Hippodrome (Civ6)

The Hippodrome is a unique of the Byzantine civilization in Civilization VI. It replaces the Entertainment Complex.
* Effects:
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** city
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** from the Zoo and Stadium buildings extend to cities whose City Centers are up to 6 tiles away from the district.
* Restrictions:
** Cannot be built if a Water Park has already been built in this city.
=== Buildings ===
The following buildings can be constructed in a Hippodrome:
* Arena
* Zoo
* Stadium
=== Projects ===
* Bread and Circuses: City project which increases the Loyalty pressure that this city exerts on itself and other cities nearby. While active, each of your Citizens here exerts +1 (or +0.5) Loyalty pressure to this city. This pressure also affects other cities within 9 tiles, but is 10% less effective per tile. Once completed, instantly gain +20 Loyalty in this city.
== Strategy ==
This is inarguably what makes Byzantium so fearsome on the battlefield, since it allows them to summon up a gigantic legion of heavy cavalry units in the blink of an eye, ready to sweep away anything that crosses their path. The biggest boon of the Hippodrome is its unique ability to instantly create a resource free heavy cavalry unit every time you complete this district and each building inside it. Along with the cheaper cost of the district, this allow Byzantium to amass large armies of heavy cavalry units in a blink of an eye, tying in nicely with Basil II's leader ability. If properly utilized, this allows for Byzantium to shred through entire enemy civilizations with ease. Note that these resource-free units received from the Hippodrome will continue to be resource-free when upgraded. A powerful strategy with this district is to build a Hippodrome in every single city of yours, but switch to something else when you are 1 or 2 turns away, until the Tagma that is unlocked with Divine Right. By doing so, you will instantly create an army of Tagmata, so massive that they are ready to decimate anyone in your way with little to no resistance. Of course, the amount of provided by the Hippodrome is triple that of a regular Entertainment Complex, which will also keep your ever-growing empire happy and productive as you continue to add more and more cities to your civilization. Byzantium is probably the only civilization that should build Entertainment Complexes in every city, since the Hippodrome is such a powerful replacement for an otherwise underutilized . This perfectly pairs with a Domination centered strategy, allowing for constant unit production and high to prevent any cities from rebelling.
Just for comparison, a Tagma costs 180 (220 in Gathering Storm), while a Hippodrome has a base cost of 27 , which will scale up to around 100 in Medieval, even cheaper if you remember to put them down immediately in all cities you have when you unlock the district to lock in the cost. Even the Arena only costs 150 , which is still a good deal if you can get a Tagma out of it. Since the cost of the Hippodrome scales upward with civic and technology progression, in order to minimize its cost when the Tagma is unlocked, make sure to beeline straight for Games and Recreation (requires 4 civics before it, 7 civics if you detour for Political Philosophy first), and afterward straight for Divine Right without taking any more detours. Also, you want your output to be always ahead of your output, or at least always have more civics unlocked than technologies unlocked, which can be achieved by strategically researching without completing right away, so not building Campuses is actually recommended, since you do not need right now, and will roll in naturally once the conquest starts. In order to actualize your timing push with your Tagmata, save at least one district slot in every city before the Hippodrome is unlocked, and immediately put them down in all cities to lock down the cheap cost as soon as possible, but wait until the Tagma is unlocked to finish construction. (If you want to know the reason why you should keep your low or put down Hippodromes immediately, read here).
== Civilopedia entry ==
== Gallery ==
File:Hippodrome in-game (Civ6).jpg|Hippodrome in game
File:Historic Moment Hippodrome (Civ6).png|Historic Moment for building the Hippodrome
== See also ==
* Hippodrome in other games
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