{"id":3701,"date":"2019-06-18T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kalle-online.net\/blog\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2019-06-19T08:48:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T08:48:15","slug":"conquest-of-the-new-world-portugal-strategy-deity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kalle-online.net\/blog\/conquest-of-the-new-world-portugal-strategy-deity\/","title":{"rendered":"Conquest of the New World Portugal Strategy (Deity)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Vasco da Gama landing in Kerala, India.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the history of Portugal<\/a>, the era of the Portuguese Empire<\/a> is surely the most glorious: Lasting for almost six centuries it was one of the longest-lived empires in history (1415-1999) and one of the largest, too. During the Conquest of the New World Portugal built an empire stretching across all continents. It was rivaled only by the Spanish and exceeded by the British Empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike other empires, the Portuguese didn’t become famous by the name of one of it’s leaders, but rather by the discoveries of it’s pioneers (e.g. Vasco da Gama).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Per agreement with Spain<\/a>, the Portuguese limited their empire to half of the world between one North-South meridian crossing Brazil and it’s respective anti-meridian crossing New Guinea. The area between, mainly Brazil, the coastline of Africa, India and Southeast Asia was thoroughly covered with a dense network of trading posts. The African outposts should prove even more valuable in later centuries during the Scramble for Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portuguese discoveries and explorations: first arrival places and dates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The following Steam Achievement Guide is basically the same as Conquest of The New World \u2013 Tea and Crumpets for Everyone Steam Achievement Guide<\/a>, which describes how to succeed with England. The same strategy was already validated with Conquest of The New World \u2013 Tout le Monde Francophone? Steam Achievement Guide<\/a> and now, winning on Deity, with an even higher score will be my final validation. If you need more details on something, please check out the English strategy first. I will use this guide to point out small variations and improvements to the aforementioned strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 1: Dominate Europe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 1: Initial Build Order and Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The AI in this scenario is dominant as always. So as usually we need to defeat the main AI players as early as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now in Conquest of the New World<\/a>, European Nations can not declare war on each other until the discovery of Piracy. This means in order to win with Portugal, you need two things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Direct your Research straight to Piracy<\/li>
  2. Meanwhile build a military strong enough to capture those European capitals<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The initial build order shows exactly that focus on Production improvements<\/strong> and right after only units<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    Lisbon<\/th>Research<\/td><\/tr>
    1. Ironworks (5)<\/td>Navigation<\/td><\/tr>
    2. Workboat (6)<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
    3. Forge (9)<\/td>Calendar <\/td><\/tr>
    4. Cargo Ship 1 (12)<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
    5. Seaport (17)
    — and buy a second workboat —<\/td>    		Trapping (18)<\/td><\/tr>
    6. Navigation School (22, way later than other games)<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
    7. Cargo Ship 2 (24)<\/td>Economics (24)<\/td><\/tr>
    8. Cargo Ship 3 (25)<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
    9. Cargo Ship 4 (27)
    — leading to a whooping 86 Gold per Turn already —<\/td>    		<\/td><\/tr>
    10. Circus (29)<\/td>Printing Press (30)<\/td><\/tr>
    11. Garden (31)<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
    12. Armory (33)
    — Total War Social Policy for +production of units —<\/td>    		Education (36)<\/td><\/tr>
    13. Galleas 5x (until turn 40)<\/td>Imperialism (40)<\/td><\/tr>
    14. University of Oxford (42)
    — Golden Age —<\/td>    		Piracy (42 with Oxford)<\/td><\/tr>
    15. Privateer 6x (until turn 53)
    — Upgrade 5 Galleases for 750G<\/td>    		Warships (54, later than most games)<\/td><\/tr>
    16. Privateer 7 (55)<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
    17. Frigate 6 (58, due to oversupply and -20% production)<\/td>Banking (59)<\/td><\/tr>
    18. Zoo<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
    19. East India Company<\/td>Advanced Piracy (74)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

    Unlike England, France and the Netherlands, both Spain and Portugal have the chance to improve their capital city dramatically by capturing the capital of the respective other Iberian nation. For Portugal the effect is even bigger: Each other capital has 1 source of Fish, where Lisbon has 3, contributing greatly to food, production and gold per turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    European Social Policies<\/h4>\n\n\n\n