It took a while to color the world and 4 tries to figure out how to deal with Thrace at the start. As Kios, it seems that the early game was easier.
The king has, of course, all bloodlines of the world and I could recreate Alexanders Empire when it does not matter. And I canform Germany for any reason but I need 65 stability which I am not going to do in this run XD
Earlier attemps failed since after Antigonids disapper it become hostile to me and i was waiting to start a was agaist Paphlagonia with 50 stability. This time I clicked monachy decition to get a free claim after migration and got on Paphlagonia which was super handy. Since Thrace is friedly before Antigonids collapse I allied them and invited to my war. Since their army was in Asia they could not come home to defend their territory and Antigonids destroyed their economy and Thrace decided to release Pergamon instead of grabbing that territory to themselves. Despite Thrace got back their capital and conquered Pella they were super weak letting me to expand into Pergamon and Greece.
I recreated mostly territory of Byzantine Empire in Europe and Asia Minor before I eventually imperial challenged Seleucids which solved my financial isues to start organizing legions. Then I took Egypt. And after some pause Rome.
Then I wanted to take Carthage but barbarians got mad constantly declaring war on me forcing me to expend into them because they were annoying having no chance to win. After eventual extinction of main barbarian annoyers I finally destroyed Carthage and cleaned the rest of the map exept Pathia and "Green Maurya" existed. "Green Mayria" did unreal job to assimilate almost all volks in India which was quite handy to integrate their primary culture before invasion. Ialso managed to created some legions.
And then Tamilland ( I do not remember exact nme) owned Maldives and I know that Maldives are buggy and I could not take that province via one war. Then i decided to sell a bit territory to Tamilland to make them suitable for imperial challenge. But I managed to sell them Phrygia somehow as well bringing war to Asia Minor as well, XD. But there were no forts then that sudden front of the war fell fast.
Can you show pops? Well done!
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Some previous attemp to post images went weird. I posted them again
https://imgur.com/a/XC41a8L
https://imgur.com/gallery/mithridatic-pops-2-XC41a8L