Bulgarians/Strategy

The Bulgarians are an Infantry and Cavalry oriented civilization.

Strengths
They are great at rushing since their militia line Infantry upgrades automatically upon advancing to the next age while their team bonus enables their blacksmith to rapidly upgrade their units, also these units retain their value as their unique technology Bagains gives their Militia Line Infantry +3 melee armor. They have most upgrades available for infantry only lacking the Champion upgrade.

Their unique unit, the Konnink, is a cavalry unit that when killed it becomes an infantry (with all its implications). The strength of this units relies on their durability as they have to be killed twice while also they can mess with the possible opponents response to cavalry. They can be created at Kreposts which are a fortification similar to a castle but weaker and cheaper (about half the price of a castle). The attack speed of the Konnink can be improved with their castle age unique technology Stirrups who also improves the attack speed of light cavalry. Regarding the stable they have full upgrades for both the Paladin and the Hussar.

They have good siege units as they have almost all the relevant technologies, only lacking Bombard Cannons

Defensively they fare well thanks to the Kreposts and the fact that their Town center cost 50 less stone, enabling fot them to save some stone for more fortifications.

Weaknesses
Despite the fact that their militia upgrades automatically and have a unique technology that adds more armor to them they still lack the Champion upgrade which may make them vulnerable on the long run against well rounded units or ranged units.

Their archery Range is mediocre as they lack the Crossbowmen and Arbalest upgrades and the Ring Archer Armor upgrade at the Blacksmith.

Despite they can create Kreposts that can help on defending their position, they lack several defensive technologies like Hoardings, Bombard Towers, Fortified Walls and Arrowslits making them to rely almost on the Krepost for that purpose (which aside being cheaper than a castle is still more expensive and take longer to built than towers).