[HELP] Recomended Civ for a beginner

[It's me Mario!!! <3]

So I just bought Civ 6 in the last sales, I have never played a Civ game before but for Civ 6, I have been watching tutorial videos on Youtube from quill18 and FilthyRobot so I can understand and know the mechanic and what to do for the first couple of turns.

I want to learn this game in depth and would like a pointer Civ to start off with, thank you in advance

[Kurnn]

Play a normal game with the Advisor on, and listen to her.

Start on Prince setting, large map, Marathon or Epic speed.
You learn by playing. Each civ 6 game will be unique.

I have over 2000 hours played and I still learn stuff.

[It's me Mario!!! <3]

Originally posted by Kurnn:

Play a normal game with the Advisor on, and listen to her.

Start on Prince setting, large map, Marathon or Epic speed.
You learn by playing. Each civ 6 game will be unique.

I have over 2000 hours played and I still learn stuff.

thank you but is there like a beginner friendly civ for the first game? watching tutorial video and actually sit down and play feels pretty different to me

[Kurnn]

Each civ are special, which is one of the best features with Civ 6.

What suits you really is your personal view. There is no "best" or "worst".
There is no best way to play, or win.

Gilgamesh is a nice leader to start with, Or Japan. But you need to read each civ and their leaders traits to pick one.

[JagarKlato]

you should have rather go for Civilization 5, much better than 6

[It's me Mario!!! <3]

Originally posted by Kurnn:

Each civ are special, which is one of the best features with Civ 6.

What suits you really is your personal view. There is no "best" or "worst".
There is no best way to play, or win.

Gilgamesh is a nice leader to start with, Or Japan. But you need to read each civ and their leaders traits to pick one.

what I mean is that I want to find a Civ that has a strong military might to win my first game by domination instead of complex mechanic like culture, faith which some Civ has a strong suit for.

[It's me Mario!!! <3]

Originally posted by Omellete du Fromage:

you should have rather go for Civilization 5, much better than 6

I have already made my decision so nothing can be done now

[General Freedom]

Well, civ II is really the starter game if you want to learn some basics and still being a great game. Civ 6 is way different, but I still love it. Some basics remain but as said above, just learn by playing. Focus mostly on one kind of thing and see how far that takes you(like go for a civ that you will research alot with and then make alot of military and take over others or a friendly civ that tries to take over with religion). This makes you learn the streangths and weaknesses of different playstyles.

[cerberusiv]

An easy to play civ is Kongo as you don't have to do anything about religion.

Gilgamesh/Sumeria is a straightforward military civ. Trajan/Rome is pretty straightforward too.

[Salma Hayek]

The correct answer to your question is : play as Tomyris of Scythia. If you want a begginer friendly OP civ (usually banned from online play...) to roll over opponents, this is the one for you.

Or if you have the dlc Nubia is pretty ridiculous too.

[gimmethegepgun]

How to Scythia:
1. Find horses.
2. Acquire horses.
3. If only 1 horse, build encampments
4. Build one Battering Ram at some point
5. Research Horseback Riding
6. Activate the policy card Maneuver
7. Build Horsemen
8. Kill everything while continuing to build more Horsemen
9. Eventually make a couple Siege Towers

[weraptor]

Play on normal speed. Germany is a pretty strong builder civ with great military potential.

[SamBC]

I'd say Rome, as you don't need to go out of the way to use their bonuses - it's all things you should be doing anyway, just better or easier.

[White Shadow]

Originally posted by 0kpaxpax:

what I mean is that I want to find a Civ that has a strong military might to win my first game by domination instead of complex mechanic like culture, faith which some Civ has a strong suit for.

I would argue that domination victories aren't the easiest victory type. Furthermore, unlike a lot of other strategy games, in Civilization you can't simply ignore culture and domestic growth entirely.

Also, do you have access to any DLC/Expansions? If we are talking about just base game civs for a totalitarian newbie, I would suggest Sumeria because spamming war carts from turn 1 until you have a -200 gpt income and declaring surprise wars on everyone is... educational?

If we are talking about DLC civs, Shaka all the way. Because Impi are OP.

[The Yeen Queen]

Originally posted by Charles George Gordon:

Originally posted by 0kpaxpax:

what I mean is that I want to find a Civ that has a strong military might to win my first game by domination instead of complex mechanic like culture, faith which some Civ has a strong suit for.

I would argue that domination victories aren't the easiest victory type.

Yeah, I'd say domination is the second hardest following religious. Or maybe religion isn't that hard and I just don't focus on it enough...

[White Shadow]

Originally posted by The Dark Tyger:

Originally posted by Charles George Gordon:

I would argue that domination victories aren't the easiest victory type.

Yeah, I'd say domination is the second hardest following religious. Or maybe religion isn't that hard and I just don't focus on it enough...

I would argue that cultural victories are also easier. Well, at least with the R&F expansion. The new loyalty system can make assaults deep into enemy territory take a lot longer than before. Cultural victories may take a lot longer than domination, but they are far more passive. And a passive victory type would be arguably "easier" for a new player.