Portuguese (Age of Empires II)/Strategy

Strengths
The largest advantage the Portugese will have over any civ is accuracy of gunpowder units. Thanks to arquebus, the affect of ballistics on gunpowder units will give them a strength never seen in any other civ. Bombard towers will be able to hit targets faster while handcannoners and bombard cannons will be more precise against enemies moving towards them. The organ gun has a spray damage affect at range so injuring infantry lines rows of archers will be more effective. The second strength of the portugese is thier navy. Excluding thier increased accuracy cannon galleons, they have ships that are more durable overall. The caravel brings the row damaging advantage of scorpians on land to the water so now there is a effecient way to handle mass galleons. When depletable resources such as forests, stone mines, and gold mines are scarce, the fetoria will compansate for the lack of resources by auto producing them. They have a good infantry and cavalry arsenal to protect the thier gunpowder units.

Weaknesses
The largest weakness regarding the Portugese is thier lack of essential lack game ships such as fast fire ships and heavy demolition ships. However the Caravel is meant to compansate for the need to counter galleons and also fire ships wil be more durable even without the fast fire ship upgrade. The portugese will likely need to boom in order to pay for the gunpowder units even though the gold discount helps. A civilization such as the Berbers and Britons who can handle them at range will need to be countered with a good amount of cavalry, skirmishers, and or infantry.