Top 5 Civ + Map Combinations That Are UNBEATABLE In Civ 6

[@williamcahill2927]

Me: Not having fantastic days CivLifer: Comes out with a new video Me: Day becomes a little bit better

[@kevingriener7441]

Just a little bit

[@vaille6133]

Maori in Terra. So you get a complete continent on your own

[@tonyboy_c3120]

Sounds like a lot of fun. I will definitely try that out

[@lancedelacruz4117]

What’s the best map for Kongo?

[@MisseurNick]

Just did this map and finished last night, was super fun!

[@sunriseparrabellum5505]

This is the correct answer

[@beanburrito4405]

Maori in Terra and Inca in Highlands or Primordial should have at least gotten mentioned, those are busted combos

[@evanrudibaugh8772]

It's not *perfect* but Indonesia on archipelago is quite fun... IF you are suzerain of Auckland. It's so beautiful to see a city on just three tiles have 100+ production. A nice bonus to faith, which can be used to buy ships. The minor adjacency bonuses are a little weaker than they might naively sound. An industrial zone on a one-tile island only give +3.The standard adjacency bonuses for harbors are generally more useful (often +5 gold and production, which can easily be doubled).

[@sam90heywood]

1:54 use inland sea map, with cold setting to maximise tundra as theres no water at the top and bottom of the map

[@IggyWithOrange]

Brazil in True start location huge earth + forest fires = Profit

[@TheCivLifeR]

that sounds insane

[@alliezah]

Inca + preserves (Highlands map I guess), very fun to play.

[@harpbhandal1275]

Found this a year later, and just wanted to say it was super helpful (as are many of your other videos) as I continue my deity journey!

[@kipblass2131]

6:35 - I concede that I'm super duper nit-picking here, but how does more culture give you more envoys? Obviously many civics give you envoys- is that what you're referring to? I always consider the envoys from civics to be "banked" envoys that I store in case I need to re-take suzereinity of a city-state and particularly those that you can build a strategy around (Auckland, Bologna, Kumasi, etc.) and "extra" envoys from bonuses like quests, Acropolis, RR Teddy and Hammurabi and Matthias, great merchant generation, and most notably the Owls opener. Also, while she certainly isn't the strongest civ in the game, I'd give a mention to Gitarja on an island plates or archipelago map with abundant resources and the Auckland city-state.The Kampungs make some of the best tile-porn in the game. With just a lighthouse, those kampungs are at least food-neutral (making the 2 food necessary to feed the population point working it) and usually food-positive, make 2 hammers per turn each early game and 4 hammers each mid-game, they all sprinkle in gold per turn, give you basically unlimited housing... as long as you can stay on top of amenities (perhaps by building a religion around it), you can have cities that almost rival Jay's in size with most worked tiles having more production than his do. And the real beauty of this is that since most of your worked tiles will be water tiles, you can 1.) chop everything on land, except the luxuries and strategics that you're selling to the AI, and 2.) not having to worry about working land tiles means you can focus 100% on using your land to optimize district and wonder placement. I know you Civ-tubers like your pangaea and continents maps, and while Gitarja does get beaten out by Portugal Joe, her on these maps make incredibly fun games... and relaxing - while taking out a neighbor early is one of the best ways to hit the ground running, it's so nice to be able to just sim-city your way to victory; by the time the AI has the tools needed to reach you, you've already built your "don't f- with me" units that prevent them from every DoWing. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! Almost guaranteed first pantheon, I used to use it for God of the Sea but with kampungs its not really necessary, and you obviously don't want Earth Goddess or land tile-boosting pantheons, but holy site boosting picks help, Divine Spark is good, Religious Settlements, Goddess of Harvests, Fertility Rites plays into her strat well, or even city patron so every city can get their all-important harbor out. And with Societies... Owls obviously as every city will generate 2 trade routes and most of the city-states won't be killed by Deity AI or at least much later (most on islands.) She doesn't have the best faith output but still gets a little something to boost Voidsingers main bonus (the second one.) Not much for Sanguine, but since she's working mostly water tiles and having her land optimize districts, she's one of the few that can actually make Hermetic Order work!

[@TheCivLifeR]

civics require culture and unlock envoys

[@kevingriener7441]

I would love to see a Civ streamer game with an archipelago map and all the civs with unique ships. Call saxy & potato and make it so!

[@BKGamesPI]

The Ridge Definition Map option is part of Better Balanced Starts (BBS) Mod

[@TheCivLifeR]

I have that so that makes sense

[@whitehawk9934]

Peter on the huge tsl earth is pretty op cuz you can settle a ton of cities and avoid the usual loyalty chaos of Europe.

[@andrewboardman2654]

Thats why I like to manually pick the civs on TSL maps, make sure they are spread out as much as possible, usually try to put 2 civs per continent, and try to make them spread out from each other.

[@TrentTheMegaGangster]

10k subs getting closer! Great video today bro

[@TheCivLifeR]

Almost

[@doublechairs]

3:10 that russia statement didn't aged well

[@agent19tah]

Can you win with a bad naval civ (like say gandhi Sumeria n all) on archipelago map in a map with 5 or so naval civs? (Dido, harald, germany etc etc)

[@brandonzzz9924]

Naval warfare is so easy. Even with the update to naval AI, a couple frigates or battleships will quite literally take out every city within 3 tiles of the coast. Even being behind in science by multiple eras, the AI can't deal with battleships and aircraft.

