I am pretty new with the ports (level 19) figured out the booming part and I now enjoy my cassies, organ guns, goons tearing apart the lonely villies early in fortress age. But as you all know, Ports is about countering, yesterday night I faced a german player who was massing uhlan (wich he upgraded later in the game) and prussian needler (german skirms). His strats was always the same, sending in uhlan to get my cannons and organ Guns, and when some of them have been destroyed he was briging is 30 + needler and ripping apart my army. I tried to counter with halbardiers (upgraded) but they are soooo slow that he was always managing to finish my pooor organ guns and my heavy canons. Afterwards, I tought about using dragoons (I am not really familiar to them since my only two other civ are germans and french)I also guess that those unique church archers could have helped me a lot agaisnt the needler, but then they suck to Uhlans..... So please, can you guys help me figuring the counter ? Now that I think about it I guess goons guarding my organ guns would have been nice. So what is the counter guys ?