This didn't work.You can play Civilization 6 without ever founding a city—not even with your first Settler in the Ancient Era—but only kind of. I first tried this without modding Civ 6 at all, hoping that if I acted fast enough, I could level up my starting Warrior by finding settlements, and then successfully siege and take a city-state. This did not work.As you can see in the screen above, Brussels easily defeated my Warrior, took my Settler, and I lost on turn 16. I hope that's a record.
But I was determined to find a way to play Civ 6 without founding any cities, because once I decide on a stupid self-imposed rule there's no giving up. So I allowed myself only a slight change: I modified Eras.xml so that I would start in the Ancient Era with two Warriors and an Archer. I cheated, but only just enough to get off the ground. It's hardly even cheating, if you think about it, but please don't think about it.Within minutes I had done it: I started a game, and without founding a city I captured a capital, Toronto. This is pretty impressive, considering I didn't cheat even a little bit.
You can almost see the Maple Leafs blowing a two goal lead in the third period from here.As a Canadian, I should probably be offended that Toronto is a city-state and not part of the great Canadian civilization. Really, I'm more bothered that they chose Toronto and not Quebec City or Montreal, both of which have greater history. But who cares: Canada is Aztec country now.This whole scenario gives me an idea: what about a game where everyone starts with two Warriors and an Archer, but no Settler at all?
The only way forward for each civ would be to capture a city-state as its capital. Sounds fun, though I'm doubtful the AI can handle it. I try it anyway.On first attempt, it doesn't work at all. I forgot that when I conquered Toronto, I was playing as the Aztecs, who have a special Eagle Warrior unit that replaces the Ancient Era Warrior. With two regular Warriors and an Archer, there was no way I could capture a city state: my Archer could only do 15-21 damage per turn, and the city regenerated 20 health per turn. My Warriors, meanwhile, couldn't attack without losing most of their health and needing several turns to heal.
No one can win this battle.If you're wondering why that image is so orange, I was playing at 1 am (naturally, it's Civ) and forgot I had on. You should use it. But also turn it off for screenshots. Anyway, I went back to mucking with Eras.xml to see if I could start with no Settler, two Warriors, and two Archers to make this work, but no matter what I did Civilization 6 seemed insistent on starting me with only one Archer.
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Eventually I got frustrated and just pasted a bunch of units in—and that's when it decided to work. That'll do, pig.Well this is nice, isn't it? I have no problem taking a city-state as my capital with this army: in just nine turns, I capture Nan Madol. Unfortunately, the world rankings suggest my AI opponents aren't so clear on how to proceed. I lead in every victory category because they haven't captured cities.
I give it a few more turns, but no luck. I'm the only one who knows how this game is played.So let's go back to my first game, where everyone started with a Settler but I just chose not to use it.
I may be dead broke (units cost upkeep money even if you don't have a city generating gold) but I've captured Toronto, and now I have my sights set on Buenos Aires. Yes, I will do your city-state quest. That's what this army is for.Buenos Aries falls easily. I like that unprotected cities aren't a huge deal to take early on in Civ 6. But with all my troops scattered as I seek out new states to conquer, I become worried that I may be subject to the same treatment: my neighbor to the east, Egypt, randomly got in touch to tell me that my army is puny and I'm dumb. Or something like that.
The point is that it was rude, and greatly displeased the people of Aztec-Canada.Without declaring war, Cleopatra beings amassing troops near the border of Toronto. With my starting Settler still nestled in the city—which is sort of annoying because it means I can't hide Builders there during wartime—I begin moving troops to confront my Egyptian foes. It's time to see if, despite being behind by several turns of production and research, I can make an Ancient Era civilization mine. My civilization at turn 110 with four cities and my starting Settler hanging out in Toronto.I never took an aggressive approach in Civ 5, preferring to expand on my own and turtle. But I was always annoyed by city-states hogging land I wanted, so much that I started turning them off altogether. Now that early wars aren't quite so much of a drain, though, I'm really enjoying being an all out warmonger in Civ 6. I would make a terrible world leader.If you want to muck with the starting conditions yourself, it's pretty easy.
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Find your Civilization 6 install folder, which if it's in Steam's default location will be C:Program Files (x86)SteamsteamappscommonSid Meier's Civilization VI.From there, navigate to BaseAssetsGameplayData and find Eras.xml. Make a copy of it to back it up, then open it in a text editor.