Ashoka, The World Renouncer is a powerful growth-focused leader in Civ 7.

Here’s how to utilize his bonuses with the best Mementos and civ choices.

What we mean here is thatthere are times when Militaristic/Cultural will work quite nicely in your favor.

Friedrich, Baroque’s key Greek art in Civilization 7

Leader Attribute

Details

Culture

Gain a Great Workwhen you capture a Settlement for the first time.

Military

Gain an Infantry unit whenever you construct a Culture building.

How Do Friedrich’s Attributes Work?

Ashoka talking in Civilization 7.

Friedrich, Baroqueoperates on a simple premise:further your military ambitions with the aid of Culture.

And that premise works in reverse:shore up your Cultural achievements for military benefit.

It might not seem doable, but trust us, it works!

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What Civs Work Best With Friedrich, Baroque?

Friedrich, Baroque is rather malleable in this regard.

Anything thatserves to enhance his Cultureis going to do great, and anything thatbolsters his strengthwill work in tandem.

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ThePairadaezauniqueImprovementadds +1 Gold (which is always nice) and - importantly -+1 Culture.

As it’s an improvement, you could stack these; you just can’t place them beside one-another.

TheHawiltuniqueImprovementadds +2 Gold, as well as+1 Culture for adjacent Wonders and other Hawilts.

Confucius posing in his reveal video for Civilization 7.

You’re going after Wonders, after all!

Both of Rome’s uniqueBuildings, theTemple of Jupiter and the Basilica, earn adjacency bonuses from Wonders.

The latter even earns them from adjacent Culture Buildings.

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(They’re also great sources of other forms of wealth.)

More to come soon!

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