Finally one final note on dynasties: the Tudor dynasty came to power in Russia in the 1500s and remained throughout the game. It eventually spread to Milan and France as well. Despite this, there were no PUs by anyone.

I did very little vassal feeding this time till the late game. I diplovassalized the Knights and fed them western Anatolia before annexing, and created three unanexxed client states: Central China in Yumen region, Adana in southern Anatolia, and Berlin in northern Germany, the latter two of which were only created in the past few years.

The standout AI of this game were Brandenburg, who nearly formed Germany, and Bahmanis, who did successfully form Hindustan and take over most of the subcontinent. Hindustan was against me in a war a couple times though I never actually fought them directly. The Mamluks and Shirvan also did very well with my help.

The reformation was very weak, mostly spawning in the HRE, and the league war ended in religious peace with me on the Catholic side. There are very few Protestant and Reformed provinces in the end, though Anglicanism is huge because of GB colonizing and conquering in the Americas.

Portugal became Revolutionary in the last decade or so.

Main allies throughout the game were GB and Brandenburg, the latter whom I only betrayed at the very end and the former who I always kept aside from a few interruptions. Shirvan and the Mamluks were also longtime allies through the mid and late game until the last 50 years or so. I was only able to conquer some of Shirvan due to having to stop short because of manpower issues, though I was in the middle of attacking them again in the end. Finally Milan and Austria were allies for a long time, though the latter was eventually betrayed, and France was a late game ally until the very end with the final Brandenburg war.

The Grand Russian Empire, possibly my last campaign played in 1.25. Started as Muscovy of course, expanding north and east. I didn't go too far into the steppes right away because Crimea was taken by the Ottomans, who I didn't want to face right away. Throughout the 1500s I mostly focused on consolidating Russia and going east, and taking over Siberia. The 1600s were largely focused on beating Poland, Lithuania, Denmark, and Bohemia. Much of that century was pretty rough because I constantly had around 4-7 loans for about 60 years. I finally tackled the Ottomans near the end of the century and crippled them in my first war, which they never recovered from and were doing very poorly for the rest of the game with rebels and debt. The 1700s saw expansion in all directions, going into China and Mongolia, Transoxiana, Persia, Italy, the Balkans and much of the Middle East, with some conquered colonies in the New World.