Well, this is my latest game... I only could become this big in this game, nothing compared with other empires I saw here (how the he** you do that? The infamy kills my ¬¬)
I started as Vijayanagar, a quick battle against Orissa and now I have 3 vassals, few war against Deccan and Celyon and I form the Hindustan in 1433.
After that, with a lot of cores to claim, I expand quickly and I earn a lot of negative prestige ^^ In the year 1471 Industan has claimed almost all their cores and in 1500 has expanded "eating" Tibet and some Timurid provinces.
But, what's next? With Russian watching me in the north I only can wensternize to the eastern tech group and the European countries don't come to asia, so if Mahoma doesn't go to the mountain... Then I found a little Rangusa, only one province with few allies, I attacked and after an horribly log journey from asia to europe I annexed.
And yes! I finally become a western country (millitary and tech) in 1606, only need to get a possitive stability and defeat the revolutions. Then: expand, defeat Wu, Xia, etc. and after a couple of bloody wars agains Russia my empire become bigger.
And nothing too much different in the next years, Russia trying to kick my ass, some european countryes that wanna get something from me and my expansion to the east, finnishing the game with this empire:
And the world looks like this:
Well, that is my lattest game little history. What do you think?