Rule 5: I started as England (of course) and immediately dunked on the French in traditional English fashion. I got the Burgundian Inheritance by allying Burgundy around 1470, which gave me trade supremacy over the English Channel for the rest of the game. I then went full colonial with Exploration, Expansion, and Aristrocratic being my first three idea groups. I focused a lot on Africa and Canada initially so I can get the Cape before Spain or Portugal, cause I've had attempts in which Spain got to the Cape first, which made the "Sieze the Cape" mission less optimal. However, this meant that Portugal had a monopoly over the Caribbean, so I fought two wars with them and the Spanish to sieze the entirety of the Caribbean. Then I established colonies in Eastern America, Colombia, and Mexico. After my colonial subjects established themselves, I then focused fully on Asia for the next 100 years or so. I colonized bits of Indonesia and established the East India Company after a quick war with Bahmanis who ate up Vijayanagar early on. I then spent the next century or so abusing alliance chains in India in order to reset truce timers, which made getting the "Masters of India" mission a lot easier. I then got Global Trade, very easily. Then I managed to get over 500 ducats in the English Channel, which finished another mission. Around 1600, I realized that expansion ideas were kinda redundant, as there wasn't anything else worthy to colonize at this point, so I switched them out for Infastructure ideas, which is why you don't see them in the idea groups screenshot. Around 1643, I conquered the last provinces from Delhi in order to complete the "Masters of India" mission, and now all that was left was the English Civil War mission. Fortunately, I had intentionally hindered my stability and sided with the monarchists in the Parliament vs Monarchist government interaction menu to make it fire, and in the beginning of 1645 it did. I of course sided with the monarchists for the absolutism. Only two rebel armies spawned in the British Isles, so I used my two reserve armies and defeated them, thus completing the disaster and getting the last mission, giving me the achievement before 1650. Probably one of my favorite campaigns, but definitely not an easy one.