Conquest Challenge Portugal 1865

This is what I did. Portugal 1865 challenge is nuts, its that inevitable that your allies will get easily stomped, as well as russia, that can actually save the game. They will only put some pressure to your enemies, but you also need to save them.

So,

0. Declare war on the Papal States. If Italy defeats them in 2-4 turns, you are good. Otherwise restart. 
1. Take out spain ASAP. Place your generals to the strong units, the one new inf, the two battleships, and the armies in the capital. If you are able to take two cities in turn 1, good. So take out Madrid and kill spain.
2. So after you took out spain, rush b to france. Save them from losing paris and metz. Meanwhile, send 1-2 gens with an admiral to kill ottomans, but on the way there, you need to keep safe. Get south italy if that is conquered.
3. From there, it is mostly guerilla warfare or city sneaking. So defend their attacks, and take some undefended cities to make them busy, while you are taking the ottomans out.
4. Once you have taken the ottomans, the game is set. So dont make russia down, and take the whole europe while defending, and lastly kick the —— out britain. 

No need to bribe. Also no need to worry about them. The moment italy join papal states has been weakened, and most probably rome city fortif is weak italy can take it fast, as well as corsica.

Just assign an admiral one north (near a coruna) and one south(in capital).

Let france surrender corsica. That only. Its crucial for italy to take papal states in 2-4 turns, as it will focus more in your main front.

i deleted game long time ago, but i can help you, i did lots of challenge conquests. Just send me screenshots of the whole map so i can think of strategy. Also tell me all your generals, and the equipment you have on them, the skills for each general, and how maxed is your training? IF it's maxed, it will be harder, i recommend maxing attack and mobility only, don't level defence or health if you havn't yet 

its going to be hard for you because you maxed your training, also some of your generals are not good like molke, should have plumer instead, also better to not use infantry generals, i would use 4 cav generals (ludendorf, plumer, jackson, josnston/molke) 

can you send entire map at the start of the game? i can't remember who are allies and who are enemies.

also some of the skills on your generals are not optimal, it's going to cost you a lot of books to change them tho, you should probably find out the best skills somwhere on the forum, i can't remember their names because i havn't played in a while, but it will make a big difference.

when i used to do conquests, strategy wasn't the most important thing, i basically tried to use brute force but i was very careful with every move i make. You need to make sure you are moving all your generals together in 1 group so they are able to take cities as quickly as possible - requires skill. One tip i can give you is to hit the enemy and see the damage that you deal on the enemy, if the damage is low, then you can quickly exit the battle before the enemy finishes their animation (hit back), then you can re enter the conquest and you have another chance to hit the enemy and deal more damage - important if you want to try to take a city. Also some units like ships and artillery have a special skill which gives them a chance to not get hit back - can use this trick.

When you try to take a city, make sure you build lots of blasts, remember cavarly can hit another time if they kill an enemy or destroy city's health, so you need to use this. you can switch out equipment, give your generals double attack items b4 hitting, before u end the round, give an injured general double ambulances. 

like i said b4, it's not about strategy, because you can clearly see where the enemy is and where you need to push. in challenge conquests, you need to move fast and take cities quickly to disable the enemy's economy. That will help your allies to survive 

Just use appropriate replacements such as Plumer for Ludendorf.