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Completed another achievement - All Blue

Requirements:
- Be Portugal
- All provinces on the european Continent are owned by blue countries that exist at game start (funnily enough, Prussia counts as well)

One of the more fun ones in my opinion. It's like a mini-world conquest - but with friends.
In my case, France has been my ally since the first war against Castille. Prussia was a longterm friend as well, until they started desiring the provinces required to form Germany a bit too much. Pity, would have liked to have them as allies till the end.
Venice joined my friend group around 1600, Sweden only around 1700 - they weren't happy about me taking Sjaelland. But I needed to take it so they wouldn't form Scandinavia.

7/10, would recommend :)

War against Spain, Portugal, and France to conquer Muslim territories. I bled for it and got to 100%. Went to peace them individually and noticed my mistake.

Well, that's annoying.

Obviously the exact privellges you take depend on country, but I knows theres certain things you're doing for every run. Do you sell titles first, then sieze? Or get the mana privellages but then you dont have any crownland left. Or start with a diet?

HOW DO I OPTIMIZE THIS SHIT FOR EVERY RUN??? I usually ass my way though it and end up with unhappy estates and no crownland for the first 100 years. I followed a ludi guide for a nation like 4 years ago and had happy, high influence estates the entire game.

Rule 5: My tolerance for heretics is triple the tolerance for true faith.

Part of my Hussite Bohemia run where I went "hmm, I've never tried humanitarian ideas" and didn't realize that Bohemian ideas and Hussism(??) already gives you nice tolerance boosts. Then received a low legitimacy heretic ruler that removed 60% of my tolerance for my own religion.

I was chilling doing some imperialist wars in Africa when suddenly my PU Great Britain decides to go full WWII mode by rising up with Winston Churchill as leader. I don't know but this is definitely peak.

Rule 5 - going for the Levant turnabout achievement, and after the first war, the Ottos aren't recovering well.

I create unbreakable free forts in every provinces. My prospering time province has 300%, caucasia region has 250% and globally 135% fort defence. I just paid 70 ducats for 175 level 8 forts. and also I have +5 attrition.

AI Ming chose Exploration Ideas. I have never seen them do it before and somehow its just in the game where i choose to play Korea and go colonial as well. Coincidence? I did dev the Renessaince and Colonialism Institutions though. Maybe thats what caused this. Playing Vanilla btw.

R5: Actual situation with my game.

After having played for one thousand hours and with some help from youtube and reddit managed to play a pair of decent playtrhought (Spain and Commonwealth on top), I still feel that there is something that I miss.
I'm playing with Byzantium the year is 1472 and I managed to win (hardly) my second war with Ottos (Austria helped a lot). I still make only 18 ducats avevn with the gold mine in Dardania. My military is healed but still clumsy (110 Disci, 41 AT) only 13k men, managed to take what I could from Naples before Aragon CB them, and vassalized Bosnia.

Looking at videos where ppl trash Ottos like nothing, I think I'm doing something wrong: my alliances are frail (Austria will break it in seconds from the screen), my military is laughable, I have a +5 income but filed only the military advisor.

I almost have the same problem with all but the 3 strongest nations of the game (even with France I struggle ffs!), how can I improve and how can I do better with this game?

Thanks in advance guys!

Pretty good game, been wanting to pull this off for a while, mostly for the achievements, couldn't get King of Kings tho.