tigerionblack

The Kushites are my favorite civ in 0 AD. I like their diverse unit choices: champion macemen, champion swordsmen, champion archers, elephants, and mercenaries. I have only played in singleplayer (against 1 medium and 1 hard AI together), and I can win most of my matches now. What do you guys think of the Kushites, especially when compared against other civs? I got the impression that they're not very popular based on Youtube videos. The only other civ I play is the Romans, which seem to have a much safer early game (Kushite archers don't do a lot of damage). Also, is it just me or are elephants not very good? They are very slow and if a battle goes wrong you typically lose most of them during the retreat. To heal them back up you can't just garrison them in a temple (like with other champion melee and cavalry), so you'd need to spend a lot of resources on healers as well.