Quote Originally Posted by Zenicetus View Post
But from a strategy gaming perspective, playing as Portugal isn't going to be much different from playing the game as Spain. I'm in favor of more variety in units, culture, and starting positions on the map, even if it means a historically powerful empire has to get dropped from the main playable faction list.
I don't think so. Remember that Portugal had a global empire to look after, colonies in the Atlantic, in America, in Africa and in India (Without mentioning in Australasia, which probably won't be in the game), meaning you have to defend them all, scattered around the world, and defend them with a smaller population basis (In gameplay perspective, I suppose it would be through many less provinces. One or two.) than the Spanish while, the said people only have to tend after their continuous American Empire, needing not to bother with India, for instance.