Strategy advice for MA Xibalba

[Grey Hat]

I have started playing a bit with MA Xibalba, but it appears early expansion and middle game is quite difficult for this nation.

Do you have tips to share, whether it is bless builds, early/middle game research targets, etc?

Is there any way to survive multiplayer with Xibalba?

[terve886]

MA Xibalba is agreed to be one of the weakest nations in MA. You will pretty much struggle with it due to mediocore troops and expensive mages which water/earth crosspath is mostly useless.
However, the nation does have some good traits, such as the bat mages that can be recuitted from caves and forests. Especially the cave ones are extremely good.

You could try to play Xibalba as one of the rare MA blood nations since they have blood access and use that to leverate yourself late game power, but the early game is suffering and expansion without the help of mercenaries or pretender is hard to pull off with good results.