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Very unusual and unique run.

Start:
- Spain going to war with France before taking over Granada allowing Portugal declaring war on Granda and taking it all before Spain had any chance to do it
- Taking over Sevilla trade node regions from Morocco (with Spain's help) to increase trade power in Sevilla
- Portugal allying France to get protection from Spain aggressiveness (they hated me for taking Granada)
- Portugal took quick assimilation action of Galicia after Spain released it as result of their wars with other nations

Colonisation:
- focusing on very fast colonisation ideas
- taking over most then all of West and South Africa lands, creating lots of trade
- following on taking over all coastline of South America preventing other nations from colonising there
- exploring America inland with Portugal but using some of colonial nations to expand inland and wage wars in new world
- reaching India had an event that gave me for free Goa province with a core, quickly shipping my army to India and starting early conquer of the land
- all possible money spent trade ship and sending them to protect trade on all nodes I could, increasing Portugal power on each trade node from 50% to 90% (at the time around 60% of trade power in Sevilla for Portugal)
- continued colonisation with Philippines and Americas

Breaking Point:
- colonisation expansion from S.America towards N.America, meeting with other European Nations colonies
- war on Spain/Spain Colony, shipped out Portugal army leaving European land defenceless
- ally, France, coming to help, besieging all Spain, Portugal colonies taking over Spanish colonies (Portugal involved in India)
- Peace with Spain ends up them loosing all colonial power, a trade estuary in Spain (for Portugal)
- Waging war with weak nations in Philippines and South Asia regions taking more power there
- Waging war with East Africa to increase trade power towards Europe from Asia
- Having huge fleet of around 1000 ships at this time allows total navy domination for Portugal
- Preparing ships around France, declaring war on them, blockading all their ports and killing their main navy. Spain hates France from previous wars disallowing access to Portugal regions (an enemy of me and enemy of my enemy ends up protecting Portugal). Taking over all French colonies

Becoming Superpower:
- Repeating process with England, blockading whole country so they (or their allies) cannot reach Portugal while ceasing all English colonies in the New World
- Americas becoming all of Portugal land
- European nations never colonising Africa/Asia (apart of a small region near Japan/China by Spain later on but it was taken care of)

Colonial regions in Africa and Asia becoming part of Trade Companies, eventually having 30+ merchants at a single time controlling whole world's trade flow!

Next, war with Spain over more Sevilla trade power, Portugal becoming unstoppable force eventually reaching 1600 gold from Trade in Sevilla node directing all World's trade there!

SHADOW-XIII wrote:On very rare occasion When England, France and Spain are busy fighting each other instead of looking into colonialism,
this can happen