(Civ 6) Which Unique Unit Is The BEST In Civilization 6? || UU Tier List For Civilization 6

[@redfella1527]

Samurais deserve to be S tier because of their cool finishing move and the nice sound of their katana swords :D

[@TheCivLifeR]

TRUE!! lol

[@capacraft2735]

Anime moment

[@jimmym3352]

finishing move? uh oh, time to start up another Japan game. I never knew they had a finishing move. TBH, I often ignore combat animations.

[@capacraft2735]

@@jimmym3352 tbh the Americans had a better finishing move, I mean the animation is so explosive.

[@randallstephens971]

Great list. I love playing with Alex and rushing hypaspists and feel like the fact that they only require 5 iron per is very underrated and worth mentioning. Nice content lately man.

[@TheCivLifeR]

Good stuff!

[@olivarious]

I feel like Eagle Warriors, Hypaspists and War-Carts should be much higher, especially Hypaspists. Three of them can easily overwhelm a lot of early cities, and because they’re designed to capture cities they gain big chunks of experience, so they get beefy pretty quickly

[@alex2005z]

Gaesataes can actually fight against swordsmen and horsemen easily due to gauls extra bonus cs. The only problem with it is that you immediately get men at arms so all it does is make it cheaper to upgrade into it

[@henrychambers2365]

Hehehe Haw

[@njmfff]

For me, Immortals, Janissary and Legion are S-tier, everything else is "whatever". Couple of Immortals, especially if you declare surprise war and get extra damage and extra movement, they will just eat every city in their path, walls or not.

[@TheCivLifeR]

immortals are so broken tbh. Especially paired with Persia's surprise war, literally horsemen/swordsmen/archers pretty much the avatar

[@njmfff]

​@@TheCivLifeR Yeah, I overall love Persia, they have very strong UU, UA and UI.

[@bluedonkey180]

They don’t get extra strength on wars

[@girisamudra9068]

Piati archer is definitely an SSS unique unit, plus Amanitore have 50% more experience for range unit. 6 piati archer with lvl 4 promotion (2x shoot) make deity super easy!

[@scottnolan2833]

Back up! Who ARE you? You almost had me fooled into thinking you were TheCivLifeR, but then you pronounced “hypaspist” correctly.

[@TheCivLifeR]

LMAO your right

[@luisgutierrez8047]

For the nth time: chariot archers are basically half cost xbows. Literally the OPPOSITE of expensive. They're only true downside is that they aren't affected by great generals. But when using them only for a quick war they basically have no downsides Also dromon Basically also a cheaper AND better naval X-bow.

[@antongrigoryev6381]

That's an interesting way to look at it. Perhaps really, in terms of stats and cost, they are more of a Classical-Medieval unit rather than Ancient.

[@owenh2626]

I'm surprised mounties are so low! Being able to turn gold and/or production into national parks is very beneficial

[@TheCivLifeR]

it is but how many are you going to get per game though?

[@alex2005z]

@@TheCivLifeR a lot. Especially since Canada settles Tundra. You can get over 10, sometimes 20 easily

[@igr2113]

@@TheCivLifeR you can absolutely break the game with swarms of them. You can bank your faith and gold, go into theocracy, build this govt plaza building that lets you buy units with faith and just print them as soon as they become available. The cost of the mountie with faith is lower than naturalist and does not increase like the naturalists' + you get 2 parks from each mountie. The only thing stopping you from planting 30+ national parks in tundra is winning culture before you can place them, cause tourism from national parks becomes the more valuable the earlier you build them. S tier purely for breaking the game. It is tested on deity as a strategy, it works.

[@antongrigoryev6381]

Yeah. Most importantly, it solves the eternal "Naturalist vs Rock Band" dilemma and saves you incredible amounts of Faith.

[@TheNoirMirror]

Kind of ignoring that the Conquistador can instantly convert cities with different religions, which is pretty fantastic when playing Spain...

[@landencole6829]

Sea dog above the jong is crazy

[@j.andrescastelan]

Great tier list. The only thing i dont agree is the hoplites i think they deserve a tier at least. or maybe its just me because ive been playing with gorgo lately on multiplayer and i just go crazy killing my neighbors. Good content.

