Why the Hausa are great for turtling in Empire Wars

So just looking at the starting resources chart it looks super bleak for Hausa. Very few resources, smallest number of Villagers, no free starting Wagon. However, the free Wagons you get from all shipments are insane! You get to build Universities and Palaces with them, which both can gather XP or Influence at a rate equal to roughly 1 Villager each in raw resources. They also grant very good build XP and are very strong buildings compared to other civs Wagon options. Most other civs get far less value overall out of their Wagons, while the Hausa get rewarded for booming and turtling early in this version of the game.

Of course, anyone can turtle up like crazy with the insane amount of Wagons you get for Outposting up your base, but the Hausa get to drop a bunch of mini-factories all over the map this way. Here's what I've been doing myself:

• Age up with Morocco (Mosque + XP tomes synergize massively in this mode)
• 1st Shipment Gidan Sarkin (gets you your first Palace + University), alternatively ship Emir of Katsina for a War Camp/Watch Tower + first University + little bit of defense potential with the bonus Emir
• Scout out enemy rush if possible
• Set Universities to gather XP for the first 5 Shipments or so, then switch back to Influence
• Eventually I like to ship University of Timbuktu for the +build limit (and later Palace of Amina if you didn't ship Gidan Sarkin, this equalizes your number of potential Universities and Palaces)

And from there you can do a lot of different things. Mass up for a big Age 2 push, continue on to a later age (though slower than others due to low Vill count), boom with TCs (can build 2nd one starting in only Age 2 in this mode and aging up to 3 gives you a free TC Wagon!), take over the Trade Route with Universities and Palaces, it really just feels good. Like I was saying in the Chinese Flamethrower Rush post, eventually you don't really have anything your free Wagons can do to contribute to your gameplan but with the Hausa that's not true! Even with your Palaces and Universities just chillin' in the corner they're still providing resources for the war effort.

What about y'all, been finding the Hausa in EW to be too strong, too weak, or just right?