PU-ing Castille was somewhat helpful, but pulled a decent amount of troops out of Europe to deal with Strongbadia's inability to deal with Brazil on its own. I'm not 100% that the lucky PU helped more than it hurt, as I had castille on the ropes at time of PU-ing. That said, I'll be making a "things I messed up" section at the end of the AAR, for sure.
I Found a Bug
The Golden Horde continued to lose to Lithuania, so I opted to led them a hand and sneak-attack a bunch of armies. Hungary decided to capitalize on this chaos and attack Poland. This is bad, because land gains for Hungary meant another war to vassalize them. Time to start truce-breaking.
At this point, there are three active war zones. Kachar got dragged into my conquest of India, so I'm re-conquering them too. It times like this, it's important to remember that most faithful of protectorates and their accomplishments: Sibur's conquest of a damn lot of stuff.
With the Lithuanian army crippled, Ipeaced out with another province and the ability to vassalize Pskov. This pushed me to slightly above 100% OE, but that's easy enough to deal with for a brief period of time, provided no horrific, game-crippling bugs happen.
I vassalized Hungary, and it turns out that since I they are still at war with Lithuania and Poland, I get dragged back into that war. A TON of revolts (one every few days or soon average) started happening, and I was confused. Turns out...
Coming to the defense of a vassal in such a way that breaks a truce, even if it's automatic, causes truce-breaking penalties with no indication of stability loss. Not anticipating that, I've only a meager amount of diplo and admin points stocked. Say hello to Rebels galore until I can get out of this war and sell off the province to Hungary that I was intending to.
Making Vijayanagar into a protectorate drags me into a war with Nepal as well. Time for even more rebels, I guess.
Peace finally comes (white peaces), and I sell Hungary's properties back to it to get to 100% OE. Then I press the most important button in the game: The "Accept Demands" button for rebels. In this instance, peasant rebels. This gets rid of ~300,000 rebels off the bat, and makes the whole situation manageable again. with the nation once again secure, Delhi and Jaunpur are made into protectorates.
The only two nations in the top 15 in termsof force limit that are NOT mine are the Ottomans and the Mughals. Time to attack them once more.
Sibur takes Nepal as a vassal. This would be concerning, but there's enough time that they should be able to diploannex them. It's on the "ways to screw up a WC" watchlist now though. Also, we get a new king (43 years old) and a new heir.
Sibur attacks the Ottoman protectorate of the Timurids while I'm still at war with Otto. I let a few big rebel stacks spawn and kill off their army before taking the provinces I need to feed to QQ.
And now, the world
There's only 70 years let, and still much to do. Very soon, truce-breaking and surfing along at -2 stability will start happening. But, such is a WC attempt.