Apadana - Civilization VI Wonder Spotlight

[@ChrisGJ700]

One of my "Must Have" wonders, along with all the policy card wonders.

[@raducora7159]

On deity, I only get to be able to build Apadana when playing a civ that has a strong cultural early game, such as Trajan or Gorgo, or when it happens for me to be the first to meet something like 2 cultural city-states and get that free envoy for them. Otherwise, the AIs always completes Political Philosophy before me and they usually start building the Apadana right away. Also, another case when Apadana is really good(but again, hard to build on deity), is when playing Catherine for cultural victory and building a wonderland to make use of her tourism bonus. If you pack most of your wonders in 3-4 cities, then there's that late game golden age dedication that boosts your tourism from wonders in cities with governors. If you plan it that way and somehow manage to build the Apadana, it can really become a very powerful wonder.

[@dans3369]

This is a really great wonder as wonder-focused civs like china or egypt, especially if you find brussels early (+15% production for all wonders).

[@Sharnoy1]

Enjoying your content a lot! Keep up the good work!

[@TheSaxyGamer]

Thanks!

[@arja2317]

I like to use Apadana and city states to play a tall military game. Small land area, wonder heavy but if you put out enough troops you can get into protectorate wars with neighbors to keep their power in check, when you liberate a city state you get 9 envoys, so you are automatically the suzerain of that city state in most cases and if you aren't you have the other AI's envoys and governor concentrated in one location so you can hold the others with less envoys. Mid to late game you should be getting most your culture/gold and science from city states so you can spend less time on districts and more time on wonders and you will have what are essentially internal trade routes with gold yields if you send your envoys the city states you are suzerain of. Logistics gets to be a problem but if after building the wonder you just focus on science and rush to advanced flight and combined arms it becomes almost too easy because the AI sucks. It's a strategy I would like to try in a multiplayer game with humans though.

[@ironmikebugner]

Built this for the first time the other day while playing Pericles. It was very easy to become allies with every city state and rake in loads of culture.

[@anthony-joewaked5139]

A must have especially with Congo and Russia (they always lack slots)

[@isaackarjala7916]

What if your capital is on a one tile island

[@pantrysnatcher]

studying for my ancient history test and I was very confused lol

[@HienNguyenHMN]

Can you make a video on which city State suzerainty you think is good?

[@Renan290692]

I use a mod tha changes apadana's bonus. It goes for every city, but only gives one envoy for each wonder.

[@aapolantta7508]

This combined with Hungary 👌

[@johncrofford]

You can't build it if your capital is on a one-tile island. That is only really going to matter for the Maori.

[@jasonsacchi]

I can only build Apadana in the capital city.

[@ckhawk00]

City Wall mod. Never play civ6 without it

[@hapsanaCovjece]

I love your videos but i have just one complain about them. Please do your research before you do them.. You said in your videos before, stuff like: Upgrade from Horseman is Knight.. its Heavy chariot.. Sukienice (poland's UB) is replacement for the bank, when its for the market and so on.. i love your stuff and keep going but just change those little things.. :)

[@markdombrovan8849]

I agree with this guy. Also, little mistakes in videos usually make me tilted. Like in this one - you will always, no matter what, be able to build apadana. There are a LOT of ways to not be able to construct it

[@Matsie36]

@@markdombrovan8849 While I agree that it's not always possible to build it, it's pretty rare that there is absolutely no availlabe tile around the capital.

[@markdombrovan8849]

@@Matsie36 well, yeah, that is completely true. But sometimes it happens, i.e. "new" old age "abundant" resources and "high" sea level. Your capital has 2 coastal tiles, one tile surrounded by 3 mountains, on which you already built the campus and the rest 3 have some luxury resources. Also, for a more likely scenario, you are playing TSL Europe/Even as Pericles, then you can't really afford losing any tiles

[@Matsie36]

@Adrain Acha comments this on an in-depth civ strategy video.

[@Matsie36]

@Adrain Acha I disagree. This is a video about one wonder, that talks about the strategy, yields and strength of this one small element of the game. This is an in-depth video if I've ever seen one.