Civilization 6: Lady Six Heavens Guide, Introducing the Maya Empire The Maya Empire is the first of the new civilizations in the New Frontier pass. Here is the presentation of Dame Six Ciels as well as our guide to learn how to play it.
Lady Six Skies (or Lady Six Skies) is the empress of the Maya Empire, one of the new civilizations of the New Frontier pass. With rather unique bonuses, it will offer a new experience to seasoned civilization VI players. Here is the presentation of its different characteristics, and our guide on how to play it.
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Maya Empire Ideal Victory Type
With less expensive and rather powerful Campuses, Lady Six Heavens will be above all a mistress of the scientific victory, able to get ahead of his opponents very early in the game and benefit from the unique adjacency bonuses of his Observatory. In this regard, it should be able to compete with civilizations such as Korea or Scotland for example.
The Mayan Empire also offers opportunities to use its early game science boost to quickly seek a technological edge over its neighbors and attack them with units from a more advanced era. The military victory will be difficult, however, as cities far from the capital will be weaker. However, it does not really benefit from other types of victory.
Unique district of the Maya Empire: Observatory
L'Observatoire replace the Campus, and his production cost is half as much. He enjoys a +2 science bonus for each adjacent planting, as well as +1 for all two adjacent farm or neighborhood spaces. Unlike on campus, it does no adjacency bonus our geothermal faults, to mountains or reefs.
In order to make Observatories more effective, track down the different resources on which you can put plantations (Bananas, Citrus, Cocoa, Coffee, Cotton, Tinctures, Incense, Olives, Silk, Spices, Sugar, Tea, Tobacco and Vines). It is also interesting to build farms around, these being particularly essential to the Maya Empire.
Try to find places between two Plantations to have excellent Observatories very easily.
Since the production cost of the Observatory is very low, it is interesting to build them very early in the game and in all your cities in order to directly get ahead of your opponents in science. Try to position them so that you can build some of the wonders most interesting: large library and Oxford University. They require a flat land adjacent to an Observatory.
Unique feature of the Maya Empire: Mayab
The installation next to the boxeseau douce et coastal does not grant no additional dwellings, but each farm grants +1,5 Dwellings and +1 Gold. +1 Activities for each luxury resort adjacent to downtown.
With this characteristic, Lady Six Heavens will have to place her cities in a unique way, since she has no interest in positioning them on rivers, lakes or coasts. However, they will always start with only 2 houses, but earn a lot through the farms. It will therefore be very important to build Builders early in the game, and each time you place a new city
Ideally, you will want to try to build diamonds of 4 farms, in order to have big adjacency bonuses between them and +6 dwellings in total.
It will also be interesting to try to land your cities on interesting terrain (hills at 2 Production, or adjacent to luxury resources for activity). L'City water is a very important district for the Mayas since it will always give +4 dwellings, while the Attic is also a very useful building. Finally, the ancestral hall will be interesting in your Place of governance for the Free builder in each new city.
Maya Empire Unique Feature: Ix Mutal Ahaw
Yields towns within a radius of less than 6 spaces from the capital +10%. Yields of other cities -15%. Combat Power +5 for units in a radius of less than 6 squares from the capital.
With this unique feature, Lady Six Heavens will generally want a very compact empire, with cities as close to each other as possible so that they all benefit from the +10% boost to yields. However, it is possible to build up to 13 cities in total (including the capital) if you position them perfectly. In the majority of games, you can easily have 7-8 who take advantage of the bonus without difficulty.
If you follow this pattern, you can have up to 13 towns within 6 squares of the capital, while respecting the minimum distance of 4 squares between two towns. (Source: Malm34)
Le battle bonuses units within 6 squares of the capital allows the Mayan Empire to defend quite effectively against invaders, especially with his unique unit. If you make a city close to the borders of another civilization, always try to have your units in the zone where they receive the bonus.
