization VI first launched back in 2016, bringing fresh perspective to a reliable formula. The object of the game is the same as always - grow your civilization from meager beginnings to a world superpower, working towards one of several specific goals to achieve victory. In the four years since release, Civ VI has gotten two major expansions, a battle royale mode (that's now narrated by Sean Bean), the aforementioned season pass, and a growing number of mods, if the content from Firaxis isn't exciting enough.

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Firaxis Games and 2K, along with Aspyr Media for the Linux and macOS versions today released the next DLC for the New Frontier Pass available for Civilization VI. It's also on a Free Weekend!

The Ethiopia Pack for Civilization 6's New Frontier Pass is now live. It can be purchased individually for £3.99/$4.99 if you don't want to subscribe to the whole pass. Full details on what comes in the back are laid out below, the only thing to add is that the new leader to come with the Ethiopian Civilization is Menelik II whose special ability, Council of Ministers, nets extra Culture and Science based on the Faith output of cities founded on Hills.

Original Story: The next pack in Civilization 6's 'New Frontier Pass' now has a release date. The Ethiopia Pack adds the new titular civilisation, as well as a leader to take the helm. It also adds a new district to the game along with a new game-mode. The pack is due for release on July 23rd, 2020.

Ethiopia's unique ability grants extra faith via international trade routes as well as new ways to spend faith for culture victories. More details on Ethiopia's mechanics and their leader will be dropping sometime between now and the pack's release in ten days time.

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• Units receive +5 Combat Strength on their home continent. Envoys sent to City-States you have a Trade Route to count as two Envoys. Gain the Rough Rider unique unit with Rifling.
  

• Likes peaceful civilizations that have a city on his home continent.
  
• Dislikes civilizations starting wars on his continent.
  

• Breathtaking tiles adjacent to either a Natural Wonder or a Mountain receive +2 Science. Breathtaking tiles adjacent to either a Wonder or Woods receive +2 Culture. All tiles in a city with a National Park are +1 Appeal.
  

• Likes civilizations with high appeal tiles.
  
• Dislikes civilizations with low appeal tiles.
  
• Settles near high appeal tiles and builds more high appeal districts and wonders.
  

• Improved Luxury resources adjacent to Theater Square districts or Châteaux receive +2 Culture. May initiate the Court Festival project in any city with a Theater Square district. When the project finishes, players earn Culture and Tourism based on the number of excess copies of Luxury resources France possesses.
  

• Likes civilizations that trade Luxury resources to France.
  
• Dislikes civilizations that have not made such a trade.
  
• Tries to collect as many copies of Luxury resources as possible.
  

• Ethiopia’s International Trade Routes grant +0.5 Faith per resource at the origin. Improved resource tiles receive +1 Faith for each copy of the resource the city owns. Can purchase Archaeology Museums and Archaeologists with Faith.
  

• [Base Game or Rise and Fall] Ethiopian unique Medieval era light cavalry unit. Has additional sight and receives no Movement penalty from moving in Hills.
  
• [Gathering Storm] Ethiopian unique Medieval era light cavalry unit. Stronger and greater sight than the Courser that it replaces. Receives no Movement penalty from moving in Hills.
  

• [Gathering Storm] Unlocks the Builder ability to construct a Rock-Hewn Church, unique to Ethiopia. Gives +1 Faith and +1 Faith for every adjacent Mountain and Hills tile. Provides Tourism from Faith, after researching Flight. +1 Appeal. Can only be pillaged (never destroyed) by natural disasters. Can only be built on Hills or Volcanic Soil not adjacent to another Rock-Hewn Church.
  
• [Base Game or Rise and Fall] Unlocks the Builder ability to construct a Rock-Hewn Church, unique to Ethiopia. +1 Faith. +1 Faith for every adjacent Mountain and Hills tile. Provides Tourism from Faith, after researching Flight. +1 Appeal. Can only be built on Hills not adjacent to another Rock-Hewn Church.
  

