How to get an Early Religion? [Civilization 6 Deity Strategy] Tips/Walkthrough Tutorial

How do I find a quick religion [on deity]? Since the release of Civilization 6 I have seen many questions concerning pantheon, holy sites, and great prophets points. Hopefully this tutorial/walkthrough can provide some tips to help you and your Civ's faith in Civilization 6!

Civilization 6 Arabia Gameplay / Let's Play Part 1

Civilization 6 Steam description:
"Sid Meier’s Civilization VI, winner of 15 E3 awards including Best PC Game and Best Strategy Game, is the next entry in the popular Civilization franchise, which has sold in over 34 million units worldwide, including more than 8 million units of Civilization V.

Originally created by legendary game designer Sid Meier, Civilization is a turn-based strategy game in which you attempt to build an empire to stand the test of time. Become Ruler of the World by establishing and leading a civilization from the Stone Age to the Information Age. Wage war, conduct diplomacy, advance your culture, and go head-to-head with history’s greatest leaders as you attempt to build the greatest civilization the world has ever known.

Civilization VI offers new ways to engage with your world: cities now physically expand across the map, active research in technology and culture unlocks new potential, and competing leaders will pursue their own agendas based on their historical traits as you race for one of five ways to achieve victory in the game.

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See the marvels of your empire spread across the map like never before. Each city spans multiple tiles so you can custom build your cities to take full advantage of the local terrain.

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Unlock boosts that speed your civilization’s progress through history. To advance more quickly, use your units to actively explore, develop your environment, and discover new cultures.

DYNAMIC DIPLOMACY:
Interactions with other civilizations change over the course of the game, from primitive first interactions where conflict is a fact of life, to late game alliances and negotiations.

COMBINED ARMS:
Expanding on the “one unit per tile” design, support units can now be embedded with other units, like anti-tank support with infantry, or a warrior with settlers. Similar units can also be combined to form powerful “Corps” units.

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Civilization 6 Leader Strategy Breakdowns:
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My channel focuses on strategy games and indies. Every let's play/gameplay video will include an on camera intro and outro to hopefully provide additional information on the topic of that video!

[ErinsAaron]

Ah, the good ole days; when Drew actually played games. 😄

[Kuddochan]

The Holy Site Prayers is probably the biggest help which people tend to forget
Also getting an early Relic from a tribal village is amazing for this. That's +4 faith (and +8 tourism) right away. You can have a pantheon up before even finishing Code of Laws

[postbode]

Seems like you sacrifice your whole early game, just to get a religion...

[charlesajones]

I'm in the middle of a game as Spain, and fucking Brazil took Catholicism before I could get to it. So I took Islam. I'm Phillip the II the devout Catholic Muslim.

[skillfulactor]

its sad that domination is the only one works in multi player sigh

[pewwwwooop]

stonehenge is so impossible to get... it gets build around round 15-40

[Yozo_official]

I just needed a tutorial and then drew poped up!

[JMKortek]

Ran into a bug in my Deity religion victory recently - had to switch to domination because I eliminated Rome from the game and was no longer able to convert that civ entirely for a religion victory. Even though I converted the later conquered cities, I was left with a disappointing 6/7 civs converted with 99% of cities following my religion as the majority.

[newindika]

In deity the AI can complete the stonehenge before you can construct it. So it depends if the AI has stone on the capital or not. It's not so rare to see Stonehenge built on turn 15. Founding a religion on deity without a religious focused civilization is extremely difficult.

[grahamgunderman]

Using China you can rush religion by researching first Astrology, then making a builder. Once You have it researched and a builder you start the Stonehenge and use the builder to increase its production by 15% each turn. I was able to get a religion by turn 18 on quick on prince.

[androkvijinadze]

World's second religion? Why is there Buddhism and Catholicism too if that's the case?

[LynnePedigoRidayReiter]

You are a very good speaker and teacher. Keep up the good work. With your tips I have some hope of beating my son at this game!

[Azurewroth]

1: Stonehenge is impossible on Deity unless you're China. It's usually gone by turn 30, I've seen one go at turn 22. (Standard Pace.)

2: It is impossible (You can't compete for one) to found a Religion on Deity if your opponents favor Religion (Unless you're China). Basically the only chance of founding one is if the AI isn't actively trying to. Anyone who disagrees can trying playing a Deity Game on small against India, Japan, Russia, Spain and of course Arabia.

[ctna]

Get a builder to chop forest for production, but you need production for builder also. It's kind of opportunity cost/trade off.

[JMKortek]

Another thing to keep an eye out for is city states with the suzerain bonus to choose your promotion for apostles. This is incredibly powerful and I was able to turn much of a standard sized map over to my religion (on Deity) within about half an era.

[miliba]

You just gotta have some faith, Arthur!
If you insist!

[GorthonFreeman]

In deity, the only way thats make really worth it to get a religion is by building the Stonehenge ... other than this anything else such as rushing holy sites or focusing too much on city states or civics to get additional faith is simply not worth .

[Northstar]

All hail the crack religion. Also I been having a lot of success as a war monger with Faith and production based beliefs and then going theocracy as Montezuma and just killing people 8 tiles away. Buying tanks with faith is funny as hell when you are making over 200 faith per turn

[matthews.]

0:27 "...beat the *other* AI's ..." - Why, thank you :-D

[DarkSkay]

And now how do you win the game with just one city on turn 53? The best city spots will already be grabbed. Any DoW from an AI should be game over.

Is there any follow-up start I'm missing? Religion is nice and all, but what immediate benefits does it give you? In terms of power, production, science, etc. this lonely turn 53 London city looks weaker than a simple Warrior-Settler opener Civ would be even on turn 30!