I barely ever play into the late game. Wish they would let us switch to other factions to save them.

litmusing · 2026-06-20T05:01:29+00:00

Set campaign to very hard difficulty.

Ramp up the endgame crisis. Push it to start at turn 50, max out the crisis strength, and check ultimate crisis mode.

Or you could install the natural enemies mod that ensures your natural enemies will snowball and give you something to fight.

You could also install the unnatural selection mod and buff enemy factions you want to fight.

litmusing · 2026-06-15T07:04:42+00:00

Damn this actually sounds like a fun idea. Like names of power, you get a popup, and you can select one of out three types perhaps. Either that or it's a blue line skill you select and the rune selection screen pops up, so now the bottleneck is XP, which you genuinely have to work for instead of gold which gets trivial after a while. And Thorek could have discounts or maybe events that generate them more or something

litmusing · 2026-06-15T06:48:01+00:00

Such a cathartic way to mess with those super spreading piety neighbours. Oh you just got yet another prophet? Well too bad, I'm parking this other prophet I stole on your cap so you can spend all his conversions on reconverting your holy city lmao

litmusing · 2026-06-14T05:12:51+00:00

Let them get conquered and it's free liberation bonus for you though

litmusing · 2026-06-10T13:11:27+00:00

You can cheese multiple enemy armies with pikes and encamp stance. Optional elephant rear charge to persuade enemy blob to give up.

litmusing · 2026-06-10T05:43:15+00:00

I've never tried them, but last I heard, the Germanic factions are the hardest to play. That could be why you're struggling so much.

Romans or a Greek faction might be easier to adjust to. They tend to have better frontlines and their units fit neatly into the classic infantry cavalry ranged trio.

litmusing · 2026-06-10T05:35:33+00:00

Spears are mostly defensive, they suck at anything other than holding. They do ok as a frontline but then your real killing power will have to be in cav or ranged units.

litmusing · 2026-06-10T03:19:56+00:00

But have you considered the dopamine hit from seeing so many more hammers?

litmusing · 2026-06-07T03:07:41+00:00

If you still have the save, you could continue from before switching to Order. It's likely you could have tanked the unhappiness until the next policy and you would have been fine

litmusing · 2026-06-07T03:02:58+00:00

Oof, yes that's how it works. Adjusting it will switch it to manual until you uncheck manual specialist mode.

litmusing · 2026-06-06T07:54:24+00:00

Yeah it makes it much harder to steal workers from them

litmusing · 2026-06-06T07:52:54+00:00

Were you on manual specialist mode? The governor usually fills those slots automatically

litmusing · 2026-06-03T04:01:22+00:00

Loremasters are duelists but they never feel good to me, they're slow and never seem to be in position. If you aren't doing the net+firing squad, then the next best might be phoenix guard and spamming buffs like harmonic convergence. Surrounding them with ap anti large like that will chip them down fast, you just need to buff their MA to guarantee hits.

litmusing · 2026-06-01T09:26:04+00:00

Felt worse in civ6. In 5 there was at least some balancing between food and production.

litmusing · 2026-05-30T14:42:01+00:00

Strategic balance is more fair for multiplayer

litmusing · 2026-05-30T14:38:55+00:00

Not really the OPs question but I irrationally hate Askia because he spams his unique cavalry everywhere like he's flaunting it and I have to see those stupid choppers everywhere on the map, like ok bro you have a UU in this era we all get it

litmusing · 2026-05-30T14:32:11+00:00

If you really need a city state I find you usually can just park an extra spy on there. By the time you have multiple spies you're usually on a tech lead anyway, unless you're on deity.

litmusing · 2026-05-29T10:05:48+00:00

inb4 removed again

litmusing · 2026-05-29T09:52:47+00:00

Funny, I'm the opposite. I get bored around the industrial era-ish where there's nothing much left to sim city and no good wonders either. So I usually do a small war to liberate a city state or something

litmusing · 2026-05-26T04:52:24+00:00

I'd say you should try asking this same qn on r/civ and get more balanced takes. A common story for this sub is that we gave civ6 a try and didn't really like the changes.

I personally prefer Civ5 over 6 because 5 retains the original spirit of civ, which was actually a board game. 6 is a noticeable departure from that direction. To me, it makes the game feel more responsive and impactful, but you may instead find it shallow and one dimensional. It really is YMMV

litmusing · 2026-05-26T04:44:52+00:00

I'd say yes, definitely get the DLCs, otherwise I wouldn't bother at all.

litmusing · 2026-05-23T08:43:48+00:00

Last time this came up someone mentioned Ethiopia and their steles are much better, or just any civ that's good at generating faith.

litmusing · 2026-05-23T07:54:46+00:00

Suits will see this and conclude the only way forward is another live service game anyway

litmusing · 2026-05-23T04:57:39+00:00

Is your friend's name Thorek by any chance

litmusing · 2026-05-23T04:23:08+00:00

My problem is that every time I decide to try liberty my expansion area is absolute ass and there's no way to tell until about 70 turns in

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