Yay! Cool! Hi there Cambovenzi!

I must say that your strategy is probaly closer to my own than the one Williams got (all three obviously works so far). Anyway, it is obviously possible to do all the stuff you have done here. Personally I am bit slower because I do hate to rely on peasants (and I do like to fight rebellions more as well). And this is of course this strategy’s greatest weakness. Also the hardcoded flaw in the AI to do silly retreats sure helps your case. As long as you can keep the control in the provinces were your peasants are posted. It will all work out for you in securing the entire peninsula. It all is kind of dependant on what happens with the AI, whether it decides to start off aggressive or not and the likely rebellion in Cordoba that otherwise has to be dealt with. This time you at least was spared from the rebellion in Cordoba. Otherwise it would have probably slowed you down 1-2 turns I'll guess….

At any rate, there is one factor that is likely to cause problems for you further down the road. That is the over all quality of you troops. You’ll most likely will have to do some re-arming yourself to successfully deal with bigger armies than what you have encountered so far. However you seem to be quite aware of your overriding plans so you can possibly do that on the fly, but that fact will probably slow you down a bit more as well. Blitzing will probably be a lot harder to do further down the road.

Anyway, one thing is for sure, partly influenced by you actually, I have decided to make an increase in the Portuguese army to some extent for the future official patch to halter the this silly self-destruct retreat (both you and I know that its not supposed to be like that, but its all hardcoded so there is not much that can be done there. Regardless of any version). At least that way make it harder to happen, as in it should require more troops to trigger it. Well, well… You have at any rate a certain reader right here! Keep it up Cambo!

Finally, it is very hard to set the bar that applies for everyone. Some people feels right at home even with reduxes Expert-level others don’t. Thus it is very hard to tailor a text in a way so it suites everyone (besides I have already stated that the people that play Spain set on Expert-level should not need to ask for my help). “The Spanish Dicta” is primarily written for people that don't really play on that level (and my guess is that some of it are still viable for you as well), if you know what I mean.