Impact Zone (Civ6)

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An Impact Zone is a special terrain feature in Civilization VI, unique to the Apocalypse game mode. It can only be created by a Comet Strike.

Yields:
- Nothing, cannot be worked
Movement needed:
- Impassable

Strategy[]

Once climate change reaches Phase VII (Apocalypse), the map will start getting hit by Comet Strikes, which remove the original base terrain and everything on it from the affected tiles and leave Impact Zones in its place. Impact Zone tiles are impassable, do not have any yields, and cannot be improved.

Civilopedia entry[]

In 1908, S. Semenov was sitting at the Vanavara Trading Post, when, as he says, “the sky split in two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest.” The summer day grew unbearably hot, and then “the sky shut closed… after that such noise came, as if rocks were falling or cannons were firing… hot wind raced between the houses, like from cannons, which left traces in the ground like pathways.” What Semenov experienced was the Tunguska event, an explosion some thousand times the power of an atomic bomb, caused by the impact of a comet fragment, a ball of ice approximately 200ft (65m) in diameter, into the Siberian taiga. While strikes like the Tunguska event can be as devastating as a nuclear weapon, larger comet strikes – on the order of miles instead of feet – would have exponentially catastrophic effects, affecting not only the region, but the entire world. While those near the impact would burn, the comet would also project dust into the atmosphere, blocking out sunlight, cooling climates and killing off vegetation (thus creating kindling for massive forest fires) worldwide.

Gallery[]

Civilization VI Terrains [edit]
Base	Coast • Desert • Desert (Hills) • Grassland • Grassland (Hills) • Hills • Lake • Mountains • Nile River³ • Ocean • Plains • Plains (Hills) • Snow • Snow (Hills) • Tundra • Tundra (Hills)
Features	Cataract³ • Cliffs • Floodplains • Desert Floodplains • Grassland Floodplains • Plains Floodplains • Geothermal Fissure • Ice • Impact Zone¹ ² • Marsh • Oasis • Rainforest • Burning Rainforest¹ • Burnt Rainforest¹ • Reef • River • Volcanic Soil • Volcano • Woods • Burning Woods¹ • Burnt Woods¹
Other	Barbarian Outpost • Meteor Site¹ • Tribal Village
See also	Improvement • Natural Wonder • Resource
¹ Requires DLC • ² Apocalypse mode only • ³ Specific Scenarios only Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack. Added in the Gathering Storm expansion pack.