Decided I hadn't played Plurple in a while. Started off marvellously. Ottoderps gun down Albania first, ignore me. But they're too late and Venice gets Albania instead while Ottomans get a couple of provinces from Serbia. Give's me time to ally Trebizond (every little bit helps), Hungary and Lithuania (Poland declined the PU). Venice also ignores me. Call in Hungary for Land, attack Ottomans while they are surprisingly not doing very well against QQ. Lithuania and Austria not being in the war helps scar off Venice from ganking me. War goes decently well against Ottomans, they annex Trebizond but I manage to take back Thessaly, Macedonia, and Edirne. Regroup and attacked after next truce, and I work myself back to getting all the Greek provinces back from Ottomans as well as a handful of Anatolian provinces. Haven't managed to get the Slavic lands north back yet.
I manage to get Albania, Corfu, Naxos and Negroponte from the Venetians through opportunistic wars, but can't get Crete, Ragusa, or Dalmatia from them due to an alliance with Castille and Provence (who were in a three way battle with Burgundy and England to divide up France who lost the 100 Years War). Also, wars against Ottomans stop because they've allied Russia and Persia. Russia is friendly to me so they won't get called into a war against me, and I at this point have Austria, Hungary, Poland and Lithuania as allies, so they won't attack me either. Doesn't leave me many options.
Forces me to No CB (Best CB) Tunis, where I take their capital and the small ilsland (Djerba). Anything more I can't stomach because of hostile coring cost increase making me want to murder small animals. Instead, I release and diplo-vassalize a Berber minor that never lasts very long (Djerid). Force them to covert to Orthodox and use them to core and convert North Africa for me. After this, Ottomans come to Russia's aid in beating down a surprisingly well performing Great Horde. Here's my chance. Russia loves me, so it only takes a bit of war exhaustion for them to deny Kebab's call to arms. I call in Austria and Lithuania (Hungary and Poland decided to fight each other), put Kebab down for good. Immediately I ally Russia after the war so Ottoman's don't restart their alliance. This all happens by about 1550. Over the next 150 years, I systematically wipe the Mamluks and Ottomans from the Near East.
Fast forward to where I am now, 1741. Own all of North Africa east of Morocco, all the Balkans with the exception of Croatia, all of Anatolia, Lower Egypt, the Holy Land, most of Iraq, parts of northern Persia, Crimea, Georgia, and Armenia. I reign over Lithuania in personal union, somehow still managing to keep Russia as an ally despite them coveting my land. Most importantly, I have all of Italy south of Tuscany, Corsica, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands, Catalonia as a vassal, and Gibraltar and the Canary Islands for good measure. Hopefully in these last 80 years I can turbo through the rest of Europe to form the Roman Empire. Haven't managed to do that yet despite trying to do so as some states with much more powerful starting positions.