Civ Tradition Bonuses by Civilization: Strategy Guide

Civ Tradition Bonuses by Civilization: Strategy Guide

Table of Contents

• Aksum
• Egypt
• Greece
• Oracle
• Han
• Khmer
• Maurya
• Maya
• Mundo Perdido
• Mississipian
• Persia
• Rome
• Abassid
• Chola
• Hawai'i
• Inca
• Majapahit
• Ming
• Forbidden City
• Mongolia
• Normans
• White Tower
• Shawnee
• Songhai
• Spain
• America
• Buganda
• France
• Meiji Japan
• Dogo Onsen
• Mexico
• Mughal
• Prussia
• Brandenburg Gate
• Qing
• Russia
• Hermitage
• Siam
• Doi Suthep

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Aksum

• Port of Nations: +2 Culture and Gold for every active trade route
• Throne of My Fathers: +15% Gold in cities adjacent to the coast
• May This Please the People: +2 Culture on resources on or adjacent to the coast
• "+1 Resource Capacity in settlements on coast or navigable rivers"
• "+1 Gold on quarters adjacent to the coast"
• "The Altar and Monuments gain +1 Culture adjacency with Hawilti"
• "The Dhow ignores zone of control"
• The Great Steele 0 0

Egypt

• Akhet: +1 Food on navigable rivers
• Riches of the Duat: +15% Production to constructing Wonders
• Kemet: +1 Culture on navigable rivers
• "Minor rivers do not end unit movement"
• "Medjay generate +1 Gold when stationed in a settlement you control"
• "+5 Gold on the Palace"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• Pyramids 1 0

Greece

• Xenia: +50% influence to initiating and progressing befriend independent project
• Strategoi: +25% Army Commander experience
• Delian League: +30% influence to initiating endeavors
• Peloponnesian League: +30% influence to initiating sanctions
• "+2 Culture per active endeavors, sanctions, and projects you started or supported"
• "Hoplites gain +1 combat strength for each city-state you are suzerain of"
• "+2 Culture for each city-state you are suzerain of"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• Oracle 1 0

Han

• Guanxi: +1 Influence on science buildings
• Jiu Qing: +1 Influence on happiness buildings
• Tianxi: +1 Science from specialists
• "Science buildings gain +1 adjacency for quarters"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "+ Influence on the palace"
• "The Chu-Ko- Nu gains +5 combat strength when defending"
• "+10% science in the capital"

Khmer

• Pithi Chrat: +4 combat strength for units on floodplains
• Varna: +1 Gold from specialists
• Kambu-Mera: +100% Food and Happiness towards maintaining specialists
• "Improvements, Buildings, and Districts do not get pillaged by floods"
• "The Yuthahathi get +1 Movement"
• "+50% growth rate in the capital. -5 Happiness in every other city"
• "+3 Codex slots in the palace"
• Angkor Wat 0

Maurya

• Charvaka: +3 Happiness on science buildings
• Shreni: +1 Gold for every 5 surplus happiness in cities
• Kshatriya: +4 Happiness on military buildings
• Arthashastra: +1 Science for every 5 surplus happiness in cities
• "Units adjacent to the Purabhettarah heal +5 HP per turn"
• "Infantry and Cavalry units gain +3 combat strength when adjacent to each other"
• "+10% to all yields in settlements not founded by you"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• Sanchi Stupa 1

Maya

• Miracles of the Twins: All units gain the Poison ability, +3 combat strength against wounded units
• Pet Kot: +1 Science on vegetated terrain in cities
• Tzolk'in: +2 Science on happiness buildings
• Haab': +2 Culture on happiness buildings
• "Hul'Che and Jaguar Slayers gain Stealth in vegetated terrain"
• "The Altar gains +1 Science adjacency from vegetated terrain"
• "After researching a technology, gain culture equal to 10% of its cost"
• "After studying a civic, gain science equal to 10% of its cost"
• +1 Settlement Limit
• Mundo Perdido 1

Mundo Perdido

• Shell Tempered Pottery: All buildings receive +1 Gold adjacency for resources
• Atassa: +4 combat strength for ranged units when defending
• Gift Economy: +1 Gold and Happiness for every imported resource
• "+10% Production towards constructing buildings"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "Burning Arrows can pillage within 2 tiles for 1 movement"
• "+2 Resource Capacity in the capital"
• Monks Mound 1

