Doesn’t really matter. Pick a military bonus then, be creative. But it has to be something that affects the early to midgame, not a buff to bombard towers that won’t see the light of day because the civ is already dead by that point.
I agree. I think their late game is really good already. As I stated in my post, I would give them 20% extra hp for pikes and skirms, or another bonus that helps them through early game
To fix the aforementioned early game issue as well as strengthen the Portuguese identity as bombard tower spammers, I propose to complete OP’s suggestion with the following:
Portuguese
- Bombard towers are now available from Feudal age
An eco bonus still unused in aoe 2 is the resource tricke. Portuguese have one after building a feitoria. They may get a 20g/min from feudal. It is an eco buff equivalent more or less to +1 vill… at least until imp
Just left them be op,no nerf needed.
Leitis still strong,borderline op as a unit, but It’s the general civ balance right, not unit balance akone. So bbt in feudal alone is fine, riiiight?../s
My favourite civ combat bonus suggestion that isn’t used is still lower frame delay for archers/handcannons.
Kipchap shot before even drawing their bow, 11. Could be a civ bonus that is good early to Micro in low numbers and get weaker late. Ethiopians bonus is better, than this especially in mass fights.
There are so many parallel topics the gunpowder handcannons balance or the genitoir made regional unit, aquebus bug report, feitoria rework, that all could potentially affect Portuguese too. It becomes hard to discuss these separately.
Cause each new suggestion will be lost in the flurry, unless the devs allow us to add each new suggestion to the first post of each thread for each civ
Portuguese would then destroy TC and buildings in feudal age with ease. New meta of Bombard tower rush breaks the game.
I have posted my idea before in 3 posts. ‘Outpost cost no stone’. This grant bonus equivalent to free cartography from beginning, which is completely useless in 1 vs 1 for Portuguese. More outposts can be built and give more info of what opponent’s doing.