Bored with EU4, need suggestions plz

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Formed the British Empire at it's height
Conquered Europe as Rev. France
Made everyone my petit chien (PU) as Austria
Formed Russian Empire at it's height
Destroyed the Russians as PLC
Screwed over North Europe as Sweden
Colonized the whole world as Spain and Portugal
Formed Italy and Roman Empire
Save scummed my game 87 times as Byzantium
Formed India as VJJ
Changed leadership of the Chinese Empire from Ming to Qing
United Africa as Mali
Ottos too easy
Got 150% discipline as Prussia

Any good suggestions for a campaign?
 
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Formed the British Empire at it's height
Conquered Europe as Rev. France
Made everyone my petit chien (PU) as Austria
Formed Russian Empire at it's height
Destroyed the Russians as PLC
Screwed over North Europe as Sweden
Colonized the whole world as Spain and Portugal
Formed Italy and Roman Empire
Save scummed my game 87 times as Byzantium
Formed India as VJJ
Changed leadership of the Chinese Empire from Ming to Qing
United Africa as Mali
Ottos too easy
Got 150% discipline as Prussia

Any good suggestions for a campaign?
Play as a German minor? be the only country to colonize the world with the Netherlands?? play as an African-Native American Minor??
 
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Oirat -> Yuan -> Mongol Empire
Arbadil -> Persia
Sunset Invasion
Any HRE/Italian/Indian nation who has a mission tree
Restore Rûm
Avar Khagnate
Restore Trebizond Empire
On the Rhodes Again
Good King Renê
Russian Minor
African Power
 
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There's still so much for you to do.

Unify Japan as a minor
Form Lotharingia as Burgundy, dominate Europe and England
Stay as Burgundy, have France and Austria as vassals (completes an achievement forget which)
Form the Netherlands as Dutch minors, recreate the Dutch Empire, enforce the Anglo-Dutch Union
OPM to Swabia to HRE
OPM to Bavaria to HRE
Do the Re-Reconquista as Andalusia
Control all Coptic holy sites as a Coptic nation
Play as Denmark, conquer Scandinavia, dominate the Baltic, reinstitute Danelaw in Britain, found glorious colonies
Unify Ireland, break Britain up into several small vassals (the Isles, Scotland, Northumberland, England, Wales, Cornwall), become a major player in European politics and/or establish glorious Irish colonies
Survive as Theodoro or Trebizond
Survive as Novgorod
Form Hindustan instead of Bharat
Start as Afghanistan and form the Mughals
Start as Afghanistan, form the Mughals and go for the True Heir of Timur achievement (this one is insane!)
Form the Marathas
Survive as Wallachia, form Romania, complete Dracula's Revenge

It goes on and on really. Personally I'm waiting for the SEA update.
 
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Great horde -> Golden horde -> Mongolian empire -> world conquest
Timurids -> Mughal Empire -> world conquest
Ryukyu -> world conquest (Three mountains)
Ayuthaya -> conquest of Indo-China
Toungoo -> Become the empire by conquering Burma
Serbia -> Unifying the balkans
Delhi -> Restoration of your imperial borders
Ethiopia -> Conquest of the holy lands
Any HRE OPM
Any Italian nation
Morocco -> Beating Castilians and Portugese and conquering africa
Tunis -> conquering back the Carthaginian lands and rape the shit out of Italians
The Knghits & Papal state -> DEUS VULT
 

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Kilwa --> Try to colonize the new world before Castille and Portugal. Its interesting the first time.

France --> found the fleur de lis shogunate and make the whole world your Daimyos.

The first one is moderately challenging.

The second one is bizarre but still entertaining.
 

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My method:

Look through the achievement list, find a few things that pique your interest (either countries to play as or goals), look for other things you can tie into that.

Recently I skimmed through at thought that playing as Qara sounded interesting for a more laid back game (and I had repeatedly played Catholics since emperor came out (the Anglicanism event never fired when I played England to finally knock out Anglophile so I ended up Catholic Britain, yech) but not a complete pushover. I then saw it was a good choice to form Persia and complete their achievement. And by then I will able to just fight a few more wars to form the caliphate.

I even did this before I would play on Ironman, because without a clear direction to work for it isn’t going anywhere.

As to specific suggestions mibe are always:

1) Reform the Mongol Empire as Mongolia (if you aren’t confidant playing hordes Oirat is an alternative but not as cool).
2) Take a middle tier Indian power (since you played Vijay, I would recommend a Muslim one) and conquer India
 

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Confucian Mughals, Harmonize all Religions while assimilating all culture groups. With proper planning you can do Lost Cultures as well. If you want even more difficulty, do a True-One-Tag.
 
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Play as a German minor? be the only country to colonize the world with the Netherlands?? play as an African-Native American Minor??

Seconded on the Netherlands part - you're playing a semi-HRE game in the early period, so you can't irritate the Emperor toooo much prior to leaving. You also have your colonial game to play, the 'dominate the Channel Node' game, and your 'don't let France squash me' game to play. It's a surprisingly busy, fun campaign.
 

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Formed the British Empire at it's height
Conquered Europe as Rev. France
Made everyone my petit chien (PU) as Austria
Formed Russian Empire at it's height
Destroyed the Russians as PLC
Screwed over North Europe as Sweden
Colonized the whole world as Spain and Portugal
Formed Italy and Roman Empire
Save scummed my game 87 times as Byzantium
Formed India as VJJ
Changed leadership of the Chinese Empire from Ming to Qing
United Africa as Mali
Ottos too easy
Got 150% discipline as Prussia

Any good suggestions for a campaign?
Looking at your list of nations I think you're bored because you keep playing powerhouse nations (unless you played a opm in Italy like Lucca).

Try something harder like playing Provence or Nevers, forming the Netherlands starting as an opm, going for the 500 province Najd achievement, form the sultanate of Rum as Karaman, playing Norse raiders on the island of Sicily (that one is fun).

And you can always make things more challenging by playing on Very Hard as well!

I find that when things are too easy is when it gets boring.
 
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Some personal recommendations, easier achievements are higher in the sublists, so you may want to play them on harder difficulties)

Horde:
Kazan -> Tartarstan
Great Horde -> Gold Rush -> Great Khan

Balkans:
Hungary -> Take that Von Habsburgs!
Moldavia -> Dracula's Revenge (Similar to Serbian start but arguably easier)
Serbia -> Lazarus

Middle East & Persia:
Qara Qoyunlu -> Baa Baa Black Sheep Have U.N.E. Pull?
Mamluks -> The Levant Turnabout -> Arabian Coffee
Ardabil -> Shahanshah -> This is Perisa!
Karaman -> A Hero's Welcome
Trebizond -> Komnenoi Empire
Aq Qoyunlu -> Rise of the White Sheep (Short but difficult)
Hisn Kayfa -> Saladin's Legacy (currently playing this as my first hard campaign lotta fun if you like the diplo game and playing oppurtunistically

Magrheb:
Tunis -> Sons of Carthage
Granada -> Re-Reconquista
Fezzan -> Fezzani Corridors

India: (These all start in an already strong position, so they might be more fun at higher difficulties)
Bengal -> Bengal Tiger
Mewar -> Mewar Never Changes
Delhi -> Emperor of Hindustan (gameyway of doing this is by dowing your own vassals which i found out while playing doesn't call their supporters of independence for some reason, idk if that's been fixed yet)

New World (might wanna weight for the new world patch but aside from a lack of missions these nations are still p cool w/ the constant war followed by building up for the European threat):
Huestec -> League of Mayapan
Cuzco -> A Sun God
Aztec -> Sunset Invasion