Carthage- 14
Tried playing her a couple of times but didn't have much success. In continents most good coastal spots are gone by the time you set up a second city. Pangaea her UA not useful. UUs are not impressive either.
I recently played as Dido and got lucky start (several fish\crabs on coastal Capital) and game simply rolled. UA is useful (you immediately get extended TR range + extra gold) but I agree, naval UU is worthless
Elephant is ok, but it shares the same curse as many other Ancient UU - you probably won't have too many of them for later upgrades, since you'll be busy building other more important stuff.
Arabia- 26
Assyria- 8
Austria- 20
Aztec- 17
Babylon- 21
Carthage- 14
Celts- 16
China- 25
Dutch- 17
Egypt - 7
England- 21
Ethiopia- 19
Germany- 24
Greece- 14
Huns- 14
Inca- 21
Indonesia- 17
Japan- 17
Korea- 21
Maya- 24
Mongols- 20
Morocco- 12
Ottoman- 17
Persia- 21
Poland- 21
Polynesia- 12 - 3 = 9
Portugal- 18
Rome- 21
Shoshone- 22
Siam- 22
Songhai- 15+1=16
Spain- 19
Sweden- 21
Zulu- 22
Songhai - I gotta save poor little Askia.
His UA is underrated. With barbs on, especially raging barbs, you can hoard up lot of gold. Open Honor to quickly boost culture. Gold from Cities is also great, since in BWN most of the cities tend to go tall, wait till medieval era and you'll get around 300-400 gold from one city. Capital is often worth twice more (around 600-700 gold).
His UB is great, cost no maintenance, gives faith and culture, and it can be boosted with religion (it shouldn't be much of a problem to grab happiness\culture from temples, since AI tends to pick up faith buildings first).
His UU is great. It has no penalty attacking cities, it has 5 movement and it's easily spammable. What more do you really need? Askia is terrible AI tho, and it's one of the main reason why people probably hate Songhai, otherwise solid civ (sure, there are lot better out there, but there are also lot worst and more situational civs, like Polynesia)
Polynesia - just die Polynesia die, already!
(civ only good on water maps. His UA is map dependent, his UU are worthless much like any other ancient era UU in BWN, and his UI is meh. Often you won't get the chance to chain-link several of them, so those tiles are better used elsewhere). Oh,and I really hate Polynesian AI, I want to quickly get Navigation and burn him to the ground every single time.
Wonder\city\religion spammer. It always feels so good dropping
on him.