early game - fast great prophet?

[noxxsan]

started playing with China and in 70~80 turns all other nations recruited all great prophets, so i already lost the religion war.

any ideas to fast recruit great prophet?

[Iron Angel]

If you build the Stonehenge, you will get a free prophet which you can activate at the Stonehenge. This will allow you to found a religion.

[SamBC]

Originally posted by Iron Angel:

If you build the Stonehenge, you will get a free prophet which you can activate at the Stonehenge. This will allow you to found a religion.

I don't think you actually get the prophet if they are all taken - it just gives you the next one available when you build it.

[Targonis]

Originally posted by SamBC:

Originally posted by Iron Angel:

If you build the Stonehenge, you will get a free prophet which you can activate at the Stonehenge. This will allow you to found a religion.

I don't think you actually get the prophet if they are all taken - it just gives you the next one available when you build it.

This is where starting position and decisions are very different in Civ 6 compared to previous games. In the previous games, you could use a similar strategy for each civilization, while starting position in Civ 6, along with your civilization/leader bonuses make a larger difference. If you have no stone near your starting position, that will delay your access to certain wonders for example. Those Eureka moments being based off what you do and build will make a different strategy make more sense as well.

All of this comes into play for long term strategy in a given game. If you find yourself in a better position to go to war, then going for the classic domination strategy makes sense, but if you have horrible resources near you for military advancement, you might want to go for a cultural or scientific, religion, or cultural victory.

[Iron Angel]

Indeed. But it is one "easy" way to get a prophet.

Else you need to gather enough faith so you can found a Pantheon. Also make sure to slot in the 'God King' policy card. This will give you +1 Faith in the capital. And focus on getting a Holy Site up.

[Evil-Gaidin]

if you don't have stone, get holysites and use the city project pray. the city projects are a great way to get a great person as long as you have an extra city for it or you know you have time to squeeze that extratime

[SamBC]

Also, don't forget that you can "hurry" a Great Person with gold or faith, so check to see if you are near enough to do that - or not far off. It gets cheaper the nearer you are to getting the GP "naturally".

[Jive Turkey]

I've been wondering this myself, but I 've started delcaring war on anyone who sends Missionaries into my border. It doesn't stop them but makes me feel better. I fight a Religous War with Horseman and Archers.

[noxxsan]

thanks guys

[Lawrencium103]

I don't see anyone mention the divine spark pantheon, it gives +1 great prophet, scientist, writer point for your respective districts. If you really want early religion, get astrology as your second or third tech and build a district right after it finishes. This pretty much guarantees the first/second religion on prince dificulty that I play in.

[RasaNova]

Also, one of the leaders has an ability that will automatically give you the last available great prophet once the previous one is claimed. (Arab I think?)

[Iron Angel]

Originally posted by RasaNova:

Also, one of the leaders has an ability that will automatically give you the last available great prophet once the previous one is claimed. (Arab I think?)

Yes. Arabia is the one.

[Shane]

1st city construction = monument to gain +2 culture reseach boost for code of laws
research astrology first (explore map and find a natural wonder fast to boost that process)
expand your border to a flat terrain tile that touches a stone resource
build a Holy Site districts, to earn faith (increase you dont build stone henge first)
once your poilices are activated add the +1faith/+1gold to captial card

other thing is you may find a religious city state apply +1 delegate to it for +faith to capital

[MasterBlaster]

i just tried to get a prophet as Arabia. After some turns i looked after the available prophets and once again all prophets were gone. There isn't even a message which informs you that no other prophet is available. Why didn't i get the last prophet as Arabia?

[Nowhere]

Great Prophet points can be earned via:

Holy Sites
Holy Site Buildings
Wild Card Policy via Mysticism Civic (although you need a govt or be greece to use it)
Divine Spark Pantheon (to enhance the Holy Site)
Holy Site Project

Out of the options, the Holy Site Project and Wild Card Policy are the biggest incomes of GP points. And as SamBC said, if you compound this with a lot of faith you can but into the last little bit (also raising the points needed for the next guy as well).

One thing I always find interesting though is that just because you don't have a religion yourself doesn't mean you've lost the religious war, it just means you can't win it. As long as you as well as your neighbors don't get steamrolled by religion you can do your best to draw a stalemate in and around your own borders. Religious units will reflect the religion of the city it was built out of, so if you get another religion in one of your cities, get religious units out and fight for the underdog religion. Personally I find it more fun to do that and juggle what beliefs would be better for me at the time. But it does come down to a dice roll for that initial spread I guess so meh.

[MasterBlaster]

Well, it was my fault. I started the game in a later era and forgot about that religion won't work then... too bad because it's been such a beautiful map