Portuguese Overview AoE2 

its really silly when a civilization has gold shaft mining but not stone shaft mining. "Yeah, we have mastered removing gold from the depths of the earth. But rocks? The fevered dreams of a mad man!"

Remember when the Vikings were so special as they were the only civilisation with two unique units?

I still think that the Feitoria nerf was to heavy Either reduce stone income OR make it cost stone. It's just that one nerf influences the other so hard, since the 250 gold are back in 9 minutes, but the stone take almost 20 min...

portuguese team bonus is good if you wanna know whether or not you'll win the game nothing like checking on your team mate and seeing he has 20 villagers on berries with no mill

The feitoria nerf feels so bad as someone that primarily plays Portuguese

Few things I could point out that weren't mentioned in the video. 1. Cartography is very good for free in nomad games 2. I've noticed a lot that when going feudal agression, you don't build a market, only an archery range/stable and a blacksmith when enough wood. In these cases, specially when coordenating with others, it's a pretty good tech to have. 3. It's also very good for fast castle knight rushes because, even if you're going fast castle, you're doing a stables instead of a market. Doing a knight rush in a pocket position with cartography allows you to quickly know where to send them if an ally needs help.

One of the greatest things about this channel and your subscribers is that we're all very active. you sometimes see channels with 3M subscribers pull only 70k+ views. but your videos pull 70k views while having 90k subscribers. we're just a very tight knit community; love it!

I feel sorry for that water buffalo 13:01

Free cartography at the beginning of a nomad map is really helpful.

>Studying for the exam >Spirit uploads a video >Will view it tomorrow >Reads ''overview'' Fuck it, the exam can wait

A Civ overview in the day of my birthday. Feels Good man

This overview needs an update. mainly because of the new team bonus.

I don't have the HD Edition of AoE2, but you overlooked a detail. Feitorias could be overpowered in Naval battles. Your island's resources may dry out, and raiding the enemy land for resources is not viable, so those Feitorias will actually be saving your butt in those situations.

I'm glad they designed a new architecture the Mediterranean type and applied it to the Portuguese, Spanish, Italians and Byzantines. previously the Spanish civilization was designed in the Northern European type and the Byzantines had the middle eastern type. all those were changed when the Definitive edition came up.

very lovely to see more spirit of the law videos :) i played aoe2 (and 1) long ago and still very much like to watch videos about it... good work as always!

Great Civilization overview as always! Can't wait to see the next one!

why do the portuguese get a c+ for their cavalry while the japanese have a b in the expansions? :D their cavalry costs less gold and has one more armor upgrade. still loving your videos :)

I've been waiting for this! Awesome video!

2:27 Full blown out battle? Boar doesn't give a fuck. Boar just wants to eat his grass.

You forgot when explaining why the gold cost bonus is superior to the gold mining bonus, that the gold mining bonus only effects gold being mined, whereas the gold cost bonus will effect all gold, which includes gold from trade carts and relics. Which is especially nice with the Feitoria. ;)

Great Job again! I really love your civ overviews and I can not wait for the next one!

14:16 "not having stone shaft mining" displays stone shaft mining without an red X.

wow you have improved on your videos, sounds a lot brighter. i like it.

great work as always! keep it up!

Finally! So much time without a civ overview:):)

0:06 Wow.. Probably my favorite civ theme, closely followed by Magyars.

i was doing research, after i saw this from my gmail, i dropped everything to watch this!

I've found the organ gun to be really effective against ships from the shore. Because of the spray damage.

The background music is so chill.

Spirit upload= Instant happiness 😄

0:39 "Goth game plan" hilarious.

I have never played an age of empires game in my life but I love your channel

Oh hell yes a SotL video for the day. Thank you

More gameplay videos please! You're amazing!

"Carry on lads, I'll just watch from here." LOL

I think a cool additional bonus would be added line of sight on all units and buildings as homage to the Portugese being some of the best explorers! But I suppose Cartography accomplishes this somewhat

The free cartography team bonus can be really useful on Nomad map. Helps you track your mates, helps preventing you to set up shop to far away from them and helps scouting out the enemy sooner.

You're back!!

I think the dev didn't do the portuguese civ any justice. They nerfed them completely. Feitoria is not at good anymore Organ gun not as good anymore Arquebus not as good anymore

+Spirit Of The Law can you make a chart where you can see overview about all civs grades? it would be great

The Caravel up top at 8:12 is the flagship of Francisco de Almeida, whom you pointed out at 5:13 in your Portuguese campaign video.

the portuguese (and spanish before their addition, in the og AoK and AoC) is the closest I can get in AoE2 of my civ to play, since I'm brazilian. so you can say I'm happy with this overview and I wish DE made organ guns spread shots do more damage and arquebus also giving gunpowder units faster attack rates/shots (like the cannon galleon of the spanish qwq). and Feitoria being more op too because 20 pop is too much lol

I was waiting for this overview for so long. Thanks, man. The only thing I don't agree is the rate you gave to the portuguese cavalry (C+); I would give them a B- at least since it sounded pretty standard to me (below Franks and above Vikings, for example).

