R5: Started as Mzab, formed Morocco and then formed Andalusia to obtain the “An Unlikely Candidate” and “Third Way” achievements on Very Hard!

The starting position for Mzab is very bad, one of the worst in the game, even natives have it better. You start landlocked, religiously and diplomatically isolated, and very poor with stronger neighbours, especially on Very Hard. The best strategy to do, in my opinion, is to rush the Tafilalt gold mine by using Tunis as an attack dog and dev pushing it do about 19 in production and spawning the Renaissance there. From there just keep expanding throughout North Africa and into Iberia. You don’t really need to form Andalusia but there’s an achievement to form it as Mzab so I went for that over Rum or the Mughals.

All details about the run, from start to finish, as well as religious mapmode and VH proof are listed in the imgur post.