Empire Total War Portugal Episode 6: Building the Economy!

Toreno

Welcome to my Lets Play of Portugal in Empire Total War, with Darthmod!  In this episode, we manage to research some new techs to improve our economy, while the Spanish are reduced to petty raiding in their former capital province.  No battles in this episode unfortunately, but don't like the idea of skipping ahead in case anyone likes watching these videos with less action and more managing the country as a whole.  Please note this is an unofficial video and is not endorsed by SEGA or the Creative Assembly in any way. For more information on Total War, please visit www.totalwar.com.  Social Media ⬇️ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/toreno.bsky.social Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Toreno4 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toreno170 Mastodon: Toreno17@mastodon.social Threads: https://www.threads.net/@toreno170 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Toreno17 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/toreno5/videos   Game: Empire Total War ⬅️

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00:00Hello everyone and welcome to my 6th episode of my Portugal campaign on Empire Total War.

00:10When we last left the action we had just cleared our blockades, defeated the Spanish Rebellion

00:16and we're just sort of getting ready to take the next turn, just check our research.

00:22Before I start I'm going to try and negotiate with some of the great powers again from technology.

00:27We're going to try Austria first, just see if we can get some new tech.

00:33Because, well, we don't need any new tech massively quick, but it would be nice to see if we could try and get some.

00:42We'll try Great Britain. I don't want to give away too much stuff, but they already seem quite powerful as it is,

00:49so I'm not too worried about them using most of this stuff.

00:54I mean, I think we'll still be ahead of them technology-wise.

00:58Let's try the Meritors, see if they'll give us anything.

01:02Nope.

01:04Will the Moogles give us anything? They might. I'm hoping they will.

01:10Try... try this... try... yeah, we'll try this one.

01:18Oh, we managed to get Physiocracy.

01:23We weren't already doing... what are we researching? Oh, Empiricism.

01:28So we've got one technology off of the Moogles, which is good.

01:32Try the Ottomans now, see if we can get grenades or solar fuel contracts, something like that.

01:38Try Improved Grenades.

01:44No, we didn't get anything from them.

01:47Home Lithuania, quickly do them.

01:50Fleet Lock Cannons, see if they'll give us anything. Nope.

01:54Russia, will they give us anything?

01:58Don't think they will.

02:01Nope, didn't think they would.

02:03Russia... might give us that.

02:08Nope.

02:10I'm a bit surprised they're not accepting some of these offers when I'm giving them quite a lot of tech in return.

02:17I mean, it's not like these are all powerhouses that are producing lots of tech.

02:23Try the Dutch quick, or the United Provinces.

02:29Nope, well, we got one contract, one Physiocracy.

02:36So that's 2% bonus to growth in trade route income,

02:41plus 4 gold per turn to town wealth in the region,

02:47and plus 8% wealth generated by farms,

02:51and we've unlocked some of the plantations, which will be good for Goa.

02:55Let's just see if it's had an effect already here, in some of our towns.

03:01It might not be until the next turn that it actually has an effect,

03:06but that should be enough to get Goa growing.

03:09How much is the plantation?

03:12That would be 2,500, what's the...

03:1626 chests of tea, we'll get up to 43.

03:20How many are we trading at the moment?

03:25We are 26 for 520, I believe.

03:30Where's tea?

03:33So, if we double that, we'll be making quite a bit of money.

03:38But anyway, let's end the turn.

03:41I'll probably skip it after the first few turns.

03:48Just see what the British and French are up to.

04:00I'm just going to skip to the end of this.

04:04Welcome back, everyone. Not an awful lot happened that turn.

04:08Didn't get any events or anything.

04:10The only interesting thing that happened was Cowaland...

04:14I think that's how you pronounce it.

04:16We defeated quite a lot of Barbary pirates.

04:19So yeah, not an awful lot actually happened in that turn.

04:22Just going to check if we can make any trade agreements.

04:25Nope. Just wanted to double-check.

04:29We've got some buildings a bit damaged by the Spanish.

04:34I mean, they didn't do it in that last turn,

04:36but they've just been damaging them in general.