Mayan Empire unique unit: Hul-Che (replaces Archer)
Le Hul'Che is an Antiquity unit exclusive to the Maya replacing the Archer, With the same cost in production, gold and maintenance, but one 28 ranged combat bonus (+3 compared to the 25 of the archer). It also +5 ranged combat bonus against wounded units.
The Hul'Che is fantastic in defense against warlike civilizations. If he is within 6 squares of your capital to benefit from the +5 combat bonus, and he attacks a wounded unit to recover an additional +5, he attacks at 38 strengthEither only 2 less than a Crossbowman. If you manage to level them up, it will be almost impossible to invade you.
If you manage to get several Hul'Che quickly, and with a illustrious general, you can also attack with them, although they have attack penalty (-17) against cities and risk losing the +5 of Ix Mutal Ahaw.
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The best buildings in Governance Square
- ancestral hall : If you plan to make more than 7 cities, the Builder offered by the Ancestral Hall for each one will be very useful to quickly build farms.
- Courtroom : If you don't plan to do many towns, the dwellings and extra activity in the ones you have will be interesting.
- intelligence agency : Having spies is always useful.
- Academy of Sciences : Indispensable at the end of the game to speed up your space projects.
The best pantheons and creeds for the Mayan Empire
The best Pantheons
- Religious colonies : A free Settler is always interesting, especially if you have decided to make an Observatory and / or a Builder quickly, which risks delaying your second city.
- Goddess of festivals : The Mayan Empire has an increased chance of spawning near Plantations. A +1 bonus in Culture on these will allow you to advance in your doctrines more easily if you have a lot of them.
- divine spark : You will build a lot of Observatories, which is why a bonus on the number of Great Person points for your libraries is very interesting.
- Fertility rituals : If you have a lot of resources to improve around your spawn, the free Builder can be interesting. The +10% growth bonus in your cities will allow them to reach a huge population at the end of the game.
The best beliefs
It can be interesting to found a religion if you have the boost of Astrology quickly or if you have sources of times available.
- Jesuit education : You will be able to buy buildings in your Observatories and Theater Squares with your faith, making this belief the most interesting.
- religious community : +1 Housing for Shrines and Temples is interesting since you will always need housing.
- Pay of : As with Religious Fellowship, additional Dwellings are always used.
- What : If you want to produce even more Science.
- Stewardship : A +1 bonus in Science for Observatories and +1 Gold for Trading Platforms is always interesting.
The best governments and doctrines for the Maya Empire
The best governments
- classical republic : At the start of the game, the illustrious personages generation bonus will allow you to recruit illustrious scientists very quickly. The housing bonus is also very interesting.
- maritime republic : The district and gold production bonus is attractive, and the distribution of doctrines (2 jokers and 2 economic) will be ideal for a civilization which seeks to develop peacefully.
- Communism : The production and science bonus of communism is interesting, but the Democracy is also a viable choice if you can trade with allies.
- Synthetic Technocracy : The best government to achieve a science victory in the end game.
The best doctrines
- natural philosophy (Written History): You will quickly have Observatories with good adjacency bonuses, doubling them will be very powerful early in the game.
- Serfdom ( Feudalism ): You will have to try to develop a lot of farms, to remove forests to put mines etc. For this purpose, the additional charges on the Builders are very useful.
- Craftsmen (Guilds): Since you want to make a scientific victory and you will build aqueducts, you will often have very interesting Industrial Zones. Boosting their production will also boost that of your coal-fired power plants.
- Rationalism (Enlightenment): More Science for your Observatories.
- Five-year plan (Ideology): This doctrine combines Artisans and Natural Philosophy.
The best governors for the Maya Empire
- Pingala (Knowledge, Grants and Space Initiative) : To do science, Pingala will be very strong in your capital. Giving him Connoisseur can help you overcome your lack of Culture at the start of the game.
- Magnus (Industrial, Vertical integration) : Magnus will allow one of your cities to have a lot of production at the end of the game, which will be very useful for the scientific victory.
