1930-1936 : Brazil, Aleppo and Yemen
We were geared up for a war against the Dutch. For instance, we were ready to invade Dutch Africa, and we had located their ships.
But the Dutch turned out to be the disappointment of the decade, and they didn't help their sphereling, Brazil. The OE, meanwhile, attacked Egypt, hoping I wouldn't defend them.
We were at war only with Brazil, and now we had to switch our priorities to build steamer transports, as the troops we managed to land were quickly swarmed by Brazilian troops. Their army technology was almost as good as ours.
Probably a more conservative approach, coming from Argentina, would have been better. Almost all of Southern America was allied with us.
But we had planned a two-pronged attack, to try and finish the war quickly.
Our troops fought valiantly and managed to hold their ground, while reenforcements from Europe and Africa streamed in. By April 1930 we had managed to secure a beachhead in the Pernambuco area. It had been a risky strategy, we would probably have lost against a stronger opponent. In fact, we ended up losing the stack who had retreated into mainland Brazil, to Juazeiro.
But their sacrifice had not been in vain. The Portuguese troops regrouped and beat the Brazilians into retreat. The Brazilians couldn't stop the Portuguese three-pronged attack.
In 1931, the Portuguese offensive reached Southern Brazil and supported the Argentinian, Chilean and Paraguay troops who were also active in the area. Other armies moved into Western Brazil and tried to connect with troops from Colombia and Peru.
Portuguese troops were fighting in Anatolia as well, against the Turks. It goes without saying that Brazilian provinces in Europe were going to be occupied.
In November 1932 Portugal was at peace again. Brazil had been subjugated and was now "Portuguese Brazil". But it was still in Netherlands's sphere. We would be satisfied only when Brazil would be Portugal's sphereling again.
But for that, we would need to declare war on the Netherlands. They were allied to the UK and Russia though, who happened to be our allies as well. But they would probably side with the defender.
The war with the Turks was over as well. We had recovered the Aleppo region for Egypt, and the Persians now controlled the Kars region, just because.
We had let France take Yemen from our sphere of influence. So in 1934, we had the opportunity to invade them as well.
By the end 1935, Yemen belonged to Portugal. Aaaaaand it was over.
There was only a war which was being fought, Russia vs China/France/Japan.
Factories in January 1936.
Technologies in January 1936.
Reforms that had been passed. Actually, pretty few.
Sphere of influence. Italy had been added. We were hoping other GPs would remove Spain from our sphere, but they hadn't been quick enough.
Portugal map
World map.
State of the world in 1936
Usually, by 1936 the game would be over, but I kept playing after that. I wasn't satisfied, as I wanted to sphere Brazil, get a couple of province from Spain, see if I could get a better rank, pass all reforms and research all technologies - and see the end of the war between France and Russia. So, this AAR is not over yet. We'll see what happens after 1936.
