Spain post-patch

[Slaists]

An interesting strategy. Unfortunately, it wouldn't work with my current GB campaign. The AI doesn't seem to have much - if any - cash on hand past the first turn. I couldn't sell Flanders to the UP on turn 2, even for a miserly 1000 gp... And now that I've reached 1725, everyone except GB (myself), Austria and possibly Russia seem to be broke...

Look for factions whose wealth is noted as 'spectacular'. As to GB: it's actually a great faction to "turtle" given the player takes care of the "pirate problem" early. Dunno if fighting off the indians and French from the 13 colonies and gifting the re-conquered provinces back to them count as turtling though, but that's how I spent my first 30 or so years with GB.