Civilization timestamps and leader synergy recommendations: Persia - 02:14 1st = Napoleon, Revolutionary (war monger synergy) 2nd = Trung Trac (war monger synergy) 3rd = Xerxes, King of Kings (war monger synergy) Maurya - 05:10 1st = Charlemagne (war monger synergy) 2nd = Ashoka, World Conqueror (happiness synergy) 3rd = Ashoka, World Renouncer (happiness synergy) Rome - 07:20 1st = Augustus (town synergy) 2nd = Xerxes, King of kings (settlement synergy) 3rd = Ashoka, World Conqueror (settlement synergy) Greece - 11:13 1st = Benjamin Franklin (endeavor synergy) 2nd = Machiavelli (diplomatic synergy) 3rd = Tecumseh (city-state synergy) Mississipian - 15:13 1st = Trung Trac (war monger synergy) 2nd = Ashoka, World Conqueror war monger synergy) 3rd = Xerxes, The Achaemenid (trade synergy) Maya - 18:54 1st = Trung Trac (vegetation synergy) 2nd = Ashoka, World Renouncer (happiness synergy) 3rd = Charlemagne (happiness synergy) Han - 22:25 1st = Napoleon, Emperor (sanction synergy) 2nd = Benjamin Franklin (endeavor synergy) 3rd = Tecumseh (city-state synergy) Khmer - 25:00 1st = Confucius (growth synergy) 2nd = Pachacuti (specialist synergy) 3rd = Catherine The Great (codex synergy) Egypt - 28:21 1st = Hatshesput (wonder synergy) 2nd = Amina (war monger synergy) 3rd = Ibn Battuta (wonder synergy) Aksum - 32:03 1st = Xerxes, The Achaemenid (trade synergy) 2nd = Amina (trade synergy) 3rd = Isabella (coastal synergy) Please note: only antiquity civilizations were considered for this video as this video specifically focuses on not being able to see their bonuses in the main menu when you're picking your leader. While other civilizations in the exploration and modern age have access to unique civics that aren't visible when you select them respectively, the impact to the antiquity age is much more significant. Also note: Leaders that are still locked behind NDA are not included for consideration in these rankings.
No love for Harriet Tubman? She's easily going to be one of the strongest leaders in vegetation heavy maps, and she also pairs well with Greece for espionage purposes.
@ComplexityComplex She has a very cool group of bonuses and tbh it's hard for me to place her, if i was going to play a Tubman game, I'd probably go Han Chinese. Huge bonuses to influence through the civic tree, as well as the great wall for defense when the enemy inevitably declares war on you! Could get some great stacking with her Momento, Lantern (Migrant appears in the capital when you complete an espionage act without being detected).
@@JustOneMoreTurn I was thinking of pairing Isabella with Han China, as colonizing natural wonders in Civ V could result in a very spread out Empire that could be vulnerable to invasion, so I figure being able to build the Han Great Wall would let Isabella turtle around natural wonders. But I don't know if Han China's bonus' fit with Isabella's. I don't even know if each city can build their own Great Wall, or if you can only have the one Great Wall. Can settlements build Great Wall segments?
What about pairing Trung Trac with Rome? She gives your first Legatus 3 promotions for free, and that legatus can now settle a town, so you get your 2nd settlement a few turna after discovering discipline
When the title spoke about "Hidden Bonuses" i must admit i was thinking about the true hidden bonuses like start biases ~ Though i don't mind a closer look at the civilization specific civics.
FYI, the civilization reveals on the civ 7 website do have these civics listed, but I agree that it would be so much more convenient to have them listed in-game when you choose a civ.
I was looking at the website yesterday and it had all the bonuses and civics listed but had a lot of ‘gain an amount of science’ type wording rather than a clear plus 3 or whatever it actually is ingame.
You're mixing up flat bonuses and policies; you refer to them all as "you get X" when it's really not. The buffs with plus-signs are unconditional, you get those from just researching the civic, but the quill buffs are policy unlocks. Those cost a policy slot!
great approach to pick a leader and looking for specific buffs instead of just going through everything one after one. all the best for your new channel, looking forward to see civ content. but also love to see those casted games, keep going drongo!
Thanks so much for this video, having all of this in one location really helps a number cruncher like me figure out what I want to play on my first run.
32:45 So busy squeeing over trade range he didn't notice the Dhow is _also a merchant._ The range is probably better, but a galley+merchant combo isn't bad either.
Yup, surprisingly few trade civs for this poor guy to pair with, especially considering it's one of the main things to do in the antiquity age. They've announced Carthage will be released in March, maybe it will be another one.
