Civilization 6, one of the civilization simulation games has a new tile called the Vampire Castle from the Sanguine Pact. While this may seem a bit silly from the basis of looking at how to conquer the earth as the perfect civilization, there are many strange and secret things about all sorts of societies. The Vampire Castle is a tile improvement that players can use within their own civilizations, but how does it help them build up their settlements to defeat others?
The Vampire Castle tiles can be accessed in the Secret Societies game mode. This game mode is a recent addition as of July, which allows players to align themselves with different secret societies and cults. This update is part of the New Frontier Pass and requires either the Rise and Fall or The Gathering Storm expansion pack. Once this is added to the game the player, in this mode, can only join one society. Players should make sure to pick the vampires if Vampire Castles will satiate their sanguinary palates.
How to Get and Use Vampire Castles in Civilization 6
Before a player can even start thinking up how they will play as a vampire civilization, they must first meet and take part in the Sanguine Pact, one of four secret societies currently available in the game. This pact is focused on the militarization of civilization and is bloodthirsty. Once the player has accepted this group as a part of their society, they will have to go through some initiations to access Vampire Castles and other upgrades.
The first part of taking on the Sanguine Pact is gaining the Vampire Governor who is a main part of the pact and what gives the players access to Governor Titles within the pact. To access Vampire Castles, players will need to get up to the second level of titles within the pact called, Ritual. This title can be accessed as early as the Medieval Era.
To gain this title, the player must go through the Initiation title, which requires them to destroy a barbarian camp. Once done this will give them access to Vampire units, and will automatically spawn one at the player's capital. The Ritual title will be received once the player has reached the Medieval Era within the pact. At this point, they will be able to charge their vampire units with constructing a Vampire Castle.
Vampire Castles cannot be sat directly next to each other, and each empire can only house two castles. Once built, these castles duplicate their adjacent tiles production and give them to the capital. The vampire unit within is granted a plus-four to their defense strength, and two rounds of fortification once in battle. Later on, if the player progresses through the Indoctrination and Master Plan titles, they will be able to build up to four of these castles.
This building is much like any other fort improvement available in the game but has additional purposes that make them much more useful. It gives an economic boost to the player's capital and gives the Vampire units a place to retreat outside of the capital to once they are down to one hit point in the battle. As Vampire units aren't usually killed in battle and can return home to heal, this is extremely useful.
Civilization 6 is available for PC, Linux, Classic Mac OS, Mac OS, iOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.