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OK no flaming in this post, I'm being serious.

    I have two civilizations which I really like, the portugese and the British (this is for treaty if any of u sup players come over here u can give sup advice also cause i do play that sometimes).  I can't tell which is better.  The ports musketeers and RI units are better than the british, but the british has better hussar and i think falconets are better than organ guns also.  So, which civilization would you guys advise me to use? 

if the Brits have better Hussars then you may wanna try a REAL civ!

j/k depends on your play style. not sure bout ports but brits seem to be good at musket spam and artilery backup. 

i would say portugese, because they are just good, and they also have a pretty good eco.

but it would also be nice to play british because they are pretty much fun to play and there are not to much player playing british often. btw their musks are very good 

Go for Ports imo, the economic micro required for the Brits to truly play competitively is staggering and should only be attempted by the best of players. Ports eco is easier to manage thanks to the TCs with age up, and tbh the military is about equal to Brits. Guerrieros, Genitours and Rabaulds are a good all purpose combination, genitours are basically cav skirms with that great range and can deal shedloads of damage to other cav, Genitours are a good meatshield and will stop any other cav getting to the organ guns, which will slaughter infantry better than a falc tbh. Once ur winning, build fbs are get some more artillery up, culvs can be useful, but the emphasis on sieging with Ports is Guerrieros, Genitours and Mortars.

razdds2:

you do know that longbows cost wood right, and late game wood isnt easy to get. that is why i said the brits lack a real skirm, because once that wood is out you have nothing, and factories dont make wood fast enough to produce longbows

True, but if u play a 2v2 with Frenchies, u livestock boom and give them 100k food, then they fur trade and give u 100k coin, then u south sea boom and get 125k wood. This should be enough considering u can buy over 3000 longbows with that

dutchmaina_cl:

LOL, ok..........The yomen card makes the longbows of the best skirm units in the game. British muskets are better than the ports and their hussars are better. The only thing the ports have over the brits is faster training art. and long ranged mortars.

Don't ports have better goons too? I think they do, but seeing as I don't play brits and prots often enough I wouldn't know. As for artillery, falconets are better than organ guns even if they do train slower.