Spain Challenge: World Domination

[SerFishy]

The figure was looking at the map and trying to understand the content of the speech about a possible sea route to India. What if it was actually possible to reach the talltale wealth of India by sea? What would happen next? Maybe her grandsons would conquer the whole world someday with that wealth... That was a silly thought, of course. Or, was it?

Hey guys! I'm thinking of doing some challenges like this and posting the results per day basis. I'll post some important screenshots, maybe some tips for others and stuff. I'll start posting by tomorrow and I picked Spain for the first challenge because it seemed relatively easy to take the world as Spain. Let's see how this turns out.

edit: Well, I guess I'll do the other challenges under the AAR section.

 

[SerFishy]

reserved

 

[Demusch]

Sounds like a nice idea, but might it be better to move this to the AAR section?

 

[IEKevin]

Yeah I have a feeling this will die like it did with eu3

 

[SerFishy]

Day 2 (I don't have any screenshots from Day 1, unfortunately)

So, those are my lands from Day 1:

I realized it was impossible to deal with those rebels so I decided to release Aztec and Inca (to annex back in 10 years)

Then, I called for crusade against Morocco to start finishing the reconquista

I don't know if this is good or bad (Hungary may get a PU with France and this may save me from an early game blob. But it can also lead to problems for mid game, if I try to expand in Europe after acquiring enough power from Asia and America):

Commiting atrocities against natives after getting my land from Morocco back:

End of the day:
Had to release Aztec and Inca for greater good (free cores in return of diplo-power penalty). Though, gained land on North America and will probably will have colonized most of the Americas along with Africa by 1600s.

Tips:
Complete the Exploration Ideas as soon as you can. You will love that CB especially after getting Tier 2 or 3 soldiers. It is fun to bash native states and take their gold, with battles like 1k against 15k.

Then, convert them. You'll like the easy Papal influence, which will let you gain the Papal control and declare crusades and excommnicate annoying countries.

Finally, if you can't deal with the particularist rebels, release Inca and maybe Aztec after converting their to-be capitals and annex them back in 10 years. This will save you from spending hundreds of Admin power to core those or hundreds of manpower you lose against ridiculously strong rebels. Though, it may cost around 240 diplo power with Aztec and Inca if you have already filled relation slots.