Japanese has the same unit available but without last armor upgrade and they got a B while portuguese with +2 armor and a gold cost reduction for knights get a C+ ? Edit : I made a test, one cavalier vs 12 split skirmishers, the japanese one killed 2, the portuguese one killed ...10

Carry on lads, I'll just watch from here

cant watch rn but gonna like already

I think you underplayed how useful free carto is. obviously it is completely useless in 1v1s, but in team games, especially 2v2s or in other game modes where feudal aggression is prevalent and resources have to be prioritized in favor of military, the 175 wood for a market is a waste unless your eco is unbalanced and you have to build one to sell resources anyways. for 5 more wood you could get 3 farms and advance to castle faster, or for the same price you could build another archery range etc. It is also useful for coordinating attacks since x'ing the map like a madman only works so well. it encourages better teamwork such as one person bringing over archers to help kill spears so his ally can use his scouts to raid the enemy. you can also use your scouts more efficiently since you wont both scout the same areas twice unnecessarily. I would even argue this is one of the strongest team bonuses in team games.

You are such an underrated RU-vidr. Man how much effort you put in your videos is unbelievable with that much of details, for example the mathematical logic of AOE. I can't even describe this feeling which I have every time you upload a new video. Stay so as you already are, you technically revived AOE and it's community. That's all Real Talk. Greetings from Germany, from a Persian AOE gamer. ✌🏽

As a brazilian, I like the portuguese because they're sort of like Brazil in AoE 2 (but not).

You should have mentioned that the team bonus is useful for early scouting since it is like having extra scout in the dark age which means you can quickly find oppenents since if any one else on your team finds them then you find them too. You can also co-ordinate and each player can scout different parts of the map to avoid overlap. You can also completely neglect scouting and have your scout lure deer while your allies do the scouting for you. But of course if everyone does that it could lead to a problem. P.S Loved the 1:04 joke.

That joke on the baloon cracked me up (and it's so true!) XD

wish we had Chariots/Scythe Chariots in AoE2 like we did in AoE1 :( only reason I built markets in Aoe1 anyway lel. Gotta have that wheel research!

.finally!! I've been waiting for this since the African Kingdom release

Just happened to be checking back in here a few years later... 2:14 "Of course the Turks get the last laugh since they were changed to +20% in the expansions." (Laughs in Portuguese also getting their bonus buffed to 20% gold cost reduction) And 30% faster techs. Turks did get +1 pierce armor on scout line too tho :D

Might it be time for a new Portuguese overview, or is this still fully accurate?

Dude I've never played AoE but i fucking LOVE these videos for some reason lmao.

great overview! thanks! could you do a video covering how the market is influenced with other people buying/selling. overall market strat

What is it that causes cannonballs to bounce?

t. Alberto Barbosa

He spirit you ever tried Europa Universalis 4? It is really in depth game and I would love to see your analyse on that game. It's a really different game from Age of Empire I know, so you probably never going to cover it. But I still want your opinion on it ^^. Keep up the great videos :)

Another beautiful and brilliant video. Just sayin

true saracen and other specific naval unit may have a bonus on a certain type of war ship in this case galley but the portuguese naval econ bonus also aplies to ships that counters war galeys etc... just depends on the strategy in mind

I swear i was watching your channel just now

Hey Spirit, are you by chance doing a video similar to your video on scorpions, but instead with bombard cannons? I think it'd be interesting to compare/contrast some of the bonuses towards them and see which civ's bombard cannons are the best at what (notice how I post this comment on a civ with a cool bombard cannon tech) Let me know! Thanks for all the great content :)

Os portugueses são impressionantes.

Hi Spirit, I'm a big fan of your videos. Could you do a civ overview of the Burmese next? I'm really liking this civ and I'd love to know what you think of them.

Suppose I shoot a generic cannon galleon at max range while a wonder timer is counting down. Does the balloon stay in the air for an entire year?

Their wonder looks nice

Imho the gather rate increase is a much better bonus than the discount in early stages of the game, where you can put 1-3 less villagers on gold which can work on other places, while for lategame i agree that the discount is better since it lets u put more gold units to the field.

I got a nice question for your next FAQ or maybe even a video if it leads to interesting results: "How to team bonuses work in a ffa diplomacy game?"

Called it. Although considering all the recent uploads i think most people called it

we love u spirit!

omgsh my day is made

I hate you Spirit. Now I want to buy the steam version of the game :-/ jk Amazingly intelligent and well-presented overview, as always.

