Weekly "What are you playing?" Thread #53 (#11 in 2024)

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/yungs-better-caves

Check the Civipedia. It lists all adjacency bonuses for each district.

Siege units, like battering ram, lets you bypass walls, so the defense is much lower. When they get some tech for bigger walls, battering ram becomes obsolete, so you need to use the siege tower to bypass the walls. You can still build trebuchets and whatever to bombard cities and units.

If you got 2 districts next to each other, and place a third to "connect" them, they each get +1 or +2 adjacency bonus. It really builds over time. Trying pairing Dams with Workshops too, since it gives them +2 production. If you got a dam next to some strategic resource like iron, it should yield +3 or +4 adjacency bonus.

Adjacency bonuses will make or break you (well, it's AI, so it'll just take longer to kill them all). Go for minimum +3 to +4, such as library/research district placed among a bunch of mountains. You can then use those policy cards that give you a +50% bonus for all cities that have +4 adjacency bonus for specific districts. It's nice to activate those cards when you want to crank out an army, upgrade it, or push out a bunch of buildings.

Movement rules and adjacency bonuses (board game autismo from famous board game neurodivergent ed beach) really makes 6 a slog compared to V.

The adjacency bonus things are just experience. Mountains are good for holy sites and campuses. If you have any coastal reefs, they're really good for campuses - each one is +2, so if there's two next to each other along the coast you can get +4 from those alone.

Even though harbors grant landlocked cities access to water, you normally want to build along the coast anyways, because IIRC you get +2 housing from the harbor if it's next to your city. Maybe it's +2 from a lighthouse instead, either way basically the same.

The best use cases for adjacency bonuses are (IMO):

• harbors: seaports give production equal to adjacency, and there's a policy card that doubles it, so if you start with +5 bonus on a harbor now it's giving +10 production, like a super factory

• holy sites: the Work Ethic belief gives production equal to adjacency, and there's a policy card that doubles it as well, so if you can pair it with high-adjacency stuff (ie tundras with Dance of the Aurora pantheon), you can turn your holy sites into factories, and you don't even need to build any buildings in them for this

"Siege units" are like catapults and stuff, not support units. They're basically just archers (ranged units) except they get +power against cities/districts and -power against units. (Archers get the opposite - don't try assaulting a city with crossbowmen, they get like -17 power for attacking the fortification.) The later ones can't move and attack in most cases (there's a promotion to remove this).

If you mean stuff like siege towers, those supporting units can frankly be ignored for the most part unless you're building a strategy around them. If you're busting down city walls with catapults you don't need them. They're mostly useful if your civ has something like an OP special melee unit and you want to build your whole army around it rather than having a standard siege-based army. An exception to this are the mid-/late-game observation balloon and drone support units, they give +1 range to siege units which as you can imagine is really good (I think they might give indirect fire as well, I forget). I rarely use any other support units, they're just not that good and most of the bonuses to building/purchasing combat units doesn't apply to them which sucks.