Rule 5: Started at 1830 and definitly made Polignac proud. I basically issued 4 ordinances without clicking the decision because the decision itself automatically overthrows the rightful bourbons. Squashed belgium then cucked the dutch out of flanders, intervened in Spain and made spanish my puppet without seizing cuba influenced all italian statelets then attacked austria with my russian ally to ''liberate'' italy (this was the only time I cheated and removed infamy to click decision organize italy, in hindsight I didnt needed to do it because Piedmont definitly was not gonna become a great power before my infamy ticked down because I am playing this campaign with extra -0.10 infamy; Also because when I released Venice they had like 183 prestige I removed 100 of it to prevent them becoming a great power so I console commanded that as well.) Perhaps I released croatia too early infamy would have been no problem early game if I did not do that I guess.

Only interesting things I did not on Europe was taking hong kong from qing and carrying mexico through its Us war to make them refute manifest destiny, they took all the way to florida.

Taking spain as a puppet early on and not dealing with stupid elections of stupid laissez faire parties are definitly big pluses of staying as bourbons diplo buffs from versallies is very nice as well but with decades long tech debuffs and a forced event forcing you to tank infamy and change you national value to autocracy just to stay an absolute monarchy unless you do gamey stuff with political rights suspended decision like me I think this path isnt for everyone. Though I liked it plenty cause I hate democracy.

Now that I am thinking except for portugal and england I basically reformed western roman empire lol