Civilization VI In-Depth: Religion

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Religion can be a massive part of a game of Civ VI, and it can either be focused on or used to help out another victory type! In this video, I go over how founding religions work, the various types of beliefs, and how religion spreads!

00:45 - Founding your relgion
06:53 - Beliefs
15:36 - Followers and Pressure

-The Saxy Gamer

[DanMcLeodNeptuneUK]

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[honestylowkeye]

I'm binge-watching your entire channel. Aside from obviously being a Civ veteran, you definitely have a knack for explaining and demonstrating what you know. Really excited to see this channel grow

[Devoodie]

"the crab religon known as snippy snippy"- automatic subscription

[benhardacre]

Didn’t know religo units could heal in holy sites, i thought Gurus were the only way ... you learn something new with every Saxy video!!!!

[Maklak]

I find competing with other civ's apostoles to be such a bother, that I usually prefer to not get a religion, so I don't have to deal with it. When not going for a religion, faith is still useful for buying great people and maybe military units.

[MunchKING]

I personally like Scripture/Papal Primacy combo. Scripture increases how strong your spread without needing to use missionaries/Apostles is, and Papal Primacy gives city states a huge amount of influence towards your religion when you send Envoys.

In a game with a lot of city states, you can get a surprising amount of religious conversions of enemy cities just from the casual pressure emanating from all the city states.

Add Jerusalem to make all Holy Site considered Holy Cities.

[zyrain]

It seems pressure is useful as a tiebreaker. Since some beliefs are based on if the city is converted or not, having the slightest edge may make a difference.

[shygun]

Now with this powerful knowledge...Boat Mormonism will prevail

[gerardg]

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[geoffreydevereaux]

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[RodimusPrime]

For the pantheons and the religious bonus I often go for the housing bonus since you often need a way to get more housing and it keeps having a effect.

[gigiratliff]

You should do follow-ups to all of these videos where you focus on what specifically has changed since Gathering Storm came out. I certainly know some huge overhauls came in the beliefs, and I would be curious to see if pressure or anything like that has changed as well. Same with the changes that may have come with culture/tourism, etc

[beep_]

I choose pantheon where i see gold in it

[yochitoranaga]

I have found one religous belief pretty interesting, especially for religious domination games... I don't remember the name nor the cathegory, I think it was a follower belief, but that belief makes any new cities founded by a civilization having a majority of that religion being started with the religion established instantly. This makes it cheaper to propagate the religion and freely increase religious pressure. Furthermore, AIs have a tendency to favor cities without a religion as their prefered target, making any new cities you build less likely to recieve a visit from an apostle. It doesn't prevent them entirely mind you, but it does reduce the number of conversion attempts on your empire.

[droe]

Earth Goddess is also very good for Culture games, where you will try to improve tile appeals, since faith can be used to buy various units or even city buildings, etc. depending on your civ and city-states. And of course, the faith is needed for building the guy who builds national parks, as well. This also makes synagogue a good choice, for the extra faith to build the naturalists.

[QcCuber]

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[tobeycat]

Thank you so much for making this video, love it! Keep these up! Once I (finally) decide to buy R&F I’m going to watch all your governor videos and take notes!

[alfredmuszynski]

Nice! i was waiting for that. Im preparing for a big game against my brother this weekend haha

[RayVitoles]

Religious combat, I dont know about you, but to me its the funniest part of civ 6...You can mechas fighting with lasers and piloted rockets and next to them 2 old dudes fighting with sticks

[alexdeacon]

I would highly recommend Dance of the Aurora if you are near tundra, then build your holy site in the middle of it, you can usually get +6 or more with clever placement. Desert Folklore the same if you are near desert - Choosing Peter holds more bonuses with Tundra and will usually be placed near it. Finally, Ubunsor Hollow will provide even more faith so I’ve managed to get +22 faith as Peter before...then with Hildegard of Bingen you can then claim the same amount of science along with it!!!