Mississipian

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Persia

• Kara: +50% Production towards training infantry units
• Angarium: +3 Gold for every town
• Shahanshah: +3 Combat strength for units in enemy territory
• "-1 maintenance for units"
• "The Pairidaeza gains +1 Happiness from adjacent quarters"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "+5 Gold for every civilization you have captured a settlement from"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• Gate of All Nations 2

Rome

• Auxillia: +5% Production towards military units in the capital for every town
• Cursus Honorum: Training an infantry unit grants Culture equal to 25% of its production cost
• Latinitas: +10% Food, Gold, and Culture in towns with a specialization
• Princeps Civitas: +1 Production on urban districts in your capital
• "The Legatus gains the Bulwark promotion for free"
• "+2 Gold in the Capital for every town you own"
• "Gain a free infantry unit in settlements you founded"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "+1 Social Policy Slot"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• Colosseum 2 1

Abassid

• City of Peace: All buildings recieve +1 Science adjacency with the city hall and palace
• Sales and Trade: +3 Gold and Science for each resource assigned to cities with at least 8 urban population
• Compendious Book: +4 Science in towns
• "+50% Production towards constructing buildings in cities with at least 8 urban population"
• "+4 Food on science buildings"
• "+2 Happiness on resources in a settlement with a temple"
• "Earn Science equal to 25% of trade income"
• "Mamluks gain the Skirmish ability, +50% bonus from flanking"
• "+15% Science in cities with at least 8 urban population"
• "+33% Happiness towards maintaining specialists"
• House of Wisdom 0

Chola

• Devakoshta: +3 Culture on gold buildings
• Marakkalam: -2 Gold maintenance for naval units
• Angadi: +4 Gold in settlements other than your capital if they have a water building
• "+50% Influence towards initiating the improve trade relations action"
• "+2 Resource Capacity in the capital"
• "+1 Gold for each active diplomatic actions they started or supported"
• "The Kalam receives +1 movement and sight"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• Ottru receives the Convoy promotion
• Brihadeeswarar Temple 1

Hawai'i

• Kapa: +50% Production towards constructing culture buildings
• Ahupua'a: +4 Culture on food buildings
• Ho'okupa: +2 Culture on marine terrain
• "+2 Culture for every time a storm, flood, or volcanic eruption has provided fertility this age"
• "When you defeat an enemy unit with a Leiomano, gain Culture equal to 25% of the defeated unit's strength"
• "+2 Culture for Lo'I Kalo improvements in settlements with a pavillion"
• "+2 Relics"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "+2 Culture on marine terrain in settlements following your religion"
• The Kahuna receives a second healing charge
• Hale o Keawe 1

Inca

• Tirakuna: +15% Food in settlements with their city center adjacent to a mountain tile or with 3 worked mountain tiles
• Quilqa: Receive +25% of the Gold from trade income as Food
• Quipi: Settlements receive +0.5 Gold for every urban population and +0.5 Production for every rural population
• "+1 Happiness to mountain tiles"
• "Rough terrain does not end the movement of Incan units"
• "The Warak'aq receives the Poison ability, +5 combat strength against wounded units"
• "+2 Food on Terrace Farms in a settlement with a Granary"
• "Farms and Terrace Farms receive +3 Food if adjacent to at least one mountain"
• Machu Picchu 0

Majapahit

• Negarakertagama: +33% Food towards maintaining specialists
• Panji: +1 Culture from specialists not in your capital
• Subak: +1 Culture and +1 Production on marine terrain
• "The Pedanda grants an extra 25 Culture when it converts a settlement"
• "+25% Production to overbuilding"
• "Exploration Age culture buildings receive a Culture adjacency for coast"
• "+5 Combat strength to naval units against land units"
• "+4 Culture on quarters"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• Borobudur 1

Ming

• Divine Engine Division: +2 Science in settlements with a garrisoned unit
• Baojia: +1 Science for each resource assigned to a city. This becomes +2 in cities other than your capital
• Grand Secretariat: +2 Science on gold buildings and +2 Gold on science buildings
• "The Ming Great Wall receives +2 Gold in settlements with a Bank"
• "+3 combat strength to ranged units adjacent to the Xunleichong"
• "+25% Gold towards purchasing buildings in towns"
• "+2 Resource Capacity in the capital"
• "Mandarins receive +25 Science when they use the Create a Road action"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"

