Civ 5 – Songhai Guide

Songhai (Askia)

Unique Ability: River Warlord

• Receive triple Gold from pillaged Barbarian encampments and pillaged Cities; Land units gain the War Canoe and Amphibious promotions, strengthening them while embarked

Start Bias

• Avoid Tundra

Unique Unit: Mandekalu Cavalry

• Replaces: Knight
• Cost: 110 Production
• Mounted Unit
• Combat Strength: 20
• Movement: 4
• No penalty when attacking cities, no defensive terrain bonuses, can move after attacking.
• Upgrades to: Cavalry

Unique Building: Mud pyramid mosque

• Replaces: Temple
• Cost: 100 Production
• Maintenance: 0 GPT
• 2 Faith PT, +2 Culture PT

Strategy

Here Is a playlist of PrimEvalCiv’s videos, where he plays as Songhai in a high level multiplayer game.

We’re excited to bring you our civ of the week thread. This will be the 17th of many weekly themed threads to come, each revolving around a certain civilization from within the game. The idea behind each thread is to condense information into one rich resource for all viewers, which will be achieved by posting similar material pertaining to the weekly civilization. Have an idea for future threads? Share all input, advice, and criticisms below, so we can sculpt a utopia of knowledge! Feel free to share any and all strategies, tactics, stories, hints, tricks and tips related to Songhai.

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