Been over a month so I started a new game as one province Ragusa. Or rather restarted, since the first game was a bad start. No good allies and the Ottomans invaded Serbia.

Second try is off to a good start, I got friendly with Hungary and Poland. Within the first year or so the Ottomans went after Venice for their islands, so I took the opportunity to gut Bosnia and Serbia for their land. That's really all I want at the moment, land. I'm holding off on tech and trade, just dumping all my points into development. I'm going to be facing off against at least three big empires (Ottomans, Hungary and Austria) so I'll need a large tax base and a lot of manpower.

Down the line I'd like to carve out a Balkan realm, become a kingdom and start colonising the East!