OPTIMIZE Your Early Game in Civ 6!

[@adityavarshney6690]

Very valuable. Didn't realize the tradeoff between faith city states and the policy card. Also didn't realize the shorter tech path to commercial hubs. 2 turn pyramids was nuts 😂 Thanks!

[@yaseminyilmaz1648]

Thank you, I never realised how few units it takes to capture city states early and will definitely start doing it now :)

[@mattbiggs1992]

Another quality guide Herson, thanks!

[@salat_32]

so many great tips, pls do more content like that

[@drdumpenstein4868]

Dude. Way underviewed. All videos. Need more views. Commenting for that. Subbed liked very very helpful

[@solidawesomeness]

Loved this video. So much content in just a few short minutes.

[@lindoriastreams8446]

Great video, such attention to detail. Love the hint of swagger at the end too

[@charapoKKo]

my only gripe is that now I'm gonna have to restart my recent game and try these out. :P

[@charapoKKo]

Great video. Thanks

[@godfreyofbouillon966]

Damn great guides. Lots of stuff useful in single player too.

[@ItsMinoAgain]

Hey, I know this video is pretty old now but... How would the early game be best played without DLC? Considering, without Magnus, internal trade routes are much less efficient and you cant rely on Pen Brush and Voice to supplement your early culture.

[@GalenWill]

Question: why three Horsemen instead of building a battering ram to use with Eagle Warriors? Would that work just as well?

[@stevenheydorf6931]

You forgot about using the super OP Shift + Enter strategy for stockpiling Science and Culture.

[@HersonCiv]

The mod Multiplayer Helper, which is required in the largest multiplayer Civ communities like CPL and CivFR, automatically selects a technology and civic to research whenever you fail to choose one by the end of your turn in order to prevent this.

[@stevenheydorf6931]

@@HersonCiv Ah, interesting to know. Although kind of disappointing, that is a cool trick in my opinion.

[@kamilkarczmarczyk9445]

In any of ur games I've never seen a barbarian unit? Does it turn of on FFA on BBG? I've checked settings on GCP website, and there is info about barbarians. I am curious how much you neglect military in early.

[@kamilkarczmarczyk9445]

btw awesome content

[@HersonCiv]

Free-for-all games in CPL are generally played with barbarians set to "civilized", which reduces the number of them that spawn and limits them to melee/ranged units (no cavalry). I still see barbarians in most of my games, but they rarely present a big problem. One of my newest videos "How to Kill Someone in Civ 6" details two games in which barbarians meaningfully slowed me down.

[@kamilkarczmarczyk9445]

@@HersonCiv okeeeey, got it. I will incorporate it in my private friends multiplayer, because nowadays I feel we are forced to play with barbarians clan mode to reduce barbarians on unsettled land

[@mikespelun]

why did u make campus in ur capital as first district ? I can understand making campus if its +3 but have no idea why u did +2 instead of waiting for commercial hub ? Also great video! Im watching it second time and still notice things (or im just daft :P) I loved "how many horseman u need to conq CS" especialy

[@HersonCiv]

The campus was +4 adjacency, because the fish to its southwest were on a reef tile. Ordinarily, reefs can't spawn in lakes - however, the "Better Balanced Starts" mod used in CPL will, on very rare occasions, create a reef in a lake if it's directly next to the tile you spawn on at the start of the game. You can see at 0:17 that I actually spawned adjacent to that reef.

[@trumangregg6266]

Why does the city become a 3 food 1 production at 25 seconds in? Shouldn't it be a 2 food 1 production because the city only makes the minimum yields be 2 food 1 production?

[@Jacen6678]

He's using the Better Balanced Game mod

[@offbeathiking]

Full video of this game on your channel?

[@robjsmithUK]

why was it only 12 faith (normally 25 right?) to buy a Pantheon? Is that a BBG thing? Couldn't see any mention of thin in the BBG mod description

[@HersonCiv]

The cost of founding a pantheon scales based on the game speed setting. If you play with standard speed, it costs 25, but when playing on online speed, it only costs 12.

[@austinong1972]

How many food do I need to make a city 1 pop to 2 pop? Why do some people say to work a 3 1 for 2 turns on a 3 1 base?

[@HersonCiv]

On a 3-1 base, you can get away with working a 3-1 on turn 1 and then a 2-2 on turn 2 and you'll still grow to 3 pop on turn 3. Afterwards, working a 2-2 and a 3-1 will get you to 3 pop by turn 6. Working a second 3-1 will not actually get you to 3-pop faster than this, even if you worked a 3-1 tile for the first two turns. Working two 2-2 tiles instead will get you to 3 pop by turn 7, but will also speed up the completion of your 2nd scout by one turn (which can be worthwhile). There's no need to work a 3-1 tile for two turns in a 1-pop city with a 3-1 base if you're playing on online speed - you're losing one prod without hitting any growth breakpoints faster.

[@xHFSxShadow]

Is there a way to get better balance without buying the dlc?

[@xHFSxShadow]

Nevermind, found another version. (Better Balanced Game 4.8.3)

[@Gregory-bt9hb]

You can't implement these strategies without making long term friends in the CPL. The group is a bit clicky and sort of colludy if that makes sense. If you're a noob you're gonna get rolled and backstabbed a lot. Still fun. You just have to play "spoiler" till you make long term friends over time and get to know the group which is small in reality.

[@vartheal450]

Your videos are extremely usuful. Good job

[@Sebastian-pl2rz]

Does this work if we don’t play with the better balance game mode ? Like does the build orders and optimizations stay the same as in the video

[@HersonCiv]

All of these should work, although there are two notable differences: 1. The capital city's city center tile will be a 2-1 in vanilla if settled on a resourceless flat tile, not a 3-1 like in BBG 2. City states will build substantially more units if you're playing on a difficulty higher than prince. They are not nearly as easy to kill in a diety game as they are in multiplayer games (which are conventionally played on Prince)

[@bigbackman3609]

@@HersonCiv why multiplayer games are played on prince and not on diety? I only play multi with friends, so we never go to war with each other, but i feel that prince difficulty makes the players kill all the city states and maybe each other without the threat of barbarians (also the 2 horseman to take a cs is nuts)

[@HersonCiv]

@@bigbackman3609 Playing on Deity means that, if a player quits the game, the AI that takes over will instantly gain all of the deity buffs. This is really bad for the game, especially if it happens after the player who quit has already built out a strong empire.

[@bigbackman3609]

@@HersonCiv I didnt really consider this possibility, makes sense.