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Heartbeat of Steam is a Golden Age Policy Card from the Dramatic Ages game mode in Civilization VI. It is available from the Industrial Era to the Information Era (Atomic Era in Gathering Storm) and uses a Wildcard Slot Wildcard slot.

Strategy[]

Available from the Industrial Era, Heartbeat of Steam is one of the best overall Golden Age policy cards, as it gives you a Production Production bonus for every Campus based on its adjacency bonus. It works especially well with civilizations who can easily earn high adjacency bonus for their Campuses: Korea, the Maya, and Australia. If there is a wonder crucial to your strategy, it may be worth running this card even if the adjacency bonuses of your Campuses are less than optimal; otherwise, you may be better off dedicating your precious Wildcard Slot Wildcard slot to something else.

Civilopedia entry[]

The industrial revolution forever altered relationships between labor, technology and industry. Clocks marked off workhours, steam mills did the labor of hundreds of animals and people, and workers increasingly performed simple, repetitive, almost machine-like tasks. More so than ever before, technology existed as an end in and for itself.

Civilization VI Policy Cards [edit]
Military Policy
Military
After Action Reports R&F-Only • Agoge • Bastions • Chivalry • Conscription • Craftsmen • Defense of the Motherland • Discipline • Drill Manuals GS-Only • Equestrian Orders GS-Only • Feudal Contract • Force Modernization GS-Only • Grande Armée • Integrated Space Cell • International Waters • Levée en Masse • Lightning Warfare • Limes • Limitanei R&F-Only • Logistics • Maneuver • Maritime Industries • Martial Law • Military First • Military Research • National Identity • Native Conquest • Patriotic War • Press Gangs • Professional Army • Propaganda • Raid • Resource Management GS-Only • Retainers • Retinues GS-Only • Sack • Second Strike Capability R&F-Only • Strategic Air Force • Survey • Their Finest Hour • Third Alternative GS-Only • Total War • Veterancy • Wars of Religion
Economic Policy
Economic
Aesthetics • Caravansaries • Civil Prestige R&F-Only • Collectivization • Colonization • Corvée • Ecommerce • Economic Union • Expropriation • Five-Year Plan • Free Market • God King • Gothic Architecture • Grand Opera • Heritage Tourism • Ilkum • Insulae • Land Surveyors • Liberalism • Market Economy • Medina Quarter • Meritocracy • Natural Philosophy • Naval Infrastructure • New Deal • Online Communities • Public Transport • Public Works • Rationalism • Religious Orders • Resource Management • Satellite Broadcasts • Scripture • Serfdom • Simultaneum • Skyscrapers • Sports Media • Third Alternative • Town Charters • Trade Confederation • Triangular Trade • Urban Planning
Diplomatic Policy
Diplomatic
Arsenal of Democracy • Charismatic Leader • Collective Activism • Colonial Offices • Colonial Taxes • Communications Office • Containment • Cryptography • Diplomatic League • Gunboat Diplomacy • International Space Agency • Machiavellianism • Merchant Confederation • Music Censorship GS-Only • Nuclear Espionage • Police State • Praetorium R&F-Only • Raj • Wisselbanken R&F-Only
Wildcard Policy
Wildcard
Aerospace Contractors GS-Only • Autocratic Legacy R&F-Only • Communist Legacy R&F-Only • Defense of the Motherland GS-Only • Democratic Legacy R&F-Only • Diplomatic Capital GS-Only • Fascist Legacy R&F-Only • Frescoes • Global Coalition GS-Only • Hallyu GS-Only • Inspiration • Integrated Attack Logistics GS-Only • Invention • Laissez-Faire • Literary Tradition • Martial Law GS-Only • Mercantile Legacy R&F-Only • Military Organization • Monarchic Legacy R&F-Only • Navigation • Nobel Prize • Non-State Actors GS-Only • Oligarchic Legacy R&F-Only • Rabblerousing GS-Only • Republican Legacy R&F-Only • Revelation • Science Foundations GS-Only • Space Tourism GS-Only • Strategos • Symphonies • Their Finest Hour GS-Only • Theocratic Legacy R&F-Only • Traveling Merchants
Dark Age Policy
Dark R&F-Only
Automated Workforce GS-Only • Collectivism R&F-Only • Cyber Warfare GS-Only • Decentralization1 • Despotic Paternalism1 • Disinformation Campaign GS-Only • Elite Forces R&F-Only • Flower Power GS-Only • Inquisition R&F-Only • Isolationism R&F-Only • Letters of Marque R&F-Only • Monasticism R&F-Only • Robber Barons R&F-Only • Rogue State R&F-Only • Samoderzhaviye1 • Soft Targets1 • Twilight Valor R&F-Only
Golden Age Policy
Golden1
Culture Industry1 • Exodus of the Evangelists1 • Free Inquiry1 • Heartbeat of Steam1 • Mandala State1 • Military-Industrial Complex1 • Monumentality1 • Popular Front1 • Praetorian Guard1 • Reform the Coinage1 • Sakdina1 • Sky and Stars1 • Solidarity1 • To Arms!1 • Wish You Were Here1
1 Dramatic Ages mode only
R&F-Only Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.
GS-Only Added in the Gathering Storm expansion pack.
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