List your favorite nations for colonizing the Americas

[Karsk]

I made an earlier discussion but I've been playing EUII and EUIV for a long time, with Conquest of Paradise and the introduction of Colonial Nations I would like to know about some other countries I can colonize the New World with.

I know about the heavy hitters in this category: England, France, Portugal, Spain.

I've honestly never played a France game, bc I consider them to be horrendously easy and therefore no challenge, therefore boring.

Never gotten far with a Spain game for the same reasons.

So I wanted some countries that are a bit more challenging. Portugal like I said earlier mainly competes in the colonial game with its neighbor who can spank Portugal easily if any colonial fracas happens.

In EUIII I would play as Portugal and England and get into these overseas fights in our colonies in North America, I miss that experience Portugal can't colonize NA bc of trade nodes.

[Pippin123]

Why would Portugal not colonize NA ? You can always steer trade towards Lisboa and your own node.You'll need to build some light ships to prevent England from siphoning your trade, but nothing unmanageable...
They also start with a decent headstart with free navigators and the Azores as a forward base...

If you want something "new", you can also play as a Colonial Nation. I started as Brazil, won my independence through a bloody war and started reclaiming the whole of south America

[Swesal]

Portugal is actually one of the easiest to colonize NA with, because they have most of the small islands in the atlantic at the early start date as Pippin said.

[FatiguedFox]

I colonized big chunks of NA with the Hansa. Was able to get a lot of Canada, most of the the original 13 colonies, California, and some stuff in the Panama trade node. I had to ask Norway for fleet basing rights so I could get my first colony in Greenland, but like I said I colonized a lot of NA.

[Bitter]

Austria. Not even joking.

The thing about EUIV is, if you start colonizing early enough, then you can be a colonial power. I don't even care much for trade.

[Alex]

With the colonial nations anyone can be a colonial power with a large enough navy and army.

In a swden campaign I have 6 colonies and 0 colonists.

Edit: 6 colonial nations

[Bitter]

I was talking about pre-1.4

[Alex]

Oh. They nerfed fleet basing rights to the point of where nations revoke them if opinions drop too low or they get a colonist.

[🍣]

The Knights.

[ModAddict]

Originally posted by Brutus:

Austria. Not even joking.

The thing about EUIV is, if you start colonizing early enough, then you can be a colonial power. I don't even care much for trade.

Austria is really fun.
New Tyrol and New Styria are having a lot of fun in NA and Imperial Brazil has just risen from the ashes of a Portugese colony, meanwhile the fact that the entire HRE is my vassal ensures I can get them any other country's colony I want by declaring war to the mothercountry and watch the vassalstacks take down their armies.

PS: shame you can't add american territory to the HRE due to the "must be next to thing", would be fun to turn the USA president into an Imperial Prince.

[Karsk]

Originally posted by Abraxis:

The Knights.

lol

[Bitter]

Honestly, any nation can colonize, even the Golden Horde if you so wish.

[ModAddict]

well you're gonna have some trouble if you start as mazovia or something like that (the northern polish vassal) but I agree you can do the colonization game with a lot of countries.
Pick the right rivals and allies and you can continue to spend your time in the mainland in relative peace while you go colonize

[Shaka]

Potugal is the ieasiest i find for colonising but find them very light weight in europe and i get bullied. I think as England you colonise and not have to worry about european neighbours but thats me.

[Jorlaan]

Morocco is in an amazing position to colonise everything.

[Sl3]

ive played miqmak and colonized into usa turf and Portugal wants the two american provinces i own, really seems i cant advoid this, next round ill try to stay well out of american turf and stay in canadas turf only