(Civilization 6) Complete Leader Tier List For Civilization 6 || Ranking Every Leader In Civ 6

In this civ 6 video we are making a tier list for civilization 6. Civilization 6 has 51 leaders and in this tier list for civ 6 we are going to be ranking every leader in civ 6. civilization 6 leader tier list by TheCivLifeR
Who is the best civ? Who is the worst? lets find out
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00:00 Intro
01:18 Germany (Frederick)
03:22 Netherlands (Wilhelmina)
05:21 Macedon (Alexander)
07:45 India (Chandragupta)
09:34 China (Qin Shi Huang)
11:28 Rome (Trajan)
14:06 Aztec (Montezuma)
16:56 Khmer (Jayavarman VI)
19:37 Inca (Pachacuti)
21:50 America (Bull Moose Teddy)
24:01 Greece (Gorgo)
26:07 Hungary (Matthius)
28:25 Nubia (Amanitore)
31:13 Maori (Kupe)
32:18 Poland (Jadwiga)
34:03 India (Gandhi)
35:53 Mali (Mansa Musa)
38:05 Georgia (Tamar)
40:25 Sumeria (Gilgamesh)
42:45 Scotland (Robert The Bruce)

[@ryanlash3935]

I've noticed that no matter the difficulty. If I request friendship from Gilgabro after immediately meeting him he always accepts and will stay your friend through the entire game. His number 1 agenda is always liking other civs who maintain good relationships with other civs. I played a Raven King Domination run and Gilgabro was the last civ I took out because he stayed friends with me no matter what I did.

[@TheCivLifeR]

oh ya, gilgabro is named that for a reason

[@andreikovacs3476]

Maybe a historic in-joke given that he has been so true to his (only) friend that his death caused his character development?

[@pierredelecto6255]

W

[@dashlivingston5975]

Gilgamesh is Epic!

[@jyutzler]

Check out Ursa Ryan's channel. He concocted a scenario where Gilgabro nukes him. It's hilarious.

[@banana-vd7jm]

I personally think to make the game fair, civs should be buffed to all be 'overpowered', because I would rather play a powerful civ over a meh civ. so basically buff the weaker civs so that their powerful and keep the powerful civs still powerful.

[@TheCivLifeR]

thats a great idea tbh. Id love them to rework some of these civs before civ 7

[@chrisjackson6888]

Honestly, the only change I would have loved to see with Tamar is for them to move her Dramatic Ages bonuses over to the base game. The extra Wildcard during a GA is great, and the ability to always use Dark Age policies regardless of Age is pretty useful. Why they gave her something this unique in a game mode but not for the base game with the April update is beyond me.

[@TheCivLifeR]

ya I completely forgot to mention that. Her dramatic age bonuses should be in base game

[@ryanlash3935]

Also your nerfing of Rome and J7 made my stomach turn. "Let's take away the chopping and monuments, and J7 culture tourism and amenities bonuses." I love you. But thank the gods you aren't an editor on the game haha

[@sentinelhd9964]

The Greek mainly Gorgo really shine on longer domination campaigns ie epic or marathon especially. The hoplite come early enough and dominate most other civs well into the classical age. Pairing that with how much more barbarians spawn because of the slow civ development, allowing you to accumulate far more culture than any other civ from wiping them. To top it off swordsman can’t compete with paired hoplites especially with melee offensive promotions, cavalry are naturally inferior and archers can’t do damage fast enough. A group of 4-5 hoplites can dominate almost any civ at this point, I even went as far as wiping 5 civs before the Medieval Era.

[@scott8448]

China on marathon for culture as the builder charges actually pay off instead of being able to build the monument quicker without said charges. Basically means you get every monument without worrying.

[@ItsPureLuck27]

Love seeing these kinds of lists! While I'm a huge fan of Alexander, there's just no way IMO he is S tier IMO when you consider the Civs on that line with him.

[@TheCivLifeR]

lol appreciate it

[@isaiahkoufos3573]

IMO I think IMO that Idk IMO IMO

[@thisnamesystemsux4320]

Just stating a comment is your opinion lolz

[@angelskaixo5188]

@Carter .R the only civ that can give Alexander a rough time in the first 50 is the Aztecs, since they get a decent attack buff on their unique ancient unit. That being said, that's really only exploitable if it's PvP, since the AI isnt going to have the same tactics a human does

[@PreAlgebra]

Hey letting you guys know that the Inca empire gets one housing with terrace farm instead of .5 like a normal farm which I really like.

[@owenh2626]

I'm getting these videos recommended heavily now, I feel this channel is about to blow up. I hope so this is some good content

[@ness6099]

The only nerf I can see for Trajan is no free monument in the capitol. The simplicity and versatility of his abilities makes him fun, but getting that free monument in every city from turn one on is absurd. It’s such a strong ability Sukritact’s Hadrian needs to give double yields to tier 1 buildings to compensate

[@TheCivLifeR]

free monuments are one of the best abilities EVER it just gets absurd

[@abdurrahmanhumaam6820]

Tarjan queen of all trade .. no need to nerf. Still not overpower enough.

