The Greatest Vlad Playthrough there ever was - Turn 9 - 34 settlements - No exploits

I'm playing on Ironman, maxed out difficulties, no mods, no settlement trading, doing everything live so no tricky reloads or RNG rigging, just some good old-fashioned tryharding

20 hours into the playthrough, mid turn 9 with 34 settlements, by the end of the turn I expect that number will be closer to 40. Aiming for turn 15 Long Victory

Turn 8 was insane, and it continued into turn 9, so far since the beginning of the turn 30k gold profit, and it's not even done... Also 7 Blood Kisses away from having 150% additional campaign line of sight (AKA maphack), Battle stats: 69 Victories, 1 TACTICAL Defeat (I tried to do the second Vlad quest with underprepared army too soon, no regrets, conceded on time not to lose any of the units and we got 3k experience for the trouble!)

Minor errors made in the campaign, I'd say so far 2, any ones that were impactful or that delayed progression, so far 0