- Liang (Hydraulic system) : Since you will have the opportunity to build Aqueducts and maybe Canals or Dams to have excellent industrial areas, Hydraulic System can give you additional housing and activities.
- Amani (Puppeteer) : Amani will be useful in securing the most interesting scientific city-states.
The best commitments for the Mayan Empire
- The pen, the brush and the voice (golden age) : If you are in your golden age at the start of the game, this commitment will give you a lot of culture to get your dogmas more quickly.
- Monumentality (golden age) : If you have a good faith generation, you can spend it on settlers and builders with Golden Age Monumentality.
- Free Thought (Normal/Dark Age) : If you are not golden age, you will generally prefer Freethinking in the early game.
- The Heart of Steam (Golden/Normal/Dark Age) : This commitment will give you a lot of production in golden age.
- Currency Reform (Golden/Normal/Dark Ages) : Bonus gold is always interesting in the middle of the game to develop your cities faster.
- The Sky and the Stars (Golden/Normal/Dark Ages) : Try to get a golden age at the end of the game for The sky and the stars which will help you enormously to have a scientific victory.
The best city-states for the Maya Empire
Overall, Science City-States will be the most interesting to boost the Science generated by your Observatories.
- Geneva (Scientist) : If you are at peace, the Science boost of +15% will be very substantial.
- Hong Kong (Industrial) : The production bonus for projects will be very useful in the late game for the last stages of scientific victory.
- Mitla (Scientist) : This city-state will help you have cities with a lot of population (+15% growth in cities with an Observatory), which will boost your production in the end game.
- Taruga (Scientist) : +5% science in your cities for each strategic resource will be very interesting at the end of the game.
- Buenos Aires (Industrial) : A small activity boost for an industrial city-state is always useful.
The best wonders for the Mayan Empire
- large library : The Great Library is very strong in giving you all the latest boosts you don't yet have from the ancient and classic eras. Great Writer points also allow you to get a little extra culture.
- Oracle : If you have faith, the Oracle is very interesting. In addition to the reduction in the price of patronage of illustrious people, its point generation bonus is very strong in a city that has many districts.
- Coliseum : Since your cities will usually be close to each other, the activity and culture offered by the Colosseum will be very strong in the early/mid game.
- Pyramides" : Additional charges on your builders will come in handy throughout the game, especially in the late game when you use them to speed up your space projects.
- Oxford University : His science bonus is very substantial. Try to complete the less expensive technologies before completing it so that the ones it gives for free will be more valuable.
- Dysentery : Production is essential in the late game for the scientific victory, that's why the Ruhr will help you in one of your cities.
- Mausoleum of Halicarnassus : The ability to use your Great Engineers twice can be very strong in the late game when they help with space projects.
- Amarsen-Scott Antarctic Base : If you have the opportunity to build it in one of your cities, it is very powerful. However, it is particularly difficult to place.
The best illustrious characters for the Maya Empire
The best illustrious scientists
Overall, all Great Scientists are useful, but some are stronger than others.
- Hypatia : The +2 science for your libraries will always be useful.
- Isaac Newton : Same as for Hypatia but for your Universities, in addition to building one for free.
- Albert Einstein : Albert Einstein offers +4 Science for your Universities, which will be very strong at the end of the game.
- Carl Sagan : 3000 Production for a space project will usually allow you to complete one almost instantly.
- Stephanie kwolek : The +100% production bonus for space projects will be very substantial at the end of the game.
The best illustrious engineers
- James watt : Having a Workshop and a Free Factory and +2 production for each is interesting in the middle of the game.
- Nikola Tesla : The range (+3) and production (+2) bonus for your industrial zone is still powerful.
- Robert Goddard : +20% production for space projects which will generally be your victory condition.
- Wernher von Braun : Same as for Robert Goddard, but a bonus of +100% this time which makes him the most powerful of the illustrious Engineers.
- Sergei Korolev : 1500 Production for a space project will speed it up enormously.
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