Requires R&F.
New District: Municipal Corporation
Unlocked with Political Philosophy. 54 Production cost. +2 Loyalty for each adjacent City Center or Diplomatic Quarter (NFT). +1 Loyalty for each adjacent Campus, Theater Square, or Commercial Hub. +0.5 Loyalty for each adjacent District. Cannot be built in a city with a Government Plaza. +1 Great Politician Point. +1 Diplomatic Favor (GS).
New Buildings: Debate Hall, Local Assembly, City Council
Debate Hall (Built in Municipal Corporation District)
Unlocked with Political Philosophy. 90 Production cost. +2 Loyalty. +1 Great Politician Point. +1 Culture if this city has at least 5 Population.
Local Assembly (Built in Municipal Corporation District. Requires Debate Hall)
Unlocked with Divine Right. 250 Production cost. +4 Loyalty. +1 Housing. +1 Great Politician Point. +2 Culture if this city has at least 10 Population.
City Council. (Built in Municipal Corporation District. Requires Local Assembly)
Unlocked with Ideology. 440 Production cost. +5 Loyalty. +1 Housing. +1 Great Politician Point. +3 Culture if this city has at least 15 Population.
New Great Person: Great Politician
The Great Politician is a type of Great Person in Civilization VI: Rise and Fall dedicated to expanding political beliefs and ideology, as well as providing your people with Loyalty. Each Great Politician has a unique ability which may be activated at least once, granting its owner a potentially game-changing bonus. Activation is accomplished in a Municipal Corporation or Government Plaza district (unless otherwise specified).
Note that, unlike other Great People, you cannot pass on a Great Politician. What's more, they don't always follow your instructions. They will always spawn in a random city and are more likely to spawn in cities with Municipal Corporations than without, and cities with low Loyalty than high Loyalty. If a Great Politician spawns in a city with negative Loyalty per turn, that Great Politician no longer follows your commands. Its city loses an additional 4 Loyalty per turn, and becomes eligible to start a civilization of its own (see below).
Municipal Corporation and Government Plaza Districts provide +1 Great Politician Point each, as well as each of their buildings.
List of Great Politicians:
Name: Solon
Era: Classical
Ability: This District's adjacency bonus now provides Culture as well as Loyalty.
Name: Augustus
Era: Classical
Ability: +20% Production across your empire towards buildings that have already been built in this city.
Name: Lycurgus
Era: Classical
Ability: +50% Production toward units in this city. +5 Combat Strength for all anti-cavalry units trained in this city.
Name: Cleisthenes
Era: Classical
Ability: +2 Loyalty per turn in this city for every District that contains a friendly military unit.
Name: Demosthenes
Era: Classical
Ability: +25% Culture and Loyalty in this city while not at war.
Name: Cicero
Era: Classical
Ability: Grants the Inspirations for three random civics of the Classical Era.
Name: Marcus Aurelius
Era: Classical
Ability: Creates the Great Work of Writing "Meditations".
Great Work Quote: "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
Name: Han Fei
Era: Classical
Ability: Triggers the Inspirations for two random civics from the Classical or Medieval Eras.
Name: Justinian
Era: Medieval
Ability: Triggers the Inspirations for Divine Right and two other civics from the Medieval or Renaissance Eras.
Name: William of Ockham
Era: Medieval
Ability: Triggers the Inspirations for Humanism and two other civics from the Medieval or Renaissance Eras.
Name: Ibn Rushd
Era: Medieval
Ability: Every time you earn a Great Person, receive 100 Science and 100 Culture, increasing by 50 for each era since you earned Ibn Rushd.
Name: Augustine of Hippo
Era: Medieval
Ability: This Holy Site's adjacency bonus provides Culture as well as Faith.
Name: Wizo
Era: Medieval
Ability: +100% Great Person Points in this city.
Name: John Eriugena
Era: Medieval
Ability: Triggers the Inspirations for four random civics from the Medieval or Renaissance Eras
Name: Louis XI
Era: Renaissance
Ability: +1 Spy capacity.
Name: Hugo Grotius
Era: Renaissance
Ability: This city receives +5% Production for every building in this District.
Name: Elizabeth I
Era: Renaissance
Ability: +5 Combat Strength for all naval units trained in this city.
Name: Leonardo Bruni
Era: Renaissance
Ability: Triggers the Inspirations for Humanism and two other civics from the Renaissance or Industrial Eras.
Name: Francis Bacon
Era: Renaissance
Ability: Triggers the Eureka for Scientific Theory and the Inspirations for Natural History and Conservation.
Name: Taccola
Era: Renaissance
Ability: +15% Production in this city.
