Just How Good Are Impis?

[Jrrd Tzu]

Zulu Civ is a fun one. The UB is excellent thanks to the xp bonus and the -20% to maint. Happy bonus if you're nationhood to help with whipping in later games.

The Impi is amazing. People will say it's weak, but they could only mean toe-to-toe with Axe/Swords. Mobility is amazing this early on in the game. Speed is key to a rush, and Raiding enemy countryside. Picking off Workers feels good too.

UU Impi's force you to balance your SoD. Then it won't matter what they make, your force will be able to handle it with the best defender.

Impi, Axe, and Chariot > all.

 

[TheLazyHase]

The zulu are awesome, the impi less so.

Because even chariot tend not to keep up with impie... If you go with axe, then the impi is basically a spearman. If you let your impi unprotected they may be eaten alive by some smart use of axe.

If you have chariot / impie stack then you are really weak to axe attack, because chariot aren't strong in defense against axe, just in attack. ANd some spear can make very hard to attack the axe, or at the very least costly. It help if you have copper and your opponent not, or far from his capital, but then chariot alone already make awesome conquest.