Help for dealing with colonial nations

[asnaf745]

First of all i am new in this game i decided to do Timurids => Mughals run. i control most of the asia and the year is 1710, my army is around 230k with the navy of 120 ships and i am the first great power with around 4k development.


I am about to go war with Spain (and their ally Portugal) literally %70 of the America is in Spanish hands and Portugal is not a pusshover either they have total of 700k armies and 400 ships.

Now the main question:How i am supposed to deal with them? there is no way my navy blocking their colonies from landing their troops on my land.Yeah i can easily handle the coming armies one by one but my main problem is how i am supposed to progress in warscore i mean yeah i can deal with their bigger army and if it was a %100 land battle i could oblirilate them but my navy is not that strong compared to them and my army cannot able to go america and i fear because of that i can't able to go over %60 warscore or something

Can anyone help me? i am saying again i am a newcomer and if forgot a simple fact i am sorry for that.

 

[Vetgirig]

If you siege down the enemy warleader 100% then you will always get 100% warscore in 5 years.

Also you do not need to have 100% warscore to end the war. Just siege down the whole of iberia and you will get a large warscore you can use to get some of what you want.

As for colonial nation they usually do not send any regiments to help in the war. They usually just send ships to help to blockade your ports.

 

[asnaf745]

If you siege down the enemy warleader 100% then you will always get 100% warscore in 5 years.

Also you do not need to have 100% warscore to end the war. Just siege down the whole of iberia and you will get a large warscore you can use to get some of what you want.

As for colonial nation they usually do not send any regiments to help in the war. They usually just send ships to help to blockade your ports.

Ah i understand. Thanks for help!

 

[ancapailldorcha]

I usually find that colonial nations do help by sending regiments. They're often much, much smaller than their overlords but can be a pain if there are a few of them as the AI can micromanage much better than the player.

 

[ScipioAfricanus]

In my recent game of danish world domination, I had all the colonial nations, and they owned all land in the Americas and Australia from 1700 they had more or less everything and they were dominant form the early 1600s. I had so much money that I often took a round of buying buildings for my colonies, so they had very large force pools. Several of them had 200+ regiments and navies to match. Despite of this they never did anything useful in wars outside their own territories or near - they would win some small naval battles - yes, but they never sent any of the regiments I had so lavishly helped to supply them with. Despite of this I was immensly proud of them, but any use - No...

 

[eu4life]

So.... this isn’t much help to you now, but for future reference you usually want to deal with the colonizers a little earlier to get your own foothold in the new world. If you full annex a colonizer, you get all of their colonies under you, so it’s nice if Portugal gets a head start colonizing because you can usually annex them in two wars, especially using Castille/Spain as an ally, and then turning around and using your inherited colonial nations to take out Spain later on.
In your current game, as long as you get the war goal accomplished you’ll get ticking war score (max +25 war score).
Also, if the war keeps going they will get war exhaustion (especially if you occupy their provinces/ are crushing their armies). That will drop their war enthusiasm. If you open up the war summary screen, their war enthusiasm will be high, medium, or low, and the lower it is the more they will give you in peace. If you go to the peace deal screen, hover over the green check mark/red x and it will tell you how much you can demand, and you’ll notice that they’ll give you more than the war score amount of their enthusiasm is low.
Hope that helps somewhat. You might be able to take some colonial land in the peace deal and begin forming your own colonial nations slowly, but in general you’ll need to control a fort in the area to take land in that area.