Name: Thomas Hobbes
Era: Renaissance
Ability: +3 Combat Strength when fighting Free City units or units belonging to Revolutionary civilizations.
Name: Thomas Jefferson
Era: Industrial
Ability: Creates the Great Work of Writing "Declaration of Independence".
Quote: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Name: Alexander Hamilton
Era: Industrial
Ability: +100 Culture for every Great Person that your civilization has earned (including himself).
Name: Abraham Lincoln
Era: Industrial
Ability: All cities currently rebelling from you immediately join you. All cities in your empire receive +100 Loyalty on this turn.
Name: Catherine II
Era: Industrial
Ability: +3 Gold from all Commercial Hub buildings.
Name: William I
Era: Industrial
Ability: When this city is at full Loyalty, it receives +20% to all yields, and units defending within its borders gain +7 Combat Strength.
Name: Abigail Adams
Era: Industrial
Ability: Triggers the Inspiration for three random civics from the Industrial, Modern, or Atomic Eras.
Name: John Macdonald
Era: Industrial
Ability: +1 Food per Citizen in this city.
Name: John Locke
Era: Industrial
Ability: Immediately discovers every unresearched civic from all previous eras.
Name: Harriet Tubman
Era: Industrial
Ability: Immediately removes all Production towards whatever this enemy city is building.
Name: Frederick Douglass
Era: Industrial
Ability: +2 Amenities in all cities.
Name: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Era: Modern
Ability: +3 Food, +3 Gold, and +3 Culture in all cities.
Name: Winston Churchill
Era: Modern
Ability: All units experience no movement cost to embark or disembark.
Name: Francisco Madero
Era: Modern
Ability: All improvements in this city provide +2 Gold.
Name: Susan B. Anthony
Era: Modern
Ability: +1 Economic Policy slot in all Governments.
Name: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Era: Modern
Ability: Gain +2 Governor titles.
Name: Vladimir Lenin
Era: Modern
Ability: Triggers the Inspiration for Class Struggle and one random civic from any era.
Name: Amelia Bloomer
Era: Modern
Ability: All buildings in this city produce +2 Culture.
Name: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Era: Atomic
Ability: +1 Wildcard Policy slot in all Governments.
Name: Rosa Parks
Era: Atomic
Ability: +3 Housing in all Neighborhood districts.
Name: John F. Kennedy
Era: Atomic
Ability: Instantly completes construction of this District. +10% Production toward Space Race projects.
Name: Malcolm X
Era: Atomic
Ability: Converts this city to your founded religion.
Name: John Lewis
Era: Atomic
Ability: +10 Loyalty per turn in this city.
Name: Nelson Mandela
Era: Information
Ability: +2 to all yields in this city.
Name: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Era: Information
Ability: Unlocks two random Civics.
Name: Sanjaasürengiin Zorig
Era: Information
Ability: Changing Governments cannot lead to Anarchy.
New Mechanic: Independent Nations
Your Great People do not always do your bidding. When a Great Politician, Great Admiral, or Great General (or Comandante General when playing as Simón Bolívar) is within the borders of a city when it rebels and becomes a Free City, that city will not join another nation. Instead, the Great Person will become their leader (the unit itself is consumed), and they will randomly pick a name from a civilization not currently in-game and become an independent civilization. Their name, civilization ability, unique unit, and unique infrastructure will all come from their civilization. Their leader ability will be an empire-wide version of their Great Person ability, and all of their agendas will be picked randomly, as opposed to their hidden agendas being picked randomly (as is with normal leaders).
Independent civilizations start out at war with the civilization that they rebelled from, as well as all of its Friends or Allies. All cities with less than full Loyalty within six tiles of a rebelling city will rebel as well. After that, independent nations function just the same as a regular civilization.
Leaders as Great People
Whenever a Leader is not in-game, they have a chance to appear as a Great Person. If this Great Person becomes the leader of an independent civilization, their ability and agenda will be the one they have when normally leading a civilization.
Name: Alexander III
Type: Great General
Era: Classical
Retire Effect: This city is immune to war weariness (3 charges)
Name: Amanitore
Type: Great Politician
Era: Classical
Ability: +40% Production toward Districts in this city.
Name: Ambiorix
Type: Great General
Era: Classical
Retire Effect: +2 Combat Strength for all land melee, ranged, and anti-cavalry units for each adjacent unit.
Name: Bà Triệu
Type: Great General
Era: Classical
Retire Effect: All units gain +5 Combat Strength when fighting on tiles containing Rainforest, Marsh, or Woods.