04:39We've managed to get public disorder to about minus four from about minus five.

04:46I don't know if the destruction of some of the buildings has caused any disorder.

04:52I mean, it doesn't say it has, but...

04:55I seem to remember that...

04:58Well, I thought it would have caused some sort of effect,

05:02but no, it doesn't seem to have told me about anything.

05:06So, just going to ignore that.

05:11Just going to check here.

05:14So anything we can...

05:16Still need to replenish our army, really.

05:18I mean, it's quite...

05:20We're getting there, but still quite a lot of them have been killed or injured.

05:24Like, need replenishing.

05:27Still preferring to try and merge units if I can,

05:32but I don't think we can merge any at the moment.

05:35Just going to send our rake up here to cause some mayhem.

05:41Right, we're at Milan.

05:44Spanish don't actually seem to have that many people here, so...

05:49Who's this?

05:52Who's the Spanish king? Maybe...

05:56Where's Spain?

05:58Ah, Carlos II.

06:00I don't think we can assassinate monarchs on this,

06:03but just wanted to double-check.

06:05I should get a person in, wear a rake in.

06:09It's not exactly a wealthy settlement, by the looks of things.

06:14The Spanish only have about three left,

06:16but I haven't really got the forces to be able to deal with them.

06:21Just going to check something quick.

06:24Nice.

06:26I've been considering whether to try and take over Mysore.

06:31I mean, they're not allied with the Marauters,

06:33but I don't actually know how much of an army they have,

06:37and I don't know if I'll be able to afford a big army myself over here.

06:42Probably best not to try and take on the Marauters.

06:46The Marauters might join in just to try and take advantage of the situation.

06:52I think I prefer to replenish some of these troops,

06:55even though it is going to cost me quite a lot of money.

06:59Maybe not so much for some of them, but...

07:02I'm going to try and merge the militias again.

07:07I don't think that affected the experience too much,

07:12which is a good thing.

07:15It's going to cost quite a lot to replenish all of the regiments and units, though.

07:23So let's hope it's not too expensive.

07:28This is the only expensive one at 477.

07:31I'm just worried about the experience going down.

07:35But I prefer to have lots of less experienced men

07:40than one or two really experienced units, sort of thing.

07:45Because otherwise they're going to be outnumbered,

07:50which isn't going to be too good.

07:53Let's check our navy.

07:56Let's get them ready to start blockading the Spanish.

08:01I don't think I can blockade the Spanish.

08:04I think I tried this in the last episode.

08:07They haven't got a port for some reason.

08:10I might try making peace again.

08:13I doubt it's going to do anything, but...

08:16Let's try.

08:19Nope, the French won't make peace.

08:22Let's try the Spanish.

08:25Nope, they won't make peace either.

08:28I'll try offering some tech as well.

08:31I mean, I'm offering them quite a lot of tech.

08:34I won't make up for Madrid,

08:36but they must know they're not going to win that war by now.

08:40I'll try some of the minor nations.

08:42Venice and New Spain.

08:44New Spain I don't think can make peace,

08:47but I'll try it anyway.

08:50I'm surprised Venice hasn't made peace.

08:52They're not gaining anything out of this war.

08:55The same was the same with the French.

08:57Apart from a few blockades, they haven't done anything.

09:01So I'm surprised they're going to waste money staying in the war.

09:05But no, none of them will make peace.

09:08Let's check our ministers.

09:10They're all pretty good for the moment,

09:12so I might as well skip to the next turn.

09:14Let's check our research.

09:16Two turns left on them.

09:18I'll check if I can build anything quick.

09:21Nope.

09:23I'll just...

09:25Can we repair this?

09:27And let's just check our finance.

09:30We should get back to about £1,000 or so in the next turn.

09:35Can we repair this quick?

09:37And that's quite cheap to repair.

09:40That'll be quite cheap to repair.

09:43I'm just going to go to the next turn now.

09:45I'll skip once we've gone through England and France,

09:48and then get back to you in the next turn.

10:09Welcome back, everyone.

10:11As you can see, the enemy did raid one of our possessions,

10:16the vineyards here.

