How to Win a Science Victory In Civilization 6 - Turns 1-100

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[@jellojoe00]

It's takes me 100 turns to realize I'm fucked. Lol

[@rygyouwill5293]

I only realize after 400 turns

[@TheJPJT1234]

Barbarians... completely leaves the AI alone... mercilessly attacks the player😂

[@waitaminute6396]

I knew I wasn't trippin. Had 4 warriors and galleys that wouldn't leave me tf alone

[@captainrisky6561]

One thing to note, your districts become more expensive as you research more technology so it's helpful to get your cities going early in a science game

[@mrg3006]

I've been playing Civilization [as a casual player] since it first came out (probably before VB was born..lol); and I've enjoyed it and won countless times. But, I've learned more from VB after a few videos than I have ever learned about the mechanics of the game and it's even more enjoyable now. Keep up the good work, Young Man.

[@VanBradley]

Wow thank you! Im glad you’re enjoying the videos and I hope Civilization keeps being a game you come back to and enjoy 👌

[@myrtledawes]

Hey I also started on CIv back in 1993, was great.

[@silversponge4259]

I agree completely. Best Civ VI channel on YT. Only wish he had a turn counter cuz I'm doing all the things he's saying, I think I'm killing it, build the ruhr valley on turn 190...... then find out he built it on turn 27. Lol.

[@piazzaj88]

Thanks again VB, super helpful. Civ has been very intimidating for me and these videos help a ton.

[@ziggymack2233]

Your style of videos are teaching me so much. Thank you. I played 12 hours straight confused as to why my progress was so slow

[@kutumbele]

just started playing civ 6 a month ago. I think your content is the most informative and fun to watch civ 6 video on youtube.

[@verified_tinker1818]

"Don't worry, Rome's not gonna fall." Famous last words.

[@BradyRay_333]

I have played three games now for aournd 250 turns and have noticed I slowly fall behind. These videos are very helpful for me to get better and have ore fun with the game. Thank you!

[@aawan12]

@VanBradley Like MrG I started playing Civ before VB was born, on something called Floppy Disks 😀That being said, your method of instruction is second to none, and has helped me enjoy and understand and play these new iterations of Civ. I really want to be able to play/win a Science game using the advice you have laid out. But my biggest challenge, when playing in Prince mode, a small Pangaea map is that when I'm in the process of a building a good wonder (Oracle, Pyramids, or Oxford University), towards mid game, when I even have at least 1 Industrial Zone. In my most recent game I even got a Great Engineer that provides production towards Wonders, and I got down to < 10 turns towards completing my wonder, and the AI says some other Civilization has built it instead. This really has derailed my games multiple times. Also, going towards late game in a science game, the other civs have taken up all the Iron deposits, so is it possible to win a science game when you can't mine iron, and what tactics can you use to get another civ to share/trade iron.

[@btackett2]

Man, watching your videos has really shown me that I vastly underbuild on number of cities. I have a hard time a lot of times in the beginning with handing barbarian rushes, even on standard difficulty. Still learning and enjoying the game though

[@brianlance]

just started playing Civ and the barbs are so freaking annoying.

[@calpro3660]

I and my friends play civ 6 quite often and it's fun. I have won sometimes and when is every game ending I feel like I learned something. With your videos I am learning a lot... All these adjecty bonuses, wonders, where to build which district etc. Thank you for these videos. (sorry for my English :c)

[@westhamdd84]

Learning a lot, keep it up!

[@gregsimard9154]

Love the videos man, The Matterhorn sounds amazing if you have a city build an encampment right next to it then pump out units. Can use the units like in civ 2 and fight on the hills with bonuses

[@vinfogaming5]

Meanwhile in my game: 1) Randomizations be like (Australia, Gilgamesh, or Numbia) 2) Spawns in middle of field with little or no production for hundreds of miles 3) takes 30-90 turns for one fucking monument. 4) AI bum rush Tech and has muskets 20-50 turns in and nukes by turn 150 5) And its only on fucking warlord

[@ElDuderinoh]

On warlord? Dude you’re doing something horribly wrong.

[@drjtyson]

After god knows how long, I’ve finally realized that Rome isn’t purple anymore

[@vjj5415]

In mine it is and I downloaded a month ago?

[@burt1216]

You can change the colors of the civ to red or purple or a few others if you wanted to

[@wadehisle9175]

Question- why did you take goddess of festivals instead of great spark? Wouldn't great spark be more helpful for great scientists?

[@wolfwhitaker]

Hey there. I brought Civ 6 2 or so months ago on my computer after coming from Civ 5 and couldn't win at all. My computer went up a few weeks ago so I brought it again on PS4. I say all of that to say... your videos have helped me claim two victories (culture and religious) on Prince after 2 months of playing. Thank you so much ❤😭

[@v.f.]