Name: Basil II
Type: Great General
Era: Medieval
Retire Effect: This Cavalry unit ignores all penalties from attacking city walls (2 charges).
Name: Catherine de Medici
Type: Great Politician
Era: Medieval
Ability: +1 Spy capacity.
Name: Chandragupta
Type: Great General
Era: Classical
Retire Effect: +1 Movement for all units for 5 turns after using a Casus Belli.
Name: Cleopatra VII
Type: Great Politician
Era: Classical
Ability: Trade Routes sent to or from this city produce twice as many Alliance Points.
Name: Cyrus
Type: Great General
Era: Classical
Retire Effect: Surprise Wars count as Formal Wars for the purposes of warmongering/Grievances and war weariness.
Name: Dido
Type: Great Politician
Era: Classical
Ability: This city becomes your new Capital (2 charges).
Name: Eleanor of Aquitaine
Type: Great Politician
Era: Medieval
Ability: Each Great Work in this city causes foreign cities within 9 tiles to lose 3 Loyalty per turn. +1 Great Work slot in this District.
Name: Frederick Barbarossa
Type: Great General
Era: Medieval
Retire Effect: +7 Combat Strength for all units when fighting city-states or their units.
Name: Gandhi
Type: Great Politician
Era: Atomic
Ability: +5 Faith for every met civilization that is currently at peace. Receive a free Nuclear Device with no maintenance cost.
Name: Genghis Khan
Type: Great General
Era: Medieval
Retire Effect: All cavalry-class units gain +3 Combat Strength and have a chance to capture defeated cavalry-class units.
Name: Gilgamesh
Type: Great General
Era: Ancient
Retire Effect: Alliance points with all Allies increase by an additional point per turn when at war with a common foe.
Name: Gitarja
Type: Great Admiral
Era: Medieval
Retire Effect: Naval units can be purchased with Faith.
Name: Gorgo
Type: Great Politician
Era: Classical
Ability: Gain an additional Military Policy slot in all governments.
Name: Hammurabi
Type: Great Politician
Era: Ancient
Ability: All Districts in this city receive every building that the necessary civics or technologies to build them for free.
Name: Harald Hardrada
Type: Great Admiral
Era: Medieval
Ability: All naval melee units gain the ability to coastal raid.
Name: Hojo Tokimune
Type: Great Politician
Era: Medieval
Ability: Encampment, Holy Site and Theater Square districts are built in half the time across your empire.
Name: Jadwiga
Type: Great Politician
Era: Medieval
Ability: This Holy Site's adjacency bonus is doubled.
Name: Jayavarman VII
Type: Great Politician
Era: Medieval
Ability: Constructing a Holy Site triggers a Culture Bomb, claiming adjacent tiles.
Name: João III
Type: Great Politician
Era: Renaissance
Ability: All units receive +1 Sight.
Name: John Curtin
Type: Great Politician
Era: Modern
Ability: +100% Production in all cities for ten turns after liberating a city.
Name: Kristina
Type: Great Politician
Era: Renaissance
Ability: This District gains four slots for Great Works of any type.
Name: Kublai Khan
Type: Great Politician
Era: Medieval
Ability: Completing a Trade Route grants a random Eureka or Inspiration.
Name: Kupe
Type: Great Admiral
Era: Classical
Retire Effect: Grants a free Setter (must be on an Ocean tile)
Name: Lady Six Sky
Type: Great Politician
Era: Classical
Ability: +5% to all yields for cities within six tiles of this district.
Name: Lautaro
Type: Great General
Era: Renaissance
Retire Effect: Causes this city to rebel if current Loyalty is 50 or less. Otherwise, reduces this city's Loyalty by 50.
Name: Mansa Musa
Type: Great Politician
Era: Medieval
Ability: All Trade Routes earn +5 Gold. Gain +1 Trade Route capacity.
Name: Matthias Corvinus
Type: Great General
Era: Medieval
Retire Effect: All units belonging to this city-state join your civilization.
Name: Menelik II
Type: Great Politician
Era: Industrial
Ability: This Hills tile receives +100% to all yields.
Name: Montezuma I
Type: Great General
Era: Medieval
Retire Effect: Duplicates of this Luxury Resource grant Amenities. Grants a free copy of the Luxury Resource on this tile to your Capital.
Name: Mvemba a Nzinga
Type: Great Politician
Era: Renaissance
Ability: Every city in your empire converts to the majority religion of this city.
Name: Pachacuti
Type: Great Politicians
Era: Renaissance
Ability: Your units can cross Mountain tiles as if they were Hills tiles.