10:19I think that might be the rebel army.

10:22Because there was a rebel army and a Spanish army.

10:25I believe it was the rebel army that's just raided the area.

10:29We've got a new rake.

10:31I'm not sure what we're going to particularly use him for,

10:34so I'll send him up to France to infiltrate Paris.

10:39See how many troops they've got.

10:42I don't particularly want to send up any troops to France,

10:46but if we need to, or rather we know what we're dealing with.

10:50Our agent there is still doing...

10:53well, not an awful lot, but still doing well.

10:57I'm just going to keep them there for the moment,

10:59keeping an eye on the Spanish troops.

11:02Which there aren't particularly many.

11:04I mean, there aren't an awful lot there.

11:07Our research should be about one turn from completion.

11:10Yep, that will give us a 10% bonus to town wealth

11:15from textile buildings,

11:18and a technology rate plus return per turn to town wealth.

11:24Yeah, all that sort of stuff.

11:27I'm going to try and make a piece of France and Spain again.

11:34You know, if I keep doing this every turn,

11:36eventually they'll have to say yes on a fault.

11:40Or at least give me a better deal, hopefully.

11:47No, I'll quickly try Venice and New Spain.

11:52I might even try sending some of my technology

11:54to some of the minor powers.

11:57Powers that can't actually...

12:00won't be able to use them against me effectively,

12:03but would still pay for them.

12:07No, they don't pay for them.

12:09For example, I might try and sell to the Knights of St John.

12:13Oh, we can't offer them technology,

12:15but because they're in a quite small area,

12:18it would have been quite good to sell them technology,

12:21because they wouldn't be able to use it against us.

12:24Or we could try here again with Denmark.

12:28They've only got Iceland left, so...

12:31selling them technology would probably make us a bit of money,

12:37while they wouldn't be able to use it against us.

12:41Try 750.

12:44Oh no, we didn't.

12:46Right.

12:48Didn't actually add the technology.

12:52Quickly try 750 again.

12:58Yeah, so we've got 750,

13:00while selling quite a lot of useless tech

13:02that will never be used against us.

13:04Well, not useless tech, but useless in their hands.

13:07I mean, Bayonet and all that,

13:09they're not going to be able to...

13:11I mean, they would either research it themselves eventually,

13:14but I think Sweden would have finished them off by then.

13:18Or try the Cherokee Nations.

13:21Or even the Bessemaritors, or the Moogles.

13:25The Moogles we want to keep in the fight for as long as we can,

13:28but a lot of the tech they can't use,

13:31like, I'm trying to give them the ring bayonet,

13:34but as far as I'm aware,

13:36none of the Indian troops actually use bayonets.

13:39So they might pay for it,

13:41but they wouldn't actually be able to use it.

13:46Oh, no, no, that's not a deal I want to do, no.

13:52I mean, it's good they offered a better deal,

13:55but I'll try...

13:58No, that won't work.

14:01Yeah, I'll try giving them plug bayonets and all that.

14:05And in return, 750 again.

14:08I'll keep doing this for some of the...

14:11No, they don't want it.

14:13But if I keep doing that every turn or so,

14:15I might eventually be able to...

14:18Well, I'll get some money out of it, hopefully.

14:21But yeah, we've done all that.

14:23Might just go straight on to the next go.

14:26I'll check out our fleet here.

14:29Get them out of their harbour.

14:34Might try and blockade some of France's ports.

14:37Have they got a northern port? Yeah, they have.

14:39Oh, no, I've ordered the troops out.

14:43They're only going to be gone for a little while.

14:49We can blockade the French's north port.

14:53That could maybe have some sort of effect.

14:57They've got quite a large army around Paris, I've just realised.

15:01Not sure what this...

15:03Ah, that's one of the French trade routes as well.

15:06Yeah, there's not an awful lot I can do in this turn.

15:08I think I'll just skip it forward again,

15:10and I might end the video after the next turn,

15:13if it's not too long again.

15:16But yeah, as usual, I'll pause the video after Austria or France,

15:20and then get back to you after the turns are finished.