I feel that galley comparisons are kind of out of date, especially in the feudal age. Does anyone really prefer the galley to the fire gallay in feudal?

thank you

Hey Spirit. Could you do a video doing your review of the African Civs? So far, you've only done the Portuguese. Specifically, I'm interested in the Ethipoeans (their siege might be extremely good with their unique tech)

The Portuguese are currently my favourite civilization in age of empires II. Love em.

Portuguese ships have more hp because the only ships that ever returned, from the "spanish" armada that filippe send out to england, where in fact portuguese, like the flaggship São Martinho. And since then everybody knew, portuguese build the best ships. And where the first to shoot bronze canons that where loaded from the back. Maybe that's where they got the idea for the unique canory unit.

Every time I come back to this video I'm astounded at how massively they nerfed this civ. Organ guns - 1 damage for all projectiles but the main one. Feitoria - was already not that great and they made it awful! Arquebus - why reduce the speed of cannons? What's the argument here? By the same logic remove the insane speed from spanish cannon galleons!! That coupled with terrible team bonus, caravels being very situational, and you've got probably the most underwhelming civ in the game. They went from OP to UP. These devs didn't manage to find a balance and ended up fucking it up. It really does piss me off.

That deer at 6:41 just doesn’t give a flying fart.

The cannonball being a balloon always gets me

OMG the whole cannon galleon shot speed was ridiculously unfair!!! Especially after update pack with new civs!

I love you man

Could you make a video about hotkeys? Which ones to use, what setup you recommend and use yourself? I think using hotkeys would really speed up the game for me.

Hey Spirit!, do you think one feitoria on a 300 pop, 2 on 400, and 4 on 500 would be a good investment on a standard map with trade and the rest being villagers for a steady income of stone to potentially beef up defenses and ramp up organ gun production?

Finnaly! Nice, can ye do all the new civs?

I have a question. Can the Feitoria recover a game where your enemy attacked your wood lines with onagers, as you presented in Outside the Box tactics? Thanks!

6:32 song name?

:O new video

Crazy to think the 'new' Portugese Civ is 6 years old now

So, what I learned here is that Portuguese were OP in their initial release (AoAK), but have been nerfed so badly that they're practically useless except in an Imperial Age gunpowder fight.

Other Civilisations: the resources on the whole map have been run out, we r fucked. Portuguese: what did u said just now?

i feel like this civ doesnt have a unit that can punch through enemy units. they dont get paladins, cav archers, organ gun is basically a hand cannoneer with splash dmg and in late games hand cannoneers arent as good choice when enemy has paladins and war elephants and cav archers. i think archers and champions are the only viable late game choices imo.

I fucking love their theme song.

Once they complete bugfixes (check the comments on steam), I do wish for each civilization to get a unique economic building (except Portuguese they have feitoria as their unique economic building) and also a unique military building. The unique ecomomic building there are many ideas including a civilization to get a camp that drops off all 4 resources and unique military building such as the fire tower. The villager buildings and military buildings button has 1 spot available for economic buildings and portuguese get the feitoria there after the wonder, and also the military buildings have an empty spot after the siege workshop. Then an idea to make fishing ship become "villager of the sea" the way it was in the very early stages of the game in age of kings 1998. The fishing ship needs to be able to build fish trap, dock, sea wall, sea tower, and be able to repair anything it can reach. Currently fish traps are not repairable in any way, but are healable by monks I tried that and it worked.

The only thing I didn't like in the Portuguese was the lack of an eco early age bonus. It seems we're always behind the opponents in early feudal age. Despite this, they have a strong and variable army and I, nevertheless, feel glad to play as my Portuguese ancestors.

Now that cartography is by default ON for free for all civs, portuguese new team bonus is quite cool, but spirit also mentioned in the new patch notes video (dec 2022) that they used to have a bonus (not team bonus) for aging up 33+% faster ??? Or for all techs to research faster ? .. I dont remember that being in the game

3:30 - Irrelevant, Vikings dont have Fire Galleys, so they are screwed, unless you are TOP micro player. 5:08 - After Portuguese Unique Tech nerf, Organ Guns became much weaker, maybe +2 pierce armor or increased movement speed could help, as I suggested. 8:10 - Problem is, you never go full Caravel, they are really useless against Fire Ships, you only mix few in if you have the resources for it. Or just go pure Caravel + Fire Ship and never build a single Galeon (you still need its upgrade for Fire though). 10:38 - Indian Hand Cannoneers beat Portuguese, that +1 range is really a difference. 10:50 - I remember I sent you, that Cannon Galeon is not affected and you confirmed it that time, glad they fixed it :-). Thanks for the Overview, waited for it for a long time ;-).

Im portuguese and aoe rlly represented portugal well. A navy country. For who is curious, check portugal's history. We fought off the spanish. We dominated enemys. And we were probably the begginers of the exploration by sea, and made one of the best historical books ever. And thats that. I am proud to be portuguese!