Portuguese Tower Rush (Fan Patch)

[I__CHAOS__I]

This is a competitive Portuguese strat, aiming to keep early pressure and maintain your opponent boxed in his TC, while you build up a strong eco. Usually opting for Musketeers and Hussars.

Age I
- age up with 13 vils, use the 400 wood politician.
- ship 300 wood as first card.
- explore a location with hunts/gold mine near the enemy base

Transition to Age II
- foward 3 vils, build an outpost.
- have 3-4 vils on coin
- gather 200 wood by the time u age up, for a rax
- change drop-off point to fwd outpost !!!

Age II
- build your rax at fwd base
- pick up age up wood and build market and 2 houses
- deploy your 2nd TC near the outpost
- ship 700 food
- research 2nd hunting upgrade
- most vils on food, 2 on wood, 5-6 on gold

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Start spamming vils from 2 TCs and make musks
I like to ship 6 musks or 8 xbows next to increase the military mass.
Other cards include 700 wood, musk upgrades, spice trade, AA, 700 gold... Try to get a stable up and add hussars, research mining techs and upgrade the vils HP too.
If the game stalls, age up to III to upgrade your musks and add organ guns -or- ship 1k coin or food to go straight to Age 4 for factories and better upgrades.

Rec in the replay section.

GL HF

comments are welcome :mrgreen:

[deadhanddan]

very effective strat. the speed and mass can overwhelm slower civs and / or unaware players. if you do do this strat , the civs which can be problemmatic are iro-india-aztec-russia: any civ that has an equally good + fast age 2 mass can be a problem for this strat , luckily though ports have dual tcs and musket/cassa cards in age 2 , so you should have no problems once your superior muskets come online

[gendarme]

Yes, but if the enemy manages to survive, he's probably have a better eco, due to settler shipments. And when he pushes you you will lose your 2nd TC, won't you?

[I__CHAOS__I]

[quote=""gendarme""]Yes, but if the enemy manages to survive, he's probably have a better eco, due to settler shipments. And when he pushes you you will lose your 2nd TC, won't you?[/quote]

not at all, Ports have no settler shipments anyway and u research the 2nd hunting upgraded early. Pushing through a TC + tower with a rax next to it is not so easy...

[gendarme]

Hmm, I guess not. I don't have much experience with ports xD

What about a bit later? If you don't age up and he does, he's probably push through.

And if you age up and he doesn't, then he can push with his mass while you invested resources for aging.

But I dunno, play some games against me. I need to play against ports more

[StrokeyBlofeld]

Looks like a great strat. A while ago I was trying a similar thing with Brits, building tower then aging with tower/gold so the other tower could go up by the first one then putting my rax there. I guess it would work better with ports as you have the 2nd TC there....

[36drew]

You could also pop MM to use aggressively. In a mass of units they are nearly impossible to decipher from xbow/musk.

[huGGy]

^yeah. Add MM to your first push.

[IndyBrit]

[quote=""36drew""]You could also pop MM to use aggressively. In a mass of units they are nearly impossible to decipher from xbow/musk.[/quote]

Adam, further evidence of your dark gift with this game.

Deadhanddan has done this to me before too (not with Ports tho). I usually laugh when I see it. Sure I lose, but I still laugh.

[I__CHAOS__I]

Yep, MM rock when mixed with other units.
Not sure if the Colonial militia card is worth it, popping out the 2nd batch of 15 MM can be brutal

[Aaryn_GenD]

this is p10 all the way :-P an updated version of it.
call it p10 v2.0

[I__CHAOS__I]

a lot less aggressive than P10 and much more on control and eco though

[Aaryn_GenD]

that's why i say 2.0 ;-)