Devlet-i Ebed-müddet: An Ottoman Empire AAR

Thanks everybody for the goal suggestions-I am going to attempt all of them, although taking over Russia and reestablishing the Achamenid Empire are the least likely to succeed. But anyways, on to the first update!

Update 1-Beginnings

Ah, you always gotta love the start of a new game-so fresh and full of opportunities for victory, defeat, and for Europe to go completely bonkers with borders. Hopefully those last two don't happen, but at least if Europe does go bonkers we can all laugh. But now, on to evaluating the state of the Ottomans:



Pretty good ruler+heir, a great starting advisor, and one of the better starting missions that I have ever gotten. Now, to do the first slider move of the game.



A hell of a lot better than a negative stability hit, that's for sure.



Might as well get started on that mission of mine.



The only battle of the war, really, and besides Achaea reaching Morea before me and thus controlling the siege, there was nothing else of note.

Once Thrace was occupied, I decided to get started on a shot-term goal of mine: reclaiming all of my cores.



Each of those wars only had 1 major battle at most before the enemy armies were wiped out and their provinces put under siege.



I just can't deal with the nomads right now without focusing on them entirely, since they have no other enemies in this theater for them right now besides the Mamluks. I'll try and get them next time they come knocking instead.

And then suddenly, there was annexations everwhere.



Oh yeah, and Achaea made white peace with Byzantium, allowing me to finally take Morea and finish my mission.



Meh. After I finish off Ramazan, I'll start that mission.



Speak of the devil. Well, lets get this war started then!



I'm not even going to bother saying how ridiculously easy it was to beat these guys. I'll just show you the peace deals I gave them:



The Knights was taking too long to siege, so I let them live a little while longer-until I get the mission to conquer them, in any case. Speaking of missions...



Not that bad of one. Venice'll be annoying to fight, but nothing that I can't handle. Before I start another war, though, I better release Ragusa.



I only annexed them the first time around to make them Sunni so they can convert that province for me. I'm going to be pretty innovative for a while to westernize, after all, so having as many people converting provinces to Sunni will be a big help. I didn't do it to Trebizond because I don't want to get too much infamy yet.

And that's the end of the first update! Overall, I have made some good progress with reclaiming my cores-only 3 of them remain, and I plan on getting them all.

Now, to list my short-term goals:

-Conquer southern Greece and complete my mission.
-Reclaim my cores, which will drive the Italians out of Greece.
-Make government type into empire and move capital to Thrace(didn't have enough income/high enough ruler admin before).

And that's it. Expect my next update some time in the next 1-2 days.