For those curious about my Ryukyu progress.
May look impressive, but I'm in quite a jam. It was somewhat easy until advancing this far into the Middle East. Now, the Ottomans are protecting the remaining Arab countries, and they out-tech me by quite a bit. My only Ideas are "Quest for the New World" and "Colonial Ventures" (for easier expansion). The hardest part is being Animist and having no Missionaries availible to yourself... No luck ever getting Westernized, I believe.
Capital was moved to Malacca out of simplicity...
My only real options are to take out Africa (not much help now), Ming (feasible, but daunting), Norvgorod (they are actually teched not too far off of myself, feasible, but would require a significant shifting of my armies), and an Arab country (Ottomans would kick my ass, not worth if).
To think of the work we do for 100 points that aren't worth squat...
Off topic, The Andamans (the yellow island in the water east of India) is owned by the Japanese Daimyo Tairo. I have no idea how they Colonized it, I didn't think they had the ability to...