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with ports u can ff at 5:30 on deccan get the 500 food age up thing, and send 700 gold when u hit age 2. u then reac age 3 at 5:30. as soon as  hit age 3 u send 8 cass's powerful age 3 units not avialbe in age 2, as then a fort straight after protecting from a rush your town center barracks and eco. then 2 organ guns or 9 musks or 1000 food to spend on a good sized army or make lots of settlers from your 3 town centers. Its better to do this on large deccan cause it takes longer for the enemy to reah you and start it with nomand instead of discovy cause then you can send the fort straight after the 8 cass with no wait, as it gives u xp the nomand.
The enemy then wont attack you cause ofa  powerful fort age 3 cass's and 2 organ guns that will just tear him up and if u want musk age 3 upgrade. This will casue him to try to age up while u are already and u are puring out 1 settler each from 2 town centers and using the rest of the resoucres to build a army. so by the time hes in age 3 u will have a good as eco and army plus age 3 upgrades.

Tell me some thing to improve

good stratergy but remember to include more units for ur reader to understand what units are best againest calvalry or other units

I mean some thing to make the stratergy even better, like better cards or stuff like that.

If ur planning on ffing like this, then gathering coin during the age up can be helpful. If, on the age up u have 1000 coin from this, ship 5 mameluke mercenaries. Seriously, 5 of these will beat 50 crossbowmen, so its worth it. Or if the opponent is likely to have cav (Ie India FF or anything Sioux) 5 Ronins will easily beat 25 hussars/30 axe riders/5 mahouts. If u dont have the coin, ship the Fort first, then defensively boom whilst massing cassadors and dragoons.

Also, make sure that all of the TCs are withing range of each other, so they can all fire on enemy units at once. Colonial Militia is a good shipment for Ports, and with the resources gives them the opportunity to make 60 Minutemen should the need arise, for about 1500 Food and Coin, which is cost effective.

u mean gather coin when i start aging to age2? for age 3 i need 1200 food and i get 500 from age 2 free so i need to get another 700 before i can get to age 3, so it doesnt leave me much time to gather coin for the mercenaries. if i find i have a lot of coin ill  send the mercenaries card.illl try the stratergy with the mercenaries out now.

James2424:

u mean gather coin when i start aging to age2? for age 3 i need 1200 food and i get 500 from age 2 free so i need to get another 700 before i can get to age 3, so it doesnt leave me much time to gather coin for the mercenaries. if i find i have a lot of coin ill  send the mercenaries card.illl try the stratergy with the mercenaries out now.

No, I meant whilst going to age 3, not age 2, that would be suicide for Ports.

lol going to age 3 is like 15 secs, using age up very fast.

Does this beat all other civs ff? i can get fotress in 5:30! i get to age 3 people some before get to age 2, or people age to age 2 at about 4:30 4:45.

i think it beats every other ff because you have 3 town centers! u can then boom and no other civ can get a town center free each age.

and even if some 1 rush by the time they reach my base i will have 8 cassords anda fort followed by 2 organ guns or 9 musks. There army of say 20 cant break down my fort..they run allowing me to boom