Should I Zulu?

[Michelasso]

I never used the Zulus on MP games so i wonder if I deserve to play them at least half a dozen times. Maybe I should use them against some people I know they use the rushing civs. What do you think?

[MorteEterna]

I never used the Zulus on MP games so i wonder if I deserve to play them at least half a dozen times. Maybe I should use them against some people I know they use the rushing civs. What do you think?

Use them against zulu rushers only if you know you are better, then they will think whey they use zulu so much..

[The Panguin]

Lol morte, how can you have a boycott of Zulu if you tell people its sometimes ok to use them? xD

[MorteEterna]

Lol morte, how can you have a boycott of Zulu if you tell people its sometimes ok to use them? xD

Well, it depends on that player. I tell him that because I know him. I used zulu against one of the top players (now not so high) and won. Then, I used other civilizations against other zulu players, but they should understand how stupid is playing against zulu.

[Grayson]

Morte's right on this one, and I posted this as well on the Zulu Boycott thread. The only time that I choose Zulu is I keep running into the same guy who obviously isn't skilled at much except for the impi warrior rush. You can really tell that they aren't as good when they've got a couple capitals early and you're really blocked in, can't expand much, then later you realize it's 1000AD and they only got like 14 techs, no economic milestones, etc. Basically you can tell how good they are if they don't take your capital and you stick around even if you don't have many options.

Even if they are a good player, lots of times I get so sick of running into them that I'll choose Zulu as well, because I'm pretty confident in my abilities with them. It's no problem making it into modern by 500AD with them. They expand easy, get lots of gold and it's pretty easy to rush. I don't think I've ever lost a Zulu vs. Zulu match, but maybe that's because when I'm choosing them against a Zulu only player, I'm out for blood :mad:

If I don't feel like stooping down to their level, I'll use the Aztecs to counter rush them, don't form armies in my cap, just build about 4 warriors there, and beeline for their cap.

Otherwise, it's usually no problem to beat them even if they do get the other capitals when I use Spanish (because I can make an escape to the islands after getting bronze working, and then expand and tech/gold faster than them usually), or with chinese. Other civs can be just as successful, but I've got a decent blueprint/strat for beating the Zulu w/ these three civs.

[Michelasso]

Well, I used them. At this point is clear I am not a rusher. I didn't even try to get a new city from China (afraid of lossing the Great Wall advantage. No defence at that point). But still, against the Chinese, the early bonus of running gave me many huts showing me 2 Artifacts (200 gold and Great Wall with a ship rushed with money. Then I even found the Ark). So I could be head to head in techs, also making money. And culture. The English AI tried to harrass me against my pykemen and I had the Greeks on the other side. I was pretty safe.

Obviously the game disconnected, showed me I won but the leaderboard says otherwise (I wanna cry) :(