Name: Pedro II
Type: Great Politician
Era: Industrial
Ability: +100% Great Person Points in this city.
Name: Pericles
Type: Great Politician
Era: Classical
Ability: +4 Envoys.
Name: Peter I
Type: Great Politician
Era: Industrial
Ability: +1 Science and +1 Culture from International Trade Routes.
Name: Philip II
Type: Great Politician
Era: Renaissance
Ability: Grants a free Inquisitor in this city. Starts an Inquisition for this city's majority religion, if one hasn't been started already.
Name: Poundmaker
Type: Great Politician
Era: Industrial
Ability: +1 Food from all Trade Routes. All Trade Routes provide +1 Gold for every Camp or Pasture in the origin city.
Name: Qin Shi Huang
Type: Great Politician
Era: Classical
Ability: Instantly finishes the Wonder on this tile.
Name: Robert the Bruce
Type: Great General
Era: Medieval
Retire Effect: This city will always be 100% Loyal.
Name: Saladin
Type: Great General
Era: Medieval
Retire Effect: This Holy Site provides bonus Culture and Science equal to its adjacency bonus.
Name: Seondeok
Type: Great Politician
Era: Medieval
Ability: Unlocks a free technology.
Name: Shaka
Type: Great General
Era: Industrial
Retire Effect: +5 Combat Strength for all Corps and Armies
Name: Simón Bolívar
Type: Great General
Era: Industrial
Retire Effect: This Free City immediately joins your empire. +10 Loyalty per turn in this city.
Name: Suleiman
Type: Great Politician
Era: Renaissance
Ability: Grants a free Governor title.
Name: Tamar
Type: Great Politician
Era: Medieval
Ability: +2 Faith in this city for every city-state you are Suzerain of.
Name: Teddy Roosevelt
Type: Great Politician
Era: Modern
Ability: Grants a free Naturalist. +100% Tourism in cities for every National Park within that city's limits.
Name: Tomyris
Type: Great General
Era: Classical
Ability: Wounded land units heal 5 HP when killing an enemy unit.
Name: Trajan
Type: Great General
Era: Classical
Ability: All districts in this city receive every building they can possibly build. This city receives a free District.
Name: Victoria
Type: Great Politician
Era: Industrial
Ability: +20% Production towards units in cities on other continents.
Name: Wilfrid Laurier
Type: Great Politician
Era: Modern
Ability: Farms can be built on Tundra tiles. +2 Food to all improvements on Tundra or Snow tiles.
Name: Wilhelmina
Type: Great Politician
Era: Modern
Ability: +5 Loyalty in this city for every Trade Route to or from this city. If this city is at maximum Loyalty, this city receives 2 Culture from all Trade Routes to or from this city.
New Wonders:
Name: Biyun Chan
Unlocked with: Class Struggle
Production cost: 1620
Effect: +50% Production towards Industrial Zones, Campuses, and buildings in these Districts. Eurekas provide an extra 20% of the Science cost for researching technologies. +3 Combat Strength for units in or adjacent to friendly territory. +3 Faith. +1 Great Engineer Point. Must be built adjacent to a Holy Site with a Temple, and your government must be Communism.
Name: Independence Hall
Unlocked with: Colonialism
Production cost: 1240
Effect: +1 Slot for Great Works of Writing. +15 Loyalty per turn to friendly cities within six tiles of this city. -5 Loyalty per turn for cities belonging to other civilizations that share a border with a city of yours, which is tripled if their capital is on another continent. Must be built adjacent to a Municipal Corporation or a Government Plaza.
Name: Menelaion
Unlocked with: Political Philosophy
Production cost: 400
Effect: All units gain +1 Combat Strength for every Policy Slot in the current government. +2 Production. +1 Great General Point. Must be built on Hills adjacent to an Encampment, and your government must be Oligarchy.
Name: Mount Rushmore
Unlocked with: Suffrage
Production cost: 1620
Effect: +50% Production toward unique units. Earning a Great Person grants +1 Point of that Great Person's type per turn for the rest of the game. Wonders do not block the placement of National Parks. +3 Culture. Must be built on a Mountain tile that does not contain a Volcano in or adjacent to a National Park, and your government must be Democracy.
Name: Parthenon
Unlocked with: Political Philosophy
Production cost: 400
Effect: +20% Production toward buildings and Districts that produce Culture. Must be built on Hills adjacent to a Theater Square, and your government must be Classical Republic.
Name: Yasukuni Jinja
Unlocked with: Totalitarianism
Production cost: 1620
Effect: +50% Production toward all units. +5 Combat Strength for all units. +3 Faith. +1 Great General Point. Must be built adjacent to the Coast and a Holy Site with a Shrine, and your government must be Fascism.
