Played a game with each civ

I figured it was time to get a win with each vs AI try some builds and play with each civ. Sometimes I had to play the AI a few times to get a win. My fav civs going into it were Vikings (cause I’m a viking) and the mezo civs (cause my wife is mezo, my kids are mezo Vikings). I started playing 1v1 hard on Black Forest because I wanted a chance to boom and get unique units / techs. That got old pretty quick and I went nomad for a bit then for the last 3 rows I just did Arabia. Hard was pressuring me too much to boom (I’m not very good) so I switched to moderate AI and did a 1v3...yea 3 moderates are easier than 1 hard for me. Anyways here are a couple thoughts after playing them all...

The strongest I felt where I snowballed the hardest was with Ethiopians I mopped the floor with them so easy they are now my favorite civ. I love archers and they are the most fun to play with; their architecture is awesome, I love that civ.

The strongest masses unique unit was probably the elephant scorpions I forget which civ had that but I massed those and just wrecked everything in sight, buildings...castles...armies...the elephants were impervious to all it was awesome.

The most fun was massing those units that’s cost half a pop I forget what they are but they are melee and cheap. I felt like I had a million Zerglings and I just rallied my castles in enemy base.

There wasn’t any civs I didn’t like, for some reason I had a hard time with Slavs and I had to build like 10 of each production building and just spam trash. That is probably more of me sucking and not the civ.

If you haven’t done this I would highly recommend. One of the biggest things I struggled with was getting bad maps. You have to wall up vs 3 at my level and sometimes there was just nothing to wall for miles but that’s Arabia for you. I would say 2 maps out of the dozens I played were flawless and perfect. Wood was an issue but that’s just an Arabia thing as well.

I got to get a lot of practice in dark and defending in feudal.

Overall I would highly recommend I think I will do this again once I’m better in different settings and when the new expansion comes out. But I am so glad I found Ethiopians I’m definitely going to be mainly using those bad boys a lot moving forward.

Thanks for reading, let me know your thoughts.

Skol