[@bluedonkey180]

I thought early wars were bad the civ lifer said in another vid

[@alex2005z]

@@bluedonkey180 its only bad if they see them coming

[@alex2005z]

C tier for the Dromon? It fixes the one problem with an early naval rush, which is not having a ranged unit to destroy cities. By then the AI only has galleys so easy win, especially with byzantiums +10 combat strenght if you kill some units

[@redghost5705]

All this content you been dropping has really helped me get the hang of civ in a relatively short time. Now playing on immortal 😅

[@nanhu4254]

The point of having a late-era melee unit is to conquer not to defend. Garde Imperiale is trash and it’s insane to even compare it with Redcoat…

[@mogscugg2639]

For the digger analogy it's especially apt since the Soviets actually had oil to spare (unlike germany, they just had meth)

[@lucjan764]

Gaesataes deserve a B or A imho... They replace Warriors which you would produce anyway in the early game most of the time, definitely for a rush conquer, but with their bonus against stronger units and bonus against districts (that includes city center) they can be extremely efficient. The cities go down easy, if the AI starts gaining the technological edge - it's less significant, That, along with the fact Gouls can rush Man At Arms easily (find and improve iron to rush bronze working; build their unique industrial zone, ... well, That's it, no more steps) so during fighting the first war save up some cash for upgrade to Man At Arms and the enemy is dust

[@OwenTheGorge]

I dunno faith buying cossack armies as russia and watching them swarm the enemy and promote after attacking feels a lot better than C tier to me

[@TheCivLifeR]

you could do the same thing with regular cavalry though

[@ProtonCannon]

@@TheCivLifeR I think you are slightly undervaluing the Cossack's ability to move after attacking. That ability alone can make them extremely slippery, you can freely hit-and-run with them allowing multiple Cossacks to rotate their position and focus attack the same target. It allows them to the freedom to not end their turn in a vulnerable position if they score a kill. It also allows them to attack and then promote if they have any movement left, this is not possible with a normal cavalry because normally attacking ends the turn. (This is a special ability normally Gran Colombia has) This ability is also a Tier 2 promotion for the scout unit line and it is a deceptively good ability.

[@garabic8688]

With the Sabum Kibittum I consider it a better scout. I usually use scouting early game to find barbarians and deal with them, and the Sabum Kibittum while weak against everything except cavalry, can hold its own against barbarians with the discipline card plugged in, making it for me just a faster warrior which is needed early game.

[@alex2005z]

Crouching tiger is better than saka horse archer. At least it can hold a city, which is one thing it does well, making that one more than the horse archer

[@alex2005z]

The only good thing about the Huszar is that you can upgrade them from a unique unit, so any bonus are free since you dont have to plan for them, it just allows for a longer rush

[@alex2005z]

Have you ever seen a hoplite "rush" against cossacks? It won. In multiplayer

[@ProtonCannon]

I think he was talking the tier list only in single player in this video. For example I think the Jong is easily S-tier on a naval map but the AI is absolutely terrible at playing any naval game so it doesn't really matter.

[@alex2005z]

@@ProtonCannon you have to consider the strenght of the unit when played by the player, otherwise immortals are f tier.

[@ProtonCannon]

@@alex2005z True.

[@kidnicky7489]

Pretty much agree with almost everything, although I do think that Eagle Warriors are definitely S-tier.

[@ethanwmonster9075]

I had 5 saka horse archers and they all died on the same turn in the classical era... They SUCK. I wish there were more late-game oriented civs. Like Soviet Union or 1950s era America. A lot of those classical era unique units can pretty easily be stopped by either building walls or rushing crossbowmen. So for 90% of the game's turns everybody is pretty much even. Word of warning if you want a fun challenge try playing deity with Montezuma as your neighbor.

[@TheCivLifeR]

LOL montezuma as a neighbor should be initiation for deity players

[@wnchstrman]

Only civ worse than Monty as a neighbor is Chandragupta. He WILL attack you. With Varu. Over and over and over. Count on it.

[@gordanarajevac6312]

When will the ultimate civ6 deity challenge get continued (great vid)

[@mrman-yj3bn]

HEY, THE GAESETE IS A GREAT UNIT REEEEEE. Jokes aside they are actually super op the gauls beinift from a super strong resource base throughout the game making them easy to push out. Plus the bonus damage from fighing stronger opponents mean you don't need to upgrade them to the next the next tier or units. Ontop of the fact that the +4 dmg from ajacant untis doesn't penalise you from getting the +10. If you haven't done it yet it's a load of fun to pump them out at max speed and clump them together with archers and they can do crazy damage white taking only a stupidly low amount.

[@grelm1322]

Hey, will you finish the civ tier list soon? (Part 3)

[@gudotermaat2926]

Your voice sounds very similar to TheTravianGuide if I remember correctly, but I can't find that channel anymore. Is that you or is it just a coincidence?

[@healyalvarado4791]

Black army at s tier is insane. B tier max

[@basil2946]

Great list and you sound hot af. I love cossacks, you may bumb them up a little. Also I think janissaries are better than immortals and leigons are good enough to be S.

[@TheCivLifeR]

:D

[@vladraduandrei5227]

wtf weirdo

[@noahmilich4699]

War carts in the be teir 😔 I pumped out 8 of them and won a domination victory turn 98. Although I did spawn next to matterhorn 😏. Anyway spot on, love ur vids ur absolutly fantastic at youtubing.

