Need help playing Georgia

[HybridRifter]

I don't usually come on her for advice, but I am stumped at this point and need some help....

Started a game as Georgia. The opening moves are quite obvious, and I lucked out with the King of Imereti dying very quickly and annexed Samtskhe in the following PU war. I then quickly turned to my east and annexed Shirvan. I know I have other avenues of expansion, especially now that Shirvan lands are under my control, but my concern is allies. Qara Qoyunlu is going to attack me, and their army is 2 to 3 times larger than mine. In games I played as Georgia before, I could ally Muscovy, but now their laundry list of negative modifiers to an alliances, or even a marriage, are too long to overcome at the moment for me. Poland is not an option either for the same reason.

Anyone come up with a solution to this problem when they played Georgia? (since the CoC DLC)

 

[Sfan]

Could you give us screenshots?
And a screenshot of the diplo macrobuilder to see who you can ally?

Usually, you have free expansion towards Circassia and other minors around. And usually, QQ is unstable, albeit less than before, so if you defend in mountains you can drag their WE and wait for rebels, they are still religiously disunified early on. I would be more concerned with the Ottomans if they do well. And it's a bit strange you can't ally Muscovy, what are the modifiers? Just them being over their relation limit? If so, you can ally them once they annex their first vassal.

 

[durbal]

Grab the Persian trade node, take Circassia for Cossacks estate, rival Great Horde to get friendly relations with Muscovy and ally them, take out QQ. All of these things in sometimes different order depending on your start.

 

[Shinkuro Yukinari]

If you blob up a bit you should be able to RM and ally Muscovy