Civ 5 – Assyria Guide

Assyria (Ashurbanipal)

Unique Ability: Treasures of Nineveh

• When a city is conquered, gain a free Technology already discovered by its owner. Gaining a city through a trade deal does not count, and it can only happen once per enemy city.

Start Bias

• Avoid Tundra

Unique Unit: Siege Tower

• Replaces: Catapult
• Cost: 75 Production
• Melee Unit (Siege)
• Combat Strength: 12
• Movement: 2
• Upgrades to: Trebuchet
• Grants a city attack bonus to nearby units when next to an enemy city and combat success contributes to Golden Age meter.

Unique Building: Royal Library

• Replaces: Library
• Cost: 75 Production
• Maintenance: 1 GPT
• Effects: +1 Science for every 2 Citizens in this City. Also has a slot for a Great Work of Writing which, when filled, gives extra XP to trained Units.

Strategy

The best way to make use of this civ, in my opinion, is to try to conquer early and often with the Siege Tower. If you rush to Mathematics before anyone else, you will have a huge advantage in taking cities with the combat bonus that Siege Towers give to nearby units. You could focus almost exclusively on building a large military in the early game and make up the difference for science, gold, and (with their UA) technology by conquering cities. However, this will all but destroy your relations with other civs, so I would not recommend playing with them when going for anything other than a domination victory.

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