How do i defeat spain as portugal?

[Noompsky]

I keep getting obliterated by spain post civil war whether im fascist or UA. What is the meta to get past this? thanks

[Kettenkrad]

let them split into the three Spains to reduce amount of divisions you fight is all i can say

[CEO of a one-person company]

Well Portugal is smaller, industrially weaker and Spain have lots of well trained divisions after civil war so you should be aware that it won't be easy conquest especially in early game.

Use 7-2s, before launching your plan wait a bit so they will lose manpower, equipment and organisation when attacking you. Build fighters for air superiority. Make naval invasion if you manage to get naval superiority and open second front.

That's basicly how you win in this game. Let AI waste their resources, make sure you have air superiority and encircle enemy divisions when possible.

[hermes]

You can always bring back back the monarchy and get the brazilian industry on your side. If Nationalist spain becomes fascist you can get an easy war goal on them in you're focus tree, and other fascist nations, but the war goal never expires. You will crush them if you manage to do the monarchy becuase you are just so much stronger. Templates eh, i would just do 10/0s with overwhelming air superiority, unless you're industry is actually insanely strong you can always do medium tanks (I recommend mediums because you have a crap ton of tungsten, and will get more when you conquer spain)

[EmotionallyBroken]

cheat xD

[Mikey]

One of the portuguese lines, cant remember which, has you aiding in the civil war on one parties side and getting spain as a puppet in return. That is by far the easiest way of going about it.

Other than that you can build up your forces and wait for the end of the civil war and then attack Spain while they are weakened from no longer having any event troops. You should choose to puppet them then as they lack cores as well as Galicia, Navarra and Catalonia have negative modifiers that only Spain can remove.

EDIT:
It's the monarchist line. It has a path that has you aid the Carlists gain power in return for a faction. It will eventually lead you to form Iberia once Spain enacts the focus

[Marc Bocksteger]

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