Oh, forgot to mention that Mughals is the other player. It's really two separate single player games though, as we haven't worked together and none of our enemies were ever concerned with the other player. Really after I got to Siberia it became a game of breaking Austria. After I integrated all my vassals (there were six of them at one point if you include my PUs) it wasn't much contest between the two of us. While I still had the vassals they would oh so helpfully join my battles because they felt like my discipline wasn't low enough and my general wasn't
enough. I'm looking at you, Poland. What I think happened is that the Poles were resentful at being forced back into PU with me at gunpoint after a particularly inbred Rurikovich ascended to the throne of our wondrous and kind of not so good nations, respectively. So they schemed. What to do? Well, aside from the above they decided to enlist in the Russian army, show up drunk to drills, and eat all the god damned food in every town they marched through. What they didn't eat they defiled in ways only Poles know how. Many a good Cossack died in the mountains of Austria to those damned Poles. Seriously, they would show up with their army after my talks-to-Jesus-brilliant leader would be laying the smackdown on some Austrians due to superior generalship, discipline, and morale only to have the Poles immediately bring every stat down to levels below the Austrians with their "support". The worst offender being their chromosome commander (he has downs, okay?) they had leading their armies. Why can their general take command over mine when my troops comprise 95% of the battle line? The world may never know.
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The Ottomans I didn't have to kill. They sort of just died on their own. After they were losing ground to the Byzantines I sort of just helped the process along. Then the Mamelukes decided to swoop in and that took some time to correct because they're huge fans of coalitions. Bosnia conquered the other Balkan states and they accepted diplovassalization. After the two lucky PUs that sort of just spelled gg for Europe. I have something like 650k mp, 560 forcelimits, and i think 360 income per month.
OH RANTS NOT OVER WHY THE
DIDN'T SPAIN COLONIZE ANYTHING?! NETHERLANDS DIDN'T FORM UNTIL 1650 AT LEAST BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN THE EVENT STARTS GET YOUR
TOGETHER AI SPAIN WHY DID NETHERLANDS CONQUER THE AZTECS AND MOST OF THE CARIBBEAN AND ALL OF MEXICO AND HALF THE US?! Britain you suck too. God this Europe is disgusting.