How to Attack Cities in Civ 6
Ойындар
0:00 - How to attack cities
0:27 - Scout around your target
1:43 - Putting a city under siege and zone of control
3:54 - Planning for loyalty problems
4:26 - Planning your attack units
4:56 - Kiting ranged units out of cities
5:14 - Attacking cities without walls
5:40 - Attacking cities with walls
6:50 - Using a meat shield
8:18 - Be selective about your last unit to attack and take the city
In this video, we delve into the essential strategies for attacking and capturing cities in Civilization VI, a critical aspect of the game that you'll encounter regardless of your victory condition. Here’s a comprehensive guide to make every city attack successful:
1. Scouting and Preparation:
Scout the Area: Start by examining the city's surroundings, including terrain, nearby cities, and encampments.
Avoid Dangerous Hexes: Identify hexes that might expose your units to multiple attacks and avoid them.
Assess City Strength: Check the city's combat strength and compare it to your military units. Ensure you have comparable or stronger units.
Walls Status: Observe if the city has walls (blue bar) or is building them (visible construction).
2. Troop Requirements:
Sufficient Troops: Ensure you have enough troops considering difficulty level, enemy power, and city defenses. Higher difficulties require more units.
Positioning Troops: Place troops on hexes with defense bonuses like hills, forests, and jungles. Plan to put the city under siege to prevent it from healing.
3. Understanding City Siege and Zone of Control:
City Siege Mechanics: A city under siege won't heal at the end of the turn, indicated by a red heart next to the city name.
Zone of Control (ZOC): Limits enemy unit movement. Melee units apply ZOC to their hex and surrounding hexes, siege units to their own hex, and ranged units to their hex (with a promotion extending this).
Rivers and ZOC: Rivers break ZOC, affecting melee units on the opposite sides.
4. Executing the Siege:
Implementing ZOC: Surround the city with a combination of melee, ranged, siege units, and boats to put it under siege.
Strategic Considerations: Plan your attacks and think about post-capture actions like managing loyalty if you plan to keep the city.
5. Battle Strategy:
Mix of Units: Use siege weapons against walled cities, supported by ranged and mounted units.
Engagement: Draw out and eliminate ranged units first to reduce damage to your attacking forces.
Without Walls: If the city lacks walls, use ranged units first, followed by melee. Maintain pressure until the city is captured.
6. Addressing City Walls:
Siege Weapons: Utilize battering rams and siege towers for early walls. Siege towers bypass walls, attacking the city's health directly.
AI Attack Patterns: Use melee units as a 'meat shield' to protect ranged and siege units from AI attacks.
7. Tactical Tips:
Defensive Terrain: Always position units on defensive terrain like mountains, forests, or jungles.
Final Attack Considerations: When the city is about to fall, use a damaged but capable unit to capture it, ensuring it is protected from enemy units.
8. Additional Tips:
Consider the benefits of different units in the final capture to maximize strategic advantages.
Keep your units fortified and use the AI’s attack patterns to your advantage to minimize damage.
This guide covers the fundamentals of city attacks in Civ 6, helping you to master the art of siege and capture. If you have any questions or need further tips, drop them in the comments below!
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For mounted units, they are treated like melee in terms of zone of control. I also didn't talk about bombers as my games rarely make it to bombers unless I'm going for a science victory (In which case I'm not doing much attacking in the modern era). Bombers are a great way to siege cities in the late game. They are protected from ground units except AA and can attack over large ranges without having to move.
Great advice! I mostly play Civ 5, but once or twice a year I go on a Civ 6 binge. Playing relatively seldom, and oftentimes at least semi-peacefully, means I never mastered combat. This proved useful for that.
@MatatodosGaming
3 күн бұрын
Glad it was useful!
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@MatatodosGaming
6 күн бұрын
Thanks for the endorsement!
Esse video me ajudou demais, obrigado :D
@MatatodosGaming
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Fico feliz em ouvir isso
I like Civ
@MatatodosGaming
5 күн бұрын
It's a great game!
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3 күн бұрын
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0:00 The intro is just disingenuous. I've gotten many deity victories without any war. 4:07 Taking multiple cities at the same time is better, if you have a large enough army for it. 1:22 While having more units is more helpful, of course, having higher combat strength units is more effective, in my experience at least. 4:44 Mounted units are good for pillaging, and also what you said there is suppose. Pillaging is a VERY important part of war in civ 6 btw. 5:52 siege weapons just don't work the way you've said here. They don't allow extra damage to walls. Battering rams allow melee units to bypass ancient walls, and siege towers allow melee units to bypass medieval walls. You can see which type of wall a city has by looking at it's blue wall strength, 100 is ancient and 200 is medieval. Once a city has renaissance walls or urban defences, siege weaponry or planes must be used. 7:00 They will attack the unit with the lowest combat strength who would take the most damage from a city strike, and damage lowers the effective combat strength of a unit. 8:06 It should be said that this defensive bonus doesn't work for ranged attacks. 8:53 The AI (generally, it's happened once in my dozens of games) doesn't attempt to take back cities that you've captured. There will be no attack on the city. Taking with a weak unit so they get the extra city center healing a turn earlier is still good advice. One thing you missed as well, hills allow ranged units (and city strikes) to get +1 range, but they still can't shoot beyond their stated range. For example, an archer on a hill can shoot a unit two squares away with a hill in between them. If the archer was on flat land they could not. This is helpful for where to place siege units around a city as well.
@MatatodosGaming
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The great thing about civ is you can play it many different ways and be successful. I didn't say you have to attack cities to win. I've won games with no war as well. Having some basic city attack tactics in your toolbelt is good no matter what type of victory you're going for. Good callout on using mounted to pillage. I don't do that very often unless I'm going to raze the city. Siege weapons have a bombard strength which is higher than their melee strength against cities. Battering rams do not allow units to bypass walls. They allow units to do full damage to walls but the walls will stand in the way of doing full damage to the city garrison. The meat shield works and is a valid tactic for keeping full strength siege in the fight against the AI. Hills do not give any units extra range. What they do is elevate units to give line of sight over obstacles on flat land, so if there's a forest on flat land in between your ranged unit and the city, getting on a hill allows that unit to attack over the forest.