[@aaronolmstead4210]

Civ Rev on Xbox is my fav game of all time (unlocked all achievements, many times over in 15 years), and just this past weekend downloaded Civ 6 and found your videos trying to understand all of the increased complexity. Awesome vids, looking forward to getting deeping into Civ 6. My personal preference is to stay disciplined using PCs for work & pr0n, but consoles for games, still strugglinh to adapt to the differences in movements and attack maneuvering. I recall my own tiers for Civ Rev (Zulu in its own rank, Aztec, Spain, Japan next tops, Greece, US and China solid, Ghandi, Saladin and Germany trash)

[@songsofachilles]

Thank you for adding the gameplay footage, tier list rankings usually feel tedious for me just staring at the tier maker for 45 mins-1 hr bur i was locked in for this one haha.

[@ldanielgelves5826]

Awesome vídeo, thanks a lot for making it. It's so useful the review on the Civs even without the tier list

[@TheCivLifeR]

the second part is coming this week!

[@eren4934]

I think challenge videos like these would be cool such as "Winning a domination victory without using any melee units" (swordsman,line infantry,man at arms etc. or "Winning a culture victory without building any theater squares" or a game like where you are surrounded by enemy ai , like playing hungary in a TSL europe map with all europe civs included

[@baronmunro1494]

I'm actually building a Civ VI challenge generator at the moment with handicaps very much like that. I'm currently just using it to balance games I play with my family. You get one random handicap, then pick a civ, and then get a second handicap which is unlikely to specifically impact your civ choice. Last game I played I had warrior-line troops banned and I had to have at least one scout-line unit built (or in production) for every city I had. I picked Scotland so I could play with a lot of highlanders for the first time in Civ history. Then my second handicap was that I had to have net-zero carbon emissions for the whole game (basically to not build any units that consume oil/carbon or build any power planets until I gained access to carbon sequestering I guess?). It's not ready to be hosted yet, but I'm hoping TheCivLifeR or PotatoMcWhiskey can get some mileage out of it.

[@scott8448]

There’s a few videos like that including a no city challenge, peaceful domination victory etc.

[@olinshaw]

This was a fun video to watch, kept me hooked and looking forward towards the next one.

[@TheCivLifeR]

appreciate it!

[@indyfire3269]

Already looking forward seeing the civ 5 veteran civs in f and s tier at the same time.

[@TheCivLifeR]

lol true

[@EddyYL]

Loved this more edited style of tier list video

[@TheCivLifeR]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@gudotermaat2926]

You said Poland doesn't have a bonus towards founding a religion but they do, the wildcard slot can be used to put in the prophet points card which is 2 civics into the game if you go for it.

[@williammooney3779]

I used to rate Aminatore much lower but a few recent games have changed my mind. I used to think that her kit didn't make any sense in that you were incentivised to build loads of districts (requiring high food/population) but also incentivised to settle deserts (resulting in low food/population) but that contradiction is rarely actually a problem. She can be insane if you get desert folklore and work ethic and then faith buildings that provide food.

[@TheCivLifeR]

ya she seems so basic but her abilities are really amazing

[@braize6279]

Those Nubian pyramids are stupid op. Makes desert tiles useful, and really you only "need" to have 1 desert tile next to your city to make use of them. Being as they also leech from your districts, you can have your districts surrounding the pyramid just be placed on the other desert tiles, which leaves all of your other tiles open for production. And build a Petra for more broken OP Nubian Pyramids. The output is super meme. And she has the best music :)

[@playmsbk]

The aztecs are one of the best expansionist civs in the game. The eagle warriors work really well to expand in the very early game, and the luxury resource ability creates a positive feedback loop where you'll want to expand as much as possible to get more, and doing so makes the whole of your empire even more productive. Gorgo on the other hand is a culture civilization that happens to be very good at domination in the very early and very late game. A line of hoplites supported by a few archers is unbeatable and you'll want to use that advantage as much as possible to Kickstart your culture game, then switch to acropolis. And if you haven't managed to get a culture victory yet by the endgame, you can just grab everyone's tourist attractions by force.

[@noahmilich4699]

Love the vid, pretty spot on. I personally think Aztec are d tier though. Anyway I'm playing Cyrus for a domination, culture victory and I would like to know what map size and how many civs you usually use when you go for a culture victory. Thanks! And your vids are amazing. Ur the funniest youtuber out their with great content 👍

[@TheCivLifeR]

appreciate it! try standard map continents. Conquer your continent and build up in tourism

[@DavidSmith-mt7tb]

If you have good early culture with Poland you can in theory get the great prophet points card and actually use that before getting a government type to help get a religion, but without some luck on the culture from somewhere even that isn't too much a help on deity. Maybe they could let her get that card earlier or get more early culture or something.

[@sebastiansilverfox6912]

Just to give Scotland a bit more flavor, I'd make it so their unique unit spawns automatically when you take their cities (just spit balling here but maybe one for every age reached if there are enough open hexes for them to spawn). Then I'd have the stats keyed to the being slightly better than whatever their best infantry is at the time. This means that it can be just a minor inconvenience or a huge resurgence depending on a number of variables. Alternatively, you could make the number depend on factors like one for having a different religion, one for having no allies, one for every ally the conqueror has, etc. Point being that you make them a civ that is a total wildcard and everything about them can go very very right or very very wrong...whether playing as or against them.

[@Snomulous]

the pronunciation of the leaders names kill me!🤣 Great Video and insightful

[@sh0ckwave5]

I couldnt beat Emperor difficulty until I tried GilgaChad. I kept gettin those cheeks clapped in the early game but War Carts really helped with that and the Ziggurat gave me some nice early-mid game boost to science so I don't fall too far behind while im waging war against the city states. Now I feel im just about ready for Immortal difficulty.

