On Portugal joining the war, I think the possibility of Portugal ever really allying with Germany was pretty slim. Not only would the foreseable cutting off of sea trade and communication with the Atlantic islands and colonies be disastrous to Portugal, but Salazar was an anglophile at heart (and he thought Hitler was an idiotic showoff). He did try to secure Portugal's interests, but always leaned to the British side. The best way there was of getting him to budge on something, the brits found, was to appeal to the Old Alliance between Portugal and England.
About the oil and diamonds in Angola, I don't know how much they were explored in the period. I think the oil was completely unexplored (I think it's all offshore drilling). I don't know about the diamonds. Portugal does get a nice boost from what I think is completely imaginary rubber in Moçambique, anyway (and the portuguese economy is a bit too big, which helps explain why it's impossible to maintain it with Portugal's resources).
I thought about adding events for the dutch and australian occupation of Timor and the subsequent conquest by Japan, but when I was working on the portuguese events Japan never moved in on the Dutch East Indies, and it would've been silly to setup events and trigger checks for something that had no chance of happening. Japan should never get East Timor without occupying the neighbouring dutch islands. If the dutch and aussies hadn't moved in (without portuguese permission), it would actually have been unlikely that the japanese would've attacked the portuguese half of the island.
I don't know if you've seen the events for Portugal included in CORE. Going from memory, those are:
- the 1936 warship mutiny;
- assassination attempt on Salazar;
- portuguese intervention on the SCW (maybe there should be a followup event about the "military observation mission");
- the Iberian Pact (pity you can't create other alliances, allying Portugal and NatSpain would keep them out of the Axis);
- the anti-comintern pact;
- british support for portuguese rearmament;
- the "Mundo Português" exhibition;
- tungsten trade (three instances, IIRC, roughly valued at what the real contracts were worth, AFAIK);
- the allied bases in Açores (I didn't write these);
- the embargo on Germany (was declared around the time of Overlord, but...)
About the oil and diamonds in Angola, I don't know how much they were explored in the period. I think the oil was completely unexplored (I think it's all offshore drilling). I don't know about the diamonds. Portugal does get a nice boost from what I think is completely imaginary rubber in Moçambique, anyway (and the portuguese economy is a bit too big, which helps explain why it's impossible to maintain it with Portugal's resources).
I thought about adding events for the dutch and australian occupation of Timor and the subsequent conquest by Japan, but when I was working on the portuguese events Japan never moved in on the Dutch East Indies, and it would've been silly to setup events and trigger checks for something that had no chance of happening. Japan should never get East Timor without occupying the neighbouring dutch islands. If the dutch and aussies hadn't moved in (without portuguese permission), it would actually have been unlikely that the japanese would've attacked the portuguese half of the island.
I don't know if you've seen the events for Portugal included in CORE. Going from memory, those are:
- the 1936 warship mutiny;
- assassination attempt on Salazar;
- portuguese intervention on the SCW (maybe there should be a followup event about the "military observation mission");
- the Iberian Pact (pity you can't create other alliances, allying Portugal and NatSpain would keep them out of the Axis);
- the anti-comintern pact;
- british support for portuguese rearmament;
- the "Mundo Português" exhibition;
- tungsten trade (three instances, IIRC, roughly valued at what the real contracts were worth, AFAIK);
- the allied bases in Açores (I didn't write these);
- the embargo on Germany (was declared around the time of Overlord, but...)
