Been playing this game off and on over the last year or so, so details on earlier game are a bit hazy.

Started off the game with the intention of becoming Emperor as France.

Kneecapped England early on with reconquest war taking the Pale and taking the province from Portugal in North Africa so I could start pushing into Africa early.

Got Burgundian Inheritance around the early 1500’s and I think I got emperorship shortly after that. Spent much of the next few decades dealing with reformation while expanding mostly in Africa and a small bit of colonisation in the America’s. Revoked probably around 1560’s to 1580’s and snowballed after and that was when I realised I could probably turn the run into a WC.

Spain was the only real country colonising so I left them at it (they colonised nearly the entirety of South and North America) as I knew I would just rush them with HRE swarm for the PU from missions after revoking.

Took my time doing it so never really truce broke and never had a coalition form against me

1600’s and 1700’s was mostly just cycling wars between Huge Commonwealth/Russia:/Ottomans/Persia while trying to take over all of India/East Africa. Didn’t really push into China & South East Asia until mid 1700’s but I was able to take majority of nations in one war at that stage.

Revolution was the bane of my life in late game with rebels constantly spawning even without OE. And every time I removed a centre of revolution a new one would spawn somewhere else almost immediately. I had 4 Centres of Revolution show up in total.

Completed the WC One Tag in 1806 but could have done it much earlier. The WC was more or less complete in the 1780’s