

The enemy of any army ultimately is gold, so you want to keep an eye out for the cards that help keep costs down. Just get ready for a lot of annoying cut scenes where foreign leaders denounce you. It’s worth noting that we played on Prince difficulty for the preview and despite heavy warmonger status, other civs largely left us alone unless provoked. War of Territorial Expansion (unlocked by Modern Era civic Mobilization) is also great, allowing you to declare war on a civ bordering your empire as long as 2 of your cities are within 10 tiles of 2 opponents’ cities and reducing your warmonger penalties by 25%. The Colonial War casus belli is great to have for this reason as it lets you declare war on civilizations that are two or more eras behind you with a very low warmonger penalty. Snatch small, weak city states and opponents early. If you get gunpowder before everyone else, it doesn't benefit you to wait until they get it too. You’ll want to take advantage of low tech civilizations first. Support units adjacent to the appropriate unit provide boosts to those units’ abilities, but can’t become part of an army or corps with those units.

Spies can also perform counterspy operations in your own Civ.

Intelligently deployed spies sabotaging critical districts or stealing their Great Works can really cripple another civ’s victory progress, but it will count as a casus belli (justification for war) if the spy is discovered. Photo: (c) Firaxis / 2K Gamesĭon’t let another civ sneak up on one victory while you’re working on another! This is where Civilization 6 ’s reworked espionage system is critical. The World Rankings screen shows everyone’s overall progress, as well as their progress towards a Score, Science, Culture, Domination and Religion victory.Ĭivilization 6. It’s important to note that the World Rankings screen is easily accessible by clicking the first icon on the top right bar. So what do you need to know about the Domination victory in Civ 6? What tips and tricks will get you zooming towards first place? Civ 6 marks the first time the Religious victory makes an appearance, while the other victory types are Civ mainstays. Civilization 6 features five different victory types: Score, Religious, Cultural, Science, and Domination.
