Finally finished my Poland Can Into Space game. Note: I completed the HRE reforms 3 days before quitting, just to get that achievement (It's actually the first non-castille/portugal Europe game I've really played, and Castille/Portugal I played to see if colonization/CNs were any fun, not to screw around in Europe).
I got bored in like 1760 and slowed the conquest down a bit. I could have easily completed Shun and at least started Zhou, not to mention vassalized Korea and Japan, if I could have brought myself to care. I did almost catch-and-release England, if only I'd bothered with exploration to find that last darn province they have squirrelled away somewhere.
The Empire:
Vassals: Shun, Scotland, Aceh, Khmer
Protectorates: Funj, Ethiopia, Mombasa, whatever-the-one-south-of-Kilwa-is
Allies: Scandinavia, was Portugal for the last ~100 years until I decided I wanted their land in India in 1817
Diplo:
Stats:
Accepted Cultures: Polish, Russian, English, Prussian, Ruthenian, Tartar, Greek, Turk, Austrian, and that's without particularly trying to gain accepted cultures.
Not sure if I would gain any from unifying the HRE (next monthly tick would end the game, so can't check, but I doubt I'd lose any, since I haven't gained any post-enlightened despotism.) I think there's an off-chance I'd have picked up at least Lombard.
Achievements: One King To Rule, Winged Hussars, Poland Can Into Space, The Emperor's New Clothes, Master of India, A Kaiser Not Just In Name, Just a Little Bit of Patience, Double the Love
Burgundy and Hainaut make great vassals to feed France to. Probably should have tried feeding Savoy instead of Dauphine, for the free annex with the HRE, assuming they'll take Occitain-cultured provinces.
Of the great coalition against me (included at one time: France, Russia, Timurids, Malwa, Vij-whatever, Ming, Ayutthaya, several smaller nations), only Ming and France remains, and France is much reduced. England hopped in-and-out of the coalition against me, but I don't think I ever fought a war against it with England in it. (Japan has of course recently joined, because reasons? Yeah, they have AE, but I can't figure out why they have ~75AE. The only province of theirs I ever took was the Kuril Islands, and I don't think they share a religion (still Shinto) or a culture with anyone... Their joining hte coalition decided me against trying to get the 'conquer Japan' achievement, because I didn't want to deal with it...)
Oh yeah, and those uncored provinces in India are all coring. To be finished ~October 1821... sigh?