Gentlemen,

I said i would test the Portuguese, and i did, but i never wrote the report.
If i'm still in time i would like you to read this :)

I don't know if there can still be added more units to the medieval version, but after several hours of playing the Portuguese i still think that many things could be done to improve the realism and the complexity of the Portuguese faction.

First of all: The Arcabuzeiros de Goa should only be avaiable on the first age.

Second: If the spanish have "Mosqueteros" why can't the portuguese have "Mosqueteiros" and "Arcabuzeiros"...

Third: If possible i would like to add some new units to the Portuguese, for many reasons, but mainly for balancing and realistic purposes.

The Portuguese lack in their own cavalry force. It is essencial that the Portuguese own other cavalry other than the mercenaries.
To fill that hole i tought of the following units:

Cavalaria Nobre (For the first and third period)
Private Cavalry units at the orders of the king. Usually quite well equiped, and well trained. However this units equipment was never as good as the kingdom soldiers. This units served ost of the times as a land guard.
I sugest something such as:
- Medium defense
- Elite
- Disciplined

Nobres Revolucionários (Revolutionary Noblemen, especifically for the second period)
This are diferent from the previous unit in two things: They aren't as well trained as the others since they were the result of an army's reorganization.
- Great moral
- Poor defense
- Great charge

This two unit concepts reflect the actual reality of the Portuguese army during this period. Portugal only created a stable and fixed military force in the end of 19th century. Before that, the military recruitment system was still very similar to the middle age, the king would cal the noblemen for arms, and each one of them would bring it's personal army, so most of the Portuguese armies would be formed by private noble forces, but obviously under the command of a general assigned by the king.

During the Restoration War, this system remained until it's end, the diference during this period was that the king of this time didn't act as a military leader that much, it was chosen to occupy the throne in Lisbon and take the country back to it's independece. However mos of this war was still done by the individual initiave of the revolutionaries.

And now some more infantry that reflects the revolutionary period of the second age of the mod:

Guerrilla da restauração (Guerrilla of the restoration, specific of the second period)
The peseants that answered the "chamamento ás armas" of the king. Large units with very few training, but with unwavering faith in victory, and a will of "charging upon them"! The Piqueiros ligeiros were professional military forces, even if badly equipped, these were militias.
- Great Charge
- Unwavering
- Poor defense
- Great strengh

Piqueiros do novo exercito (Pikes of the new army)
The result of the reformation of the army in end of the restoration war. Well equipped soldiers, an improved version of the Piqueiros ligeiros.

For some reason my mtw crashes when i try to start the Portuguese campaign.

After being so much time away from the total war engine, at this moment i can't make up the units stats from the top of my head, what i wrote under the units name should only be taken as guidelines for the units concept.

Well, are there still unit slots avaiable? I doesnt make sense that the Spanish have som many units, and the Portuguese so few of their own.

That's all i can remenber now, cheers