I've recently bought eu4 and I'm doing my first campaign as Castile. I've conquered Granada and I'm now at war with Portugal, who is allied with England (who isn't doing anything really). I've occupied all Portuguese provinces except Ceuta in North Africa. Early in the war, my Navy was defeated and now Portugal has a much larger navy just sitting in the straits of Gibraltar while the remnants of my navy is sitting in the port of Cadiz. Portugal is also blockading most of my ports (cant remember exactly how many, I haven't got my game open at the moment). The current war score is 35%, which isn't enough even to get control of Porto and Lisboa, which I wanted as a minimum by the end of the war. I've tried getting a white peace with England to get them out of the war but they wont accept. Will my war score just gradually increase over time, so I just have to wait it out? Could I try building ships in all ports and when I have enough, trying to take on the Portuguese navy again, and maybe occupying a few provinces in england to get them out of the war? or is it best to just get a peace treaty with as much as I can now, then rebuild my navy and try again later? I have a positive income of ducats and sailors, so I could build a navy but it would take a while and be bit all over the place.
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Whether or not the warscore increases over time depends on what the war goal is. If you chose conquest and Porto then occupying Porto will cause you to gain warscore passively at the end of each month.
If you've occupied all of Iberian Portugal then their war exhaustion should be increasing over time making them more amenable to peacing out. The issue with building a navy would be putting it into one fleet while the Portuguese have naval dominance.
I advise waiting for Portugal to tire out and keeping an eye out for any troublesome English stacks. If they get caught up in something else, say a war with France then they may request a white peace which will increase your warscore.
If you've occupied all of Iberian Portugal then their war exhaustion should be increasing over time making them more amenable to peacing out. The issue with building a navy would be putting it into one fleet while the Portuguese have naval dominance.
I advise waiting for Portugal to tire out and keeping an eye out for any troublesome English stacks. If they get caught up in something else, say a war with France then they may request a white peace which will increase your warscore.