15:39Welcome back, everyone.

15:41Not an awful lot happened again that time.

15:45Well, we've researched our technology, which is good,

15:49so we're going to have to check that in a minute.

15:51We've got an ancillary for this person.

15:55I'll check where they are.

15:57What's their name?

15:59Vicente Caprillo?

16:03Which one's that?

16:07Ah, there they are.

16:11So...

16:13Minus 5% cost of constructing cultural buildings,

16:17and metal-working buildings, plus one management.

16:20So that'll improve our tax and upkeep costs there.

16:23That's good.

16:25What else did we get?

16:27And a trait gained...

16:29Right, for one of our gentlemen, I believe that would be.

16:33Vicente Lobato?

16:37Right, so that's good.

16:39Oh, we can upgrade our school.

16:41But...

16:43Minus 5% happiness, minus...

16:45Can we survive?

16:47Yeah, we can survive an extra one, I believe.

16:51Conducts technology research.

16:53Points per turn, 13.

16:55Right, um...

16:57How much would that cost?

16:592,500. We've got 9,000.

17:03Right.

17:06I think I may have got it wrong when I was reading the income only.

17:10I think I may have read what we would lose, possibly.

17:13Because I think we've ended up making more than 1,000,

17:16unless we just buy one of the buildings I repaired,

17:20which gave us lots of income from somewhere.

17:24Oh, we've managed to get this down to about zero.

17:27And we're going to get Town Watch Repression from...

17:31Well, I'm not sure where we're getting it from.

17:34I thought we had a Town Watch anyway, but...

17:37We're going to improve this school as well.

17:40To a college.

17:42What's this? Yeah.

17:44Spanish armies are still out there,

17:47but again, they're not really doing anything.

17:50The French kicked us out of their port,

17:52but we can still blockade it.

17:54They've still got to repair it, so it's going to cost money.

17:57Let's check our research quickly,

17:59what we can start researching instead.

18:03Flying Shuttle.

18:05Plus 18 bonus to Town Wealth.

18:11Where's...

18:13Ah, that's the Vora.

18:15Oh yeah, that's where we've got our person

18:18who just got Industrial Tech Trait.

18:21I think I'll carry on with the Flying Shuttle,

18:24because we haven't unlocked any of the other ones yet.

18:27Let's check Salamanca.

18:30Any of these got traits?

18:32I've got that Spanish person there,

18:34but I don't want to kill him.

18:36I don't want to duel him, because...

18:38I only have a 50-50 chance,

18:40and I don't want to lose a gentleman

18:42and set ourselves back a bit.

18:44Social Contract. Right.

18:46Um...

18:48Yeah, that seems quite a good one to get.

18:50Minus 15 building repair cost,

18:52plus 3 gold per turn.

18:55And plus 15% to Technology Research Rate.

18:58Yeah, that'd be quite a good one to go for, I think.

19:02We've got some buildings we can construct.

19:05Cannon Factory...

19:07Ordnance Factory, sorry.

19:10Could construct a Grand Opera House in Portugal.

19:13Yeah, Lisbon in Portugal.

19:16Or the Government Chambers.

19:18That would give us a slightly better bonus

19:21to Region Tax Income.

19:24But, um...

19:26Right, let's check Goa quick.

19:28Because we might want the...

19:30Plantation.

19:32Or possibly the Military Governor's Barracks.

19:35Which would unlock some extra units

19:37that we can't recruit at the moment.

19:42Um...

19:44Should we?

19:46How much of a bonus?

19:48Well, we need money here, really.

19:50We're not losing any money

19:52like town...

19:54We're not growing the town any,

19:56but we're not shrinking,

19:58we're not reducing either.

20:00So I want to try and get that growing.

20:03Large Tea Plantation would maybe do that.

20:06Or maybe not.

20:08Directly, but...

20:10It would probably make us money

20:13like through the trading.

20:15Yeah, I think I'll upgrade that

20:17to Large Tea Plantation.

20:21Just seeing what we need to get Commercial Port.

20:24We need Divisionalisation.

20:26Oh, Division of Labour, sorry.

20:29Which will come from...

