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Tinto Flavour #38 - 29th of August 2025 - Portugal

Hello, and welcome one more Friday to Tinto Flavour, the happy days in which we take a look at the flavour content of Europa Universalis V!

Today will be taking a look at the content for Portugal! As a Tier 2 country, it’s an interesting enough country in the game, as it played an important role during the period, having over 60 DHEs, and numerous content assets. Let’s take a look at it, without further ado:

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As usual, please consider all UI, 2D and 3D Art as WIP.​

Let’s take a look at the structural content of Portugal, starting with Estates and Government, as usual:
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Also, the flavour Parliament name:
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Starting Works of Art:
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As I promised last week, today we will be taking a look at the unique Naval Units that are available for the Iberian countries, an important part of Portuguese content, all unlocked by different advances.

First, we have three different types of Caravels, for the first three Ages of the game:
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Unit Square-Rigged Caravel.png

And then, two types of Galleons, for the Ages of Discovery and Reformation:
Unit Early Iberian Galleon.png

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Let’s take a look now at the unique advances of Portugal:
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Advance Portuguese Navy.png

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Advance Bombardeiros.png

Advance Feitorias.png

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Advance Ordenanças.png

Advance Colonial Governors.png

Advance Caçadores.png

Unit Caçadores.png

All of these, when it comes together, allows for Portugal to become a dominant maritime and colonial power early on the game. But, as you might know at this point, this is not ‘gifted’ - a player playing with Portugal has to research these advances, build these ships, and create a strong enough economic power base that allows for the exploration expeditions to take place. If succeeding in this, the potential wealth and power that could be achieved would greatly return all these initial investments made.

Very attached to that, we have the narrative content available for Portugal. While the first century or so has more events based around the court, its development and intrigues, around the Age of Discovery, the content will be much more related to the exploration and colonization of new lands - the Golden Age of Portugal:

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Event Ines de Castro.png

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An event chain will develop after these two initial events…

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Event Portuguese Ordinances.png

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This reform may be updated later on:

Event Manueline Ordinances.png


Event Elmina.png


Event Ribeira.png

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Event Columbus.png


Event Vasco da Gama.png


Event India.png


Event Casa da India.png

Reform Casa da India.png


Event Brazil.png

Policy Governorate.png


Event Magalhaes.png


Event os Lusiadas.png

… And much more, but that’s all for today! Next week, there will be four posts, as per the new schedule:
  • Monday -> Tinto Maps Feedback for Scandinavia (yes, Johan has allowed it, finally)!
  • Wednesday -> Tinto Talks for two more of the mid-game, America-related situations, the Columbian Exchange and the Colonial Revolution!
  • Thursday -> DD #2 - Government, Politics, and Estates
  • Friday -> Tinto Flavour about England!
And also remember, you can Pre-Purchase Europa Universalis V now! Cheers!
 
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Very nice. I see a lot of cool content.

I still have a couple of suggestions:

1) If you're looking for some late-game figures, look into the Marquis of Pombal and the Count of Lippe, @Pavía . :) The Count in particular is an overlooked figure that was important to modernise Portugal's defensive infrastructure. Sort of a Portuguese "Vauban". Late-game content is really important because a weakness of playing Portugal in EU4 is that it gets boring past 1600.

2) Another thing to keep in mind is to not limit content to just the naval and colonial matters. The "Battle of Ourique", "Ordenanças" and "Caçadores" advances are cool. but the empire was formed just as much by force of land as it was by ships, so never let it skew too much into the boats.

3) Another thing to consider is to add narrative content for Portuguese expansion into Iberia, particularly Galicia and Leon, which are regions with a lot of historical and cultural significance to Portugal's history. It would be a wasted opportunity not to seize on this. Its a waste and a shame to limit the narrative content to just overseas expansion, especially with EU5's earlier starting date preceding the conquest of Ceuta by so much.

4) Another cool thing you could do is add an option for Portugal to transition from the "De Borgonha" dynasty to the "De Aviz", even if there isnt a succession crisis, since the Aviz are cool, popular monarchs in Portuguese history.

5) Please, please, please give that Vila Viçosa panhandle to Crato :( That thing drives me nuts.

Everything else Id like to add is probably already mentioned in the Iberian Feedback thread. Thank you.

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- Suggestions for unique land units for Portugal other than Caçadores.

- Suggestions for Late-Game Historical Figures
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Also, shame on you, I thought this forum would be a SFW space.

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Pavía said:
  • Monday -> Tinto Maps Feedback for Scandinavia (yes, Johan has allowed it, finally)!
  • Wednesday -> Tinto Talks for two more of the mid-game, America-related situations, the Columbian Exchange and the Colonial Revolution!
  • Friday -> Tinto Flavour about England!
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More Mid-game stuff let's goo, I'm happy
 
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Very nice TF, I was looking forward to it!

I hope this Age of Renaissance advance would help Portugal reach Azores and Guinea before the Age of Discovery, but not Americas :D

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When I play in Iberia, I have a miserable time, and when I don't, the iberians inevitably make it my problem!
 
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Will Inés de Castro be of Galician culture, as she was historically? Moreover, will there be any type o content that links Portugal to Galicia (events, claims, rebellions, cultural unification)? In a similar vein, I think an era of Traditions/Renaissance advance to represent Galician-Portuguese lyric would be nice. How can Don Dinis be mentioned when cantigas de amigo, amor, escarnio e maldizer are nowhere to be found?
 
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Pavía said:
… And much more, but that’s all for today! Next week, there will be four posts, as per the new schedule:
  • Monday -> Tinto Maps Feedback for Scandinavia (yes, Johan has allowed it, finally)!
  • Wednesday -> Tinto Talks for two more of the mid-game, America-related situations, the Columbian Exchange and the Colonial Revolution!
  • Friday -> Tinto Flavour about England!
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But there's only 3? Is there another one or have I misread?
 
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