Love these videos man! I've basically won my first games thanks to this series. Just one thing though, from an italian guy, it is pronounced Rvènna not Ràvenna :)

[@GraysonS191]

What settings do you play on, such as the start position, type of map, number of civs, etc?

[@pibaron74]

i am curious how were you able to get all those mountain areas on your map? What map did you use when you started out and did you doing any preoptimizations before starting the game

[@chrisohaire8264]

Cheers VB loved it

[@connyberg5665]

Everytime I play Immortal or Deity, at about turn 150 I am making maybe 90 science but the AI is making like 250-300.

[@deacon6221]

That’s because the AI gets free buildings and extra settlers in the higher difficulties. The only way to counter is through war or spies.

[@Chonus]

you don't start making decent science until you get universities down

[@Dotalol123]

From playing Total war franchise and Civ i learned one thing, AI is dumb and it just cheats, playing toe to toe with them you gonna just chase your own tail, you have to be smart and cheese. Playing fair with an unfair opponent is pointless.

[@alex1695lopez]

A strategy for any victory type in deity is to find your nearest neighbor and conquer them immediately. Instead of wasting a population on a settler, u build your army and blitzkrieg your neighbor (who will most likely hate you the entire game anyways). U get a good free city (capital cities usually have the best locations) and take out your nearest rival. No fighting for contested land. No having to keep a large army in case they attack later on. U save all your money and production for actually improving your cities. You end up getting such a huge advantage early game that the rest just snowballs into any victory type you want.

[@OblivionImperialGuard]

Great video, I’ve learned so much and I’ve only ever won war victories after playing so much, also do you mind telling me what DLCs you have installed? I just have the base game so I’d be grateful 🙏

[@MFobes]

It’s wonderful. I’m not sure what he’s got here so far as I’m only a couple minutes in but if he mentions secret societies or monopolies he’s most likely got the anthology which is all of them. I know at this point all of his videos talk about all of the dlc included. I would purchase the anthology just so you don’t worry about missing any features. They’re severely broken up otherwise and still you’ll miss out on some without the full package

[@OblivionImperialGuard]

@@MFobes Thank you very much 🙏

[@TheToiletroll]

Why is fertility rites bad? I do feel like growth rate is situational, since the area needs enough production. The early worker really has some impact imo, since it can really speed up the spread of the first few cities if you get production up

[@p00bix]

Where did you get that teddy bear?! My sister had the same one when she was younger, we haven't been able to find it anywhere.

[@seanfoley2447]

I’m kind of a noob but I really like to rush Fertility Rights and Hanging Gardens. Sets up to spam settlers to build a wide but weak early empire

[@Anolaana]

30:33 "cavalry" -- well technically we did get that free chariot earlier hehe. But some of the AI taunts are pretty silly. 39:35: Boosting stirrups was a lower roll, you were literally already researching Feudalism xD (although I guess what you maybe meant was that it would have been a race between the civic completion and the science), but I guess them's the breaks and at least it didn't go to an AI! It looks like Machinery would have been one of the high rolls there.

[@yahmsluddenutube1087]

What are your settings cause I’ve never seen the names for continents I’ve only been playing for less than a week

[@SolSteal]

I know this video is 2 years Old but what Difficulty do you Play on? Because when I play on Warlord and Prince I am attacked non-stop by Barbarians and can not get as much cities up as you do in 100 turns. At most 3 and usually with only with 30 Science even after 100 turns. Also it seems not many of the AI's are Building Wonders in your game. In my game by turn 20 they take Bath house and Hanging Gardens and Stonehenge and Oracle Before I even get my First Campus because I am fighting off so many Barbarians.

[@alex1695lopez]

I almost always go for divine spark for the pantheon. It helps so much with keeping up with the AI in getting great scientists. You can snag the best early great scientists until the AI catches up. Then by renaissance era, you'll get so ahead you take them all.

[@Lightningfootjones]

This! I find myself constantly scratching my head wondering if I’m the only one who thinks divine spark is really strong. One time I got bologna, the Oracle and Divine spark and it was the fastest win I ever got. I think the game ended in Industrial

[@DividedStates]

Why is he yelling the entire time?

[@tamalexpert9212]

So we can hear him

[@yayeeters4919]

Cause Civ 6 is exciting.

[@praxtheslayer]

Mr. Beast kind of hype for anything

[@tamalexpert9212]

@@praxtheslayer you love Mr Beast bro? Me too

[@Antizilla]

Can you use caps please? I can't hear you

[@juanmaruhle]

I dont understand why mohenjo gives you the advantage of founding citys anywhere with the fresh water boost?

[@wilfywilmott]

Hi, why is my game so much different to this? Theres quite a few things on this that are not on my game, i dont have governors and i noticed a few other things missing. Are governors added in an expansion?

