Ethiopians/Strategy

Strengths
The Ethiopians are the first and only civ to have a complete siege workshop with all siege engines and upgrades. The increased blast radius of Ethiopian siege even effects battering rams. Shotel warriors move and are trained at a tremendous speed especially with royal heirs. If a player builds a castle within a enemy's base, they have the capability of overwhelming them with the quickly spawned Shotels. Having free unit upgrades on the spear line encourages players to use more pole arms against knight and scout rushes because the cost of upgrading to pikes and halberds will be irrelevant. Players on a team with Ethiopians will have a better use for outposts and towers for being able to see far allowing Ethiopian players and their teammates to see a enemy army ahead of time. Ethiopians have good archers only missing parthian tactics and hand cannoneers. They have all cavalry to use except paladins. They have a complete university.

Weaknesses
While Ethiopians have most cavalry units, they are somewhat fragile in the post imperial age with no plate armor or blood lines. They lack essential late game naval ships except for the galleon and non elite cannon galleon. They are the first and only civ to not have hand cannoneers even though they have bombard cannons. They lack champions. Most civs could beat them on water most likely because of a better naval tech tree even though its uncertain.