WRE Operation Spain Guide

Dismantle every single building without raising the settlement to the ground, apart from spain. including the citie's demolition them to level 1, you will obviously have to do this multiple times for certain regions.

Before dismantling Roma ensure that you recruit 2 Preists from the city as they will help you fix your public order 10x faster. credit for this idea goes to "Tactician" who suggested it in the comments.

Once you have dismantled the region you have 2 Choices leave what is left to rebel and be attacked lots or Desolate. I have tried both I found desolating far more effective as it left nothing between you and anyone forcing them to be unable to replenish.

also desolation reduces your great power negative making factions less likely to declare war with you.

While doing this force march every single army you have to Spain, it will take approximately 5 turns for them all to get to Spain, Also assign governors in Spain for all the provinces:
• Baetica
• Carthaginensis
• Gallaecia
• Lusitania
• Tarraconensis

Set the provinces to bread and Circus edits, This will help you maintain your food and help slow down the decrease in happiness. Two useful regions as strong points and worth keeping are:
• Palma
• Tingis

Palma is easy to hold you can just use a navy and build a garrison in the region. which makes it difficult to lose. Tingis is a very useful location to have you can either keep it can be a bit tricky or let Hispania take it and make them your puppet state. I did the latter.
You end up with something like this:

NOTES
As I did this as a secondary thought some of the early images turn 1 - 5 sort of thing are all on EASY difficulty, for speed to help me do this guide with more images and info.

Stage 2
Continue and dismantle all buildings that need to be dismantled you should find yourself having a huge amount of money now. with the possibilty of negative food I believe at this stage I had - 490 food.
To fix that as you dismantle your empire what you need to do is turn off taxes in a few regions until your food is positive again. I ended up with - 5000 per turn for maximum of 5 turns.

Money should not be a issue you should have a huge amount which you want to spend on sanitation, happiness and farm buildings, as well as anything else you want.

Theatres 1 in each captial and water works in each 1 are advised. Ensure you allow enough to pay the negative figure.

Continue to move your armies on force march towards Your Spainish lands.

After I removed all my buildings abandoned every region appart from the planned regions.

My finances were aproximately:
• 120k - 90k
• - 5000 per turn
• 0 food

Again EASY difficulty

Money was lost on this campagin because of the fact that I just out right demolished the settlements rather than doing it turn by turn in my current play through.

Now the Uncertainty and Desolation the uncertainty only lasts for until the settlement rebels and the desolation lasts 1 turn. So with your armies from the entire empire stationed in each province. You wait for them to rebel and smash them as soon as they appear.

With the rebels dead and military forces in each Province as well as governors, your provinces will have been quelled if they are not it is only a matter of time.

To secure Spain you will need to start building navy's the British isle's have a constant tendency to try and pay you a visit by boat. I found that 3 navies were required to secure myself from any armies trying to land every turn.

while building these navy's you want to try and maintain your current armie's from the start of the game for as long as you need until everyone is calm and happy with you either through your buildings or the army being there.

the navy positions are in blue army in red I found the best places for the navy were:

with your navy in those locations. No army will try to land or pay you a visit 8 ships were plenty to scare off the enemy forces, for myself.

The military + the garrisons in northern Spain will deter most attackers for quite some time. do not let them into Spain or they will drive you crazy, took me 3 turns and 3 armies to get 1 to stop running around my country trying to rape and pillage.

Final Stage

With Spain secure, invested in and happy. you should find yourself with a good income, low corruption and looking for more lands to reclaim for the empire of Spain no longer rome...

I also converted everyone and my state religion to Greco-roman Paganism because it is 10x better than Christianity because of all the bonuses to it and I can spread it with Theatres while making my people massively happy and making 1600 per level IV theatre.

My current empire looked like this:
Wealth of Provinces:

As I do not wish to make a entire how to win Guide and conquer everything this was just for you to start off playing a faction that you may wish to play, but are unable due to their troubles and screwed up situation.

Any questions or more information I will happily provide. if you need.

Thanks for your time

Boldicus Mantious

I have 20,000 per turn I have citie's worth vast amounts highest is 7000.

Converting to Paganism was a good choice until
425 ad I doing amazingly well 500 excess food everyone was happy. Then climate change happened causing me to lose that entire 500 food as well as losing happiness in efforts to increase the amount of food in my empire.

With this discovery I believe that keeping Christianity is a much better choice in the late game. I have had to raise huge armies and some of them are just sitting in spain keeping the people happy!

The huns never paid me a visit they are going and killing the Sassanids at one point the huns were dying.

But atilla came to power then they appeared to be gaining strength.

As you can see half my regions are very made, due to building upgrades....