AI's preferred pantheon belief?

[Dzikus1r]

I'm not finding this anywhere, but what are the particular civs' preferred pantheon beliefs? I've tried reloading saves and outright restarting game a couple times to nab Earth Goddess, I got it on a previous playthrough before that save was broken and I had to restart. I'm playing as Scythia with Kongo, India, Japan, Germany, Egypt, Greece, and the Aztecs. I'm not sure how to narrow it down to find out either. Or is Earth Goddess just the first pantheon civs try to grab and I got lucky before?

[SamBC]

There's no fixed per-civ preference, the AI tries to assess which will be most useful to them and uses that.

[gimmethegepgun]

Goddess of the Harvest is always one of the first, if not the first, to go though.

[anynamewilldo]

earth goddess is the one i almost always go for and i think the ai goes for. i don't often play civs/maps that favor desert/jungle tiles.

[Dzikus1r]

Ok, I kinda suspected due to the lack of search results, but whatever. I was thinking maybe since India is faith geared that they were unassailably beating me to the first pantheon. So I switched them with Arabia, but I'm still not getting this pantheon belief as an option. I'm trying to take the most faith heavy strat from the get go to beat the AIs to first pantheon, but so far I\m eiother failing or my game is bugged. The only mod I am using is Tomatekh's historical religions. If I still can't figure this out I will probably broach this over there in case it is a mod issue. I'm researching animal husbandry right after Astrology so I can set up a kurga and holy site asap, but I am still failing. I would just take a different belief, but now I feel challenged to beat this issue so theres that now lol. There is not a way to know what pantheons exist until you a meet a civ correct?

[gimmethegepgun]

Who gets the first pantheons is basically decided by who runs across a religious city state first. The 1 envoy from finding them first gives 2 faith generation, which is far and away the highest available in the first 20 turns of the game, so whoever does that is going to get one of the first pantheons.

[Mr. Jizzard The Tentacle Wizard]

Idk about Pantheons, but I know for sure the first AI to get a religion for me always goes for Warrior Monks and Synagogues

[Dzikus1r]

Thanks for the info everyone. I was able to narrow it down to civs that would spawn near religious city states with your help. ALSO nabbed warrior monks. Never tried it before but looks cool.

[anynamewilldo]

the dlc pack that has gitarja as a leader gives 2 faith for every city placed next to lakes and coasts. u usually can beeline first religion even on higher difficulties unless something like very poor resources[or high food but no production or chop stuff] start area or barbs with horses nearby.

[Arena22]

Gitarja (Indonesia) rocks. All hail!

[fmalfeas]

Harvest + Magnus is freaking insane. I played a game as Aztec where I just shifted Magnus from jungle city to jungle city, using all those 'loyal workers' I'd 'earned' in war to chop down all the jungles.


Combined with Monumentality to buy workers cheap with faith, I was buying Great People left and right, and my power skyrocketed. Then I ended up with a huge faith surplus, no great people at the time that I really wanted (or could use at that moment due to district limitations), so I built a Grand Master's hall, and bought like 30 knights. And promptly conquered someone...who had forests and jungles. So it all started up again.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by fmalfeas:

Harvest + Magnus is freaking insane. I played a game as Aztec where I just shifted Magnus from jungle city to jungle city, using all those 'loyal workers' I'd 'earned' in war to chop down all the jungles.


Combined with Monumentality to buy workers cheap with faith, I was buying Great People left and right, and my power skyrocketed. Then I ended up with a huge faith surplus, no great people at the time that I really wanted (or could use at that moment due to district limitations), so I built a Grand Master's hall, and bought like 30 knights. And promptly conquered someone...who had forests and jungles. So it all started up again.

The Aztecs: because slavery is the basis of a strong economy!

[Mr. Jizzard The Tentacle Wizard]

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

Originally posted by fmalfeas:

Harvest + Magnus is freaking insane. I played a game as Aztec where I just shifted Magnus from jungle city to jungle city, using all those 'loyal workers' I'd 'earned' in war to chop down all the jungles.


Combined with Monumentality to buy workers cheap with faith, I was buying Great People left and right, and my power skyrocketed. Then I ended up with a huge faith surplus, no great people at the time that I really wanted (or could use at that moment due to district limitations), so I built a Grand Master's hall, and bought like 30 knights. And promptly conquered someone...who had forests and jungles. So it all started up again.

The Aztecs: because slavery is the basis of a strong economy!

The aztec's abilities in civ 6 fit together like a glove. It's so nice, they're my favorite civ because of how perfectly their abilities compliment each other.