Talk:Portuguese (Age of Empires II)/Tree/@comment-213.204.238.117-20180830171232/@comment-5688571-20190422174637

Papermaniac got something wrong.

Italian have cheaper fish boat for early development and heavy fire boat for Imperial age, Italian do not lose much in Navy

The Italian enjoys a better early game econ, similar econ in beginning of castle age and again a better late game econ.

Port has halberd without the 10% speed upgrade. This make them take more damage from range unit when charging. Anyway they should do better in anti-horse than Italian pikeman.

Italian has Hussar, Condottiero for early Imperial and Allies.

Port has a slight advantage in siege weapon as they have the siege engineer technology

Honestly both civ do not have many reliable “gold units” except gunpowder buddy in Imperial age. They may produce some champion and Calvary in small number(And some unique unit from castl)

The backbone of both civ usually trash units with gunpowder.

The civ bonus of Italian is: 20% cheaper gunpower units, which means a cost of reduction in meat and gold consumption when Port only receive a 15% discount in gold.

Arquebus improve the accuracy on moving units only, when the melee units entangle, it dun give much advantage.

For their unique unit, I have no opinion.