20:31Ah, we need to upgrade to a College first.

20:34Um, yeah.

20:36Which we're already doing.

20:38I think I'll do one more turn actually,

20:41and then stop the video.

20:43Because, um...

20:45We're probably going to get some buildings finished.

20:48So we want to see what effects they'll have.

20:51Send out a personal healer back.

20:54So yeah, I'm just going to carry on,

20:56do as usual, let the first few turns go,

20:58and then...

20:59I mean, let the first few countries go,

21:01and then pause it.

21:02So, see you in a minute.

21:18Welcome back, everyone.

21:42Well, the Spanish freighted us again.

21:44Won't cost much for repair,

21:46but it's a bit of a nuisance.

21:49We've constructed the Grand Opera House in Madrid.

21:53So, we've started to get the public order up a bit better.

21:59I mean, we've still got the lower class to really sort out.

22:03But the foreign occupation resistance

22:05is starting to decrease quite a bit.

22:08Worst to forget, a successful mission there.

22:11Oh, I didn't check what the other one was.

22:14I don't think... probably a trait increase, I think.

22:20Keep our rake moving.

22:23Just to try and infiltrate Paris.

22:26Should just be able to get a line of sight on it.

22:29Oh, not quite.

22:31Got 5,000 gold.

22:34Might construct some upgrades

22:39to our craft workshop.

22:45It's 2,000 gold,

22:47and it will enable us to research a lot more stuff.

22:51Plus 675 gold to region wealth,

22:54and plus 10 gold to town wealth each turn.

22:58Which would be quite good,

23:01because we're growing about 13 gold every turn.

23:06And our wealth is about 4,157.

23:10If we add 627, we'll be about 4,700.

23:15So we'll be having much more tax coming from Madrid.

23:22Spain, let's just check if there's anything we can build here.

23:27Other than the cannon foundry, which we don't really need.

23:32Not an awful lot.

23:34We could construct a grand opera house in Lisbon,

23:37but I think I'm going to leave that for now.

23:40I'm going to build the military governor's barracks in Goa,

23:46because that will increase the tax rate a little bit,

23:49which would be good for us.

23:52And plus one repression, but would also give us a lot more units,

23:56which we might need in the future.

23:59Because Maritas seem to be doing okay against the Moogles at the moment.

24:05Let me see if I can get a better...

24:09Yeah, I mean, things seem to have stabilised along this central border sort of thing.

24:16But it probably won't take them too long to break through

24:21and take all of India for themselves.

24:24In which case, they will probably start turning towards us.

24:29I mean, they seem to be okay with us at the moment.

24:34We're about 59 diplomatic relations,

24:39but they probably will turn against us if it's in their interest.

24:46I'm going to try and make peace with France one last time for this video.

24:54Oh, they still don't want to make peace.

24:58I'll try Spain.

25:02I've got some extra tech to offer them now, so maybe they'll go for it.

25:09They still don't want it.

25:12Oh wait, did I offer all of them to France?

25:16I don't think I offered... Yeah, I didn't offer that.

25:22No, it doesn't make any difference.

25:25I think Madrid really is the sticking point.

25:28I might mention it in other videos, but while looking online,

25:32others have said that apparently countries won't make peace

25:36if one of their cities has the...

25:40foreign occupation...

25:44I've forgotten the proper word.

25:46It turns a lot of the people against you.

25:52Resistance to foreign occupation, that was it.

25:55Apparently if they have that on one of their towns, they won't make peace.

26:00Whether that's true or not, I don't actually know.

26:04I think I'll probably end the video about here now.

26:08It's gone on for quite a bit now.

26:11Not an awful lot seems to be happening.

26:14I don't want to go into the next turn and find a massive battle

26:17and end up having this last over an hour.

26:20Before I end, I'll quickly send this fleet to blockade Venice.

26:25Maybe that will convince them to leave the war.

26:29If we start causing them damage.

26:36So we're blockading Venice now. They're not making any money.

26:41As I said, I'll probably end the video about here.

26:44Thank you for watching.

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26:56I'll see you next time, in the next episode.

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