To spread your Civilization 6 Religion of choice, the first thing you'll need to do is acquire Faith. In fact, you'll need to continuously be acquiring large amounts of Faith throughout the course of your playthrough if you want to successfully achieve a Religious Victory, as you'll likely be spending it relentlessly on new Apostles and Missionaries to help spread the good news.

Here, we'll be taking you through all of the important mechanics surrounding Religion, Faith, Pantheons, beliefs, and more in Civilization 6, which should serve as some pretty comprehensive prep and companion detail for our dedicated Civ 6 Religious Victory guide.

If you're looking for more resource-focused Civ 6 guides, meanwhile, we also have pages on how to earn Science, how to earn Gold, and how to earn Culture and Tourism in Civ 6, too.

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Money makes the world go round, this we know. However, it also makes life in Civilization 6 a great deal easier and a lot more interesting.

So, whether you're looking to get rich quick or dig yourself out of a financial hole, take a look at our top tips for getting Civilization 6 gold and making it work for you.

If you're looking for more resource-focused Civ 6 guides, meanwhile, we also have pages on how to earn Science, how to earn Faith, and how to earn Culture and Tourism in Civ 6, too.

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The Civilization 6 Culture Victory is not a simple one. At least not on the surface. There's been a great deal of confusion how exactly it works right from the get go with Civ 6 - in fact even with Civ 5 it was something developer Firaxis had to wrestle with.

Thanks to some good old fashioned mathematics from the community however, there is now, at last, enough information to put together a proper guide on how to win the Culture Victory, how to earn Foreign and Domestic Tourists, plus explaining how Tourism works, and how Culture affects it.

We've assembled this guide based on a combination of in-game info, our own testing, and conversations we've held with Firaxis confirming some of the details. It's also worth noting the work done by the community, particularly CivFanatics forum user Victoria, found here. You can also find any of the formula mentioned in the game's .exe files - although we recommend you don't go fiddling around in there unless you know what you're doing!

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Civilization 6's Religious Victory is an all-new win condition in the Civ series, but thanks to some smart, simple implementation, feels like it's been here the whole time.

Religion functions in largely the same way as previous Civ games - cities and units can exert pressure to convert others nearby, and many Beliefs are shared by all who follow that Religion, rather than just the founding Civ. However, the Religious Victory condition is of course completely novel, and as such we'll be explaining how to spread the holy word far and wide, below.

Before doing so however, a quick reminder of our Scientific Victory and Military Domination Victory guides, too - because there's no point in mastering Religion only to be pipped by a Space Race or suprise nuke that you could have seen coming!

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Uncultured brute or not, war in Civilization 6 will inevitably play a part in your campaigning at some point, be it a declaration on you from a once-allied civ, or your own decisio to crush your enemies and achieve the Civ 6 Domination Victory.

Here, we'll be talking you through the fundamentals of military playthroughs in Civ 6, including an explanation of the all new war conditions like Casus Belli, and likewise adding our own advice for the most efficient annihilation of your foe as possible.

Note that this page is due an update since the launch of the Rise and Fall expansion - we'll get to that as soon as possible, but until then we have guide to what's new in Civ 6 Rise and Fall, as well as pages explaining the new Governors and Loyalty system, and how to earn Historic Moments, Era Score and Golden Ages, too.

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Science has always been our personal favourite of the win-condition resources, thanks to that oh-so-satisfying feeling of steaming through the Tech tree towards the late game, and the payoffs that come with it. Amassing Science in Civilization 6 is no different, and will also play a crucial role in any playthrough thanks to some integral technologies that are unlocked as you progress.

Just about any civilization can benefit from a strong Science income, regardless of your target victory condition, and so maintaining that income is one of the most important things you can do to secure yourself a healthy late game.

Here, we'll be focusing on explaining how exactly Science works for the newcomers and lapsed Civlization players, whilst also gathering up every single way to earn Science specifically into one all-consuming list. The goal, then, is to have this guide play a complementary role to our other, dedicated Science Victory guide, which contains our more in-depth advice for winning the game through technological advance.

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The joy of this game, as with all previous entries in this series, is that there are multiple ways to play and a myriad of Civilization 6 strategies that you can take on your way to one of the many victory types.

Having consumed the various pages of this guide from essential tips and tricks to a detailed look at the Leaders and managing Districts, you are well placed to strike out on your own and lead your Civilization to glory.

That said, forewarned is most certainly forearmed and we have so much more to give. So, whether you're hungry for solid starting strategies, wondering how best to rule your population in the mid game or looking for that late game push, we have you covered with some strong plays at each of the three main phases of play.

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Something to grips with upfront is Civilization 6's Districts - a new feature to the series - to aid both short-term decisions and longer-term city planning.

The concept of districts can be best described as 'cities unstacked'; where in previous Civilization games all buildings and world wonders were built within a city, which occupied a single hex tile on the map, districts instead offer the visual representation of cities growing in size and sprawling across your territory to occupy multiple tiles.

Just as Civilization V unstacked units for clarity and fairness, Civilization 6 unstacks cities for flexibility and empowerment. Let's delve into how they work and how to make the most of them.

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Civilization 6's Governments and Policies are an entirely new addition to the Civ series, bringing with them a new level of control over the type of civilization you hope to run.

Unlocked by progressing through the all-new Civics Tree, which is done by earning Culture - much the same as Tech Tree advances come from earning Science - Governments each grant a unique Inherent Bonus and Legacy Bonus, a selection of slots for Policy cards, and points towards city-state-wooing Envoys. Policies will comes from the same method of Civic Tree progression, with each one offering various benefits to your yields, units, Production and more.

Careful management of your Government choice and Policy unlocks, then, is crucial for an efficient playthrough, particularly if you have a specific victory condition - such as a Scientific, Military, or Religious Victory - in mind.

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Civilization's Science victories have become the most popular of any, likely because of, firstly, the frightfully compulsive feeling gained from progressing along that tech tree, and also the wonderfully predictive nature of those last few steps towards the looming world of Future Tech.

In Civilization 6, the Scientific victory functions in largely the same way as before. You must still get to almost the end of the Technology tree, and still assemble multiple components for space travel, albeit with the caveat that, this time, your final destination is the colonisation of Mars.

Before diving in here though, be sure to have read up on our dedicated guides to general Civilization 6 tips and tricks in our guide hub, a detailed look at Districts and the most optimal District placements, a walkthrough of Civ 6 Leader profiles and agendas, our early, mid, and late game Civ 6 strategies, and our guide for earning and spending gold.

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