• Receive Science and Culture equal to 15% of your Faith generation in cities founded on Hills. Units receive +4 Combat Strength on Hills.
  

• Prefers building cities on Hills.
  
• Likes Civs who build cities away from Hills.
  
• Dislikes Civs who build cities near or on Hills.
  

• [Base or Rise and Fall] Your civilization receives +1 Culture for each Delegation or Embassy from a foreign civilization through diplomacy. +1 Envoy if built next to the City Center. Enemy Spies operate at 2 levels below normal targeting this district and adjacent districts. Only 1 can exist in your empire at a time.
  
• [Gathering Storm] Your civilization receives +1 Diplomatic Favor for each Delegation or Embassy from a foreign civilization through diplomacy. +1 Envoy if built next to the City Center. Enemy Spies operate at 2 levels below normal targeting this district and adjacent districts. Only 1 can exist in your empire at a time.
  

• Having 1 Envoy assigned grants +1 yield in the first building of particular districts and Capital.
  
• Having 3 Envoys assigned grants +2 yield in the second building of particular districts and Consulate building.
  
• Having 6 Envoys assigned grants+3 yield in the third building of particular districts and Chancery building.
  

• +2 Influence Points per turn. Enemy Spy levels are reduced by 1 when targeting this city or cities with Encampments.
  

• +3 Influence Points per turn. When this civilization captures or kills an enemy Spy, receive 50 Science for every level of the enemy Spy.
  

• A player has a chance to discover this Society by sending Envoys to any City-State they currently have no Envoys at.
  

• Level 1: +1 Economic policy slot. Each Trade Route started with a City-State awards 1 Envoy there.
  
• Level 2: Unlocks the Gilded Vault. Replaces the Bank. Also provides this Commercial Hub’s gold adjacency bonus as Culture. Gives +1 Trade Route capacity if this city has a Harbor.
  
• Level 3: +1 Wildcard policy slot. +2 Spy capacity. Cities with a Spy get +4 loyalty per turn and +1 Amenity.
  
• Level 4: Whenever an offensive spy mission is successful, you also gain half of the Gold, Faith, Culture, and Science that the targeted city earned that turn. Earn 3% of your Gold treasury as Gold per turn (up to 1000 Gold per turn).
  

• A player has a chance to discover this Society by discovering any Natural Wonder.
  

• Level 1 - Reveal the Ley Line resource on the map. Ley Lines give standard adjacency to all specialty districts.
  
• Level 2 - Unlock the Alchemical Society. Replaces the University. Also provides +1 Great Merchant point, and +1 Great Engineer point. +2 Production. Provides the Campus’s Science adjacency bonus as Gold.
  
• Level 3 - For every Great Person earned, Ley Lines receive +1 yield equal to that Great Person's district type. Great Admirals and Great Generals earn +1 Science.
  
• Level 4 - Unlocks Occult Research, a city project that requires the Campus district. It provides Gold while active. When completed, it grants Great Merchant, Great Scientist, and Great Engineer points. It also grants Science for every Ley Line in the city
  

• A player has a chance to discover this Society by investigating Tribal Villages.
  

• Level 1 - Unlocks the Old God Obelisk. Replaces the Monument. Also provides +4 Faith and 1 Great Work slot that can hold any kind of Great Work.
  
• Level 2 - Cities earn Gold, Science, and Culture per turn equal to 20% of their Faith per turn rate.
  
• Level 3 - Unlock the Cultist unit. Purchased with Faith, it is a Religious unit that can spend a charge to 'Recruit Followers' into the cult from enemy cities. This action reduces the Loyalty of the city it is in by 10 and requires a charge. When the Cultist expires, the owning player is awarded with a Relic of the Void
  
• Level 4 - Unlocks the Dark Summoning city project which can be performed in cities that have an Old God Obelisk. While active, it converts Production per turn into Faith. When the project is completed, it increases the amount of Loyalty damage your Cultists do against enemy cities by 2 (up to a maximum of 30).
  

