Part 1

This guide covers the introduction and initial steps for Civilization VI: Colonisation, including map selection and starting strategies. Learn how to begin your new nation.

Welcome to my 41st guide, and the 4th in the Civ 4 series, behind the Civ 4 game itself, Warlords and Beyond the Sword, which is probably the best expansion pack I've seen in my life. Anyway, this is for Colonisation, a remake of the 1994 version done by Sid Meier himself. This does not require the base game (Civ 4) to play, so don't fret there. This is going to be a dream for me in terms of writing, I always wanted to write for Colonisation, the DOS version, but I'll just do the updated version now. Enjoy!

Version History:

• Version 0.0 [26/9/08]: Started this guide.
• Version 0.1 [27/9/08]: Started with Table of Contents.
• Version 0.2 [9/10/08]: Completed Chapter 2.
• Version 0.3 [10/10/08]: More on Chapter 2.
• Version 0.4 [13/10/08]: Added ASCII. Completed Chapter 3.
• Version 0.5 [15/10/08]: Started on the Founding Fathers.
• Version 0.6 [16/10/08]: All the Founding Fathers are complete.
• Version 0.7 [17/10/08]: Tidying up.
• Version 0.8 [19/10/08]: Completed more about the Indian leaders.
• Version 0.9 [22/10/08]: Update on the terrain and resource bonuses. Completed that as well.
• Version 1.0 [23/10/08]: Completed Chapter 5 and 14. 6, 10 and 11 tomorrow hopefully.
• Version 1.1 [24/10/08]: Completed Chapters 6, 10, 11 like I promised. 7, 8, 12, 13 to go, should be finished in two updates.
• Version 1.2 [25/10/08]: Guide is now complete. All chapters complete, so happy reading.

Starting Out:

Well, when you start out, you get to choose what type of map you get to play with. I Suggest that you play on either the Western Hemisphere or the Caribbean map.

The Western Hemisphere Map will cover both North and South America, as well as the little islands in between. It will, essentially, cover, the continent from the north to the south pole with pretty good detail. Though you are taking millions of square kilometers of land in a few tiles. Imagine how much land would be taken up by a single pixel. This is found under custom Scenarios as you can imagine.

The Caribbean map is there with some pretty good detail as well, featuring a good chunk of South America as well as Cuba. No sign of North America, such as most Golden Age based games.

Otherwise, there isn't much that you can do. The other maps are more random and harder to play with, but that is up to you. Thats pretty much it for starting out.