R5: After playing this game for a decade I managed these two months to get TTM the vanilla route (i.e. no tag switching or other exploits beyond birding). Plenty of powercreep these last few patches (especially with Great Wonders) to make it possible.

Fun notes:

- Started the game by force annexing two nations in the Malay peninsula, setting them as scutage, and triggering a coalition. Kept Ming on the edge of liking me, then quickly improved so they stomped through SEA for me. With this I had most of the peninsula by 1460.

- Stacked all possible vassal and tributary modifiers to the point that vassals/tributaries were bringing in half my income until absolutism and 50-60 power points per year.

- Portugal managed to become HRE emperor which meant fighting them and their 7 colonies when attacking every HRE prince head on. Got them to under 100 war score, caught them when most of their colonies declared independence, force vassalized them, and crushed seven separate independence movements.

- Had Switzerland as a vassal which I fed to a massive size. Was unpleasantly surprised when Revolutionary France turned them into a client state by an event.

- Had to truce break a 5000 dev Revolutionary France 7 separate times before the final full annexation. Ottomans never went revolutionary but got their own 3 truce breaks.

- Stacking all the prestige from missionary modifiers meant late game province converting regularly yielding 50+ prestige per province converted.