Take that Hapsburgs achievement run. I feel like if I was better at the game, it could have been a WC, but I was just happy pulling this off.
No long explanation on this one, I don't think it's necessary. This has been a personal challenge for a while now. I wanted to get better at EU4 and before I started specifically going for achievements the two nations I decided I would try to get good at the game with were Hungary & Morocco. Hungary missions give you PUs over all Eastern Europe and I wanted to finish it. With 100 years left I did.
Couple of things I did learn from this one.
1. States Generals are the mark of death if you want to retain your PUs.
2. If you go orthodox before completing the Bohemia PU mission, you will not join the HRE.
3. The weaken Austria mission isn't great, because unless they've been hit previously, if Bohemia goes, they become emperor. The last hundred years of this game has been me trying to eat them.
4. Lots of people say it, but few people understand it, at least I didn't. It's ok to lose a war, in some ways it can even be a good thing. I got Dow'd very early on by the Ottos and despite having a number advantage with allies, I had to take the defeat. I still fought them to make sure they only took two provinces, but they were still going to win. That's how it be with the Ottos in the first 50 years. They've got the pips and at most, if you are lucky, you will be able to match them with Moral and Discipline, but not with anything else. Give them way they want and build up. Dev where you can, build to force limit and be ready for the next one.
All in all, a fun run, but I'm not sure I'll take it the last stretch. I'm feeling pretty burnt out and at points I've started to become lazy. I'll just throw stacks of a 120,000 men everywhere and ignore the casualties. If I do go any further it will be for the 1 million soldiers achievement.