Rise of Japan
Japan finally unified! (1475)
In world news! Ming has been overextending them self (as predicted by the war council hehe) and Britain somehow landed in Iceland!
By 1586 - Japanese dominion of Asia has initiated with conquests in both the Manchu region and the region of Malacca. Additionally with massive hit and run tactics (on behalf of the Japanese army) the people of Ming finally rebelled against their lords to finally stop the mad Japanese war. As Ming was far to overextended it quickly collapsed. Additional news: Small scale tribal conquest in Africa and first contact with the men in big ships was made.
In world news! The big blue blob of Europe has successfully been unified and Spain has started to colonize aggressively.
By 1706 - Massive restructuring of Japanese society has finally completed and paid off. After a short conflict with one of Europe's "minor" nation, the war council realized how primitive their methods were! Solution: No less than three "westernization" decisions were initiated to ensure maximum progress. Chineese -> Muslim -> Ottoman -> Western. EACH step of course inflicting the much feared "Western Influences", which of course went nowhere near to ripping the nation apart.
The millitary was only modernized twice, skipping the muslim->Ottoman step in favor of rushing the last step to western "westernization". This enabled a jump from muslin to western millitary equipment and tactics in one go.
After this great period of turmoil the Japanese high command was in excellent position to assert its position. Large areas of Africa were either colonized or conquered and most of Ociana bent their knees to the Emperor. Forward bases were obtained in India and all of the north was claimed in the name of the red blob. Many many times the men in the big ships arrived intending to get an easy prey only finding them self facing a fully mobilized western type army. Needless to say, well we did have the home ground. It is pretty far to Britain from Kyoto.
In world news! Yes it is Persia knocking on my door in Siberia, dont ask me how they got so far north.
By 1821 Japan was a power house, it technological advances were unmatched (sitting at level 69 for all except level 70 for land tech, Britain was at 55 ish and Austria 60 ish) and its army had presence in every corner of the world. In the late 18th century it was decided the Europe had to be tough a lesson of what it is to anger the Emperor (some 200 years ago but never the less) and massive invasion was landed in Italy (the soft underbelly of Europa as it was called). Itally was soon bent and Europeans Navies burned. With unmatched Naval supremacy and the manpower of most of Asia behind it, all of Europe was soon occupied. However due to some funny unnatural interventions it was not possible to Annex Europe into Japan directly as the gods seemed to oppose some kind of badboy limit on the world. Pheh, what a nonsense. So instead, Nara Minamoto, Emperor of Japan, had the Holy roman empire dismantled. This, hoped Nara Minamoto, wold subdue Europe. In any case, if Europe continued to resist, it was also possible to convert it into Shinto, as had been done to the rest of Japan's 480 ish provinces
Note: Japan shall not be blamed for the death of the blue blob of Europe, after Divine Wind blew over Europe the French turned exceptionally kind and self destructed rather than facing the might of Japan. What a wise choice.
Was the game legitimate:
It was only required to ask the gods for interventions twice, as sometimes the rulers of Japan were to "special" to bred children of ADM higher than 6. Otherwise a reload here and there helped keeping my fleet save from Britain, these guys are sneaky.