[@reabin9x]

Joao is just ridiculous lmao. I played him once and was like holy hell mother of gold. Love me some Portugal!!!!

[@Buktu94]

Where is Kupe on a Terra map? You basically get half the world + all cs for yourself! Thats by far better than the russia set up for example, where you still get your districts pillaged alot and have to rebuild them every time.

[@Jonny2Bravo]

Nice...more like this. Civ specific optimization videos please.

[@TheCivLifeR]

Noted

[@asterik2045]

Keep up the great work man!

[@TheCivLifeR]

Thanks! Will do!

[@CompoundInterest-SG]

If you turn on Secret Societies and pick Owls, you can get twice the number of traders per city by building Gilded Halls, making Portugal even more OP. Also, I think Rough Rider Teddy with Barbarian Clans and Owls, and Magnificence Catherine with Monopolies and Corporations deserve an honorable mention.

[@TheCivLifeR]

Catherine with monopolies... insane

[@zesky6654]

1:08 - wouldn't Pachacuti be better with that map?

[@TheCivLifeR]

I forgot about him

[@Zeke-id2bo]

Mansa Musa on a hot and arid map with new world is pretty powerful and fun. Plenty of desert and hills.

[@bollyfan1330]

You did not mention the BBS mod that you are obviously using. I didn't know about that. Excited to try it out. Does it reduce the number of times you have to click "Restart" due to an unacceptable spawn location?

[@TheCivLifeR]

pretty much gives everyone balanced starts, same distance, similar yields, makes things more fair

[@thekhan517]

Do you sell Used cars in your off time...it always sounds like you are selling something...lol. Fun videos though...keep it up.

[@TheCivLifeR]

lol appreciate it!

[@onenutmia8323]

What mod are you using that puts the option in the game for ridges? I couldn't find anything in the Steam workshop.

[@TheCivLifeR]

I didnt know it was a mod, I thought it was added in April

[@enKageKagen]

Cree + highlands = denying food and exploration to rivals, while Cree are immune to lack of farms and okichictaws start with free promo that can be used for guerilla. And pretty guaranteed every mekewap would be on hill. Surprisingly the best civ for every highly hilly map and pretty syrprised you again forgot about Cree while it deserves at least for honourable mention. You must don't like them at all.

[@marciusnhasty]

How many civs you can add on huge map size seems to be hardware dependent. It was limited to 24 on my old machine, I can get 36 on the current one.

[@TheCivLifeR]

that would make sense, adding all 50 civs on area 51 servers

[@liamwigger6909]

France on tsl Europe is fun if you rush garde imperiale and go for a domination Victory

[@dudefromthe80s46]

I like your videos, but am unable to duplicate conditions based on the plethora of mods you use. It changes the game completely, when you do this.

[@toastertubbo]

gaul on highlands is just free culture and production

[@AndrewChumKaser]

Do a tier list of cooperative civs, IE: Civs that work good together in multiplayer/making friends with the AI.

[@havelthesock]

Military CIV + Gilgamesh + Military Alliance is always pretty strong.

[@Charizardlison]

are the expanded map options available on playstation??

[@TheCivLifeR]

I think they should be

[@GregNumber]

Kupe, Archipelago, Marathon.

[@jarlGudmunder]

You should’ve put the Inca on highland map I have and average of 48 food per city and 30 production per city I had a city with no water with 15 population!

[@TheCivLifeR]

my god inca and that map are strong

[@andrewhavrylei6333]

When did they add Ridges Definition?

[@TheCivLifeR]

I think april update? maybe sooner

[@BigBlue92]

@@TheCivLifeR I am not seeing it either, is that a mod or no?

[@thr4017]

@@BigBlue92 Me neither, I would also like to know what mod this is

[@BKGamesPI]

It's part of BBS mod better balanced starts

[@BigBlue92]

@@BKGamesPI you are an angel

[@andrewhavrylei6333]

When you play Peter on cold map somebody gets +25 faith per turn and gets dance of the aurora first

[@TheCivLifeR]

how?

[@ness6099]

I find that a normal lakes or highlands map has enough tundra in the north/south to make a huge empire. It allows you to divide your empire into a huge faith dump in the tundra and traditional cities in the non-tundra. You have so much tundra it’s insane.

[@alliezah]

@@TheCivLifeR possible I guess, relic, city state and spawn near that stupid tundra faith wonder

[@mrpancakes7369]

They probably get a Tribal Village with Faith if I had to guess.

[@andrewboardman2654]

Yeah, AI seems to prioritized getting that even when they are no where near tundra for some reason, is bull. Literally can never get it with Canada on deity, unless I find a relic in a village almost right away.

[@bananaman4624]

And if you make it inland sea cold as russia there is more tundra

[@SammyBoyy300]

Hey man can you do more guide vids to Civs like you did with Alexander, that was great

[@TheCivLifeR]

That's the plan!

[@moshu9952]

do you ever recognize commenters?

[@TheCivLifeR]

I do

[@ultraweed8376]

russia on a cold map with blizzard napoleon & hitler "oh no not this again"