EU IV Portugal AAR Part 27 – 1660-1675

1660-1675 King Filipe II, Part 4

This update starts with an embarrasing apology. Just 5 minutes ago, as I was preparing to start uploading photos, I accidentally deleted them all from my USB stick. Having already deleted them from the computer at home after I transferred them to the stick, they are gone forever. So this update will, unfortunately, be text based.... :(

EU IV Portugal AAR Part 26 – 1651-1659

1651-1659 King Filipe II, Part 3

We get Military tech 17 in September 51, and start our attempt to close the technology gap

EU IV Portugal AAR - Intermission 1650

Once again we are back for our 50 year look at the world around us.

We normally start in mainland Europe, so let's not buck the trend.

A large part of central, eastern and northern Europe is the same as it was 50 years ago, albeit Prussia is a bit bigger and Poland is a bit smaller. Moving westwards, the Netherlands has formed and is holding its own, although I don't believe it has started colonising abroad yet. Great Britain is identical to 50 years ago; Wales had a short life, but was absorbed back into the British Empire quite quickly. Moving to the south there has been more fluidity. On the Italian peninsula, Genoa has completely disappeared, being annexed by Venice, and Castile has lost some of Iberia to me, but gained bit of territory along the Cote d'Azur. I have also annexed Granada. The biggest change though is that Aragon has disappeared, being diplomatically annexed by my faithful ally, Austria.

EU IV Portugal AAR Part 25 – 1640-1650

1640-1650 King Filipe II, Part 2

A slight change of format for this update. With my colonial interests ever growing, it becomes more and more tricky to report on my expansion in a sensible and meaningful way that isn't just a picture of a random island. So in future, I will just put a little section at the end of each update reporting important colonial matters, and make a bigger report at the 50 year intermission.

Anyway, on with the show. In October 1641, the Ottomans conclude their war with Yemen, taking the province of Asir

EU IV Portugal AAR Part 24 – 1633-1640

1633-1634 King Sebastiao I, Part 5

OK, so the answer to the question was..... we decide to make Vijayanagar a Protectorate. We really don’t need the overextension now of taking a load of new provinces, as we’ve spent a heap of admin power on coring recently and are falling behind. WE automatically become the war leader in Vijayanagar’s war against France

EU IV Portugal AAR Part 23 – 1623-1633

1623-1633 King Sebastiao I, Part 4

We’ve had four good years of peace following our war against the Yemen/Brunei/Makassar coalition, and have cored our new provinces. Religious conversion is taking some time though, especially in Brunei, where the Sunni religion imposes a 2% reduction in our missionary power. This doesn’t sound much, but it takes the time to convert out from around 3-4 years to 7-8 years. We’ll not finish converting Brunei for most of this decade.

In the middle of 1623 we get two Call to Arms notices from our allies. First, Austria calls us into a European-wide war in which Anhalt is being attacked by Brandenburg, Prussia, Hungary, Sweden and some others. We reluctantly accept the Call. Our aim is to avoid getting involved if possible.

Almost immediately afterwards, Morocco decides that the Canary Islands should actually be Moroccan, so attacks Castile. This war, unlike the other, we gleefully accept. Our aim in this war is to take Murcia, and block Castile from access to a Mediterranean port.

EU IV Portugal AAR Part 22 – 1614-1622

1614-1622 King Sebastiao I, Part 3

Here we are again, happy as can be. All good friends, and jolly good company...

Except for Yemen, Brunei and Makassar, who, you know.... ‘Delenda est’ and all that!