[@K_LeShaeya]

"Gandhi is a terrible civ" I said this once, only to find out Gandhi AI rushes Thermonuclear bombs, and its freaking scary

[@scarthewerewolf]

TheCiv: "Gandhi is a terrible civ" Gandhi launches the nuclear strike to his civilization! GAME OVER, man!

[@ness6099]

By far the best strat with Monty is chopping out Eagle Warriors with the stolen builders, conquer anyone nearby stupid fast, then focus on a science game to build up those campuses and space ports in 5 TURNS!!!

[@TheCivLifeR]

great strategy tbh, would probably work with culture too I think

[@TheCivLifeR]

stuck at 360p, uploaded late so it might take a couple hours to get 1080p Edit: Vid Quality Fixed!

[@redghost5705]

A think the Tier lists are a guilty pleasure at this point. Tier list for Unique Units next?

[@TheCivLifeR]

lots of tier lists coming

[@Nafke]

Loved the write up on Amanitore. She was my first choice on my first deity run and I lost because I was conquering cities so fast and easily I didn't realize all the new cities I added made some AI religion >50% in my civ. So yeah any idiot could conquer the game with her.

[@TheBoulderGamer]

Ranking Gorgo anything but S Tier means you have never played someone who knows how to play Gorgo. Her boosts to culture feed DIRECTLY into her ability to be the best domination civ in the game. First of all, the faster you gain culture, the faster you can unlock new tiers of government. Oligarchy gives you a minimum +2 combat strength per unit just from policy cards alone, on top of +4 combat strength for melee, anti cav and melee naval units. Don’t forget that Gorgo gets an extra wildcard policy slot, that means that you can equip up to 4 military policy cards to maximize your combat strength bonus. Build an encampment to gain great generals and suddenly you have armies with +11-13 combat strength melee and anti cav units, and +7-9 combat strength for all other unit types, and that’s BEFORE promotions. And since Hoplites get +10 combat strength from being beside eachother, and if you choose oligarchy you also get more unit experience, you can quickly stack promotions on them to have AFTER a MINIMUM of +21-23 combat strength as long as two of them are beside eachother, basically making them invincible. And that’s assuming you want to min-max - this bonus allows Gorgo to stand toe to toe with agressive civs even if she chooses to not go for a domination victory and does not build an encampment, because her units will still have a minimum of +4 combat strength (as compared to the +5 a great general provides). This advantage only compounds over time as Gorgo reaches Monarchy, where you gain an extra wildcard slot, and if Gorgo gets Alhambra and Forbidden Palace wonders, she will get an additional +3 combat strength on units, for a MINIMUM of +7 combat strength. Her ability to gain culture quickly also means that Corps and Armies come much sooner than other Civs, and of course, her final form is reached when she unlocks Fascism. Fascism allows her to have a minimum of +12 combat strength on ALL units, and combined with oligarchical legacy, Alhambra and Forbidden Palace and a great general, +23 combat strength on all melee and anti-cav units. If you are not FAR ahead in science, you just lose against her. She can be an era or two behind and still go toe to toe with your units. And if she also got a religion and chose the Crusader belief, she can convert your cities while attacking you and get a MINIMUM of +22 combat strength on all unpromoted units and a maximum of +33 combat strength on unpromoted melee and anti-cav units. And since her units have such high combat strength, they are hard to kill, so she can easily farm experience on them, making these units even stronger when fully promoted. Gorgo in the right hands is just plain broken. And the acropolis ensures that she can easily stay on par with envoys, and the increase to culture means that you can unlock cards that allow you to get more envoys faster, such as Gunboat Diplomacy. I could go on forever but my friend and I no longer play Gorgo because of how broken she is.

[@blackangelpl1505]

I play gorgo bc she look cool

[@ness6099]

Tamar’s biggest buff was the monarchy change giving you extra diplo favor per layer of walls. Get +3 diplo favor and then +2 science from the card. The AI physically cannot keep up with that diplo favor.

[@TheCivLifeR]

tamar monarchy is pretty decent ngl

[@antongrigoryev6381]

For Gorgo, I think her idea is to get an early war for culture boost and then transition into Culture Victory with Acropolises. She isn't really a Domination Civ imo. I mean, until recently all she had for Domination was Culture from victories, and how much do you really need Culture in a Domination game really? There are some useful civics, true, but beyond Political Philosophy and maybe Mercenaries there isn't really anything you would want to rush imo. Now she gets combat strength that scales into later eras, true, but it was clearly an afterthought.

[@luisgutierrez8047]

No the idea is to use her cheap envoys to get suzrein of city states real quik and have a huge army to conquer early on. Acropolis are better monuments and together with culture ok kill she can rush the upgrade discount card for levied troops.

[@antongrigoryev6381]

@@luisgutierrez8047 Dunno. 1 envoy per city isn't really much. Add here the lack of bonuses to levying units, and I'm not sure if such a tactic is any more viable on Gorgo than on anyone else. Though it would be an interesting way to buff her, give her some bonuses for levying units.