Forbidden City

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Mongolia

• Gerege: +4 Happiness in Settlements not founded by you for each resource assigned to them
• Baghatur: +5 combat strength for cavalry units
• Jarlig: +25% Production in cities not founded by you
• "Captured Towns do not cost double to convert into cities"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "Receives 1 Noyan in your capital"
• "+1 Movement to cavalry units"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "The Ortoo receives +4 Gold in settlements you did not found"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• Erdene Zuu 4

Normans

• Palisading: +50% Production towards constructing fortification buildings
• Jure: +4 Culture from the palace and +2 Happiness from city halls
• Servitium Debitum: -2 Gold maintenance for cavalry units
• Familia Regis: +2 Culture for every tradition slotted into the government
• Bayeaux Tapestry: +4 Culture in settlements not founded by you
• "+1 combat strength to the Chevaler for every tradition slotted in your government"
• "+1 Social Policy Slot"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "+2 Gold from Farms. This is doubled during a celebration"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• White Tower 2

Shawnee

• Bread Dance: +4 Culture to all farming towns and +4 Food to fishing towns
• Kakawfe Pafkotaweta: Every time a storm, flood, or volcanic eruption has provided fertility this age receive +1 Culture and +2 Gold. Improvements, buildings, and urban districts do not get pillaged by storms
• Helikhilenawewipe: +50% influence to initiating and progressing befriend independent project
• Takesiyake Yepepoki: Cities receive +2 Production on tundra, desert, and plains tiles
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• Mawaskawe Skote receives +1 Culture per allied city state
• "+2 Gold per trade route while you have at least 3 endeavors active"
• "+1 Resource cap in your capital per allied city-state"
• "You can support other player\'s wars 3 times instead of 1"
• "+2 Influence per turn"
• The Kispoko Nena\'to receives +1 combat strength per positive war support
• "+2 Food on Farms and Camps" Serpent Mound 1

Songhai

• Timbuktu: +2 Gold on Mines if there is at least 1 gold building in that city
• Mud Brick: +50% Production towards constructing gold buildings
• Isa: +2 movement to all units on navigable rivers
• "The Caravansari receives +2 Gold in settlements with a bazaar"
• "Combat units receive +5 strength on navigable rivers"
• "Rivers do not end movement"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "Tajiro\'s Gold becomes 200"
• "Cities in homelands on navigable rivers generate treasure fleets worth 1 Treasure Fleet point each"
• Tomb of Askia 1

Spain

• Conquista: +4 combat strength for all units in distant lands
• Cerro Rico: +2 Gold for each resource
• Great and Most Fortunate Navy: +50% Production towards naval units. -1 Gold maintenance for naval units
• "+1 movement to all treasure fleets"
• "+10% Food and Production in settlements in distant lands"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "Fleet Commanders receive the Flotilla promotion"
• "All land units receive +2 movement when embarked"
• El Escorial 1

America

• Gold Rush: +5 Gold in settlements for every resource assigned to them
• Robber Baron: +2 Influence in settlements for every resource assigned to them
• Lend-Lease: +25 Gold and +5 Influence for every trade route
• "+25% Gold towards purchasing Prospectors"
• "+2 Production on resources"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "Units receive +3 combat strength for having more than one adjacent enemy unit"
• "+25% Production towards training military units when fighting in a war in which your war support is higher than your opponent"
• Statue of Liberty 1

Buganda

• Clan Society: +3 Happiness in settlements for each other friendly settlements within 6 tiles
• Ng\'oma: +6 combat strength when units are adjacent to a lake
• Interlacustrine: All buildings gain adjacency from lakes
• "+2 Culture and Food on lakes and navigable rivers"
• "+1 movement for embarked units"
• "+50% yields and healing from pillaging buildings"
• "Pillaging grants experience to friendly commanders when within their command radius"
• "+1 Culture and Happiness on quarters adjacent to lakes and navigable rivers"
• "Settlements adjacent to lakes gain +1 population"
• Muzibu Azaala Mpanga 0

France

• Style Empire: Constructing a building grants Culture equal to 25% of its production cost
• Cocorico: When you defeat an enemy unit, gain Culture equal to 25% of its combat strength
• Bataillon-Carre: Infantry units gain the Swift ability, allowing them to ignore zone of control
• "+2 Culture on happiness buildings and wonders"
• "+2 Happiness on military buildings and wonders"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "Commanders immediately gain a promotion. New commanders start with a promotion"
• "+2 combat strength for each adjacent friendly military unit"
• "+2 Culture for every social policy slotted in the government"
• Eiffel Tower 1

