What does Spain get that Portugal doesn't? Spain gets musketeers which Portugal doesn't, and Gendarmes, and Tercio pikemen. Aventuros are better pike, but they're impetuous. Musketeers outrange every other missile unit in the game. Gendarmes are knights recruitable in cities, which you can do if you have a Santiago chapterhouse there but otherwise not. Also, the Spanish line of military academies has an undocumented side effect. It eventually grants a +2 command bonus to any general who stays there long enough to pick up the traits.
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