report for England:
Since start England watched for French ambitions. Our explorer appeared 2 years earlier, so England managed to get control of NA middle coast. At first Lenapes were annexed, after they built minimal forts. Then England switched to protestant for deserved money and back (waiting for event). Then i did mistake by investing in stability (stabcost in catholic times were 1.5x times less than in protestant ones), hoping that stabhit -2 in 1534 will be single one. But later i recieved more stabhits, so these efforts were misery. Totally i wasted about 6-7 years.
Well, for 6 years of life of explorer most of NA coast was explored and we blocked the path to deep in NA for France, though they could place TP in Carolina. Caribbeans were discovered, and we found out both spanish american CoTs, that increased our trade income without any competition. In 1530 after receiving CoT, England started minting, and totally income was raised from 32-35 to 45-49 ducats. One pagan provinces were converted to catholic for 50 ducats to reduce slightly stabcost and activate bailiff. Closer to the end of the session I continued minting over 2.0% inflation, because England -10 deflation event is soon. So all colonies are raised to 3rd level.
As first objective in techs, England is aimed for LT11 not to be easy assaulted in case of French dow. After getting LT11 in jan 1526 i found out France is slightly building galleys, so did the same. Then admiral 3-5-5 and some time later general 2-4-5 came, so this prevented France to think about attacking British Isles. Anyway England finally built more than 100 galleys to feel itself safe. One event with +10 000 cav and ARIS +1 were choosen to save ducats on expensive cavalry.
Now the country is prepared for major action, as planned. Luckily random leaders let England solve the defence problem by itself. Nothing more interesting, just watched on continental war arena.