I just today started an playthrough as the Ottoman empire with the Historical project mod!
Early phase 1836-60
In the start we`re already at war with Libya,i quickly defeat them and annexed them in about 2 years. (they refused to accept peace offers so i had to annex every province with 13 troops)
Later on i honestly didnt have anything to do until i gained repay debts cbs on random south american nations. I instanly decleared war on them but they sent a peace almost instantly.
Then the intresting war with egypt started,Russia (ally) and my puppets joined and so did the United kingdom against Egypt .The war lasted until the point i could get all my cores from Egypt and puppet them(i didnt accept the surrender event,-10 prestige)
During the 50s a crisis occured,grecce demanding its cores. It was me,Russia, The uk and Austria vs France,Prussia and the USA somehow. The crisis escelated to a war and my side with massive struggle won.I managed to take parts of French north africa and cut Prussia down in size!
During the 60s i fougt alot of random wars.Managed to annex Persia plus somw random arab countries and parts of Hejdas (Mecca and Medina) I lost most of my allies though. I gained tons of Prestige from researches
Now currently its the 70's and i annexed my Armenian,Kurdish and eastern turkish spheres who had Ottoman cores. I recently did an Genocide wich removed a minority (dont want to say who lol) but gained shittons of infamy. i'm scared someone will decleare a contaiment war on me and others will follow suit
In the Future i'm planning to genocide a religious minority and Trouble the Europeans in africa
I'm currently the 4th Great power,i have a massive army,and a medium navy and tons of prestige. I'm lacking in industry and have some economical issues mostly with debt.