[@luisgutierrez8047]

@@antongrigoryev6381 early game levying is super cheap. 200 gold for 5-6 warriors is way better than hard building an army. You can easily get that money for free by trading all ur GPT right before surprise waring them Yes it's not much but will allow you to LOCKDOWN 1 more suzrein than any other generic civ. Bec in the early game those early envoys are HUGE. after all you just need TWO envoys to get early suzrein while also kicking out amani competition. and it's a positive feedback loop. The more suzreins you get the more units you can levy, and the more units you can levy the faster you can go up the culture tree to get more envoys from civics to get more zuzreins. Also, +pillage is something that you want to rush asap after political philosophy. +Workers are good for ANY civ. And logistics is is also worth rushing, esp on her. Normally the best way for war civs to get envoy advantage is to wipe out the competition. They have no good way of generating envoys since that would require wasting their wildcard slot. Also the problem that since they'll be waring civs, city states will both 1. Attack them 2. Cancel any missions. Gorgo has the ability to at the very least spoil other people's suzreins sothat city state units don't get in ur way. AI does like to levy so that's a huge blow to their war potential Not saying she's a or even a tier, but def makes no sense having her below Scotland. She should be trading space with Scotland. Scotland is SUPER meh.

[@izzyjamm4]

The hoplites are incredible though

[@dewittvercher2508]

Exactly. I won my first game of Civ 6 with Gorgo doing exactly that! Had an early war with the 2 other civs on my continent and then after taking their cities I transitioned into tourism and won a nice easy cultural fun game as Sparta and have been hooked since!

[@-Ave-]

Jezz Man xD 32:20 Dżadwiiiga as a Pole i must addmit that that moment have killed me XD

[@mmccarthy9458]

Greece's(Congrats you start game with Forbidden Palace without culture bonus) extra policy card vs Germany is more useful, but this allows you to upgrade units and build military in classic republic, so still very strong early game.

[@Demosthenes84]

Finally found a channel with plenty of civ 6 content and the voice is tolerable lol. Cheers

[@richyrich6099]

In regards to what you said about Montezuma's UB at around the 16 minute mark, I think his building is just fine. It can help in regards to a domination victory and the extra amenity synergizes well with that too as it can help keep loyalty. Its by no means amazing but it's by no means a bad one either.

[@jyutzler]

It's pretty meh considering that Montezuma gets absolutely no bonuses to military.

[@TheCivLifeR]

It would be better if he got something for military, its not that much better then the building it replaces

[@richyrich6099]

@@jyutzler The bonus CS for luxury resources isn't a bonus to military?

[@richyrich6099]

@@TheCivLifeR Like I said, its not amazing but it does synergize a bit. A bonus amenity is helpful and combined with the bonus amenities luxuries provide makes it very easy to build up escatic cities, especially if you decide to do domination. It's not amazing but I wouldn't call it worthless.

[@jyutzler]

@@richyrich6099 It is but not a very good one. Early game you don't get enough luxuries to make a difference and late game tech is much more important than CS.

[@ProtonCannon]

I was expecting the Hoplite being underrated here and as someone who played Gorgo a lot I respectfully disagree. It is true that swordsman is the superior unit in a one to one comparison. But hoplites have several things going for them. Number one is consistency, hoplites need no strategic resource to build while swordsmen need iron. Hoplites are available one tech earlier than swordsmen and with their +10 adjacency bonus their base CS is actually slightly superior to swordsmen. The second thing is cost, Swordsmen cost 2 gold to maintain and Hoplites cost 1 gold to maintain, meaning if you have the "Conscription" policy slotted hoplites cost *ZERO* gold to maintain allowing ouy to mass them without worry for gold. Earning culture from kills is also the one of the most powerful early game abilities, allowing you to blast through the early game civics straight to Oligarchy. With Gorgo's abilities switching to Oligarchy is one scary power spike in the early game. Potentially gives your hoplites +8 combat strength, that is +4 from oligarchy and +4 from all the military policies slotted. With Gorgo and Oligarchy you are looking at a potential of 46 Combat strength hoplites, that cost no gold to maintain, no iron to build and one can start mass producing as soon as bronze working is researched. Needless to say they can also use Battering Rams and Siege towers so early walls will not stop them unlike cavalry units. They can even stand up to basic Knights, Knights got 50 CS Gorgo's hoplites with those bonuses got a 56 CS vs. Cavalry. The weaknesses you listed are true though, they cannot be affected by great generals which makes them slow and have lower power ceiling lower weaker vs. Ranged than Warrior type units. And they do fall off as the game's overall tech advances but that is true for most of Gorgo's abilities. Nevertheless I think Gorgo is an real early game powerhouse who can mount some of the scariest early rushes in the game, right up there with Tomrys and Gilgamesh. Her power does fall off fast in the mid game and that is why one need to focus the early game power spike she has got.

[@TheCivLifeR]

the 8 cs bonus is a good point tbh, might have to move her up because of that

[@Liam70x7]

I agree with all of this. I think most everyone agrees that spearman/anti-cav units in general aren’t the greatest, so that perception sort of carries over to hoplites, but their bonuses, combined with Gorgo’s abilities make them pretty powerful. The plus 8 combat strength stacks as well, so you can surround a city center with 3-4 hoplites, link one of them up with a battering ram, and that city will come down in 2-3 turns max. I’ve done this on King difficulty (the highest I’ve played Gorgo so far) and still had hoplites in use in the medieval and renaissance eras because their CS stacks so well. All with units that require no resources and 0 maintenance costs.

