Bulgarians

Civ Overview
Bulgarians do not feel like a traditional balkan civ at first glance. Bulgarians have a unique gameplay that differs from any other aoe3 civ. Bulgarians lack the ability to train a traditional military unit, until the industrial age. The villagers however, behave like military units, and even move in armies with other military units and follow similar tactics. When military units are available, they are quite strong. Bulgarians instead of rostering a variety of cavalry, and infantry units, focus on training one unit in large numbers, supports with research techs, and specialized units that boost those around them called vovoids. While vovoids are a common unit for balkan civs, the bulgarians are the only civ to have a cavalry variety, and the only civ that can train vovoids rather than sending them from the homecity. Otherwise they are a regular balkan civ. Most Bulgarian cards can be sent infinitly which makes gathering experience a good investment. The bulgarians are the only civ that can build rose crops with a card, which is the only crop that creates gold instead of food. Villagers can be trained at all military buildings.

Unique Units:
Strong Peasant:they can be trained from most buildings, and can fight with pitchforks, while have some attack bonus against cavalries.

Opalchenets Pobornik:superior line infantry as only infantry unit.

Spasitel：superior ranged cavalry as only cavalry unit.

Advantages and Disadvantages
With units that have a bonus against villagers in larger numbers such as hand cavalry, or long range units, strong peasants cannot defend themsleves from overwhelming odds. They can however, counter armies they can outnumber and reach. This will put bulgaria on the defensive unitl the industrial age and will allow the enemy to grow. When they do get to the industrial age, armies of cavalry, average infantry, and even artillery do not stand a chance against poborniks, and spasitels supported with voviods. Stockpiled rose crops can allow a boosted amount of gold to support artillery. Homecity shipments can reinforce economy in the early ages, and reinforce armies in the later ages since the cards for peastants, and military tend to be infinite. Bulgarians carry the usual economic disadvantages of balkan civs.