Finished Burgundy campaign today. I finally managed to decimate the colonial empires of old and not result in a new world that speaks only Spanish. Besides that, I played the HRE politics and generally acted as the Great Satan for the entire Western world, with the empire eventually covering most of Germany (though the Personal Unions with Brandenburg and Bavaria kinda mess up that pretty painted map; bizarro union was Prussia being in a union under Brandenburg, meaning personal union by proxy) as well as Bohemia, Silesia and Catalonia. Burgundy is also the Emperor, and the only Elector (best kind of elective monarchy), and I reformed the HRE up to Landfriede, since I wasn't going to exchange my cozy spot of many many bonuses for some German pricks while dealing with mounting penalties. De Bourgognes were the ruling house of Great Britain, Ireland and Brazil in addition to Burgundy (brief rule of Hungary also happened).
Now, since I decided to spend the rest of the game beating the living shit out of the Spanish in the 18th century, much lulz was had, but also the realization that if you want colonial revolts to succeed you gotta get your hands dirty and utterly demolish the former master. Spain got four massive wars with me as a result, but I enjoy the outcome on the map. For instance, there's a huge native culture kingdom of Mexico dominating center, half of South America belongs to La Plata, local imperialist power, and Brazil is my bro next to Burgundian Guyana-Brazil. Other lulz is Norwegian USA and Haiti AGAIN going all over the place when it revolts succesfully.
My own colonial game started late, with very little left for the taking. So, I did the only natural thing and took what I wanted, and then dealt with 100+% OE. But, having Burgundian South Africa and Burgundian Australia was worth it.
