Portugal

[Admiral Delabroglio]

Hello
Maybe I'm coming back to a topic long gone and bereft of any interest, but :
Does anybody regularly declare war on Portugal with the CW if Gernamy does not seem to be going for a Spain + Gibraltar strategy ?
It may cost a US entry chit, but the Axis has a hard time reinforcing Portugal, Portugal has few units, a resource, a great major harbor adjacent to two sea zones, which enables the CW to rebase its short ranged planes to Lisbon, then to the Mediterranean thater.
Any other drawbacks ?

Best Regards

[composer99]

There are, I think, three things to be careful of when attacking Portugal:
- To make sure you go in with enough force to take out Lisbon, ideally on the turn you declare war
- To make sure you can seize the Azores ASAP - nothing worse than the Germans sneaking a transport through the blockade and dropping a unit in there
- To make sure you can deal with its overseas possessions so they can't become nuisances via territorial unit builds (if you're playing with that)

[Centuur]

The last one isn't possible. The Portuguese haven't got TERR units. Only if the Portuguese set up the GAR in such a country, it might become a problem (slow as it is, it isn't totally harmless to the CW)...

Another thing is US entry. 50% chance of losing an entry chit can be a lot, especially when there are a lot of high value chits in the US entry pools. So it depends also on what Uncle Joe wants to do...

[paulderynck]

There's a nice CA the Japanese can get.