[@Ry-ss5dz]

I see I'm not the only one who knows about the hoplite oligarchy push :) The cool thing about oligarchy is that the extra 20% bonus to experience means your hoplites will gain levels after 2 attacks, which gives them a heal right when they need it. I'd say I probably capture at least one or 2 cities with only 3 hoplites 75% of the time with this timing. I just go as fast and as hard as I can till crossbowmen start coming out.

[@ProtonCannon]

@@Ry-ss5dz Hell yeah!

[@oat2797]

Would love to know who your top civs are for multiplayer

[@TheCivLifeR]

might be a tier list in the future!

[@gregarobida2035]

Yeees pleas

[@OnionKing-cm4qh]

Poland can be played in 2 mutually exclusive ways. A) Crusade via fort + Winged Hussars = easy dom + endless golden ages. B) Relics based culture game. Both require a religion though

[@TheCivLifeR]

ye that my biggest problem tbh. Especially B

[@venusi4n766]

i won a king game and a deity game with ammanitore she murders the game imo love her bonuses

[@Guckkasten85]

Hearing Germany is still overpowered after losing in 40 rounds against poundmaker CPU on a unmodded playthrough let's me rethink some stuff ^^

[@Videokirby]

I'd say an alternative buff to Ghandi/India would be: - India: India's cities cannot remove the last follower of foreign religions from their cities with India's dominant religion. This would mean you could effectively purge all but one of foreign religions and reap that sweet, sweet amenity. - Ghandi: Instead of 5 faith, +1 Spread for Missionaries for each foreign religion in the host city on top of Dharma's ability. Instead of double war exhaustion, declaring war on Ghandi inflicts War Exhaustion (not sure on an exact number) on the aggressor for each follower of India's religion in the aggressor's territory. I.E. If you declare war on Ghandi, you better not have many of his followers inside your cities. If it's dominant, expect your empire to rebel in about 5 turns. - Varu ignore City Walls, Varu inside a city with walls negates its intimidation. (Varu loses its defensive use, but it can be used to shore up a city without any other defenses). Not sure if that'd make Ghandi extremely OP, since the easy counter would be to either DOW him immediately or just steamroll his religion with Apostles and combat. If he declares war on you for it, he loses that ability and you can easily kill him.

[@LawrenceOwen]

IMO, I think you are way off with Kupe. He is S tier if you use his benefits correctly. The Culture building is actually OP as the timeline goes along. Plus, being able to cross oceans right away is a massive advantage. As for great writings, you can trade for those easily IF you want them. I never needed to though. I've dominated emperor level after 125 turns on every game play. (Admittedly, I have yet to play deity with any leader)

[@Liam70x7]

Kupe is underestimated and underrated a lot. If you play him right, like just avoid improving woods, rainforests, etc. and sort of beeline conservation, he’s a super easy culture win. At least twice I have actually accidentally gotten culture victories with him. Basically going for another victory type, not really paying attention to tourism and then getting a the culture victory screen out of no where.

[@quebeckids6249]

thanks for the quick fix

[@TheCivLifeR]

No problem 👍

[@CheckingForPulse]

I dont agree with a lot of your judgements, but it's because of my perspective as an multiplayer online speed civ6 player. Thanks for your take on the ballance.

[@gregarobida2035]

Im starting to playciv 6 multyplayerand i was wondering if you could tell me the s and a tier civs i can play

[@CheckingForPulse]

@@gregarobida2035 do you play the game with Better balanced mods or w/o modds

[@gregarobida2035]

Without mods

[@CheckingForPulse]

@@gregarobida2035 If you re newish give Rome a try. Can't go wrong with that one.

[@gregarobida2035]

Im not new at all. But i im new to multyplayer but ye tnx i will try next game

[@thr4017]

Somehow "nostalgic" to see this "ancient" footage from the "first look" videos.

[@charleouel9012]

Goro's spearman seem kinda fine to me tho I don't play this game much but still (+10 combat str make them stronger than the sword man) and they got 1 gold cost making them good to overwhelm the enemy compare to the swordsman that good at 1 vs 1 but will fall to the spearman of goro overwhelming them whit numbers as they cost about 50% of the production and 50% of the cost to keep. hell with a -1 to upkeep they cost nothing to keep so you can have a tone of them... Overall they seem kinda fairly good tho I understand your point on the unique building they get not fitting her... she kinda don't want to build theatres really. so you won't use it much I guess she can be quite flexible by just haveing free culture form fighting. I don't really know how much culture it give tho might be good or really bad. hehe

[@user-ot1pm3et3d]

I totaly disagree about Hungary. This is one of the best domination civs in the game. If you know how to play properly with them you can literaly swarm the enemy with levied units which are much stronger and faster than the enemy ones. You have 5 combat strength from raven king, you choose oligarchy in the early game, you build a ministry of foregn affairs for 4 more combat strength and with a great general you have a total of +18 combat strength and 2 movement for a swarm of levied units. With that force you can easily occupy any civilization. Hungary should be on the S tier probably before Rome or maybe before Germany.

