Auckland (Civ6)

Auckland
Industrial City-state
Introduced in Vikings Scenario Pack
Color	Brown
Envoy bonuses
1 Envoy	+2 Production in the Capital when producing wonders, buildings, and districts
3 Envoys	+2 Production in every Industrial Zone district when producing wonders, buildings, and districts. +2 Production in every city with a Workshop building when producing wonders, buildings, and districts.
6 Envoys	+4 Production in every Industrial Zone district when producing wonders, buildings, and districts. +2 Production in every city with a Factory building when producing wonders, buildings, and districts.
Suzerain bonus	Shallow water tiles worked by Citizens provide +1 Production. Additional +1 when you reach the Industrial Era

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Auckland is an industrial city-state in Civilization VI. It was added in the Vikings Scenario Pack.

Strategy

Given the right map type, Auckland is arguably the most impactful and heavily contested city-state in the game. On water-dominated maps such as Archipelago, Island Plates or sometimes Shuffle and Fractal, Auckland is the one city-state on which to focus your envoy power because it can shift the power balance into its Suzerain's favor by turning every coastal city, from low growth with low Production, to a bustling industrial center, especially after the Industrial Era comes. Maritime civilizations such as Phoenicia or England, and especially the Netherlands, Indonesia, or Norway with their own infrastructure that improves coastal tiles, should definitely prioritize suzerainty of this city-state higher than any other one. Even if you are not playing as a civilization that prioritizes seafaring, as long as you settle a lot of coastal cities which are hampered by low Production, a combination of Auckland's bonus and Liang's Fisheries can definitely turn any city into a production powerhouse.

Civilopedia entry

When the Maori settled upon an isthmus in what is now northern New Zealand, they found the surrounding landscape full of fertile land, lush jungle, and dormant volcanos. Protected natural harbors on either side of the isthmus offered plentiful fishing and a base for war canoes ('waka taua'). The settlers named it 'Tamaki Makaurau'—roughly translating to "the maiden sought by a hundred lovers."

In 1840—nearly 500 years after the Maori arrival—the new British Governor William Hobson decided Tamaki Makaurau would make the perfect colonial capital of the very new New Zealand. He renamed it Auckland—roughly translating to "my patron is the Earl of Auckland, and I want him to think of me favorably when I ask for more money."

Though the capital later moved to Wellington, Auckland's loss of political prestige was more than compensated by its vibrant economy. Even its limited military skirmishes had financial resolutions: when a Maori tribe sought to attack the city in protest of their chief's arrest, Aucklanders settled the matter by handing over a substantial amount of tobacco. The opening of the Panama Canal in the early 20th Century further expanded Auckland's role as a vital stop in South Pacific shipping routes.

Trivia

• Auckland's city-state symbol are two sailing boats, referencing Auckland's nickname as the "City of Sails," due to the city's multiple large marinas and yacht harbors.

See also

• Auckland in other games