Really informative and really interesting to see these combos, would be great to expand this into the exploration and modern age civs and cover the embargo leaders too
Drongo your content is a cut above the rest. Can you do an Antiquity age civ pairing with Isabella. She looks like so much fun exploring for natural wonders.
I think Isabella could go well with Khmer. She doesn’t directly boost specialists but having a few high yield wonder tiles would make growing pop for specialists much faster, at least if you get a food wonder.
Nice to think about which combinations suit which gameplay styles. One aspect I'm very interested in is diplomacy/influence which means I need to try Greece and Han. Probably with the leaders you mention, although I wonder if Himiko might work well with one of those as well.
I was ready to dislike and request never to get recommended this guys videos for trying to clickbait me… until I realized he is entirely correct and this is a common problem with many strategy games. It’s just that civ didn’t have it in 5 or 6. Great video man
Awesome video, i initially though you would be talking about civ and leader specific narrative events, like how if you build the colleseum as Rome, you get some fun bonuses via a narrative event What about pairing Friedrich with Egypt? Via his abilities, you gain medjay for free after constructing persona specific buildings, and as Egypt medjay cost no maintenantce, and can generate gold for bwing stationed in your settlements That seems like a fun way of gaining gold while also having a decent defensive force without investing production or money into it
I actually think you should take a second look at his bonus to unique improvements and buildings as well as the memento that gives gold and culture to them. If you place down a whole bunch of unique improvements, then get a city state or two and pick their unique improvements and since unique improvements only cost 100 gold it seems like you can just fill entire cities and towns with these things which will get you +4 gold +4 culture in antiquity in addition to the improvement itself. The kicker is they will last into the next age which seems totally busted to me. I would love to see you try it out as buffed ageless infrastructure seems like the most broken thing in the world to me unless I'm wrong and there is a severe limit to placing unique improvements.
How does Tubman work with Han or Greece? Haven't seen any gameplay of her yet, but as a spy leader, influence civ seems like a clear synergy, particularly alongside Han's defensive bonuses.
Interesting to recommend Trung Trac for Maya for the vegated start, and not Harriet Tubman who has a vegetated start AND better movement through vegetated terrain.
She has a very cool group of bonuses and tbh it's hard for me to place her, if i was going to play a Tubman game, I'd probably go Han Chinese. Huge bonuses to influence through the civic tree, as well as the great wall for defense when the enemy inevitably declares war on you! Could get some great stacking with her Momento, Lantern (Migrant appears in the capital when you complete an espionage act without being detected).
Are you a Mandarin speaker? Your pronunciation of Junzi really caught me off guard 😅 Great and unique video, looking forward to Exploration and Modern civ pairings!
Only antiquity civilizations were considered for this video as this video specifically focuses on not being able to see their bonuses in the main menu when you're picking your leader. While other civilizations in the exploration and modern age have access to unique civics that aren't visible when you select them respectively, the impact to the antiquity age is much more significant.
You can access the civilopedia once you're ingame, it reveals each of the civics but it only gives a historical context, it doesn't actually tell you what they unlock, see here: i.imgur.com/zjxBtBf.png
Civilization timestamps and leader synergy recommendations:
Persia - 02:14
1st = Napoleon, Revolutionary (war monger synergy)
2nd = Trung Trac (war monger synergy)
3rd = Xerxes, King of Kings (war monger synergy)
Maurya - 05:10
1st = Charlemagne (war monger synergy)
2nd = Ashoka, World Conqueror (happiness synergy)
3rd = Ashoka, World Renouncer (happiness synergy)
Rome - 07:20
1st = Augustus (town synergy)
2nd = Xerxes, King of kings (settlement synergy)
3rd = Ashoka, World Conqueror (settlement synergy)
Greece - 11:13
1st = Benjamin Franklin (endeavor synergy)
2nd = Machiavelli (diplomatic synergy)
3rd = Tecumseh (city-state synergy)
Mississipian - 15:13
1st = Trung Trac (war monger synergy)
2nd = Ashoka, World Conqueror war monger synergy)
3rd = Xerxes, The Achaemenid (trade synergy)
Maya - 18:54
1st = Trung Trac (vegetation synergy)
2nd = Ashoka, World Renouncer (happiness synergy)
3rd = Charlemagne (happiness synergy)
Han - 22:25
1st = Napoleon, Emperor (sanction synergy)
2nd = Benjamin Franklin (endeavor synergy)
3rd = Tecumseh (city-state synergy)
Khmer - 25:00
1st = Confucius (growth synergy)
2nd = Pachacuti (specialist synergy)
3rd = Catherine The Great (codex synergy)
Egypt - 28:21
1st = Hatshesput (wonder synergy)
2nd = Amina (war monger synergy)
3rd = Ibn Battuta (wonder synergy)
Aksum - 32:03
1st = Xerxes, The Achaemenid (trade synergy)
2nd = Amina (trade synergy)
3rd = Isabella (coastal synergy)
Please note: only antiquity civilizations were considered for this video as this video specifically focuses on not being able to see their bonuses in the main menu when you're picking your leader. While other civilizations in the exploration and modern age have access to unique civics that aren't visible when you select them respectively, the impact to the antiquity age is much more significant.
