A guide to Victory : Portugal

[Stubbs]

Hey this is my guide on Portugal, and before I begin I want to point out the key features Portugal has too offer. The first they have an islamic nation too fight and will get so many churrch building request from the pope that you will be able too control where the crusades go.and make a swift devistating toll free holy blitz-creig across egypt. The next, they will have control over the gold mines in africa, making it possible to use their special ability properly.. Navy Combat.. Controlling the sea while going full world domination, you agianst everyone gives you a major advantage.. port blockading and making the enemy waste gold on new ships just to be sank by your fleets is huge. Now onto the guide! Portugal is quite simple, Right off the bat you want too do 3 things. 1. Get a diplomat too marry your heir to spain, use your princess to get her charm up, this will come in later, decline all adoption request/Marriage proposal's IF you want to go with a pure blood line. 2. From Pampalona take Zaragaza and move south to the rebal fort. 3. Go to war with the moor's before they have a chance to have any communicatoin with the spanish, this will make the spanish not hate you.. P.S. The spanish will never attack you.. they are chickens. 3. Move the armies at Lisbon to the moorish capital and from there turtle the moors back across the sea. This all can be done within 7 turns. I suggest extermination on all arab factions and the first few rebal settlements you come across so you dont have to tie up gold defending the people from tearing apart the town. After you have the sea bordered forted and a tight grip on Pampalona you should then sufficate and destroy the spanish, this will be quite easy, just attack when your ready.. like seriously.. they won't attack you.. Now after you control spain it's all about mass war and you need money.. Save as much as possible during your conquest over spain and make the forts into castles and then into large towns and pump out markets. Now to crusade with TWO crusding armies.. Call a crusade Tunis and march across the remaining moors and all of africa in speed.. your first army goes to tunis too take the settlement.. Just besiege it and wait it out.. Your second army, once again, with crusader speed, heads south and takes out central africa where you will be setting up your gold mining operation. The army will disband but not before your general goes, conqours, fortifies the gold, and heads back to lisbon beacause why? your first army is stalling out a crusade on a wooden castle! your 2nd general can not disband, only his soliders can desert, but by that time you will be returning home.. super fast! Now pump merchants in south africa thanks too the markets you have built previously into the forst left by your general that will be built over the gold mine directly south of the town..upgrade dirt roads allows for merchant to make it too the fort in 1 turn and the mining camp upgrade gives +800 to income and makes your merchants produce even more coin. By this time it will be your choosing.. will you conqour the east and face the might mongols? or will you watch your catholic brothers and sisters over in europe burn in the name of the King of Portugal for all the harsh words that were said when you were just a scrable of a nation divided by.... Total War.