Might make thd Netherlands the home of the Industrial Revolution because of their vast colonial empire and independence from French domination. Ternate 26 パプア Papuan 中国 Chinese 広東 Cantonese 越 Yue 56 ステート維持費-20% 贛 Gan 寧 Ning 33 客家 Hakka 淮 Huai 42 湖北 Hubei 西 Xi 43 江淮 Jianghuai 明 Ming 110 晋 Jin 晋 Jin 60 満州 Manchu 満州 Manchu-*5 苗 The first step that Ternate can make is rivalling and fabricating claims on Tidore, to the south. And then of course there's the question of China. The player should attack Tidore as soon as possible and shall not restrain from the use of m… I'm considering putting together a continuation mod for Vicky 2.
Push your way into SE Asia and into Africa.
Probably quite a few in some of the regional capitals as well, like Manila, Ternate, Pahang, Palembang, Brunei, Makassar, Kirikiriroa and Heiltsuk. Ming and I helped too (as Jaunpur allied the Ottomans). It was pretty fun.
Don't have too many vassals as you are quite weak and probably wont be able to control them early on. China and Ternate have been allies for quite a while now, but the recent absorption of most of Malacca into the Ternatean vassal of Pasai (as well as the creeping influence of Pasai into southern Burma) might cause tensions. The first step that Ternate can make is rivalling and fabricating claims on Tidore, to the south. The lack of proper fortifications in a lot of the outer Pacific Islands (virtually all of Ternate's forts are in the Indonesian islands, not on any of the Pacific islands or Australasia) would make seizures of them by the Europeans comparatively easy, though Ternate also has an impressive navy.
Later, consider Trade to build a powerful trade empire for boatloads of ducats, and Expansion for the additional colonist and settler increase, plus a merchant and some trade bonuses. My second bureaucratic leader actually lived for 70 years, netting me the Live Long and Prosper achievement. They formed Japan. Italy got united under the Venetians after their trade league went away, then allied with Muscovite Russia. On the subject of Andalusia, that too was pretty crazy. So the French, with all that manpower and money from England, the Rhineland and the New World, went Charles Martel on their faces. I made Pasai my vassal and had them hold the Straits of Malacca (but I kept the tiny island off the tip of Malaya for myself); they had over 250 development by the end, giving me the Powerful Subject age goal. It is very easy to get the Turn the Table achievement as Ternate. Try not to piss Ming off too much as they are much more powerful than you. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about Paradox Interactive games and of the company proper. It did make it more or less impossible to take all of Malacca (a Ming tributary), though; I had to do what I could with the times they were dumb enough to ally Jaunpur before a Sino-Indian war.
They also lost England itself, but held on in Scotland and Ireland.
After all, when you have an empire that big (and a queen regent who gives zero cares about administration), the bureaucracy are going to smell blood.
Oh, one other thing. No cb war against OPMS? I rolled with it, since it made sense from an RP sense, in a way.