Also note: Leaders that are still locked behind NDA are not included for consideration in these rankings.
This is so helpful! Amazing
No love for Harriet Tubman? She's easily going to be one of the strongest leaders in vegetation heavy maps, and she also pairs well with Greece for espionage purposes.
@ComplexityComplex She has a very cool group of bonuses and tbh it's hard for me to place her, if i was going to play a Tubman game, I'd probably go Han Chinese. Huge bonuses to influence through the civic tree, as well as the great wall for defense when the enemy inevitably declares war on you! Could get some great stacking with her Momento, Lantern (Migrant appears in the capital when you complete an espionage act without being detected).
@ what do migrants do? Haven’t Seen much coverage of them thus far
@@JustOneMoreTurn I was thinking of pairing Isabella with Han China, as colonizing natural wonders in Civ V could result in a very spread out Empire that could be vulnerable to invasion, so I figure being able to build the Han Great Wall would let Isabella turtle around natural wonders. But I don't know if Han China's bonus' fit with Isabella's. I don't even know if each city can build their own Great Wall, or if you can only have the one Great Wall. Can settlements build Great Wall segments?
What about pairing Trung Trac with Rome? She gives your first Legatus 3 promotions for free, and that legatus can now settle a town, so you get your 2nd settlement a few turna after discovering discipline
NICE Combo! I overlooked this one! I feel like Trung Trac has so many great synergies across the Antiquity civs.
Not only that, but your other commanders also get +20% experience, which means they'll be able to settle their towns more quickly as well!
When the title spoke about "Hidden Bonuses" i must admit i was thinking about the true hidden bonuses like start biases ~ Though i don't mind a closer look at the civilization specific civics.
*Angry Isabella wonder start noises*
@@MegaHuntressthat’s hardly a bonus you can miss since she seems to always have one in the capital 😅
@ you underestimate m̶y̶ p̶o̶w̶e̶r̶
The stupidity of some people.
Also, it was mainly made as a joke as OP talked about starting bias.
FYI, the civilization reveals on the civ 7 website do have these civics listed, but I agree that it would be so much more convenient to have them listed in-game when you choose a civ.
I was looking at the website yesterday and it had all the bonuses and civics listed but had a lot of ‘gain an amount of science’ type wording rather than a clear plus 3 or whatever it actually is ingame.
You're mixing up flat bonuses and policies; you refer to them all as "you get X" when it's really not. The buffs with plus-signs are unconditional, you get those from just researching the civic, but the quill buffs are policy unlocks. Those cost a policy slot!
Great point! After watching back that was something I definitely forgot to explain, apologies!
I'm so happy Drongo is doing civ content. And the crafting of these videos are top notch too
great approach to pick a leader and looking for specific buffs instead of just going through everything one after one.
all the best for your new channel, looking forward to see civ content. but also love to see those casted games, keep going drongo!
For having only 3 videos, you are by far my favorite channel making Civ7 content, keep up the great work!
I think he had a different channel or something before; a lot of people seem to know who he is in the comments.
If you ever watched Age of Empires, hes pretty big there. Probably did a new channel for civ to not frick up his algo
@karu1585 exactly, RUclips doesn't take kindly to those who mix their interests
There doesn't seem to be a wrong choice, which is awesome. So much synergy, very cool to see.
Thanks so much for this video, having all of this in one location really helps a number cruncher like me figure out what I want to play on my first run.
Exactly why I did it. I knew that if I didn't have early access I'd be pulling my teeth out trying to compile all this info!
32:45 So busy squeeing over trade range he didn't notice the Dhow is _also a merchant._ The range is probably better, but a galley+merchant combo isn't bad either.
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This was a really interesting video! Nice breakdown of some combinations that aren't so obvious from the main screen!
Yup, surprisingly few trade civs for this poor guy to pair with, especially considering it's one of the main things to do in the antiquity age. They've announced Carthage will be released in March, maybe it will be another one.
Great Britain seems like a good candidate for trade later on too
Really informative and really interesting to see these combos, would be great to expand this into the exploration and modern age civs and cover the embargo leaders too
Drongo your content is a cut above the rest. Can you do an Antiquity age civ pairing with Isabella. She looks like so much fun exploring for natural wonders.
I think Isabella could go well with Khmer. She doesn’t directly boost specialists but having a few high yield wonder tiles would make growing pop for specialists much faster, at least if you get a food wonder.
