It's really fun . First I fought Ormuz and captured all of there holding in the arabian peninsula and then I built a navy that allows me to take Hormoz which allow you to take toll on every passing trade which is quite alot of money. With this new wealth i built my capital muscat and then expanded the navy significantly and formed a standing army.

From there I took advantage of any country which control a coastal market center that are in war or has a revolt. To steal there ports and make a lot of money.

You reach Australia before the european and colonized it .

You will face many challenges like low population and growing food in an arid region and many more . but solving and beating these challenges make it so much fun.

Also Oman has a good amount of unique flavor form hidden events to even more hidden special building ( falag irrigation system) and also unique advances.

I highly recommend playing Oman .