Three strategic questions of a not so "newbie" guy

[trevi2]

I am playing Castille and it is 1439. It is my first serious game so I do not know what to do.

Right now:

1. Northern Africa: Algiers and Tunisia: Vassals with alliance. Morocco: half of the country including Sus with is Gold, mine. The rest is from Morocco who is also a vassal with alliance. I believe I should donate the rest of the territories to Morocco to forget revolts and religion issues. Is that right?

2. England: I have attacked them and I have three provinces in the island. I want to get the rest. Problems:

a. Declaring war. I can do it attacking any of his allies avoiding the english truce, which is four years later. I saw one of their allies who is part of the empire. Is that a real threat that in this case Bohemia repells the attack? They have 26 k infantry and 9 k cavalry, so that is not a problem to fight against them but I will have two big fronts (I will have to fight also in minor fronts Savoy, but those are much more opportunities than threats).

b. Once conquered England, I will have to get rid of Wales, Scotland, and other minor OPM who have attacked the english territories once I have attacked England, and get rid of their troops. Regarding Scotland, do you know if their bonus is still valid, if being attacked by a non english country?

3. Colonization: IN expansion, in the instrucctions says that the colonies in this version, do not show the production till the colony becomes larger... Having the whole entire world to colonise (Portugal, and England will be erased in let's say 20-30 years as english terrotiry is very expensive 20%-30% victory points per province) what zones you advise me to colonize?

 

[trevi2]

Regarding Bohemia, I do not really care right now... as I am dishonarable scum all of them have attacked me...

 

[trevi2]

1441...

"Impossible" to continue with this fighting as scum... Not only all the countries of the empire attacked me, but now also France¡¡¡¡ I am going to have to mint a lot in order to stop this crisis¡¡¡

The funny thing is that I am going to try to fight because I believe that I could get to manage the situation. France, Bohem, and Austria have 54k Infantery vs my 31 k, but my 50 k cavalary can crush their 30 k. Regretly the Ottomans have only 24 k, so they are not a real threat for the empire

 

[Red John]

1. Abandon North Africa, it's useless for you. Maybe take Ceuta and Tangiers but even then.. So yeah, just vassalize it for the extra FL.
2b. Scotland does not get the Highlanders when attacked by a nation that is not England.
3. Plenty of rich places. Get the carribbean first, then South America. Most of it is valuable. Then Mehico, for the gold mines. Then the Thirteen colonies fort tobacco. Then maybe some of Canada for fur? Then Indonesia for spices, and then you make war with Ming to demand every last penny. Then I'd just colonize whatever I can.

I can't answer 2a without a picture of your map. If you just hold parts of North Africa and some in the Iberia, Bohemia wont be able to reach you. They have no navy (unless they inherited some nations) meaning most if not all your possessions are safe. If you hold parts of Italy, they'll most likely be attacked.

EDIT: Oh, you should really reload so that you don't go over your badboy limit. There's no good reason to do it that early in the game. Nobody will have colonized, so you can ease up a bit. If you intend to dominate the Americas and want to wipe out colonial rivals, get Portugal inherited ASAP. If you intend not to force PU everyone, take England's west coast provinces first, then slowly taking away all the coastline. Do the same for France, because it can't colonize without a coast.

 

[unmerged(76560)]

Think that the game runs until 1821... you still have almost 400 years to reach your goals, which is huge.
I'd go more slow, without reaching a too bad reputation, which i'd lower as much as i can, to prepare a next attack. I'd also try to use the right casus bellis when i have the opportunity. When you are not busy at war, you can do other things, like exploring and colonising. But be aware that colonies will first be a money sink. They will start to be worth the effort later. You can also war and annex some existing nations (like Aztecs, for example) and immediatly build a level 1 fort in their provinces, which will give you a very strong position to colonize America.

 

[miotas]

If you release some vassals or give up some land in a peace deal you will lose that infamy. The real problem with being dishonourable isn't that everyone attacks you, it's that if you are too far over the infamy limit you will start getting some really nasty events that spawn large rebellions and give you inflation.

 

[cacra]

With North Africa, there are some decent provinces (high base tax, decent trade good) but if you arent Spain it is pretty useless taking them (apart from to build charge cavalry in.)