[@andrewlantz2639]

Yes. You need the Gathering Storm expansion (it's the only essential expansion and includes the gameplay features of rise and fall)

[@Jokerjop2]

How do you win every wonder? Mostly when I try to build The Oracle on the turn I unlock it, the AI still beats me to it...

[@Yeti2308]

You have to rush the tech

[@diamonddave69]

How are you able to see the other civilazation's production in the top right? Which setting is that?

[@VanBradley]

Options, interface, “show yields in HUD ribbon, always show

[@lxwkey9763]

Do you need a religion to defend from religious victorys ? I'm new to the game and I never done a science run. But lost to religion doing a culture gameplay

[@emryscass7327]

Is there a limit to how far your city borders can expand? When I look at the options to buy surrounding tiles, I notice some of them are not available for purchase. Do you know why that is?

[@Yeti2308]

They can only be bought from 3 tiles but they can grow beyond that it just slows down exponentially

[@SuperDeww]

How do you get good starts with Rome? I always end up near tundra/desert but on green tiles.

[@VanBradley]

Honestly I just re-rolled a bunch of times until I got a start that I thought was good! Sometimes it just takes a minute because of different spawn biases. If you load up a game with Mali and Cleo as the A.I. Mali will spawn near desert and Cleo near flood plains which means it’s more likely Rome will spawn near hills/mountains and the like

[@MrJaman0083]

Spam restart until you get a start with 3 production.

[@aawan12]

@@VanBradley just want to confirm a good start in a Science game. Obviously fresh water source, and a mountain or more within 2-3 tiles. But in terms of the tile to start on? 1-2, 2-2, If all the above are true, but you start on a 1-1 tile is it worth it to respawn, or even move your settler to a 1-2, or 2-2 tile instead? thanks.

[@RedoStone35]

What map size were you on for this?

[@Yeti2308]

He was on small

[@guilherme_castro32]

How do you get those governors? I never saw them in my Civilization VI on Switch.

[@thefighter1442]

Its a dlc, i think it is part of the rise and fall one

[@thefighter1442]

Or just get Gathering Storms, I guess Rise and Fall is part of it

[@drivers8806]

i just started playing and I have not seen a government plaza as a selectable building. I play on prince and I've gotten state workforce multiple times. Any idea whats up?

[@jaxsonfanta5420]

You have vanilla civ 6 i believe. I dont hve the Downloadable content, bexause i still dont understand normal civ lol

[@tmunoz0708]

Why is the fertility rites pantheon terrible? I always pick that. I rush hanging gardens and fertility rights. I only have 130 hours in the game but it makes the most sense to me

[@rapeme2158]

Which difficulty u play

[@penreee9711]

whats with the magnus guy and the others? I dont have those in my game

[@Yeti2308]

They're in the civ 6 expansion pass

[@nathanielpursley621]

How did you enable it to show good places for campuses?

[@MrImasta]

Always show yields :under game options👍

[@aawan12]

@@MrImasta can you explain how showing yields will let you know if a tile is good for campuses? I had to look up the "Nice Tabs" developer add on, where you have to place a tack where you "think" a good campus would be for it to reveal. But if there's another way using yields I'd prefer that, but I need to know what to look for. Thanks.

[@thefighter1442]

Which map is this?

[@gokuson2628]

which map is this?

[@cashtatum6158]

What is a rur valley?

[@paulford05]

I subscribed because of your shirt. Team Ravenclaw!

[@jjochems]

Can someone please tell me why you would want to put down an aquaduct in a city that is already on a river shoreline?

[@Rational_Driver]

It's more for the adjacency bonus on industrial zones. They also still give housing too. Sometimes you can cram two zones between two aqueduct and a dam giving you some really nice zones.

[@malachiholder351]

So this was on Prince? Good video but better on hardest difficulty

[@augiefield7926]

What is your seed?

[@er4manu258]

is there a way to save the minute from one day to another? one hour long video stopping for wiki checks and that makes it eternal

[@PhilU2B]

If you right-click on the video, you get an option to copy video URL at current time. Make a bookmark with the address in the clipboard.

[@Coffin_]

How do I turn my volume to negative? Dude is louder than mute.

[@mihirkardile6676]

im confused, why does his scout take 5 turns to produce, mine take 10 turns?

[@charlesduke9750]

A good video, however its fault is having a perfect start pos. It would have been better if VB could have shown us how to overcome a so-so setup and still get a science victory.

[@_Silkentofu_]

How do you select two Technologies to go in order of each other if they are not in the same line of progression? 😲

[@VanBradley]

If you click the one you want to do now, and then Shift+Click the one you want to head to it’ll finish the first one and automatically take you on a path towards the technology you shift clicked on! It’ll also number them so you know which order the game will research them in 😊

[@taniazhang4515]

You can turn down Great People? 🤯 mind blown.

