Then, of course, you're in control of the highest concentration of high development provinces by 1660-1680 if you time your AE right.

However this also means that without building Humanist ideas and maintaining Religious unity, you're in for hordes of rebels.Ī lot of people argue that Venice is OP for its end trade node, but I'm actually more of a fan of building Italy from the ground up as Ferrara/Tuscany and using both end-trade nodes in Genoa and Venice. Ottomans are OP for their coring ideas and manpower and their location + size makes it easy to stretch the empire in several directions without aggressive expansion stacking by attacking to the Southeast, Northeast, and West in rotation to allow for AE to fall off. Keep in mind that even the most OP ideas fall victim to themselves.