• A player has a chance to discover this Society by capturing Barbarian Camps.
  

• Level 1 – Player granted a Vampire unit. Combat unit with variable melee strength. Reduced passive healing. Retreats to capital upon death, healing to 1 HP. Heals an additional 50 HP from pillaging enemy tiles. Gains Combat Strength when a unit dies adjacent to it. Has base Combat Strength equal to the player's strongest built unit. Strength from defeated Barbarian is capped at +10.
  
• Level 2 - Unlock the Vampire Castle improvement. Cannot be placed next to another Vampire Castle. Can be placed on empty tiles in player-owned or neutral territory. Can only be placed by Vampires. Grants defensive bonus to any unit on the tile. Vampires move to the player's nearest Vampire Castle (or capital) when they die. The player may only have as many Vampire Castles as he has Vampires. Vampires can remove the player's Castles, and any unit can pillage Castles. Vampire Castles grant yields to their owner's capital equal to the yields of all adjacent tiles. Player granted a second Vampire unit.
  
• Level 3 - Unlock Intimidation passive bonus for Vampires. Enemy units adjacent to the Vampire lose 5 Combat Strength. Vampires can pillage for 1 movement cost. Player granted a third Vampire and third Vampire Castle build.
  
• Level 4 - Units can airlift to/from Vampire Castles. Player granted a fourth Vampire and a fourth Vampire Castle build
  

• Added information to the Espionage pop-up that calculates mission success probabilities.
  
• Fixed an issue where tooltips failed to update for the Chat Panel and Trade Menu when resizing them while having the “Replace Hold-to Drag with Clicks” option enabled during gameplay.
  
• Fixed an issue where inaccurate information would be present in the World Climate menu after a Comet Strike during Apocalypse mode gameplay.
  
• UI camera panning has been disabled when a popup is active to prevent unintended panning.
  
• The items in the promotion panel stack now have more room to fit verbose languages.
  
• Wonder movies can now be dismissed with right-click.
  

• Fixed an issue with the Great Work Heist spy mission that prevented players from stealing Great Works.
  
• Fixed an issue where a Great Prophet notification was not triggering after earning enough Great People points.
  
• Fixed an issue where GDRs were incorrectly affecting city Defense Strength.
  
• Fixed an issue where the incorrect information would be displayed when changing the number of Envoys, while there is an Envoy modifier in effect.
  
• Fixed some internal calculations for Rock Bands and Tourism.
  
• Fixed an issue where players would sometimes be prevented from planting woods on unrevealed resources.
  
• Fixed an issue where max unit strength was not properly updating the city strength.
  
• Fixed an issue where end of movement penalties were applying early and preventing units from using their final movement points.
  
• Fixed an issue where restarting the build of a district would be prevented if a new resource had popped up on its location.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Wonder Placement lens will remain open when opening and closing the City Details list before selecting a tile for a Wonder during gameplay.
  
• Fixed invalid combat previews from appearing when units are awakened.
  
• Fixed an issue where pillaged City-State resources would add to the number the Suzerain got, instead of subtracting.
  
• Fixed various text bugs.
  
• Fixed a crash caused by pillaging in neutral territory.
  
• Various additional crash fixes addressed
  

• Fixed an issue where AI tracking of Envoys was getting miscalculated when an Envoy modifier was in effect.
  
• Additional AI improvements.
  

• Fixed an issue where units killed by mines and gifts stayed alive with 0 HP.
  
• Fixed an issue where the spark animation showing at incorrect times
  
• Text for a failed Gift Drop now displays on the target hex and is only available to the dropping player.
  
• Added icon for Jocks’ Hail Mary ability.
  
• The multiplayer chat window will now automatically begin scrolling once it has first filled with messages.