So I've been playing through my first marathon huge deity game and I just feel like saying, Songhai are so amazingly powerful. Open with a couple of scouts and pray for the archer upgrade->enough money to buy all the buildings in your first city, buy a settler leaving you free to get your first wonder rapidly (i was lucky and got writing in time to get great library).
Steal workers with your scouts and you are pretty much on an even level with the AI.
Now maybe I will drop off late game (doubtful with my 3 super archers (level 10 with no terrain penalty (I've called them Alpha, Beta, Gamma)) but I just think that Songhai needs someone to give it some love. I'll be honest until I played it looked at it's bonuses with distain but the gold you are rolling in early game lets you do pretty much anything, I bought a settler for a desert city and by buying granary and water mill was able to rush petra, again got lucky and desert folklore was still free founded Islam in the holy city of Mecca
A bit of side by side comparison with germany and I don't really see why I would take Germany instead of Songhai, I can buy units with the gold I get from camps and the gold is more versatile, the two promotions are actually really useful because you can be more aggressive when attacking awkward positions.
I am going to claim that early game on slower speeds Songhai played to its full potential dominates, anyone wanna put forward their own favorite early game nation?
Steal workers with your scouts and you are pretty much on an even level with the AI.
Now maybe I will drop off late game (doubtful with my 3 super archers (level 10 with no terrain penalty (I've called them Alpha, Beta, Gamma)) but I just think that Songhai needs someone to give it some love. I'll be honest until I played it looked at it's bonuses with distain but the gold you are rolling in early game lets you do pretty much anything, I bought a settler for a desert city and by buying granary and water mill was able to rush petra, again got lucky and desert folklore was still free founded Islam in the holy city of Mecca
A bit of side by side comparison with germany and I don't really see why I would take Germany instead of Songhai, I can buy units with the gold I get from camps and the gold is more versatile, the two promotions are actually really useful because you can be more aggressive when attacking awkward positions.
I am going to claim that early game on slower speeds Songhai played to its full potential dominates, anyone wanna put forward their own favorite early game nation?