Problem is this:
Portugese can fight German or Ottoman without too much difficulty
Germans thanks to cassadore spam with the ronin and dragoons then outboom them, go industrial and get heavy cannons.
Ottoman thanks to CM cassadores and mamelukes with 3 tcs for booming.
However, the Portugese hit problems with Spanish... Spain hits fortress at the same time with a slight villager lead and 2 available shipments The Portugese's standard combo of dragoons and cassadores is torn apart by lancers, rods and skirms and then the Spain follows on with mercs and more falcs. Meanwhile the Spaniard takes map control, puts up 2 tcs while continuing to apply pressure.
Ottoman loses to Germans and Portugese
Because Germans have a variety of OP cards and free uhlans and Portugese because they have 2 tcs and colonial militia.
However Ottoman can really mess up Spain with ff --> So rather than one civ being extremely OP, we have a bit of a rock paper scissors balance where one top civ has an advantage over another top civ. Portugese>
ESO : Pcfreak8
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