Finally got this achievement.
It was fun, but also super annoying, 'cause I had barely played with a horde before. I had tried Kazan a long time ago because of their ideas, but couldn't make it work back then and I tried to get this achievement before with Manchu, but I crashed and burned (bankruptcy) so it was my first time playing long with a horde.
I began by attacking Nogai in December 11 (I think they were allied to Uzbek and Biapas or just Biapas.) Took some land, then saw Muscovy fighting against Novgorod, so I attacked them and took Nizhny Novgorod, Kasimov, Vladimir and Yuriev (two centers of trade), money and reparations. Embraced Feudalism from that money and provinces.
Then I attacked the Great Horde (I allied Crimea and called them in, this is 1460) and took their centers of trade, a few more provinces and their money. You can actually attack the Great Horde at the start of the game and steamroll them by calling Crimea in (you need to hire a morale advisor to "raise" your armies strength and hire a diplo rep advisor, then you can ally Crimea in November 12.)
As soon as I could I allied the Ottomans and began munching at my surroundings. Ate Ryazan first, vassalized Tver during that war as well, then killed the Great Horde, kept attacking Muscovy every 15 years and 100% peacing them out. I released Kazakh from two Nogai's provinces to managa AE.
I started eating the Caucasus and saw the Timmies dying, so I allied Ajam, attacked QQ with their help promising land (gave them nothing) and beelined until Basrah. Attacked Fars then and took one neighbouring provinces that was a core form the Timurids, razed it and gave sold it to them (otherwise the economy modifier wouldn't have let me diplo vassalize them) and got them as my vassal.
I also attacked Georgia, fully annexed them and released them (was probably not the best choice.) Afterwards I began annexing Georgia (to whom I gave their rightful cores that were under my enemies control) and Tver.
By 1500 I had slightly rebellious vassals, had around 400 development and was drowning in debt. I had already boxed Muscovy in, so no one was going to eat them and with the help of the Ottomans I had attacked Poland-Lithuania and took a bunch of provinces. In 1527 I went bankrupt. I thought I had the Ottomans protection, but they backstabbed me when Denmark attacked me and they didn't join the war, because I had recently annexed a vassal so my reputation was shit. War against Denmark was easy, even took Stockholm and a fort from them while I was bankrupt. Thanksfully the Ottomans didn't really hate me, so after the bankruptcy penalties went away I re-allied them.
Then I took the Timmies cores back, same for Kazakh and began annexing them (I was annexing the Timmies for around a 100 years, as they had a bit more than 500 dev after taking his cores back.) Kept attacking Muscovy, attacked Poland once more and starting stretching to China.
By almost 1600 I was finally making some money. I was earning around 80-90 ducats a month with 50 coming from trade. Had flipped to Orthodox and everything was going perfectly fine. I released Sweden and took its cores back with the help of the Ottos (Denmark had allied France.) Kind of annoying was a Ottoman-Polish war where the Ottomans made Poland my tributary and that almost cost me my alliance with them as they wanted a bunch of Polish land and where rivaling them just before. I was only able to save the alliance by ditching Medina as a tributary (the Ottomans also wanted their land.)
Then I started attacking China and rotating to India when I had too many truces in China (by 1500 there was no Ming left) and then at some point a coalition formed. I thought, "No biggie, they won't attack me as the Ottos have like 120k troops and the second nation with the most troops has only 70k") but then the coalition declared war and the Ottos didn't join. The war was super easy, but I already had a lot of AE with the Ottomans, and because I had been going crazy and wasn't paying attention to the AE, another coalition formed and the Ottomans joined it. This was 1650 or so. They attacked me and for some reason Poland joined the war (they were only my tributary, so I found it super weird as they were fighting with me and not attacking the Ottomans on their own.) This war was also easy. Only the Ottos were slightly difficult, but their troops didn't have much morale, so they always lost the battles. Here I was kind of pissed so I made the Ottomans my tributary here (but I can't make them loyal, as giving them gifts costs 1.4k a piece and I don't have that much money, and their have 1.3k dev and because of that a +230 liberty desire.) Two Indian wars later, I finally took the 200th province and got the achievement.
Also got the Tartastan achievement, where you have to have all of the provinces in the Tartar culture group. Took me a while because I was allied to Crimea for a long time and I kind of forgot about them , Nogai and Uzbek for a few decades.
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And now I'm finally earing more money than the Ottomans (they are still filthy rich though.)
Half of my army came from the Timmies (they had 87k when I annexed them) and even then I had to disband a lot of troops to manage my economy.
The siege pip that aristocratic gives you is godly + cav combat ability is good for hordes. Religious because I went Orthodox, trade because hordes are dirt poor in the beginning, admin for the CCR, quality for the discipline and quality-religious policy that gives you 5% morale and 10% siege ability. This ideas also give you a ton of trade efficient, trade bonuses and even another merchant. Only one Trade Company is giving me a merchant now.
Poland and the Ottomans are my tributaries, but they would both be Great Powers, if independent.
Funnily enough, there HRE is catholic, because Bohemia kept being Catholic even though all of their provinces where Protestant for like 30 years. After a war with Poland they went Protestant and the Emperorship went to Brandenburg. Spain got Austria and Wallachia as a PU at more or less the same time. Had to fight GB and Poland-Lithuania to get the PUs, but got them and kept them and that's when Bohemia became the emperor.
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