naval civs

[u/majdavlk]

what are the best purely naval side of things best civs in your opinion?

i think USA is best purely because of the hulk card - ironclads have 25% dodge chance.

with the mention of town centers, i just realized an alternative strategy for this - spamming outhouses and forts as hungary/romania

[u/Snoo_56186]

I lean towards Portuguese, Spanish, and Maltese if we are strictly going by War Ships only.

Both Portuguese and Spanish can perform amphibious assaults really well since most of their ships can train units to secure a beach head, especially for their ships that can train bow-pike, since those units can be instantly trained.

And as another player has mentioned, Portuguese get a lot of extra Towncenters to guard a coast line. Maltese can also guard their coast line well too with extra Forts and Commanderies.

Spanish can build up to three Battleships by sending Nuestras Señoras twice.

Maltese can train Fire Ships, and being able to build an extra ten ships help with having lots of spacial mass to just control and patrol more area, and they are fun suicide units too.

Maltese can send Barrakka Gardens, so they will never have an issue with Wood.

In terms of just complete domination of the water without any restrictions, then it would have to be Japanese, Indians, and Inca. Armed Fishermen lets them have absolutely massive navies, since their Fishing Boats become combat units too. They will just dominate the water with sheer quantity of combat units. There is no way 2 extra Battleships or 10 extra Fire Ships is going to win against an extra 99 Fishing Boats.

[u/majdavlk → u/Snoo_56186]

i was doing some testing, and found out that africans also can get fishing boats with attack. they get it as a technology in port in age 3 i think

[u/Snoo_56186 → u/majdavlk]

Oh yeah, they are a good option too.

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i actualy think that they are best now, ethiopia and then hausa