I have done so before, but it really depends on your rivals. This is of course optional as you could attempt to ally Aragon or France and decimate Castille. Since we start as historical friends with Castille, we ally and royal marry them. In fact you can go ahead and stick him in command of your three heavy ships(!) and start exploring Africa right away in preparation for expansion later. In addition, you start with the only existing explorer as no one else will get them until they unlock the 'quest for the new world' idea. He is a 3/3/3/0, which is insanely powerful in this stage of the game. Yet another reason Portugal is great is that they start with a badass general, the Earl of Avanches. I managed to get 50 diplo, 100 admin, and 150 military. You should try messing around with the estates and see how many monarch points you can get out of them as this will give you a huge point advantage against your rivals. This is important because the more trade power you can push toward Sevilla, the more ducats you bring home.
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As well you should send your free merchant to collect trade from your home trade node of Sevilla, and leave the other merchant transferring power in Safi.
I find it useful to enact the 'promote trade' edict in your capital state of Alentjo as Lisboa is a coastal center of trade and this will beef up your trade power in the region. This will give you a claim on the province and save you some time. You will also want to take the mission to "take Tangiers," which gives a hefty 200 admin points upon completion. This will come into play down the road when you prepare to expand into North Africa, which you will want to at least attempt to do. One of the first things to do to get started is to send a diplomat to begin constructing a spy network in Morocco.
To the south across the Gibraltar Strait, you own Cueta, a formerly Moroccan province that is rife with unrest due to religious and cultural intolerance.
You begin with an alliance and royal marriage with England, one of the big boys of Europe, as well as historical friend relation with your neighbor Castille, who is important to playing as Portugal because they are your only border to the north and east. Portugal is a good nation to play to learn the game because of several factors, one being that they are a fairly well established European power at the beginning. To that end I've chosen Portugal as it is one of the "easier" starts as far as difficulty surviving goes. So what I've decided is that I'm going to try and make a guide to playing EU4 for new players, or people who are curious as to how the game works. As you might've noticed, I've recently begun to make videos for my blog and I thought it was fun, but the response I've gotten from the community has led me to believe I'm doing something wrong, so I decided I'd get back to my Steemit roots and do a good old text post. I've been working quite a bit and haven't had much time for Steemit, but today I'm making time.
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