Greetings, hail! A superb effort!
It is a pity that the webdip machine is currently unable to deal with more than two types of units – the variants with half/double strength units lose the army/fleet differentiation :(
Well, Dave, I am picky on details (should remember this) so be ready, here follows a boringly long text, full of divergent ideas ;^)
I don't like how South America and especially Brazil are portrayed in most of the variants (even the south american ones). I don't want you to commit the same mistakes of Atlantic Colonies - http://vdiplomacy.net/variants.php?variantID=99 ;)
So, let’s go onto DoE specifics…
--> India - Bombay (Mumbai) is actually to the north of Goa, isn’t it?
--> The Fort Zeelandia in Paramaribo, Suriname, should be placed much to the east, right above of where it is written Amazonas. The territory of Fze (Suriname) should include the territory of Essequibo and Berbice (later the British Guiana) for these were dutch possessions. Then, Cayenne is placed to the east of FZe.
--> The portuguese possessions in South America were divided in two separate colonies: the State Brazil and the State of Maranhão. Maranhão doesn't need to be a suppply center, but its territory included its capital captaincy, which is the northwestern portion of the current province Salvador-Slv, the southern half of current province Amazonas-Ama, and the eastern portion of current province Iquitos-Iqi.
--> Reference Maps:
1) Look at this interesting spanish map made in 1796 for the review of Spanish–Portuguese Treaty of Madrid of 1750:
https://geo.leventhalmap.org/maps/2467
2) For the boundaries in the heart of South America, take a look at this one (note the north is to the left, west to the south, etc):
https://www.wdl.org/en/item/910/
3) The brazilian inner borders and political divisions are pretty stable and you can trust this one from 1878:
https://bdlb.bn.gov.br/acervo/handle/123456789/17578
4) A quick reference map for political frontiers of Brazil in 1700 (and a list of captaincies and dates) is found at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Brazil
--> Approach DoE and the last two maps above knowing that:
- The cited above State of Maranhão was composed by Rio Negro (later Amazonas), Grão-Pará (Pará), Maranhão and Piauhy. You my not want a big Maranhão, so these captaincies are the guidelines for inner divisions.
- Roughly around 1620-1700, the captaincy of São Vicente (capital: São Paulo) had "conquered" (in fact, “explored and claimed”) the newest territories of Mato Grosso, Goyaz, Minas Gerais and Paraná, having found gold mines in first three of them (thus why the paulistas settled key places in these territories and claimed conquest of everything). This is why you see a huge São Paulo in map 4! Check out map 2 and especially map 3 for its inner divisions.
- Rio de Janeiro itself is not a center of supply! It is just a damn good military naval base. It became more and more important after new paths out of the rich Minas Gerais were built, between 1709-1720. Before that, the roads to the gold and diamond districts were through São Vicente or even north through Bahia.
- An inner SC for Minas Gerais in mandatory, since its gold and diamonds - exploited since the 1690s - made Lisbon one of the richest and largest cities in Europe. This gold bought the Portuguese alliance with the british, and it is known that the city of London made more profit from Minas Gerais than the portuguese themselves.
- The northeastern colonies of Brazil, the ones being settled since 1500, were, in 1700, still producing a lot. The real main ones are only Bahia (capital Salvador) and Pernambuco (capital Recife).