Holy crap, Jumbo! All my years in civ and I never realized the defensive use of Inquisitors! Thanks for the heads up, man!

Brilliant! That makes this aspect of the game much clearer 👍

Awesome! Now make one where you spawn near Attila

Subscribed to your channel today. Love 4x games and am a big fan of Civ 5 (don't like 6 at all!). Learned a lot from your Humankind videos! Thanks for the great work. Always love seeing new Civ 5 content. Couple of things to add IMO - a little talk about Pantheons and how important it is to get pantheons early as the cost of getting pantheons goes up as others get them (Single/multiplayer). Another thing to get faith early is to scouting as much as you can in the beginning to meet religious city states like Lhasa/Wittenberg can also get you faith without building. Getting this is a bit of luck though. Always build Shrines early - esp if you take Tradition. I like to start with 2 scouts - research Pottery and build a shrine as early as possible. The best faith pantheons IMO are Desert Faith (if you have a few desert tiles), Earth Mother (if you have a couple of copies salt/copper), One with nature (if you're lucky enough to settle a good wonder - Old Faithful/Barringer Crater/Krakatoa are not so useful at the beginning), and, God King (if you don't have anything else). Quarries are decent if you have multiple copies of stone/marble but tend to be slower to develop. The rest looks good. Perhaps a couple of words on the Faith Wonders later like the Mosque of Djenne and Grand Temple would be good. The Piety tree as well can really accelerate your faith and help with Gold/Culture and Military later. Oh - if you have a decent religion - it also helps to be friends/allies with Faith based City states - another way to buff your Faith/turn and be able to buy stuff. Faith also helps with the Culture victory where all religious buildings give +2 tourism. If you can establish your world religion as majority - that helps tourism as well. Spreading your religion to city states reduces the speed at which your influence over them diminishes and you get a tourism modifier for shared religions with other civs.. Thanks again though!

So so useful! Had no clue how to go about faith before..thanks for the great vid!

Also, within the Piety Tree, the final social policy allows you to have reformation abilities. Within those abilities, you can choose to also buy all great people using faith post Industrial. There are several others too and they are all mostly very useful in the late game.

Notes on the inquisitors: 1. they can defile another religion's holy city (if you own it), permanently removing its HC status (allowing it to be razed if it wasn't also the capital city). 2. I believe their effectiveness is severely reduced when using them in cities you don't own 3. Unlike Great Prophets, _Missionaries and Inquisitors_ DON'T necessarily support their purchaser's religion; they support whatever religion happened to be the local majority when and where they were purchased. So if someone else converts your holy city, DON'T buy an inquisitor right away from the same city to try to fix it; you'll only end up desecrating your own holy city (ask me how I know... 😭)

Well put together video.. ive been playing civ 5 for about 5 years on and off but never got into religion because i also thought of it as boring. But after this video for my next game i sure will found religion :)

Thanks! Works same for uniciv for who ever was wondering

I feel like every time I go for a faith based game, i get absolutely obliterated by the warmongering AI, lol.

I was hoping for more of an in-depth explanation on some of the traits you can assign to religion, specifically in regard to the less direct +1 type bonuses. Things like the difference in practical application between Religious Texts ("Religion spreads 25% faster (50% with Printing Press)") and Itinerant Preachers ("Religion spreads to cities 30% further away") - when you'd want one vs the other.

thank you, I have over 1000 hours in the game and didn't know about leaving inquisitors in city's

I have always overlooked inquisitors. Now i think i should at least build one. Thanks for the tip

I would like to add that the religious buildings get taken by the A.I so quickly that is has to be the first follower belief you get.

Awesome video man!

I don’t get why a religion victory wasn’t added, your religion sweeps over the world and your messiah comes etc etc. it wouldn’t even be supernatural it would be up to the player is the messiah just a dude or the real deal but either way you win 🤣

I bank my faith till late game Then use it to buy Great Scientists. I get 5+ Great Scientists after I get to modern age for a MAJOR tech boost when you need it the most.

What a lovely guy. Thank you

Ya gotta have faith faith faith I gotta have Faith Faith Faith

But, is there any "tactical" advantages of spreading your religion to other civs? Because if a religion gives bonuses, tacticaly you wouldnt want for the others to have it. Or am I missing something?

I pick the image that looks like a bird. Name the religion some variation of BIRD so I can say "Have you heard the word?"

Gotta have faith

Can you do a video on faith in civ 6

A little late for me playing this game (2 years I guess LOL) try to use inquisitor on other civ land(can't moving unless request open border) and city state but did not see any icon to operate it for reducing other religions. So it could only useful for defend your city from other missionaries to spread only?

awesome man

Super helpful!

Thanks Much!

Thanks!

I used my Inquisitor to remove "Other" faith in my city and he removed my faith and converted every one to the "Other" players faith ... Go Figure !

im surprised that you mentioned piety, and are going for it.

Waw, thank you so much...

A question that never gets asked or answered. In general how many city's on average do I need

Good video. One question, how does religious pressure work with followers and such

what's a stone hinge?

Inquisitors doesn't appear to be capable of cleaning a foreign city of their religion. At least in my games. I play with Gods and Kings and Brave New World.

Religion option is lock/off, how can I unlock it? Please help

Feel like no point in diety

So I got my second follower belief unlocked but Holy Warriors didn’t available to choose. Does anyone know why this is?

Holy shed I hate when ai just puts Like 4 missionires on my cities (and even though I am literaly the highest faith producing civ they have more. Faith than me for some reason) and all I had to do the counter that was to just put inqisitors there?thanks mate

nice

This is probably an obvious question but why would you spread religion to other player's cities if it gives them benefits. Surely you would want other religions to come to your cities?

ha, would not have placed that accent as kiwi

i would argue god king is one of the worst in the game

Faith?