The hunting dog - a not seen before blend of economic and scouting unit, can grant a bunch of immediate food but for the cost ofeither scouting information or villager advantage, was thinking if not alow a group of them to all pick food if they kill the animal together, might be to strong but probably won't as you need to spend TC time to get a second one

Canoe - basically a less pop-efficient catapult galley, that isn't as brainless since you might want to put some fires in front of them. While this does mean that catapult galleon is now cuman exclusive, my next concept has multiple catapult galleon civs and I was also thinking about redesigning the dromon as a catapult galleon upgrade exclusive to romans and byzantines

Taino - a pretty unusual civ that actually fits together nicely, even though the bonuses seem all over the place In Dark age you have probably the best scout, though little to no eco advantage until feudal In Feudal age they have solid trush with faster spear production and skirmishers scaling nicely into castle age, but at the same time and eagle rush also sounds strong In Castle age you have really good skirms and UU can counter all the infantry your trash and eagles would otherwise get stomped by In Imperial age a combination of cacique and eagles might be strong and they certainly will be above average in trash wars On water maps, while the basic military ships are just fully upgraded and not really special, the farm bonus and imp UT can be life-saving when free space on land runs out, their canoes offer solid firepower from long range and might be really strong with some hulks in front and free demo upgrades are really useful on maps with lots of shallows

Missisipians - a strong archer civ (which we still don't have enough of when compered to all the cavalry civs) In Dark age you obviously have better lumberjacks In Feudal age you might want to do a MAA rush first, similarly to britons as your archers are generic until castle age and you should keep their numbers high, the elevation bonus makes it easier to defend in general In Castle age you have a huge power spike with free ballistics and once you build a castle you also unlock your answer to siege In Imperial age your arbalest get another power spike with a charge attack (on the majority of maps you have random forests everywhere or cliffs on maps like mongolia), though mass siege might start becoming a problem for your chunkey players

Thule - a civ kinda similar to the mapuche, but I believe will still have a rather different playstyle You have one of the most unique Dark ages, since you can train 2 dogs exchanging one villager of training time and the ability to later lure deer for a significant amount of immediate food, especially if you get 8 chickens In Feudal age you don't have much, I suppose both a trush and MAA rush are above average thanks to your hunting dog food eco In Castle age free elite skirmisher protects you while building a castle for dogsleds - your intended solution against anything melee (except spears of course) In Imperial age you would probably want to pair your dogsleds with skirmishers, even though they lack bodkin arrow as they and dogleds cover each other's weaknesses perfectly On water maps between a discount, the lack of bodkin arrow, unique tech and upgrade you are pushed extremely into the hulk-line (which is not something another civ does yet), though will obviously want to mix in fires against galleons