CIV 6 Leader The Worst of Harald Hardrada True Location on Earth | Mac's Gaming

One of the worst leaders and F tier on Civ 6 would be Harald Hardrada from Norway . According to the article, choosing him as a leader could only mean one thing, “ you’re making things harder for yourself”. Since I love making things even more difficult, I was up for a challenge. How bad could it get?

So... apparently, it isn’t that bad?

I have been playing the game for more than 2 weeks now. It’s not because he is that difficult to play but more like I was looking for the perfect game to play. I ended up restarting the game almost daily until I found the most desired spot that I could finally use and launch nuclear war to the surrounding neighborhood. Honestly, my one and only goal in this game is launching nuclear attacks on various neighborhoods and exploring the options. But there were game sessions where the location wasn’t ideal.

Harald Hardrada the good and the bad

I have to say that Harald hardrada isn’t as bad as hojo tokimune. He at least started in a few icy cold tiles and is still surrounded by important and valuable resources such as whales and even mining spots. He also comes with a long viking boat that you don’t have to do sail research before even reaching ship options.

The problem that comes with playing as a harald is sometimes the other leaders who settle close by. Peter from Russia is always settling too close and when it happens, you should defeat it in just a few turns and get a free city without actually producing settlers. If Peter is settling close by, consider this opening

• Warrior
• Slinger
• Warrior
• Builder

Adding builders to the list, speeds up production which makes units faster to obtain. With this opening, you should be able to defeat Peter before his defense strengthens. Sometimes, there are barbarian units nearby but since the goal is defeating Peter, ignore the barbarian and make sure that defeating peter becomes the first priority.

However, if in the game there’s no Peter, one of the things that you can do is to settle on the land nearby and make sure that your sea route isn’t blocked by other civilizations. Hence the opening that you should consider is

• Warrior
• Slinger
• Builder
• Settler
• Warrior
• Settler

With that opening you should be able to occupy most important spots in the game where there will be plenty of early-in game resources and new resources such as uranium, coal, and even oil. I made a mistake by not doing those openings and not prioritizing my sea route and basically my sea route was blocked. It was horrible because my longboat can raid coastal areas without having to send scouts around.

The Victory

One of the victories that you can seek varied too. Just as you see below with Peter's scenario, world domination is possible. It’s one of the easy wins and you can continue increasing the military strength until every other player is lower than you are. Another way to reach world domination is by checking out the lowest player with lowest military strength and launching the war. Sometimes you’ll get a penalty especially if you already reach 100 more turns, so be very wary of launching the war.

What to avoid

Just as how it was mentioned that it basically difficult to play as Harald. There are also worst opening and rushing through the game is also how you can get defeated. Sometimes, I could be afraid when other civilization is settling close by and that they’ll occupy most strategic spots hence I was focusing on the settler a lot more than I should. It’s one of the reasons the game turned out to be like you see below where it’s going to get challenging to get ahead and it would just be better to restart the game than continuing the shitty opening.

My verdict

Harald can be fun to play and I would rather play this than Hojo tokimune. I think the starting location is a lot better and its military capability is a lot better than Hojo. There are many possibilities to still win playing as harald. So, maybe he’s not really and/or shouldn’t be on the F tier list of the game.