I've noticed myself ending a lot of games early lately, and decided I wanted to play one to the end this time. I'm doing a Milan -> Italy run (as Ambrosia republic). It is 1750ish, and I currently control most of France and Iberia, as well as all of mainland Italy, the Caribbean, Venezuela, Brazil, and the Ivory Coast. I'm swimming in ducats (net 400 a month) and have like 3k development, so doing well in the campaign isn't a problem.

I wanted to try to full annex Spain and Portugal to inherit their colonies since I recently realized that's something you can do. However, I'm struggling to even want to continue the campaign. Every time I carve up a colonizer, a whole bunch of nations guarantee their independence. They aren't even close enough to get any AE, but for some reason Vijay, GB, Andhra, and Thicc Gelre (it's a thing) all decide to guarantee the independence of spain, france, etc. I can't be fucked to micro all my armies and fleets to the other side of the world to wack some forts because apparently India wants some reverse colonialism. It barely matters at this point since Mexico and the US have seceded from Spain, but I want to do it anyways on principle.

Not to mention the fact that GB's fleet seems near invincible. Am I supposed to swap an idea group to like Naval or something? I just don't see how I can defeat their navy, even when I outnumber them with heavy ship spam they have like twice my moral and 50% fleet engagement width so I just get shredded.

Bit of a rant but I wanted to hear some of your thoughts and maybe get some tips on dealing with this in the late game.

Oh, and while waiting for truce timers, Mughals sieged down Spain and claimed Sicily despite being a world away. That was a bit of a tilter.