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I'm very unsure about it, since it's my first game, but until now, I had no problem having more VP than Spain. I declared war on her, won several battles, so she loose many VPs and I won many at the same time. I also made some easy missions. But I'm at the very beginning of the game, so I don't know if it will still work later (I plan to enter in another war with Spain soon).
 
I'm playing my second game now.. The first game I played as England and didn't last long, now I'm playing as France and having more luck.

Spain has left me alone for the most part (not surprising since I have the aggressiveness still set on default which is the seocnd lowest). I've started three wars with her though and managed to annex quite a bit of territory in the northeast.. Flanders, franche comche, etc.
 
and managed to annex quite a bit of territory in the northeast.. Flanders, franche comche, etc.
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You should have some fun around about 1540, then. :D

For some perspective. I'm in my fourth GC. Spain as always was way ahead on victory points. It peaked at about 750 VP at some point (1580, 1590?). It has been in a very linear decline since. It is 1677, and it has -72 VP (looking in the save file). I don't know why. It has a massive empire. Very strong army and navy. Tech research is up there. It has not been constantly at war or beat up in wars. In my other GC's, it was always at or near the top in the VP, when I quit to use another EU or IGC or Real EU version (usually 1650-1700).
 
Thanks everyone

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who posted on this thread; your advice helped out a lot.

I decided that I wasn't talented enough to play a GC without playing as a superpower, so I made myself choose between Spain and France. Choosing France, I've done extremely well, and have beaten up on Spain so much that they are not even in the top 5 in VP's, and I'm in first by well over 1,000. (This is on Normal difficulty, with Normal aggressiveness)

Perhaps when I get better I can play as Poland-Lithuania or as Russia, but they obviously don't have the same ability as France in terms of raising an army, nor can either nation come close economically.

Which brings me to one more question: I'm sure this has been covered in a FAQ somewhere, but what determines the amount of troops that a province can produce? All of my New World colonies are very weak in this category, and I always have to build my forces within France, and then ship them over. I understand that conscription centers can't be built outside of your original provinces, but isn't there a way to determine before you colonize the amount of troops that a prospective province can develop? I also had this problem with Poland-Lithuania a few weeks ago in GC: a few of the provinces could produce troops, but the vast majority couldn't.
 
It's a hardcoded base which then gets strung thru a series of variables; but the real basis can be foudn in the province.csv file per province. Soem provinces just are able to raise many, others not.
 
AFAIK, the number of units you can build in a city is directly related to the population. So, since the population of the new cities in the new world is low, they can't produce much troops. I'm playing France too but since I got my first cities in America, I don't have any problem with raising troops there. Sure, my cities don't produce a lot, but I don't need a lot of troops there, either (as compared to the huge number needed when a war break out in Europe).

However, all except two of my colonies are in the same region. So, I don't need to keep an army in each city. I only get three armies to protect my 20 or so colonies/cities, and I move them if needed. It took me a little while to produce these armies, indeed, but now, I only have to replace the (rare) losses. If your colonies are much more scattered, perhaps it's more of a problem...
 
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