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Collect somewhere instead of steering and see if you make more. Move a merchant somewhere and see if you make more next month. Since you share your "virtual" end node of Seville with Spain, about 40% or 50% of your trade income is wasted unless you collect from trade in Asia/India which is a horrible option because the malus you get (-50%) from collecting outside of your main node.įirst, do NOT check the tooltips about trade, they are always wrong and useless. On top of this, berbers raid your coasts constantly and you are forced to landlock them having to core useless provinces that worth nothing to avoid the irritating raids. It's actually not a Portugal problem, because patches ago it was one of my favourite nations to play with, but the recent changes have made the colonization simply not worth the reward you get for your colonies and trade companies. England is the easiest one if you abandon France because no one is going to disembark in your island-fortress. So my suggestion is that if you want to play a colonization game, go for a big power. You will be often involved in European wars you want to avoid, but you are going to suffer France sooner or later and that's a pain for your tiny army. Having Castille as an ally is both a gift and a curse. So in the long run you have a weak nation, with weak ideas unable to maintain LD of your colonies under control and without any kind of military advantage against your neighbors which other colonizers have. Conquering harbors is not enough to drain trade power to Seville and light ships trade power is nerfed into the ground. Mercantilism is not needed for the new world but definitively it's for India/Asia. The lack of any military ideas & manpower is a huge disadvantage when fighting on Asia because as soon as you start conquering territories institutions will spread to them quickly. Even with quantity ideas you have nothing to do about it. War exhaustion? +LD.Īs Portugal don't expect to have a big army enough to keep your colonial nations calm.
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This game has changed so much to the point where colonization is simply not worth it anymore. Portugal is in a very bad shape nowadays. If you do wars, stay with it until you can get an absolute monarchy because it is the best for wars. Going for Constitutional Monarchy later on can be good. You should switch for Administrative Monarchy if you don't do wars in Europe because the bonuses you start with are only about war. If your alliance is stronger in Europe siege their homeland and you win the war despite all of Brazil being occupied. This does not matter however if your ennemies invade your colonies, it gives little warscore. Once you are rich out of your colonies, build 20 heavies and you rule the waves. Use your money to run 1-2 colonies over your colonial limit instead. Don't build forts or a warfleet if you want to play it peacefully. (if they rivalled each other dumping Spain for France is really better because France is a stronger ally and the Spanish land is better for you). You should not get engaged in wars in Europe early on if you ally Spain, especially if Spain allied France. Indonesia is a much better location to colonize instead. In Africa, only centers of trade and estuaries are worth early on, there are so many natives. You need to colonize everything that can come into Sevilla so ignore NA and focus on central and southern americas. But you can play it safer and more historical. The optimal strategy, if France and Spain are not allied, is however to rival England and Spain, ally France, and use France to take Spain and the Spanish and English colonies. Right now you do not earn 3.34 in Safi, you just steer 3.34 from Safi to Sevilla and half of this is taken by Spain. I can't play this, its just impossible.You need to protect trade in Sevilla instead if you want to stay allied with Spain. Before I can even sort out my peasants and get them to work huge blobs of enemy cavalry swamp my positions, capture all the buildings and kill everyone. He gives me a small village to control and tells me to get ready for the next attack. Repeated tries and I finally get to safety. A dozen tries and I manage to keep him alive, with only two men left! He tells me to follow him to a safer place, enemy cavalry everywhere in large groups. Again, wave after wave of enemy cavalry swamp my men, and friendly allies, and kill the general or all my men. I had to guard a friendly general and keep him from getting killed. After half a dozen tries i was able to get past them with 19 men left. On my way to my objective I get swamped by hoards of enemy cavalry. I moved north a bit and another small group joined me, giving me 40 total. The first mission, Tartar Wars I start out with a group of musketeers. I'm playing a campaign, War of Independence.