[@Sandman3695]

Couple more hot takes: Gilgamesh is fun to play in the ancient era, but is probably one of the worst civs in the game. Scotland should be A tier & Bull Moose Teddy is easily S tier, maybe even top 5 in the whole game

[@jyutzler]

I've had the Bull Moose discussion with another youtuber and I'm still not convinced. You have nothing to combat being forward-settled. I also have no idea why you rank Robert so highly. Agree with you on Gilgabro, but the war cart is underrated as a recon unit.

[@gunzakimbo]

@@jyutzler Bull Moose is probably the best civ in the game. All you need is patience and you can literally have a city making 6.5 science and 5.3 culture per turn and if you're lucky enough you can spawn a bunch of +2 science and culture tiles. You can literally learn archery in 17 turns. Add on a wonder like Paititi or Roraima and you can easily win sub 200 science or culture without secret societies or heroes and legends, just in a plain vanilla game. Also, Scotland is probably A-tier with the buff to amenities. They don't get a military bonus but with high science and production they can easily keep up and the only win they don't have an advantage for is religion which is by far the quickest way (at least in turns) to win without any extra game modes

[@leelambert1559]

@@gunzakimbo Bull Moose Teddy is incredibly broken on his TSLHE start. A tobacco location with both bonuses without being next to a wonder, so also a quickish pantheon, and he gets so many woods! You genuinely can get code of law at turn 4 with his TSLHE

[@burystan]

Playing Aztec on higher levels it is an S-teir civ ... esoecially after you get 2 extra actions and a fee wiorker via ancesteral hall they for more trade routes and science districts faster

[@Revolver55334]

You should do a tier list on the easiest -> hardest to play Civs.

[@TheCivLifeR]

good idea!

[@willevans3072]

I think you can sum up what everyone is thinking perfectly

[@rafjanssen1516]

As a Dutch person, I always laugh when you say the civ ability “Grote Rivieren” of the Netherlands but I don’t blame you for it.

[@TheCivLifeR]

lol mb

[@mackycabangon8945]

How I would balance the civs - note, this is all from the top of my head so it may not be too accurate: Germany - Splitting "holy roman emperor" is just odd, increased combat strength against city states doesnt fit the Imperial Cities description. I would keep the extra district as that is accurate (think of the tiny HRE states, not every one of them can be a city in-game so districts are the next best thing.) I can see nerfing the Hansa to +1 for a nearby Commercial Hub instead of +2, however. Alternatively, you can make the Hansa the Commercial Hub replacement, but still giving +1 production to adjacent industrial zones. The Military Policy Slot can also be removed. Chandragupta - Yea I can see Varu dealing damage to walls, I mean they are literal war elephants. Rome - I also agree with this. Production to City Center buildings fits Rome almost too well. The Legions chopping was also kinda odd imo, so it's okay to only have them build Roman Forts Aztecs - Improving all luxuries immediately? A bit odd of an ability tbh, so heres what i would do. I would firstly make eagle warriors able to generate builders from Barbarians, like they used to do before they got nerfed, as well as reducing their price. Possibly also extra movement on their starting settler/some small perk in the Capital (representing their migration to Tenochtitlan for the eagle on the cactus eating a snake, a holy symbol that showed them the "chosen place") can be interesting, but perhaps a bit op. Khmer - I like the changes you put forward for this civ, seem good Inca - I would only nerf EITHER their food OR production, not both, but otherwise good. Consider their TSL, mostly desert, sea and a bit of rainforest. Bull Moose Teddy - Agree here Gorgo - Yes, buff the hoplite, very underpowered irl. Classical Era works better for them anyway. Your acropolis changes are bizarre, however, I would just make it walled (like an Encampment) as that is a defensive bonus that can also help when struggling in domination. Nubia - I agree with reducing the district production, but I think the ranged units xp shouldnt be removed at all, maybe nerfed to 25%? Maori - Why do they not get great writers again? I agree. Poland - Poland shouldnt have religious as its main victory type imo. Yes they are religious but they didnt spread it as much. The free relic isn't bad, extra Great People points from holy sites is decent as long as its different from byzantium somehow (maybe once you have a great prophet, get great scientists or great generals? Gandhi - Free pantheon when meeting a civilization is a bit odd, but stepwell amenities is good. Thing is, gandhi wasn't even a religious figure like many other leaders so giving HIM the religious focus is kinda odd, so I would move his faith bonus to India instead but instead give him another bonus, idk what though as extra war weariness for enemies fits Gandhi perfectly Mali - Agree with this. Georgia - Can see that, so that's okay. Scotland - Agree with the changes on Bannockburn, didnt even use that ability once with my science game with them lol

[@njmfff]

In Civ 5, Rome had the ability where all buildings cost 25% less in your other non-capital cities, for each building you have in your Capital (Rome). So you build library in Rome, and you build it in other cities with 25% cost reduction. This made Rome economic powerhouse, because they could setup cities super fast.

[@richthesavior1250]

That dothraki in season 8 of GoT comment had me rollin 🤣 🤣

[@TheCivLifeR]

lol

[@hemithayk2136]

Ancestral Hall + Feudalism builder policy + Montezuma = Insane boost on getting something like a dam down

[@ondrejhapala3579]

Tamar should be higher, the diplomatic bonus is actually insane and the thing with the golden ages is when you get one, you will get another and another and another. Pretty easy to play well. If you dont build walls, do you really want to get culture win?

