How to Win a Religious Victory with Khmer

The Approach

Build Aqueducts early in every city — beyond their normal function, they grant Amenities and Faith per Population under Khmer's ability, meaning your Faith output grows automatically as your cities grow rather than requiring dedicated religious infrastructure investment. Pairing Farms with both Aqueducts and Holy Sites stacks Food and Faith bonuses simultaneously, reinforcing growth and religion together.

Key Steps

• Prioritize Aqueducts over almost any other early building — they're doing double duty for Khmer in a way they don't for other civilizations.
• Place Farms adjacent to both Aqueducts and Holy Sites where possible to stack the Food and Faith bonuses at once.
• Let city growth do more of the religious heavy lifting than usual — Khmer's Faith output scales with Population directly, so bigger cities are a religious strategy in themselves.

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