So I finally got the Norwegian Wood achievement. I ended up starting a new game after the hotfixes for the recent patch came out.
Here are a couple images of the map for anyone else who likes to look at maps from other people's games:
and the world map:
The game ended with a final showdown between me and my stalwart ally France. While I had numerical superiority, the French army had 12% more discipline than me and 2 extra morale. I was also running dangerously low on manpower when I declared war. Luckily I had been able to steal the throne of a strong Milan in a succession war in the mid 1700's when Poland stood to inherit it. While France exhausted their manpower against Milanese and Hungarian troops in the alps, I was able to siege out several provinces, and with the arrival of my pacific fleet and their additional 50k troops, I was able to march on paris, assaulting fortresses as I went. France's army of 50k that had been dispactched north from the alps fled before my beleagured, but freshly reinforced army of about 150k
A couple interesting things with this map, The Ottomans had never lost a war, and held a vast empire that stretched from northern Ethiopia to southern Siberia, from Baluchistan to the eastern parts of Austria. In the 1790's I led my allies and vassals into war with them, including France, Netherlands, Milan, Hungary, and Lithuania. They had an army of over 300k with over 500k manpower, and a strong ally Crimea who added about 80k of their own troops. It was probably the most difficult war, and we only really seiged half of their territory, but after the peace deal their empire was struck by the revolution disaster, and they crumbled like a house of cards. You can see in the maps a bit of the extent of their territory, at one point everything south of me between Europe and India was all Ottoman and Crimean.
There was also a very successful AI Oriat Horde, which vassalised most of north Asia, and took over most of Timurids and took a good portion of northern India. Their expansion was only stopped when they ran into the Ottomans, and when I needed to take some of their naval supplies.