Westernizing isn’t too bad as long as you have a reserve of points built up and a good monarch. Island hopping with a tiny navy is incredibly annoying. Norway lost all their Scandinavian holdings to Sweden but managed to hold onto Iceland and then colonized Northern Canada. Those two were going to come to blows at some point. Bavaria had that honor (along with Sweden under a personal union). Austria grew huge (they were basically encircling Bavaria), but they never regained the Imperial Throne. Great Britain admirably filled the power vacuum left by Spain’s absence. Normally Spain eats Aragón quickly–either through force or the Iberian Wedding. Castile getting raked over the coals by both Aragón and Portugal is hilarious. These are things that happened in the game that I thought were fun or noteworthy but don’t really deserve a whole section on their own. Algiers (instead of the Mamluks or Ottomans) controls the entire North African coast. Portugal’s annexed Galicia, and Aragón still controls most of the Iberian Peninsula. It’s also weird that it’s 1630, and I’m still typing Castile instead of Spain. I don’t think I’ll be able to fully annex them or make them a protectorate (which I still don’t quite understand), so I think I’ll just take a bunch of provinces. Plus they’re at war with Japan too, so this is going to go quickly. My troops cross the Korean border in 1629 and it’s a repeat of the first war. In 1628 all my cores are done, so you know what that means, right? War again! Korean War Part Deux I take the mission to colonize Washington (I don’t remember the EUIV province name) and complete it quickly. I expand into the modern-day San Francisco Bay Area and Central California. 
All I do is wait for provinces to core, convert those that need converting (and wow my missionaries are powerful a tiny bit more than a year to convert a province), and building more colonies. I mean if you were watching this series (and I wasn’t able to do fun commentary or something) these 5 years would be super boring.
I wait out the next 5 years with not much happening. It had a nice tax level, it’s coastal, and it allows me to fabricate more claims on them. Plus, I’ve ended my war with Korea and took only 1 province. Butttttt, since I’m ending this playthrough with this part, I’m not going to try and hit my naval force limit.Ī fun little pop-up…pops up in 1620: my colony in Oregon is self-sustaining! And a year later my 2nd North American colony is self-sustaining. Though, this fight has made me realize (along with one of Arumba’s latest videos) that I need wayyyyy more ships if I want to successfully play the island-hopping game.
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