The Arabian people (or Arabs) represent a civilization in Civilization VI. They are led by Saladin.
Their ability is The Last Prophet, which ensures they'll always found a religion by having the final Great Prophet automatically received if they did not found a religion by the time the second-to-last Great Prophet appears.
Their unique unit is the Mamluk and their unique infrastructure is the Madrasa building.
Developer's pitch
If you have played Civ before, you understand the importance of synergy. You also understand how valuable counterintuitive synergies are, and how with the right combination of abilities and improvements, you are essentially pursuing multiple strategies, causing your opponents to fall into confusion until you choose to tip your hand and claim the victory you had in mind. If that sentence caused you to smile the thin smile of the genius, then Arabia is your civ.
Some people say science and faith are incompatible. Those people are not Saladin. The Madrassa yields more Science than the University. Your religious buildings are amazingly cheap to build, AND get bonuses to Science, Faith, and Culture based on the rest of your civ. This is the kind of religious building Arabia’s opponents love to construct. Cheap and useful? Yes please! And you get one city closer to a Religious Victory. This a civ whose religious game is on tier with Spain (and like Spain, will want to play the evangelization game). This is also one of the few civs with direct bonuses to science. From the outset, you’re positioned for two of the victories.
The Mamluk is great, and the free healing is the difference between survival and destruction in those breath-holding situations where maybe you overextended yourself (this is my favorite way to play everything military in every game ever; it is a personal weakness), but at its heart, Arabia is a civ that can defer committing to a victory path until later in the game. Maybe you know which victory you’re going for, but your opponents do not. Until then they have to plan to counter both, and an army divided is already beaten.
City Names
Capital: Cairo
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