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Amina is the queen of resource-based gameplay inCivilization 7, with her main aim to generate as much gold as possible via trade and expansion. She receives excellent bonuses for connected resources and has extra resource capacity in cities. This comes in handy during the Antiquity Age, where restrictions around resource capacity can be particularly limiting while trying to achieve economic victory.
Gold is incredibly powerful in Civilization 7, allowing you to quickly purchase units, upgrade your towns, and otherwise upgrade your civilization as you play. Amina is quite a beginner-friendly leader for this reason.
Amina Overview
Amina receives +1 Resource Capacity in Cities, +1 Gold on Resources per Age, and +5 Combat Strength for Units on Plains and Desert tiles.
Resources are a crucial part of Civilization 7. While they require a little micromanagement, usually you are restricted by the number of slots available in your towns and cities. Resources providesignificantboosts to your production, science, culture, food, and more.
Amina favors collecting as many resources as she can with smart settlement planning and trade-based gameplay.
You canread more about Resources in Civilization here- as well as how they change during the Exploration and Modern Age.
Amina Strategy
Amina is an excellent candidate to swiftly complete the economic victory condition in Antiquity.
This is also theeasiest victory condition to manage to extend your age, where it relies on how many resources you’ve slotted in your towns and cities, which can be manually selected as opposed to wonders and codices that are immediately attributed to your victory condition points, and thus ending the age faster.
Amina is therefore one of the better leader candidates for hittingtwoorthreevictory conditions before the age ends, as economic victory is often an oversight if you’re playing a heavy military, cultural, or scientific game.
Best Resources For Amina
Amina lovesCamels, but then all leaders and civilizations in Civilization 7 should love Camels. They’re one of the best resources in the game as they further increase resource capacity in cities.
As well as Camels, Amina should be on the lookout forGoldandSilveras these reduce the costs around purchasing buildings and units.
Best Mementos For Amina
Amina excels with some of the economics-focused Mementos, such as the basisEconomic Attribute Point, but there are some other fun and competitive choices as well.
Best Civilization Combos For Amina
Because of Amina’s flexibility with win conditions - gold is great for all victory conditions, essentially - you have a lot of freedom when it comes to civilization choice.
Aksum
A natural choice for Amina isAksumas it compliments her economic victory efforts, providing an extra+2 Gold on Resourcesand theHawlitunique building that provides+2 Gold and +1 Culture for each adjacent Hawlit and Wonder.
If you are lucky enough to get a good coastal start withAmina and Aksumyou can also make use of the Aksumite Unique Unit, theDhow.This is a naval unit that can establish a sea trade route with nearby civilizations and city-states. You can actually jump past theCode Of Lawcivic that allows you to purchase Merchants for the first time by constructingDhowsas soon as you research sailing.
The Dhow rush is a great way to get amassiveheadstart as Amina, as long as you’re able to find enough cities to trade with.This is one of the reasons we really like Amina on Fractal or Archipelago maps, because there are more coastal settlements.
Once you activate a Dhow in a coastal settlement, it spawns a Tankwa - this is Aksum’s unique trade ship that has an extra+10 trade range(this is massive!) and can’t be pillaged by barbarians.
Maya
We actually think the Maya are probably the best Antiquity Age civilization in the game. They receive amassivescience boost onVegetated Terrainand excellent adjacency bonuses for their unique quarter, theUwaybil K’uhandAltars.
Amina’s extra gold from Resources will help you build the infrastructure quickly in your towns, particularly getting those earlyAltarsup and eventually converting towns into cities to build the unique quarter.
As an early goal, you want to grabMysticism as quickly as possible withAmina and Maya, build yourAltarsin any settlements you’ve established, and then get your first unique quarter up and running in your capital.
You can usegoldto build your surrounding towns, which will in turnincrease your goldand allow you to improve moreresources.Then you have the opportunity to focus on constructingWondersin the capital and using gold to purchase essential buildings by the end of the era.
Persia
A strong gold economy also means you’re able to build a large military force, as units require gold maintenance to function. This makesPersiaan interesting military choice as a partnership with Amina.
Persia is known for itspowerful Immortal rushwith multiple methods to acquire several Immortal unitsfor freevia narrative events and production boosts. Their unique tile improvement, thePairidaeza, also provides gold and culture.
Though Amina is a solid military leader - with that bonus of +5 Combat Strength on Plains and Desert - she also relies heavily on trade.You’re unable to trade with players that you’re at war with.This requires a bit of diplomatic management that might be tricky on higher difficulties, as you want to essentially keep the other civilizations happy while also declaring war on one of them.
It also means you might have to declare war on your closest neighbor,restricting potential trade routes.
Amina In The Exploration Age And Modern Age
As you progress through the Antiquity Age, hopefully picking up an economy victory on the way, you will be faced with the decision of which direction to take your empire in next. This is reallysituationaland games of Civilization 7 tend to develop organically depending on the civilizations you’ve unlocked, the quests you’ve completed, and the overall victory condition you’re leaning into.
Chola For Exploration Age Trade
For trade, we recommend theCholaas an Exploration Age civilization. You’ll unlock the Chola by completing sea trade routes, which is easy as Amina regardless if you picked up the Aksum civilization in the Antiquity Age or not.
The Chola receives a unique naval ship, theKalam, which can attack an extra time every time.This is one of the best naval units in the game.you may quickly seize control of the Distant Lands and island settlements between the two continents if you’re playing on the recommendedContinents Plusmap type.
Their unique quarter,The Five Hundred Lords, provides a huge +5 Land Trade Route distance and +15 for ocean trade routes. Be careful though, you may only construct theAnjuvannamdistrict on coastal tiles. This means if you don’t have a coastal city, you can’t actually build the unique quarter, rendering the Chola quite useless.
Songhai
Another civilization that leans into Amina’s trading playstyle is the Songhai. Unlike the Chola, the Songhai focus more on land trade routes, facilitated by theTajirounique merchant unit that will grant an extra100 goldif the trade route is established in a city with a navigable river.
The Songhai also receive some other nice bonuses for navigable rivers, such as +2 Resource Capacity in Towns and Cities on Navigable Rivers. Your trade ships also can’t be plundered while they are on Navigable Rivers.
The Songhai are again quite a situational civilization. If there are no navigable rivers in your lands - or anywhere near you - then it’s best to think about a different civilization.
