Augustus is a powerful leader inCivilization 7, with a versatile choice of strategy - military expansionism or cultural dominance. Augustus relies on quick expansion to settle multiple towns, increasing production in the capital to help build wonders and military units depending on how you want to play.
Augustus can purchase Culture Buildings, like Monuments and Amphitheaters, in towns and gets a 50 percent gold bonus for any buildings purchased in towns. Unlike other leaders, Augustus doesn’t necessarily want to convert his towns into cities. This guide covers some fun strategies for Augustus, as well as civilization choice and best mementos.
These leader guides are based on singleplayer Deity difficulty Civilization 7.s
Augustus Best Civilizations In The Antituity Age
The game pushes you towards either Rome or Egypt for Augustus, and both of these represent the different play styles for the Roman emperor.
Rome Civilization
Rome is a cultural militaristic civilization that produces vast numbers of its unique infantry unit, the Legion. Its unique commander, the Legatus, can settle a new town with every three levels of experience it gains.
Rome gets a unique quarter, the Forum, which can be constructed by placing theBasilicaand theTemple of Jupiteron the same district.
TheBasilicaprovides +4 Gold and +1 Influence adjacency for Culture buildings and Wonders.
TheTemple of Jupiterprovides +3 Happiness and +1 Culture adjacency for Happiness buildings and Wonders.
When combined, you get theForum, a unique quarter that provides for +1 Culture and +1 Gold for everyUnique Tradition in the Government.
It’s an excellent strategy to pick up the civic tech for both the Temple of Jupiter and the Basilicaas quickly as possible. Rome’s unique quarter is a great generator of culture, gold, and influence.
Egypt Civilization
The Egyptians are all about building Wonders, which suits Rome’s more cultural playstyle. You receive+1 Production on Navigable riversand30 percent production towards building the Pyramids, which improves your production even more.
Wonder building islargely about production, although you will need science and civic tech to actually unlock the Wonders. Playing on the hardest difficulty, Deity, means you likely won’t get access to all the wonders you want. The AI loves building Wonders.
Instead, pick and choose specific Wonders that you want to aim for.
The Egyptians get access to theMedjay,their unique Infantry unit. It has no maintenance and receives +3 combat strength while in friendly territory. Rather than military expansionism, Egypt prefers a more defensive playstyle.
Their unique unit, theTjaty, is a great person that can be constructed in theNecropolis,the Egyptian unique quarter. The Tjaty is random each time you produce it, and it costs more production or gold per Tjaty produced.
The Tjaty can have some excellent great person abilities, such as providing ahuge amount of production to a Wonder under construction,instantly spawning tier 2 Medjay, orgranting extra gold or culture to districts in your cities.
The Necropolis provides 100 gold whenever you complete a Wonder, and is constructed by combining theMastabaandMortuary Templeunique districts. These must be placed on the same tile. TheMastabaprovides +3 culture and +1 Gold adjacency for Desert terrain and Wonders. TheMortuary Templeprovides +4 gold and +1 happiness adjacency for Navigable rivers and wonders.
Best Mementos For Augustus
Your choice of memento largely relies on how you want to play the game. The choice will be determined by a military or cultural approach.
Best Military Mementos For Augustus
There are a lot of choices for military mementos in Civilization 7. Here are a few to try out on Augustus.
Best Cultural Mementos For Augustus
Best Starts For Augustus
Once again, the type of Resources you’re looking for in your city largely depends on whether you want to attempt a military or cultural victory.
Best Cultural Resources
Augustus Strategy In The Antiquity Era
Augustus has two ways to play the game, although they share similarities: you want to expand quickly, get your towns up as fast as possible, and start producing infantry units - hopefullyLegionsif you’ve unlocked the necessary tech for them - toeither turtle up and protect your wonder-building, orto start dominating your neighbors.
Augustus Early War
Augustus as Rome has an excellent early military rush in the form ofLegionswhich become available with theBronze Workingmilitary tech. These gain an extra +2 Combat Strength for every Tradition you have slotted in your Government.
Pair this with the Roman Civilization’s civic research -Civis Romanus- which provides you 25 percent of the production value of each of infantry unit you train, and you have a way to essentially print culture while also producing military units.
Civis Romanus is aTradition, not a regular policy card, which means you canre-use this from Age to Age. That might mean you want to lean into choosing a civilization from a following era that has good infantry units to spam.
Civus Romanus is a great Tradition -possibly one of the best in the game- as it allows you to mass produce units without necessarily falling behind in terms of culture generation. It can also be used forsome fascinating civic pushes to grab early wonders, like hitting the Colosseum very early, or other Antiquity wonders that fit your style.
We’ve played Augustus as every civilization available in the Antiquity Age, and his character’s expansionist playstyle fits with most civilizations, although the strategies are different every time.
