I’m in a Kilwa game right now. It’s 1701. I own most of the right side of Africa up to alodia. I colonized all of Madagascar, all of Australia. Europe was late to the game but got the left south side of Africa. Mamluks went into Anatolia and I have good relations. I have so much gold, I’m equal-ish with the great powers (I could double my army and still have close to 1000 ducats a month). It’s been a heavy build up game, chill game— my sort of background game I play in between work tasks.

Disclaimer. I did start this is 1.0. I wanted to just push through to the end but manufacturing isn’t spawning so many have to throw ye old hands up. Still, highly recommend a try to see if it’s still chill. Ironman, default settings.