[@nathancarlson4230]

Macedonia an S tier? No way. On Deity mode their abilities get overtaken very quickly by the AI and they don’t really scale with the game unlike Germany and the additional district, or extra policy cards. The science from the encampment district doesn’t keep you in the game as you still need campuses and then you’ve devoted a lot of resources early on to districts.

[@redfella1527]

Lol for me Alexander works perfectly on deity. The more bonusses the AI gets (more wonders and more districts), the stronger he gets. You will always get great general thanks to your hetairoi and have to opportunity to get musketman like strengh against cities thanks to your hypaspists.

[@kibatsu18]

Kupe on Terra is S tier though.

[@richardkeen6965]

Im terrible at CIV 6 .. Can never seem to level up as fast as the AI even on settler level .. e.g. the AI can have nearly double the Science points I have etc ... any ideas? Could it be the amount of Cities I have, as I tend to only focus on 2 or 3 early on.

[@infinitedonuts]

It feels good that civs like Rome and Macedonia are S tier.

[@yazidefirenze]

"You couldn't even hit top tier in Civ VI." - Jeff Bezos to Mansa Musa

[@Grungo97]

This dude slaps

[@hypnosemblem8829]

Not the most viable but as Montezuma I really like popping out 3 straight eagle warriors straight and conquer the nearest civ or city states to me to offset it.

[@hypnosemblem8829]

I feel like his playstyle is a early war civ and then going to a more peaceful run later on with what you conquered. Basically using what you get as a snowball.

[@antongrigoryev6381]

Does the "within the range of Trade Route from Capital" part of "All roads lead to Rome" count Trading Posts? I.e. is it only a standard 15 tile radius or can it be extended unlimitedly as long as you don't have your cities too far (since each city also gets a Trading Post)?

[@aracoonwithalaptop6183]

It does

[@heyseuss8401]

This is gonna be random but your voice sounds like that of the crypto KZbinr CryptoKirby! 😁

[@SH-fz2pu]

Is Wilhelmina only available in a add on of the game?

[@jerryamescua]

I like how every leader is either fat or super ripped

[@timeofourlives1693]

Last video you did Trajan was a so so A- but now they're a S+ what changed your thoughts?

[@TheCivLifeR]

monuments op, legions op, legion chop is great

[@basil2946]

Hey, poland can use +2 prophet point card like greece does but with a cost of a military card. "Poland doesnt have a bonus to found a religion" is quite wrong. Also gorgo is an A tier civ imo.

[@TheCivLifeR]

ye but you need to beeline mysticism which might take too long + your missing out on early PP

[@greatgamingchannale8257]

A faith unit spam Ghandi is impossible to fight of.

[@williambarraclough8712]

the hansa doesnt give the most production. the netherlands and japans abilities do

[@orenjisalmonpaw]

Gilgachad teached me to write on my first game

[@jyutzler]

You're knocking this out of the park. Fabulous job so far. I thought Russia was an original S-tier civ? Not just Germany? I still think you are absolutely wrong on Amenitore. She is as spawn-dependent as Mana Musa and isn't particularly good at any victory type. Hungary's bonuses to districts are almost as good and his levying ability is much more powerful than Amenitore's archers. Boes has convinced me that you are overrating Gilgabro. I don't have him as low as Boes does but still pretty low.

[@davincisama]

At launch Russia was busted good, specially in MP thanks to Cavalry being able to use Siege Towers. Many a game in NQ group ended with an early Cossack rush.

[@docdesastro1019]

The commercial hubs giving the Hansa extra adjacency might result from immersive reasons. Remember, what the Hansa was: a trade federation of (free) Holy Roman Empire cities. They were all about manufacturing and trading so quite likely that these 2 types are linked. THe U-Boat feels odd for a Holy Roman empire and there a kind of Crusader Knight (especially for Frederik) or Landknecht would have been more appropriate. U-Boats and Tanks (Panzer!) rather would match a Nazi-Germany which we hopefully never will have in the game. Also, calling the HRE "Germany" makes me cringe a bit. Because at times this also meant Austria, Bohemia, Northern Italy, Switzerland and even somewhat land holdings in Poland-Lithuania under the Teutonic Knights (not under Barbarossa though). So in fact a conglomerate of regions where they spoke 'German'. To represent a 'real' Germany, they could have taken Frederick the Great of Prussia (special Unit could be "Lange Kerls", a special grenadier unit) or Bismark although he 'only' was chancellor under the Head of state Emperor Wilhelm II. but internationally better known.

[@TheCivLifeR]

good point about hansa and crusader

[@evang7954]

CHADragupta has a special place in my heart. elephants go brrrrrrrrrr

[@alwalidianyt4559]

42:36 nah bro don’t worry as long as you are a good friend to him he won’t split you in half :)

[@TheCivLifeR]

true lol

[@sambalbudanny2235]

iirc the fastest science victory record is montezuma

[@Chrmea22]

Kupe/Maori don't get Great Writers because they didn't have a written language.

[@TheCivLifeR]

makes sense tbh

[@antongrigoryev6381]

I would rework the Aztec unique building. It's a mess. Compared to Arena, it only gives 1 Culture, 2 Faith, and 1 General point. The former two aren't really noticeable - especially considering that Entertainment Complexes isn't something you build in big numbers - and the latter is just useless.