[@nbgyguy]

I think the Aztec guys are good but it’s way to early for me so I never play him

[@kidnicky7489]

They are effective for a few eras and how well you do in the first couple of eras typically dictates how well the whole game will play out, and depending on the situation a bunch of free builders can be absolutely OP. To me, they are easily S-tier.

[@GrfRgOfcl]

I'm a fan of the War Cart especially during early game

[@alex2005z]

Man the pitati archer is really strong. It would be a shame if I had a 3 tech men at arms

[@SnackRat]

any thoughts on making videos about mods? like moar units, steel and thunder

[@theprinceofthebadlands5204]

A scout unit getting B tier by TCLR is pretty crazy.

[@alex2005z]

Wdym knights are weaker? They got 50 cs instead of their 48 before

[@ProtonCannon]

The Knight became weaker in Gathering storm for different reasons. It got much more expensive from 180 production to 220 that is almost a 20% extra production. Their upkeep also increased from 3 to 4 gold and finally they need iron instead of horses to train which conflicts with the Swordsmen and Men-at-Arms which also require iron to build. The knight now also requires researching "Apprenticeship" tech before the "Stirrups" tech become available to unlock knights. Before that change knights only required "Horseback Riding" which unlocked them way WAAY faster. This is a serious nerf because it now requires two extra technologies to unlock knights, so knights can only come into play much later in the game than before. Gathering storm also introduced the Courses with 46CS and +1 Move faster than the knight. Coursers need horses instead of Iron making it a much more easy to afford unit that can reasonably contest the knight. The Men-At-Arms have also been introduced with 45 CS that are cheaper to upgrade from already existing swordsmen. Before Coursers and Man-at-arms came into the game the knight had only pikemen and swordsmen to contest them until musketmen. Pikemen were rarely built because the Anti Cavalry line was weak in general and Swordsmen were also too weak to stand up to the knight.

[@alex2005z]

@@ProtonCannon I didnt know about the changes before gathering storm, since when I got civ 6 it already existed, so ty. But needing iron isnt really a problem since you arent going to go for swordsmen and knights on any rush. I did do a knight rush recently and the two problems I faced were walls and pikemen, since the AI apparently grew a small brain.

[@ProtonCannon]

@@alex2005z You are welcome friend! And I agree walls are always the problem because the AI can almost 1 turn build walls in fact I would say walls are a bit too strong in the AI's hands since on deity the AI will almost always be ahead of you technologically. I am even leaning to wanting it changed that one cannot "finish" building walls if a city is already under siege. You already can't "repair" or "upgrade" your existing damaged walls for 3 turns if your city takes just 1 damage. It is dumb that you siege a city down to like 1/4 of it's health and then BAM suddenly a full health set of walls appear out of nowhere that completely stops the siege. It is both unintuitive and unrealistic, I know Civ6 is not a real world simulation but imagine city in the middle of a siege suddenly building walls without the besieging army noticing it and stopping it.

[@alex2005z]

@@ProtonCannon Im just anoyed by the fact that walls are the only problem, but they are a really big one. A war should be decided in fights between units. You shouldnt be able to hold of an army with just some walls, but the AI bonuses allow them to do that

[@ProtonCannon]

@@alex2005z Yes, sadly the AI is just not competent enough to create and manage a proper army so it has to resort to turtling otherwise conquering would just be too easy.

[@potatobowmaster5396]

the varu is definately my favourite

[@thr4017]

Berserker in S tier?? Come on, you just did that to see if we are really paying attention.

[@thr4017]

Opinions are very different on this one. Potato McWhiskey put the berserker in the lowest tier in his list from June 2020.

[@FirstnameLastname-tl1bq]

This guy sounds like the voice actor of kirito from the abridged series

[@aarinbothra600]

In my game, the government plaza won’t show up, do I need to change a setting?

[@alex2005z]

You need gathering storm I think

[@aarinbothra600]

@@alex2005z okay, thanks!

[@redspine2859]

Why don't you use BBG ? I feel like a tier list of the non-competitive version of the game doesn't make a lot of sense

[@gunzakimbo]

Poor Crouching Tiger. Perfect for memes, terrible when playing............

[@jarlGudmunder]

Also the video has terrible quality, There as much pixels as how many times u played Russia

[@TheCivLifeR]

lmaoo gold. The tier list is the one with bad pixels tbh you guys can go check it out: tiermaker.com/create/civ6-unique-units-623382?presentationMode=true

[@alex2005z]

KZbin takes time to fully upload with good quality

[@zhoubiden6003]

♻️

[@jarlGudmunder]

You missed the best unique unit! “Joe”

[@TheCivLifeR]

mama :D

[@healyalvarado4791]

I had so much fun using the crouching tiger 🥲