Sailing (Civ6)

Sailing is an Ancient Era technology in Civilization VI. It can be hurried by founding a coastal city.
== Strategy ==
This is the basic maritime technology - the ability to construct vessels with which to enter the shallow seas and access their bountiful products. For now only the most basic boats can be constructed, which depend mostly on rowing power, and can only operate on Coast tiles. Still, it is an important beginning - humankind can now use water-based resources, and has made the first hesitant steps into the water medium.
Sailing is one of the first five techs which can be researched right from the start of the game, and an obligatory tech for any civilization which wants to do stuff in the water. But unless you're a seafaring civ whose main resources are in the water, you have no particular incentives to make it your first research. There are usually more important techs. In fact, if you're a landlocked civ, you can hold off on researching Sailing until the Medieval Era, when you'll need it to research Buttress...or, if you have no particular use of Dams or the Hagia Sophia, until the Renaissance Era, when you'll need to research this branch to continue to Industrialization.
== Civilopedia entry ==
== See also ==
* Sailing in other games