[@TheCivLifeR]

thats true, they dont use faith in their abilities. Maybe if they got culture from kills as well? And use faith to buy builders would make it better

[@antongrigoryev6381]

@@TheCivLifeR Culture for kills is too much stepping on Gorgo's toes, which is double bad considering she doesn't have a Civ of her own. Removing even that little uniqueness from her would make her worthless. Though if we give some totally new unique ability, then yes, Culture from kills will work well for Aztecs. Generally, Culture and Faith bonuses kinda do fit for what their unique building is - a playing field for their game that ended in ritual sacrifices - so I'm not sure how to change it while keeping the theme. I think the least that has to be done is to remove Great General points and give more of Faith and Culture so it's actually worth building Entertainment Complexes just for them. Now that I think about it, the bigger problem is not the building itself but that they don't really have a reason to build it. Such minor bonuses would be fine for a replacement of some popular building, like a library, but for Arena? Not so. Maybe give some extra bonuses for high Amenities, similar to Scotland but in a different way, so there is lesser overlap with their bonuses from Luxuries.

[@luisgutierrez8047]

Ghandi: is better than Scotland so has to be AT LEAST B tier if ur putting Scotland there. India can easily absorb +culture or +food religion early game. You just have to be good at forward settling. His holy sites are actually better than khmers once fully powered. Changrsgupta: at least A tier +2 movement and +5 CS is HUGE. You spent an awful lot of time dissing their UU Bec they're not good at taking down cities but that's not their function. They're there to help clear units so ur swordsmen can easily siege a city. Hungary: s tier. It's better than Trajan. +2 movement and +5 CS Makes their levied swordsmen better legions. That you can get for less opportunity cost. Gorgo: b tier. Levying is just SOOO good early game. And that's the strategy you should be using if you want to play to her strengths. She's no Hungary ye, but still very good with levying. China: a tier. Can literally go for any strategy by focusing on certain wonders. Science: etenkami, pyramids, great library. Diplo/religious: Stonehenge, Jebel barkal, mahabodi temple, apadana(not for religious). Culture: oracle, great library, apadana. Domination: apadana, Jebel barkal, terracotta army, statue of Zeus. Like literally JUST getting great library and etenmaky easily is awesome for any victory condition. As you will be getting free boosts for the rest of ur game and therefore ur science is secured and don't have to worry about it anymore.

[@TheCivLifeR]

good argument for Hungary, Chandragupta is good at killing units but by the time you research swords and rams the enemy ai is going to be in the medieval era

[@luisgutierrez8047]

@@TheCivLifeR ye they have to set up a lot that's why they're not the best. But again +2 movement (for civilian units too!) and +5 CS is HUGE. You can easily chain it up so the bonus is always active.

[@gabrielbitencourt1879]

I see you never faced a highlander with ambush promotion...

[@scott8448]

The list isn’t really complete though as change the time length of game and different rulers become OP. Use China on a marathon run and builder charges can decimate the opponents. Again a strong military leader will destroy the crazy number of barbarians that spawn non stop giving you unlimited cash or you can even recruit them to become an unstoppable military. Basically any leader is viable on marathon and the OP players aren’t the ones you listed, same would apply for the other game speed lengths.

[@DungForever]

The video says "ranking every leader" but this isn't a complete list. Is this part 2 or 3 of a series?

[@RandomGuyTalking]

Quick question...I kept hearing the acronym "RNG" what does that mean?

[@TheCivLifeR]

pretty much luck. For example you need to get lucky and find a relic in a tribal village with poland

[@Kal-qn9rw]

RNG = Random Number Generation. So like civ4life says, it's luck.

[@ashtonmilkyway]

Gilgimish is undoubtedly the best if you start in the ancient era.

[@millenedhean9929]

Lol

[@WEAREALLJUSTMEAT]

Poland with voidsingers is op as fuck honestly for religion and culture

[@marcoswillianl]

Imagine ir Germany had an actual cool unique unit.

[@TheCivLifeR]

would be dope if they got a panzer unit

[@papadelta316]

Ha ha...it's funny you say that "you'd be an idiot and still learn to play" my very first try at the game was with Nubia...and I got destoryed in like 40 turns!!!! I'm on my second try and I have the Netherlands. I'm doing a little better but I have to re-roll because I am way behind the others.

[@homoerectus3355]

26:55

[@jamesdykes517]

Jay is so dang good. Don't do him behind Trajan...

[@dannyperez1604]

I’m not watching 40 min of this but Fredrick of Germany is S Tier #1 OP

[@henrylarson6970]

Mali is insane in true start earth massive

[@jacksonperez5615]

Very ebic

[@TheCivLifeR]

noice

[@Petq011]

Teutonic Knight, Panzer, Panther, Tiger, U-boat... "meh, the one that's gonna be useless most of the time sounds good. Give them the sub." Sigh... And America got the P-51... whatever. 😅

[@scarthewerewolf]

Your action cause Gandhi to launch a nuke into your civilization! But seriously aside of the Dev decided to keep the legendary meme into the game. Gandhi is the hardest leader to play with.

[@greymann4047]

What is r n g?

[@tylerr3418]

It is 100% their fault for being alive right next to that mountain range where i can put a +6 science campus lol

[@mistaa3193]

What is the mod he has for the color of cities ?

[@Eddiemil1939]

Idk bro

[@Croatoan140]

If teddy ain’t in S I’m sad

[@TheCivLifeR]

bull moose is