Civ Strategies: Ethiopians

Happy Monday everyone, and welcome to week 8 of the Civ Strategies discussion. This week we'll be discussing the tactical facets of the Ethiopians!

I'm mixing up the questions a little bit this time so we'll see how it goes.

• What are the Ethiopian's best early, mid, and late game strategies?

• What strength do you really try to take advantage of when playing this civ?

• What are some of the Ethiopian's ideal army compositions?

• What do you think are some of the Ethiopian's biggest weaknesses?

• What do you try to exploit when fighting against this civ?

• What are some creative yet viable ways to utilize their extra resources on age up combined with free pikes?

Some handy civ info:

• Civ Bonuses:

  • (Team Bonus: Towers and Outposts have an extra +3 LoS )

  • Archer-line units fire 17.6% faster.

  • Receive +100 food and +100 gold when you age up.

  • Pikeman upgrade is researched for free.

• Unique Techs

  • Royal Heirs (Castle UT: Shotel Warriors are created 100% faster.)

  • Torsion Engines (Imperial UT: Siege Workshop units gain +0.5 blast radius.)

• Unique Unit: Shotel Warrior (Fast, frail, high-attack infantry made quickly.)

Feel free to throw out anything else you feel may be relevant strategical info regarding the Ethiopians. (Also, any feedback on improving the format of these discussions is very welcome)

Previous Civ Strategies:

Aztecs

Berbers

Britons

Burmese

Byzantines

Celts

Chinese