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R5 : Following my Mehmet achievement a day ago, I caught myself thinking that I was a decent player after all and fought resolution and courage to follow up with the True Heir of Timur Achievement (You guessed it, I am currently unemployed and need distraction). In my surprise, this achievement is even easier than the Mehmet one as I did not need the specific setup to do it, just did it on the fly kinda.

The run : I started with Transoxiana which nicer than Afghanistan for eco, force limit and manpower but I think that can be also done with the latter.

War with timurids was easy as I got support of Ottomans and Mamluks. With these two, coalition should not form easily as you get aggresive in India.

I grabbed my cores + the shortest path with India by taking Afghanistan lands + some Kashmir lands. I manage to have a punjab core, meaning free real estate on Delhi who had no big ally.

At this point, I want to point one point, I did not full core my provinces just state them. You will save lots of mana. My only idea was Diplomatic mainly for the late game warscore reduction.

At this point, the most important thing is to form Mughals, unfortunately there is a good chance that you will not grab Delhi easily. In my run I did have to fight Jaunpur few years after allying them to get it, with Bengal the war was, I think, the hardest on the run.

After some years I manage to expand nicely by eating minors which did not have big ally.
I then vassalized a small Delhi for reconquest on Jaunpur.

With that, it was a classic India conquest game : Ally big rivals on the wanted countries, eat them, break alliance and repeat. If you do it nicely, coalition is not a problem as your allies are too strong.

"Mid-late game" on the achievement, try to release vassals for reconquest wars (-25% warscore I think) and feed them lands so that you do not use too much mana.

With that, I was left with the big Three: Bengals, Vijayanagar and Bahmanis. After a war or two with them, I was clearly on top in terms of warfare with 2 mil tech in advance.

At this point to speed things up I started to break truce as many times as it required as had lots of mana for saving strategies explained earlier.

Next step is Eat your Greens achievement which I tried a few times without much success.

R5: I want to present my level quickly before commenting on the run:
-I have currently 2472 hours on the game (maybe 200+h off steam) so I don't consider myself a skilled player. With that said, I consider this achievement not so difficult as the Eyalet mechanic is powered enough to do this. I think that with patience and setup, anyone who has roughly the same hours, and even less, could complete the achivement.

-The strategy: As i said previously, it is the Eyalet mechanic that is our core weapon.
So in the early game, you may want as many as possible Eyalets, to boost your income and manpower. A trick which is really good for that is the religion swap several EU4 Youtubers have explained. (You can also try to royal mariage Burgendy for the event but it is not mandatory). For ideas, take influence then diplomatic.

-One thing : You can royal marriage for easiest vassalization, when you will promote to Eyalet even the royal marriage will not be counted as a diplo relation.

-Which that done, you will have a positive income, a nice force limit and manpower, and you on your first conquest part (the trickiest) with few important goals : Focus on the "free" Egypt Eyalet, on the "free" Hungary one and the Wallachia one that gives subject income. (Don't forget the mission that gives free march on Crimea).

2 tips : Try to get the free manpower button when you get 75 Mysticism and click on the Slacken Recruiting Standards for more manpower. When you have lots of manpower, use the assault button with janissaries to speed up sieges.

-On top of that, you should have vassalize Granada. Seize land for coring range and justify invasion on Portugal. In that war, try to get a foothold an England and Castille. Also get to get a province on Naples for invasion later.
The trickiest thing about will be AE and coalition. In my run, I "escape" them by finding truce the big countries and improving relations.

-Now depending on you run, you have several paths : Egypt + Tunis + Morocco, Hungary + Austria, Iberia, England, France. Focus wars on big countries to not get in coalions. You don't need to go crazy, just reconquest wars.

-In my meantime, try to get Malta and Mecca great project for war score reduction and the Vienna event.

-The time when I went all out is then you get mil tech 7 (artillery). Now you should have a pretty good income, force limit and manpower. Get lots of artillery and do the HRE war by calling on arms as many littles princes as you can. In my run, I had 160 force limit and the total enemy force was 180, I was done in 2 years so don't be scared you're OP. Be careful to have 99 warcore on all enemies to end the war in one go and be able to realease countries.

At this point, you should have no problem to earn the achievement as no coalition will form with the HRE beaten and truce with big countries.

It is my first guide and post so I hope that it is clear enough. Obviously, luck played a good part on my run, No PU on Aragon and Lithuania for example, but for the most part you don't need any event or situations to happen to make it work but you may need flexibility in your personal strategy. Good luck.