Meiji Japan

• Fukoku Kyohei: When you train an aircraft or naval unit, receive Science equal to 25% of its production cost
• O-yatoi Gaikokujin: +1 Production and Science from specialists
• Shusei Kokubo: Military buildings receive a Production adjacency from coast
• Kokutai: +6 combat strength for aircraft attacking an enemy unit engaged by a naval unit
• "+50% Production towards constructing military and production buildings"
• "+50% Production towards constructing science buildings"
• "+25% Production towards training naval and aircraft units"
• "+3 combat strength for units on or adjacent to the coast"
• Dogo Onsen 0

Mexico

• Corridos: +2 Happiness in settlements for every tradition slotted into the government
• Order and Progress: +1 Science in cities for every tradition slotted into the government
• Cry of Dolores: +1 combat strength for land and naval units in friendly territory for every tradition slotted into the government
• La Reforma: +1 Culture in towns for every tradition slotted into the government
• "+1 Social Policy Slot"
• "Unlock an additional celebration effect, +30% Science for 10 turns"
• "Unlock an additional celebration effect, +40% Production towards training military units for 10 turns"
• "Unlock an additional celebration effect, +50% Influence towards initiating all diplomatic actions for 10 turns"
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Mughal

• Jins-i Kamil: +1 Food and Gold on Farms for each adjacent Plantation, and on Plantations for each adjacent Farm
• Qilachas: +2 Gold on quarters with walls
• Gunpowder Empire: +3 combat strength for all units
• Mayurasana: +25% Gold towards purchasing anything
• "+1 Gold on Farms"
• "+1 Happiness on Farms"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "+25% Gold towards purchasing infantry units"
• "You can purchase wonders with gold"
• Red Fort 1

Prussia

• Coking: +1 Production in cities for every resource assigned to them
• Mediatization: +10% Culture in cities not founded by you
• Realpolitik: +10% Production in all cities while at war
• Iron Cross: +3 combat strength for units within the command radius of a commander with a commendation
• "+1 Production adjacency to all buildings on navigable rivers"
• "+2 Science on resources"
• "You may establish and retain trade routes with civilizations that you are at war with"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "+25% trade yield in cities connected with the Staatseisenbahn"
• "+25% relationship change from diplomatic actions"
• Cavalry units gain the Skirmish ability, +50% combat strength from flanking
• Brandenburg Gate 1

Qing

• Chuang Guandong: +25% growth rate in towns with a resource assigned to them
• Cohong: +50% trade income
• Farmland Assessment: +5% Production towards training land units
• Banner Army: +3 combat strength against land units
• "+1 combat strength for all units for every civilization and city state you have a trade route with"
• "+2 Culture from imported resources"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "+2 Food from resources assigned to cities"
• "+2 Happiness from resources assigned to cities"
• Chengde Mountain Resort 1

Russia

• Emancipation Reform: +15% Production and -15% growth in cities
• Westernization: +15% Science and -15% Culture in cities
• General Moroz: +5 combat strength for units in tundra
• "+1 Food on Farms in towns"
• "+1 Production on Farms in towns in tundra"
• "+1 Gold on districts in cities"
• "+1 Culture on districts in cities in tundra"
• "+1 Settlement Limit"
• "Your units are immune to damage from blizzards. Enemy units in your territory take double damage from blizzards"
• "+1% total Culture for every city, or +2% if the city is in tundra"
• Hermitage 1

Siam

• State Railway: +2 Influence from gold buildings
• Sakdina: +2 Happiness in cities for each city state you are suzerain of
• Prathetsarat: +20% Influence towards initiating diplomatic actions with city states
• Mueang: +5 Gold for each allied city state
• "+2 Culture for every civilization above friendly status"
• "+2 Influence for every civilization above friendly status"
• "Chang Beun gain +6 combat strength in or adjacent to city states you are suzerain of"
• "+3 Culture on the palace for every city state you are suzerain of"
• "+2 Culture for every active diplomatic action with another civilization"
• "+5 Culture and +2 Gold for every trade route with another civilization"
• Doi Suthep 0

Doi Suthep

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This document is intended as a definitive reference for the tradition-based bonuses across civilizations, including culture, gold, science, production, and city-management related bonuses, as well as the associated wonders and settlement constraints.