[@jamesfisher4388]

I like city patron goddess

[@ducatiniels]

So much too learn... When progress is slow due to mismanagement. It gets boring and frustrating. To see the ai taking all the space and me struggling barbarians instead of producing.

[@dylangrdinich4440]

I would just keep playing go in and out take a few breaks from the game and come back it got me into it recently

[@MrImasta]

When i learn to play that game right ill be a governor of usa but its a nice game!

[@allenrudd75]

Why is fertility rites so bad?

[@nern3889]

should you place campuses down, even if they have 0 adjacency bonus?

[@Brayslayer]

Depends on difficultly, your science and some other minor things. For your first campus i suggest you try for a +2 but a no adjacency means wasting production for a libary just so that campus produces science.

[@lolzxd7462]

you should if there are no good locations. It means you will have to settle more city to catch up the ai at higher difficulty

[@jaxsonfanta5420]

Im not sure whats more important, campuses or theater squares, but just know that its the buildings in campuses where the real power is! Starting off though, adjacency is the most important. Later though, a no adjacency campus isn’t the worst thing since its all about the great people points and buildings inside the campus. Your first 2 or 3 campuses should be a good adjacency if it can be, the rest would be nice, but cards great people and buildings will help science more than adjacency ever could.

[@GhostlordGames]

Learning a lot and liked the video, but as a little constructive feedback, try not yelling into the mic every single word. After watching for 20 minutes it really starts to annoy the ears lol

[@VanBradley]

The audio issues are slowly getting better as we go along! I apologize for this one. The good news is I’m re-recording this series with a whole new audio setup after all the Civilization updates come out for the Frontier pass, so we should end up with good audio on all of the videos people are watching 👌

[@GhostlordGames]

@@VanBradley excited to watch!!!

[@matthewnapoleon125]

Why is it that when I play the AI has like 100 science by turn 100

[@Yeti2308]

Same

[@jlgaming9997]

India be like: hippity hoppiy that mountain is now my property

[@IjohnnyproI]

My man!

[@hieveryonemynameiskermit4109]

If you are playing as Russia and you settle a city in a bunch of tundra tiles, does anyone know what you do to get enough food to grow the city?

[@bpx9979]

only real way is a lot of traders going to your own cities. But this will ruin your gold income depending on the state of your commercial districts.

[@darkavenger2415]

There's two options. Both are faith related. The first option and usually the best option is to pick the religious belief "Feed the world". This allows your holy site to produce food equivalent to the adjacency output iirc. The second option is to pick the worship building "Gurdwara". This building provides +2 food from your holy site. If you plan on making loads of cities in tundra, get both and you'll be the Polar King

[@averagehoi4player52]

I'd actually recommend Russia for beginners.

[@Adolfhitler-qv9df]

Why

[@kev4241]

yeah the giant city starts give a lot of great tiles

[@macshimantasarker748]

Man i can beat King everytime easily within 250 turns but i cant play on Emperor they always have more than 3 times the science or culture than me by turn 100

[@Pekoe.]

I can’t even beat prince 😭

[@mmmmmmm3246]

@@Pekoe. Did you get better? I also suck at prince but I’m doing okay on Warlord

[@kev4241]

the massive leap from king to emperor is a bit of a pain. I think there's a way to edit game.xml to not have the AI with three settlers at start

[@doranselwyn8608]

It's called Ra-VEN-na

[@hieveryonemynameiskermit4109]

42:31

[@unavailable9051]

Loksins einhver Íslendingur á KZbin

[@SMTHMNDN]

Why are you shouting?

[@Jordy2277]

I love you, but please don't yell:(

[@lamaisondieu]

dude why are you yelling????

[@michaelbeck4435]

Could you please not yell... it's too high energy for an informative video

[@connyberg5665]

Agree. I couldn't finish watching the video :(

[@jellojoe00]

What? Just turn down the volume!

[@BubbleBuddies]

Yo hope you got your volume button fixed 🙏

[@historyremembers7274]

@@BubbleBuddies I fear the worst, those bugger never work when they finally break.

[@deanb5055]

@@historyremembers7274Winner via Confusion

[@ElJavelouto]

Why is he yelling at us ? Can't watch more than 15 secondes...

[@ElDuderinoh]

You’re just too soft. He’s not yelling at us dude.

[@AICabal]

Jesus christ, talk normally.

[@KiaaneMcMcalongingsuthe-iw1vj]

Rome sucks play Korea

[@iansmith8454]

I genuinely want to listen to what you have to say but I can’t tolerate it for long enough because you shout every sentence. Please just talk.

[@uberwebd9824]

Remove your headphones and you will not shout

[@bernieseth5115]

Will you please stop shouting at us thank you.