After usual conquest achievements finally time to the must fun of any new achievements,
So finally I have more dev than Ottomans!
So this is my very sandy empire, with Fars, Arabia, Mikhlaf and Hormuz as vassals
Developing desert provinces is fun.
Most of Arabian peninsula is 30+ dev
Of course I went Oman even though it has no dev reduction in ideas, but it has this lovely feudal theocracy with magical -20%. Hormuz vassalised for Maliki school of Islam, so for the price of about 350 adm and 50 diplomana I was able to cheaply develop even interior provinces to 30+.
Actually I was close pre 1600, missing sth like 80 dev to Ottos, but then Ottos went really really mad expanding to even 2400 dev at peak. Ausria, Hungary, Venice, half of italy completely removed
So I was forced to war war war. Mine 250k vs Ottos 600k and noone even was eager to help, as my forever ally Mewar didn't want to due to distance.
And Omani ideas are very "warfriendly". I don't remember being stackwiped so often
First very suicidal war - taken one province, no manpower.
Second - white peace, no mapower
Third - Spain finally agreed to ally, joined, but never did anything. White peace
At least at that moment Ottos was finally at 0% professionalism with 100+ merc.
And then I was finally able to ally someone from the north, who already lost most of Polish provinces to Ottoblob and did not like Otomans any more. He had quality, I had numbers, together (and later also Mewar) we made 5 wars of releasing nations, returning cores and so on.
Meet my fav friend!
Paradox! i want more such unusual achiebvements!