For instance, if you pick Korea, and build science districts in all cities next to mines and away for other districts (the opposite of science districts for most civs), a science victory is a cake-walk and you'll be blowing up your neighbors musketmen with giant death robots in no time. I find them more useful for stealing gold, or if you have competition for science victories, for sabotaging everyone else's launches and protecting year own.īut again, the right civ makes a massive difference. They can give you Eurekas, but those just help with particular techs. Spies really don't help much for science. 5900, 7,900, earliest grape wine and viniculture (South Caucasus) wine as a social lubricant, medicine and commodity throughout western civilisation. Also, don't ignore religion, not only can you choose beliefs that boost science, you can also use faith points to buy great scientists, to boost in other ways. Look for mountains, reefs or other things that give adjacency boosts, and try to keep districts near each other so that they boost each other. More important is to look at where you are building your science district. The only boost he gets over other civs is that he can build ziggurats next to rivers. Gilgamesh is not all that great for science. More so than prior versions, you really have to pay attention to bonuses you get for each civ, for districts and terrain, etc.

Civ 6 science civs