Current Castile Game - Idea help

[Mr. Charisma22]

So I am playing as castile and I chose exploration as my first idea, and I am wondering what you guys might think is a solid second idea group. I want to go pretty hard colonization, and expansion has another colonist which might be helpful, but humanism and economic look good for some other aspects, any thoughts?

 

[FreeSoc]

Religious is better than Humanism for Castile/Spain, I'd say, if you have any intention whatsoever of expanding into North Africa. It both gives you a pretty neat CB and makes it easier to convert Islamic provinces.

 

[birincikalite]

I don't like religious on Castille nor do I like expanding North Africa with it. Feels too unhistorical to just wipe out the Muslims.
I wouldn't get expansion so early, it will be close to useless and you won't have invested anything on DIP tech. Better some time later.
You could get a military idea, it always helps keeping French on check.

 

[Hakuromatsu]

Religious is better than Humanism for Castile/Spain, I'd say, if you have any intention whatsoever of expanding into North Africa. It both gives you a pretty neat CB and makes it easier to convert Islamic provinces.

+1

I haven't played in 1.8 Europe yet so I can't speak for the new curia, but Castile is in a good position to go full-on Catholic.

I did Expansion second in 1.6 but that was to get to 5 colonists ASAP -- now you need both Expansion and Quantity to do that, so plan accordingly. Quantity is a big help, though, when you've got provinces on six continents. If I were to play Castile now, I'd probably do something like Exploration → Religious → Quantity → Expansion → whatever else you need.