here is my OE fooling around eastern europe.. year 1579
So i went north.. took georgia, moscow, tver, novgorod and all kind of stuff around in north and eastern-europe.
fought a good 40 years defending against lithuania, sweded, austria, bohemia, venice and their buddies.
after my reputation was ok and my economy/army stronger, i annexed crappy little sibir and some useless sand castle near mecca to show europe that im a big boy now
they did nothing..
i attacked timurid empire cause they inherited crimea my "ally" right in my face and it was impossible to have military access..
so i took the whole crimea...
now it's war everywhere.. WE is 17/21, reputation is 16/30 but manpower is great and army is 3x stronger than anyone but france and england; they have 2/3 of what i have but it's full of crappy infantry..
lithuania is annoying since the start. they inherited bohemia right when i thought it was breaking apart. Denmark diplo-annexed finland (they always are too late... sweden is at already 0% war capacity when denmark begin their first siege :wacko: ) Austria annexed 2 vassals, bosnia and transylvania i think, but they are less annoying than lithuania since they are always fighting rebels..
btw i met a shock 6 general on the battleground :rofl:
24k cavalry (me) -vs- 16k infantry and maybe 2k cavalry (AI)
good thing i saw that! he was about to finish off 24,000 soldiers !!!
i threw 6 divisions of 12k cavalry at him..he vanished in 2 quick fights :rofl: