Don't really do much game playing these days other than fiddle around with grand strategy games. That said, those games still manage to be a fantastic time sink!
Europa Universalis IV - Meissner Porcelain Achievement Run - It's the very early 1700s, playing as Saxony, and I'm currently smashing the Ming and "Japan" (for some reason the AI-controlled Daimyo of Ouchi conquered all of Japan, yet declined to take the Japanese throne). The goal of the campaign is to control every province that produces Chinaware, which is found only in China, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and Japan...as Saxony (which starts smack dab in the middle of Germany).
A quick summary of events to this point:
Loaded the game up as Saxony (kind of required for the achievement) in the 1444 start date and immediately started internal Holy Roman Empire politics! Allied France (because it's the unstoppable baguette of doom), Poland, and 2 of the Electors. Spent the first few years eating territory from the bigger HRE princes, without full annexing anyone, while waiting for the first election. Austrian Emperor dies and Saxony becomes Emperor. Yay. Spend the next several DECADES squashing internal HRE wars and force-releasing any HRE prince that was vassalized, expanding into Bohemia and Austria (to get access to the non-HRE countries of Hungary and Poland), and just generally passing Imperial Reforms and increasing my own territory (again without annexing anyone). Somewhere in this time period I picked up Offensive ideas (can't go wrong with early god-tier Generals and stupidly good Policies that Offensive unlocks).
Start eating into Hungary by the late 1400s, just before the horrible Reformation hits. The Reformation fired around 1510, and I made the stupid mistake of switching to Protestantism right away. This caused me to lose the Imperial throne (to lowly one-province minor Anhalt, of all things). To get my revenge, I take Religious ideas, and immediately start Holy Wars with just about everyone. This lets me eat more land for cheap plus force convert all those heretical Catholics. In the meantime, I continue annexing land to the East, eating most of Hungary and the Balkans until I'm bordering the Ottoman Empire.
Around 1560 or so, the Religious Leagues unlock. I immediately join the Protestant League, wait for my allies (i.e. France) to join on my side, and declare war on poor little Anhalt. The 30 Years War lasts more like 5, and I force convert every HRE prince that dared join the Catholic League. With Protestantism entrenched, I am again crowned Emperor. I continue the HRE politics and eventually pass Revoke the Privilege. This is why keeping as many princes around as possible pays off: by passing this reform, I now have 54 vassal princes, each with an army of about 10,000. With my Zerg swarm, it is time to eat the Kebab.
I Holy War the Ottomans and watch as my horde completely obliterates and full occupies the Ottoman Empire within a span of 2-3 years. Too bad peace deals cap at 100% warscore. I eat territory all the way to the Timurids (somehow they haven't imploded) and spend the rest of my warscore releasing minor nations to keep Kebab busy. From here, its a succession of fast, easy Holy Wars to crunch through the Timurids (releasing Afghanistan along the way), Yarkand, and Mongolia to make a beeline to the Orient. I reach the western edges of the Ming in the mid-late 1600s (about 1670).
Ming is huge, but stupidly fragile. I've taken multiple Military Ideas by this point (Offensive, Defensive, and Quality); I have Western Technology versus their Chinese Technology, so they are consistently about 4-5 Military Tech levels behind (which usually leads to about a 0.5 Tactics advantage, or roughly 50% military effectiveness advantage; and I have a vassal swarm of 500,000 troops or so (Ming can field an army of about 70,000). Despite that, Ming has enough provinces to equal around 500% warscore, so it'll take several wars (with a 15 year truce between each war) to fully devour them.
The first war goes easy enough, as expected, and I take provinces that lead to Chinaware, and end up bisecting Ming. I then notice during the truce period that Ming starts to collapse to rebels, releasing the nations of Shu and Wu. They also lose some of their southern territory to Spain (two of which contain Chinaware, so Spain is going to be a future enemy). I Holy War Shu and Wu and take what Chinaware provinces I can from them.
My truce with Ming expires and I eat all their provinces bordering Spain (preventing Spain from expanding further) and reach a border with Dai Viet. My truces with Shu and Wu also then expire, so I Holy War them again and take more of their land. At this point, I have all the Chinaware provinces in China proper, minus the ones Spain holds. This leaves about three
Next steps: Holy War on Dai Viet to start the conquest of southeast Asia (which will also get me closer to Malacca/Indonesia). I will also Holy War Japan, but that will require a navy (of which I do not have, having started as a landlocked German prince and not having much access to the water until just recently). Given that it's still the early 1700s, I should easily knock out the achievement requirements before the game ends in about 120 years.
