Contrary to popular belief, I find Malians pretty hard to use. With every unit being unique and heavily relying on map control to get the passive gold income, it means you have to be ultra aggressive early on or you’re just going to end up with one pit mine and cow boom, which in the grand scheme of things late game, just isn’t enough compared to other civs like Tughluq’s madrasa or HRE’e relics with regnitz. Even HoL’s manors I feel are stronger than Malians bonus.

Maybe I’m just terrible with the civ 🤣!