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In practice I’ve found that most Civics unlock in around 10 turns, so you’re able to make those changes for free very frequently (and you can pay to do it at will, too). You can also build certain Wonders to expand the available slots in your government, which opens up a lot of possibilities to specialize in heavily stacking military, economic, or diplomatic bonuses.

There are dozens of these cards, and mixing and matching them can create a government to go with nearly any type of playstyle you could want. Mixing and matching policies can create a government to go with nearly any playstyle.

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Military options include Logistics, which gives units +1 movement if starting in friendly territory and Professional Army, which gives you half off the gold cost of upgrading an obsolete military unit. For instance, the Land Surveyors economic policy gives you 20% off the gold cost of buying new tiles for a city, while Public Works gives you 30% production boost toward new Builders and gives all new Builders two extra build actions. Each form of government, such as Monarchy, Theocracy, or Merchant Republic, is represented by a few inherent bonuses, but more importantly by a different configuration of military, economic, diplomatic, and wildcard policy slots as you unlock new policy cards on the Civics tree (which is separate from but parallel to the Tech tree and powered by culture points) those policies can be added or removed.

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And while it is hilarious that Apostles and Inquisitors battle each other with lightning and mystical forces, I don’t think that’ll be enough to make me chase a religious victory by spreading my faith to more than half of the cities of every civilization on the map simply because of the monotony of it.īack in the plus column we have the extremely customizable government system, which lets you assign bonus-giving policies to suit however you want to play. That’s not inconsistent with reality, but it’s not that much fun to play. The process of spreading your faith to other cities for bonuses basically amounts to a very simple version of combat where there are only three units, and they don’t change at all throughout thousands of years of history. Somewhat related to that is Civilization VI’s disappointing handling of religion. Some military victories feel unearned because the enemy army simply doesn’t seem to know what it’s doing.

Winning isn’t a cakewalk because you can crank up the difficulty until that’s hard to do, but because of the AI’s uncoordinated assaults you’re unlikely to lose cities unless you’re badly outgunned or you left them undefended. Even on high difficulty levels it fights by attempting to overwhelm you with numbers and technologically advanced units, so the challenge is in making use of tactics and support units, such as Great Generals and anti-air guns, to outmaneuver them. But Civilization VI’s biggest weakness right now is that the AI has a bad habit of starting unprovoked wars, and that it isn’t very good at fighting them.

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