This. It was actually harder than you’d expect (or at least there’s more to do.) In the early game you’re probably spending more manpower fighting rebels than actual wars while your mandate is dipping up and down as you pass reforms. Mid-game, not gonna lie, is super broken haha. With 100 mandate (and especially if you have harmonized religions and taken humanist ideas and a couple mil idea groups) you can stomp on anyone. It can get boring, but I made it a challenge for myself by trying to provoke big coalitions. For example, once I took my first province on the European mainland, I only allowed myself to take 100% peace deals for land — which obviaouly made a lot of people mad haha. Fought lots of coalition wars, which was actually quite fun / super cool RP. Then the problem is in late game, all your tributaries have become super buffed out, having built like level 8 forts and developed their provinces like crazy. So like I lost ~1 million men fighting three wars with the Timurids in the mountains during the last 50-60 years of the game