Conceding my now staunch ally France to most of La Plata, I could only seethe as England secured the Amazon delta and Rio De Janeiro, inviting a future war over Brazil as soon as Portugal considered themselves able to take on England, which would not be for a while due to the still pitiful army of Portugal. It’s All About The Money, Respected, At Every Continent). To get Castile back, there was a problem. Turns out France had been busy sieging Castile’s forts elsewhere and I was able to get a remarkably good peace deal, even such that I took another fort from Castile and left them in the rump position you can see on the map. (this one from my first Ironman game as Castile, where I was mainly just learning how the game works, most of those generic ones are either from those or the Ottoman one). Europa Universalis IV. Current achievements before starting this: Generic ones: For The Glory, That’s A Grand Army, That’s A Grand Navy, Defender Of The Faith, Until Death Do Us Apart, That Is Mine!, Victorious!, Seriously? Castile was army-less, having lost too many stupid wars, some involving myself, others not, and they looked like a weak target. However not all was lost, for the colonization ace that Portugal had in the bag was ready and waiting for exploitation. The obvious strategy was to seek out alliances with Castile and some others, including the oldest alliance with England that you start with, while I focused on teching up to get the headstart on colonisation that Portugal is afforded with their starting explorer. Eventually, Norway would beat me to most of Canada so that would be my only Newfoundland colony but the others would develop into proud Portuguese colonial nations, New Portugal, Caraibas and Portuguese Brazil, such that the Pope granted me the legal right to all of that territory. EU4 Cheats is a searchable list of all EU4 Console Commands for the lastest version on Steam (PC and Mac).. However, Castile could not be allowed to get back their territory. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. A rumour spread that she was not actually the daughter of King Henry but rather of Beltrán de la Cueva, the alleged lover of Henry's wife, Joan of Portugal.Joanna was thus nicknamed "la Beltraneja", as a mocking reference to her assumed father. After getting the second level of Exploration Ideas, Cape Verde was swiftly added to the realm of Portugal and the Algarves, followed by a swift hop over to northeastern Brazil. Especially Aragon. If you do, great, follow me - I make creative writing and talk about media. Ideally, Castile's ruler is also the Holy Roman Emperor and the Burgundian Succession has fired, leaving Castile in control of some of the highest development provinces in the world. Not quite, I wanted to grab a bit more colonisation. I know some people like that. I have a healthy loathing for that country now. Which are creative writing, I’ve seen but never really tried my hand at them. The French player will almost always find it easier to beat Castille/Spain. This article is a stub. In Africa, the Gold Coast was secured, followed by Angola, netting me the main goal of this game from the outset, Not So Sad A State… Game done, surely? And with enemies Aragon and Morocco way too strong with their network of alliances, I started eying up my own. Change ), Europa Universalis IV: Portugal and the Hated Aragon, Europa Universalis IV: The Portuguese-Anzac Armada | Izzy Stars, Izzy Stars’ Anime Of 2019: The Good Shows I Watched, Izzy Stars’ 2019: The Fine Shows I Watched, Izzy Stars’ 2019 EOY: The ‘Meh’ Shows I Watched, Izzy Stars’ 2019 EOY: The Bad Shows I Watched. But for now, the extra territory, Sevilla especially, turned out to be vital for getting back financial stability, particularly as one of Castile’s tiny allies, Mantua I think, ended up paying me a lot of cash to peace out. Best National Events. Undeterred by the numerous setbacks I’d already faced, I went straight in, on a colonialism pretence, Castile still had colonies in Guyana, as soon as France was ready to help me. I accepted the former, it would be easy to get them back at some point after the truce was up, but it did mean that I was down to one fort.