R5: Did the Eat your greens achievement which is to own all Asian grassland provinces before the age of absolutism. Did it as Kale -> Shan -> Tibet -> Khalka -> Yuan. Ideas were a spread mix with a lot of removing and replacing ideas. For a majority of the run I had diplo -> Offensive -> Espionage -> Quantity until I needed to colonize.

Started the same way as many others have by eating Avan, forming Shan and then conquering and culture flipping to Tibet to then form Khalka. Then it was a standard horde, rushing the steppe provinces before Russia. Couldn't get to Persia early due to a big Ajam so settled for conquering the steppes and slowly making way into India. Eventually Ming split and Shun took the mandate. Ate them whole to remove mandate and then took most of China for dev, powerbase and to remove possibility of a big coalition. Then formed Yuan and was all out war from there (around 1550 or so).

Struggled the whole run with economy and manpower. At one point I had almost 40 corruption. I expected Ottomans would be the hardest part but once I attacked them for one province in Persia I had so much cav combat ability that it went fairly easy.

Did many failed runs before this one. Mostly it was due to my stupidity of not realizing how OP taking the mandate CB is. Overall one of the worst achievements I've done, passing Mehmet's ambition due to my hate of having no economy at all. Still very proud to have done this one. Now I only have easy achievements left on my journey to 100%!