Civ 5 – The Iroquois Guide

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The Iroquois (Hiawatha)

Starting Location Bias: Forest

Unique Ability: The Great Warpath

Units move through Forest and Jungle in friendly territory as if it is Road. These tiles can be used to establish Trade Routes upon researching The Wheel.

Unique Unit: Mohawk Warrior

Cost: 75 Production/150 Faith
Melee Unit
Combat Strength: 14
Movement: 2
Replaces: Swordsman

The Mohawk Warrior is exactly like the Swordsman, except that it requires no iron to create and gains a 33% combat bonus in forest and jungle.

Unique Building: Longhouse

Cost: 100 Production
Maintenance: 2
Production: +2
Specialists: One Engineer
Replaces: Workshop
Gives +1 production for each worked forest tile.

The two greatest strengths of the Iroquois are the fact that they save a lot of GPT by not needing roads until railroads are researched, and by the fact that they have a HUGE early military advantage thanks to the fact that the Mohawk Warrior needs no iron to be built. Of course, they’re very terrain dependant. If there’s no forest where they spawn, their bonuses are pretty much moot. Hiawatha’s AI is, in my experience, very expansionistic, friendly, and loyal. However, I can’t forget the time he tried to Mohawk rush me in the last game I played.

Fun facts: Hiawatha is tied with Catherine for second most likely to build and use nukes.

Feel free to share any and all strategies, tactics, stories, hints, tricks and tips related to the Iroquois.

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