Marsh (Civ6)

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Marshes are a terrain feature in Civilization VI. Marshes are found on flat Grassland tiles.

• Yields: +1 Food.
• Movement needed: 2 Movement MPs
• Defense provided: -2 penalty
• Additional traits:
  • Lowers the Appeal of surrounding tiles by -1
  • The Lady of the Reeds and Marshes pantheon increases the yield of Marsh tiles by an additional +1 Production.

Strategy

Unlike in Civilization V, marshes are more useful for a city. They now provide +1 Food (instead of retracting food), making them helpful for promoting population growth. The Lady of Reeds and Marshes pantheon also adds +1 Production. Some interesting Resources are found exclusively on Marsh tiles, for example Sugar.

Marshes could be incredibly useful for defensive purposes! Placing an army in a defensive position on the opposite side of a Marsh from an advancing enemy force will trap their melee units, and allow your Ranged units to pelt them from afar, inflicting more damage than usual (thanks to the defensive penalty of the Marsh).

They are not without drawbacks, however. Marshes still provide movement and combat penalties to units. In addition, like rainforests they will decrease the Appeal of nearby tiles.

Irrigation

Marshes are of limited use until Irrigation has been researched. Once that has occurred each marsh can be Harvested to provide a lump sum of Food to the city owning their tile. The tile becomes Grassland and may be used as normal land tile for building Districts, Wonders, etc.

Civilopedia entry

Covered with herbaceous rather than woody plants, these freshwater wetlands are generally found along slow-flowing rivers or on the banks of lakes. Home to an incredible variety of valuable things, plant and animal, in some civilizations, towns in marshes and swamps grew into great cities: St. Petersburg, New Orleans, and the Brazilian ones in the Pantanal.

Gallery

A Marsh tile, as seen in-game