These are actually listed in the Civ Guides on the Civilization website
Ok Mr 🤓
I did not know, thank you :)
I’m so happy My Stormgate is doing civ content. Also the crafting of these videos are top notch too
How did you find that channel lmao, I never posted there.
Bro, your channel is amazing. Keep going and you might pop off like crazy
Nice to think about which combinations suit which gameplay styles. One aspect I'm very interested in is diplomacy/influence which means I need to try Greece and Han. Probably with the leaders you mention, although I wonder if Himiko might work well with one of those as well.
Great content coverage thus far! Most unique I've seen
Great video. Keep it coming Drongo.
Totally underrated channel. Great video!
Unique idea! Love it
Your Videos alte so valuable. I want to make a board Game Like rulebook to CIV 7 and your videos will help me a lot!
I was ready to dislike and request never to get recommended this guys videos for trying to clickbait me… until I realized he is entirely correct and this is a common problem with many strategy games. It’s just that civ didn’t have it in 5 or 6. Great video man
Great video, perfect to see the last little details so I can finish my comparison charts on civfanatics! Now can you do Exploration? ;D
Awesome video, i initially though you would be talking about civ and leader specific narrative events, like how if you build the colleseum as Rome, you get some fun bonuses via a narrative event
What about pairing Friedrich with Egypt? Via his abilities, you gain medjay for free after constructing persona specific buildings, and as Egypt medjay cost no maintenantce, and can generate gold for bwing stationed in your settlements
That seems like a fun way of gaining gold while also having a decent defensive force without investing production or money into it
I actually think you should take a second look at his bonus to unique improvements and buildings as well as the memento that gives gold and culture to them. If you place down a whole bunch of unique improvements, then get a city state or two and pick their unique improvements and since unique improvements only cost 100 gold it seems like you can just fill entire cities and towns with these things which will get you +4 gold +4 culture in antiquity in addition to the improvement itself. The kicker is they will last into the next age which seems totally busted to me. I would love to see you try it out as buffed ageless infrastructure seems like the most broken thing in the world to me unless I'm wrong and there is a severe limit to placing unique improvements.
I'll have to check it out, that does sound like it could be strong!
Being able to see these bonus in a civilopedia would be a very good idea.
You should make another broken strategies video, last one with confucius was so good
How does Tubman work with Han or Greece? Haven't seen any gameplay of her yet, but as a spy leader, influence civ seems like a clear synergy, particularly alongside Han's defensive bonuses.
I wonder what's your recommendation for Friedrich, I'm loving the science/military combo potential
I think you'd have to go something like Persia or Rome for the infantry + Commander stacking!
Do the non tradition abilities for civics carry between ages or do they go away like civ abilities? I haven't seen any direct clarification on this
From my calculations they go away.
Can you make a part 2 pairing him with exploration civs
It's on the list!
Interesting to recommend Trung Trac for Maya for the vegated start, and not Harriet Tubman who has a vegetated start AND better movement through vegetated terrain.
She has a very cool group of bonuses and tbh it's hard for me to place her, if i was going to play a Tubman game, I'd probably go Han Chinese. Huge bonuses to influence through the civic tree, as well as the great wall for defense when the enemy inevitably declares war on you! Could get some great stacking with her Momento, Lantern (Migrant appears in the capital when you complete an espionage act without being detected).
Are you a Mandarin speaker? Your pronunciation of Junzi really caught me off guard 😅 Great and unique video, looking forward to Exploration and Modern civ pairings!
我会说一点不过不太流利
DRONGO I LOVE YOU
Really familiar voice. Is it same guy that narrates age of empires skirmishes? Or all Australians sounds same for me 😅
Hello, yes it is me :)
Three more turn video
"EVERY", but only for Antiquity...
Only antiquity civilizations were considered for this video as this video specifically focuses on not being able to see their bonuses in the main menu when you're picking your leader. While other civilizations in the exploration and modern age have access to unique civics that aren't visible when you select them respectively, the impact to the antiquity age is much more significant.
@@JustOneMoreTurn I agree and I hope you will be able to make this same type of video for both the Exploration and Modern ages as well!
I. too, fell for the click bait.
can I get a timestamp
You can't access the civilopedia from the menu? Surely you can once in the game. You don't have to wait until chiefdom. Bullshit clickbait title.
You can access the civilopedia once you're ingame, it reveals each of the civics but it only gives a historical context, it doesn't actually tell you what they unlock, see here: i.imgur.com/zjxBtBf.png
I really hope they change the starting city look cuz it looks so bad :D
It does look a bit out of place for the age of antiquity when we're just researching agriculture, I agree - but I do think it looks great.
It's an optional Founders Edition palace skin.