Changes to Existing Wonders:
Name: Apadana
Unlocked with: Political Philosophy
Production cost: 400
Effect: +2 Great Work slots +2 Envoys when you build a wonder, including Apadana, in this city. Must be built adjacent to the Capital, and your government must be Autocracy.
Name: Casa de Contratación
Unlocked with: Exploration
Production cost: 920
Effect: +3 Great Merchant points per turn. Gain 3 Governor Titles. All your cities on your non-home continent with a Governor gain +15% Production, +15% Faith, and +15% Gold. Must be built adjacent to the Government Plaza, and your government must be Merchant Republic.
Name: Mont St. Michel
Unlocked with: Divine Right
Production cost: 710
Effect: All Apostles you create gain the Martyr ability in addition to a second ability you choose normally. +2 Faith. +2 Relic slots. Must be built on Floodplains or Marsh, and your government must be Monarchy.
Name: St. Basil's Cathedral
Unlocked with: Reformed Church
Production cost: 920
Effect: +3 Relic slots +100% Religious Tourism from this city. +1 Food, +1 Production, and +1 Culture on all Tundra tiles for this city. Must be built adjacent to the City Center, and your government must be Theocracy.
New Policy Cards:
Name: Ecclasia
Unlocked with: Political Philosophy
Obsolete with:
Type: Wildcard
Effect: +2 Great Politician Points per turn
Name: Diet
Unlocked with: Divine Right
Obsolete with:
Type: Economic
Effect: +100% Municipal Corporation district adjacency bonuses.
Name: États Généraux
Unlocked with: Humanism
Type: Economic
Effect: Extra Loyalty from buildings in Municipal Corporations: +50% if city population is 10 (GS: 15) or higher, +50% if district has at least +3 (GS: +4) adjacency bonus.
Name: Civil Disobedience
Unlocked with: Nationalism
Obsoletes: Ecclasia
Type: Wildcard
Effect: +4 Great Politician Points per turn. In GS, +2 Great Politician Points from each Local Assembly, and +4 Great Politician Points from each City Council.
Name: Bill of Rights
Unlocked with: Suffrage
Obsoletes: Diet, États Généraux
Type: Economic
Effect: +150% Municipal Corporation district adjacency bonuses. Extra Loyalty from buildings in Municipal Corporations: +75% if city population is 10 (GS: 15) or higher, +75% if district has at least +3 (GS: +4) adjacency bonus.
Name: Kleptocracy (GS)
Unlocked with: Information Warfare
Obsoletes: Machiavellianism
Type: Diplomatic
Effect: +100% Production towards Spies. Spy operations take 75% less time.
Changes to abilities and infrastructure:
Campaña Admirable: Entering a new era grants a Comandante General, a unique type of Great Person. Whenever a Comandante General uses its retire effect within the borders of a Free City or a city belonging to a civilization undergoing a revolution, that city, and all cities within six tiles belonging to that civ, are automatically annexed by Gran Columbia. +10 Loyalty in cities gained in this method. -5 Loyalty in all other cities not founded by Gran Columbia.
Founder of Carthage: Cities with a Cothon gain the unique Move Capital project, which moves the Phoenician Capital to that city. Gains +1 Trade Route capacity after building the Government Plaza or any Government Plaza building. +50% Production towards Districts in the city with the Government Plaza. +25% Production towards Districts in the city with a Municipal Corporation.
Founding Fathers: +100% Great Politician Points from all sources. All Diplomatic Policy slots in the current government are converted to Wildcard slots. In GS, +1 Diplomatic Favor per turn for each Wildcard slot in the current government.
Satyagraha: +5 Faith for each met civilization (including India) that has founded a Religion and is not at war. Any time India enters a Golden Age, receive a free Great Politician and, once the game has entered the Atomic Era, a maintenance-free Nuclear Device. Enemies receive double war weariness from fighting against Gandhi.
Surrounded by Glory: +5% Culture per city-state that Greece has Suzerainty of. Gain the unique Ekklesiasterion building with Political Philosophy.
Ekklesiasterion (unique building):
Replaces Debate Hall. 85 Production cost. +4 Loyalty. +2 Great Politician Points. +2 Culture if this city has at least 5 Population. This District receives an additional +1 Loyalty for every adjacent Acropolis.
Achievements:
Historically Accurate: As Gran Colombia, have a city rebel and become Spain as an independent nation.
Off With Their Heads: As France, have your original Capital rebel and become independent.
You'll Be Back: Have a city rebel and become independent.
