im having the most succesfull game ever..
as turkey i started to build up a force as large as possible..
i took loans and all the shit..
within 5 years i had a huge battleforce
in 1 massive war , georgia , 2 provinces of persia , moldavia , wallachia , hungary , venice and the knights where conquered
lots of peace after that year.. i fortified a lot of new one provinces and with the money gained i was able to pay all my made debts..
i started out a second large war
this time naples , papal states , parma , and tuscany where defeated.. i had one year of peace ( but i was in state of war with the mameluks and persia but kinda run out of troops in the east of my nation , i managed to annex them both.. , as a result of an alliance with astrakhan wich declared war at me shortly after i finally reached peace after the second huge war ( bit jealous m8 ?) bohemia , sachsen , brandenburg and poland-lituania declared war on me , i had lots of money but my army was decimated to only about 100.000 troops left wich still remained mostly in the newly gained territories in the east
the joined austria-bohemia-polish/lithuanian armies totally destroyed the few troops i had left in europe
and marched on till the line of naples, albania , dobruja , bulgaria
where i managed to deploy a reasonable army of 150.000 troops..
i was up against a huge force of almost 300.000 soldiers of the enemy alliance.. luckily almost half of them where located in the italian part of my empire where i did not had any troops yet
after a few huge battles i was succesfull over the alliance armies and in about 2 years of massive warfare had driven them back to the out provinces of my realm.
the enemy army in italy was about 50.000 troops this time ( most forces where pulled out to reinforce the armies in the balkans)
when i prepared an italian army of 80.000 troops ready.. i gave them one of my best generals at the time being and marched to war.
the result was devastating i had suffered only 13.000 casualities while my enemy had less then 18.000 troops left
the italian line quickly joined the balkanline , quickly advancing into the borders of my foes. austria resigned first , losing 3 of her best provinces , poland-lithuania short after after losing 1 province , bohemia and sachsen unfortunatly didnt accept any of my peace proposals and were both annexed.
beware of the turkish empire!!!!!