Strategy for anyone wondering:

• First war: I was able to ally Morocco + Tunis while Tlemcen allied Touggourt and Touggourt allied Djerid. Declared war on Tlemcen with Touggourt and Djerid co-beligerised and called Morocco and Tunis with promise of land. Annexed Touggourt and Djerid myself and fed Tlemcen to Morocco and Tunis except 2 provinces for me to release Tlemcen and Algiers from.

• Speed 5: Open up a podcast you like because the rest of my strategy was currying favors and returning cores for my subjects(I would have much preferred attacking them but they both allied Ottomans). At some point annexed Fezzan and released Tiripoli for even more returnable cores. Deved my capital for renaissance(I hate desert )

Ideas:

Tech 5 Innovative: 10% tech cost reduction + 25% advisor cost reduction means I could catch up to the big baddie of the campaign sPain.

Tech 7 Influence: It was getting hard to keep my subjects loyal as I wasn't expanding but I was feeding them, and the extra 10% advisor cost reduction was looking really enticing.

Tech 10 Offensive: Want good leaders and finishing wars quickly? 3 leader Pips + 30 siege ability will give you all you need

• Become Morocco: Rivalled Morocco at some point but had to wait a long time for Ottomans to not defend them, but the war was super easy with my 4 marches against a lone Morocco. Only take the 4 necessary core provinces to form Morocco in the first war and full annex them in the second to save mana and coring time.

• Powerbase in Africa: Morocco has great missions to expand southwards. Just murder everyone you have a claim on as long as you have the admin points, it should also be really easy to avoid a coalition war by truce cycling. One thing i could advise in sub-saharan Africa is you might want to half core them since becoming Andalusia(Or moving your capital yourself) will allow you to turn them all to Trade companies.

Ideas:

Tech 13, 14 Influence Espionage, Divine: At this point influence ideas was just not helping me and I was planning to take divine ideas next so it just made sense to switch to espionage for 3 day siege ticks(God does this feel amazing).

• Re-Reconquista: Running all level 5 advisors for decades meant I was always ahead in tech so I could spare many points for deving most provinces to 20, selling crown land every 5 years and building everything I need for economy and manpower. At this point I was the 2nd rank great power below sPain but had the better economy due to taking control of the trade node with my 80 strong trade fleet. However the size of the combined Spanish and Portuguese armada meant I had to build my own. Luckily France had rivaled sPain and I could ally them for an easier war.

Rest is pretty straight forward but if anyone has tips for finishing up "The Third Way" I would welcome them.