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My Delhi Sultanate in the MEIOU mod. If things look very different to you, that's because they are very different in this mod. Many, many, many new provinces, events, and other things to contend with, not to mention a somewhat broken nomadic system, that is set to be fixed in the next release of the mod (no country that borders the nomads can get any colonists right now). Additionally, the mod combines the Dei Gratia mod that enables various new religions and provincial minority religions, and SRI AI that makes countries behave in a somewhat more sensible way.
The year is 1563 or something, the Sultanate controls most of the subcontinent, save for one bit on the northern end of Sri Lanka. I've started going on expeditions of conquest to take over Indo-china, slowly but steadily, but Ayutthaya is surprisingly more powerful than it looks, due to sheer province density and the wealth of it's trade goods, and a high population density. My large multiethnic empire is prone to revolt in the assorted provinces, and thus I cant bring my full forces to bare against them, and the war which won me a great deal of the territory between the Ganges and the current border with Ayutthaya came at great cost of manpower and time. Worryingly, once I had taken that region over, they swiftly began consolidating their control over the region, annexing a few small neighbors and reaching down into Malacca.
Since the border is fairly narrow, it shouldn't be too hard to hold. I could probably ruin the country for a long period of time if I could dedicate all of my armies to the job. However, even if rebellion wasn't a problem, the other, more pressing one is my neighbor to the North. Insane, unstoppable, uncountable, unyielding nomads united under the great Kazakh Khanate. I can hold them back, as they have a real hard time invading through the Hindu Kush mountain ranges, and the Himalayas provide another insurmountable obstacle in the form of wasteland provinces, but I can't really push through and start really hurting them. They've just plain got too many men.
And I've got a standing army of 130,000. But I know their secret. Soon, Kazakhs, Soon, I WILL have ALL your potassium.