One of the lastCivilization 6packs to be released was the Portugal Pack, and besides adding the Portuguese Empire, it also addedZombiesas a melee land unique. Zombies are an optional feature that players can activate whensetting up a gameby turning on the Zombie Defense game mode.
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Even though zombies don’t tend to be the smartest supernatural creatures out there, they can be quite handy if they’re fighting on the player’s side. It’s actually possible to take control of zombie units inCivilization 6, and use them against any enemies that might try to stir up trouble.
Zombie Unit Stats
If the player hasactivated the Zombie Defensegame mode before starting the game, they will encounter Zombie units quite often - especially since more of them will spawn whenever a Zombie kills another unit.
Zombies have 2 Movement, 3 Sight, and cost 1 Gold to maintain. At first, they only have 20 Melee Strength, but whenever a Zombie is killed, the mutation becomes stronger and their strength increases +1 every time.
How To Get Zombies
There are a couple of ways to get Zombie units inCivilization 6, and it’s useful to know all of them so that the player doesn’t miss out on a chance to try this strategy. Here are all of them:
Zombies are hostile units and therefore are consideredBarbarian units by the game.
The easiest way to get a sustainable army of Zombies going is to control Qin Shi Huang, the Unifier, and start converting.Since this leader is able to use any Meleeunit to convert Barbariansand given the fact that whenever a Zombie unit takes down another unit, it will come back as Zombie, players can take advantage of this and start snowballing a horde of Zombies.
Using a damaged Zombie to convert a full HP Zombie essentially trades a low-health unit for a full-health unit.The best case scenario is to kill as many Land units to spawn Zombies and get two adjacent Zombies at a time to get a two-for-one conversion.
Civilization 6is available for iOS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
