Yet they had wine since the roman times. You must be fun at parties. How you like gunpowder for goths ?
You have any sources for that ? And lacking squires make their halbs comparably bad 
Not Port Wine (which is grown in the North, and aged in Brandy barrels, Brandy being from England).
Portuguese Medieval Wine was Southern Red and White, and Central Green Wine, which is acidic and quenching, but most people will hate the taste of it, which is whty it was poor people’s wine.
Read up on several Portuguese wars, and all you will see is Mass Infantry + Crossbow + a lot of innovative Siege engines.
From Wikipedia:
“Meanwhile, the armies of John I of Portugal and Nuno Álvares Pereira joined together in the city of Tomar. After some debate, a decision was made: the Castilians could not be allowed to besiege Lisbon once again, since the city would undoubtedly fall, so the Portuguese would intercept the enemy in the vicinity of Leiria, near the village of Aljubarrota. On August 14, the Castilian army, very slow due to its huge numbers, finally met the Portuguese and English troops. The ensuing fight, the Battle of Aljubarrota, was fought in the style of the Battles of Crécy and Poitiers. These tactics allowed a reduced infantry army to defeat cavalrymen with the use of longbowmen in the flanks and defensive structures (like caltrops) in the front. The Castilian army was not only defeated, but annihilated. Their losses were so great that John I of Castile was prevented from attempting another invasion in the following years.”
Squires was taken out because Port Champions with Supplies and Gold discount (and Platemail Armour), are already better than Goth Champions, so they wanted them to be slower.
Cysion once said it’s for limiting their ability to defend organ guns from cavalry
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Interesting, I would have never guessed, but also makes sense.
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