Oh. I'll talk about my grand campaign on Empire Total War then.
I'm Russia, playing the long campaign, which means I'm supposed to controll 30 regions by the end of the 18th century.
As my relationship with Sweden was not-so-good (which it's not in real life either.
) I started off by giving away my largest, size-ways, but also one of my least populated regions to Sweden. Their attitude towards me is now "friendly" and I've avoided a war in both north
and south which would have been impossible to cope with.
My war in south was mainly about a rising tension between me and the military force the Ottoman Empire, and some smaller states as Georgia (And some others I can't remember.
), but them states all went down with small and swift attacks. My, or Pyotr I as I'm called's, Russian Empire now Bordered to Sweden in North and Persia in south. This is when the annoying part starts. I wanted to focus on the Ottoman Empire, but Persia kept declaring war, I managed to avoid it by giving them technology and paying them small amounts of money to stop them. I was fed up with it. So I decided to launch a massive attack; two armies consisting of 1000+ soldiers each. Persia was doomed.
After conquering Persia my empire now bordered to the Mughal Empire, so I made an alliance with them. Beating Persia also gave my economy a boost, as I know could expand my trading with other nations with two new docs. I also made an alliance with Austria who had conquered Poland-Lithuania and now bordered to me.
I'm now in year 1725-26 and I have the 3rd highest prestige I think, only behind UK and Prussia. My military and economy is doing great, my naval is not doing very great, though.
(I'm having problems with big nations I'm not at war with blocking my trade route.
)