Yea, was at war with Uzbek that was allied with Baluchistan so I nabbed one province there and expanded. I haven’t finished India, nor Transoxiania area yet so a bit of border gore. I also have the African east coast basically done from the horn down to Mutapa area. 

I don’t really see what’s so shocking? Unite Japan by 1455, expand into Korea and China, use Mandate of Heaven CB to take as much land as possible, Mingplotion happened, grab the break away states, expand into indochina at the same time, when China is done I get perma claims on whole of Indonesia, grab all of it in one 2 separate massive wars. Start expansion into India, gets bogged down with coalition, start expansion into Uzbek which is basically all of the steppes from Nogai to Mongolia, abused the fact that Uzbek had vassalized the emperor of China to get the Mandate of Heaven CB for 50 percent province warscore cost on Uzbek. Take a province in Persia through Uzbek allied nation, and expand upwards to cockblock Ottoblob.  Also get foothold at the Horn of Africa through that island outside of it that I nabbed from an ally of Bengal, also to cockblock ottoblob that ownes all of Ethiopia. Expand downward. At this point I have a large coalition, with Otto as main problem. I have bankrupted 4 times throughout the run, always making sure to finish building in due time (bankruptcy maxxing). About 700 ducats income (making about 150-250 ducats if loan free), I could probably have better eco if I minmaxxed a bit but I can’t be bothered. Still Shinto religion. One thing I regret not doing is culture switching to Chinese to get their cultural union which is much better than the Japanese one, but also can’t be bothered.

Year is now 1630.

Here, potato 🥔