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Great tutorial as usual, i'd white peace out Ryazan, so that you can truce reset quicker with Novgorod. On the other note, the pronunciation of Russian area names, my ears hurt)
Yeah, that's a good point! Might be better just truce them! I didn't plan on warring them soon, which is why I went for the cash though. And I apologise for the pronunciations xD
I"ve been loving these guides! They are great for the early strategy to get set up. I'd be interested in seeing some more in-depth or late game type guides as well! I tend to have trouble knowing what to do once completing the initial expansions / colonization that take place in Age of Discovery and Reformation.
I had the same thought. Love to see some guides after some 100years, when u did some of the mission tree :) Keep Up the good Work. I enjoy all the starting guides aswell!
Great guide again! Moskovy was my favorite nation in the first few years after the game came out. I must have played them a hundred times, but then I moved on and haven’t touched them in a few years. Looks like a good time to dress for winter and break out the balalaika! I’m curious why you don’t keep a vassal or two around to eat the rest of Novgorod after the second war. Seems like that would save some more admin which can be used to help fill Religious ideas set.
Defensive ideas feel way better on Muscovy for me. Your country is essentially a continent, and it's nearly impossible to prevent the enemy from roaming through it, so getting Fort defense+maintance, land manouver, attrition etc is really great in draining an enemy without even fighing him. The policy with Religious is also nice, because it gives an additional +1 Attrition and +1 unrest on top. It feels kind of immersive seeing enemies starve and freeze to death in your large low dev provinces during the winter months. Bonus: Scorch earth for the full Soviet experience.
Religious has amazing policies usefull in mp for muscovy, I dont usually take defensive as first idea but with religious get get -unrest and more attrition for enemies which stacks on the attrition from defensive which makes mp invaders feel general winter. Or with other mil ideas I forget which ones you can get more bonuses to siege ability and morale.
in theory maybe, but if you ever play mp vs someone going meta idea you will see why it doesnt work. Quantity-eco-qual is just such a powerfull combination with top tier policies on top of it, quantity makes you take less attrition, and also gives you more manpower which basically counters the added attrition from defensive, the extra forcelimit makes your army cheaper (assuming you go over forcelimit, which you always should in player wars)
you want to use strong duchies on every nation in the game, having a vassal with 1-5 provinces is much better than having those provinces youself, and if you make 2 vassals they dont cost diplomatic relations, which is the only thing preventing me from stacking 20-30 vassals in any playthrough. remember a vassal with 1 province adds atleast 1 to your forcelimit and will build 3-4 units themself, this bonus gets smaller as the vassal gets larger tho (compared to holding the land youself)
Thanks so much, I have been using your guides as a great starter for new games and learning so much from them. Unfortunately I usually don't have the same success with everything, so have to reload and play more cautiously than you. But your guides are so helpful and teach a lot :)
Wow, you are cranking these ones out!! One thing I have had issues with in the past when playing Russia is how to deal with Ottoman once you border them, but before you are getting large enough to deal with them, and how to deal with Poland if they are in a strong alliance. Even Denmark can be a bit hard in the start. Also it used to be that the strategy was to sprint for India and the Trade companies, but I guess this is not true anymore?
So after taking all of novgorod and the smalle russian states, focus on the hordes and go east. Take lithuanian lands when poland is wear and livonian lands after you finished taking all russian lands. Can also go into persia for the trade if you want
So integrate Yaroslavl Rostov, then perm and beloozero and Pskov at the end. Wow can you make your vids more detailed than that 😂. Your guides are awesome!
Ive played about 3k hours in EU4 and Muskovy is definitely my most played nation, If you feel confident in wars I'd highly recommend going Aristocratic Ideas for your first military Idea set. Ive found that with your huge force limit and vassal swarm that Defensive and Offensive are really not necessary (even against poland/lithuania) until later in the game. Aristocratic gives you a MASSIVE 33% manpower mod that will keep you up to strength, and extra diplomat which is very useful given that you only have 2, and the cav combat ability helps a lot when fighting in steppes against hordes.
That same issue exists with almost every european power.. unfortunately EU4 doesn't really let you play as an influential regional power without some other country across the map getting biggus dickus syndrome and making the rest of your run terrible regardless
Can you help me then? I tried one and Muscovite in my playthroughs is always ten years behind techwise. For God's sake I had lv 8 military tech and Quar Quarian in the middle East (whatever it's called) had lv 9. How can I stay on the same level as the rest of Europe?
@@Canada1994 To be honest you just have to play game, eventually you will get it. Try playing without iron man first, maybe even choose easy difficulty (not very easy tho), and just play the game. Eventually you will start noticing that things are easier and easier to do, like wars, managing mana, your income, etc. EU4 is a very complex game, so there isn't just some secret, that, once you learn it, you become a pro. It's a process of getting better at the game
@@Pashashab Yeah I know. I don't play ironman (I never have with any Paradox game) and I play on medium because I played and beat March of the Eagles on medium and EU4 is the more advanced version of that game. I also play on medium on Victoria 2 but I play on civilian on HOI4 but I have been playing on recruit for the major powers. Right now I'm taking a break from EU4 until Leviathan comes out and it's been months since I really played HOI4 because it's just boring for me (though I hope that the next dlc and/or update will reignite the interest) Also I have noticed that I am getting better at the game and becoming more confident in my abilities and not so terrified with coalitions anymore. I also don't feel that the mission trees are as impossible as I once did.
Hey, could you please give some more detail on the estates like what exactly to look? probably because I am missing some the DLCs, my options are different.
I really think it’s worth it at be beginning of a Muscovy campaign to take the burgher loads estate interaction, gives you 500 ducats to start with and close to 0 interest payments.
u go to vassal tab and click on give province or when conquering it there is a button to change land owner, and it will go to the owner when u ask it on peace deal
Nice starting guide for Muscovy. I have formed Russia before, but can't rightly recall what i did, so will have a reason to try again. A horde nation would interesting guide. Thanks
It`s a good guide, but I have some points on that because I`ve played as Muscovy a lot. First of all, give the cossacks the privilege for extra +25% manpower from steppe regions because its freaking broken and it gives +100% manpower instead of 25% so basically you will have a lot of manpower in the start of the game. The only province of Quasim (it might be wrong as soon as I`m playing in Russian language) will provide ez 1500 or more manpower. Second thing is that you can use your first splendor points for "transfer subject" and easily take away Norway and support independence of Sweden. So Denmark will be completely destroyed and the Scandinavian region will be divided. I strongly not recommend to go religious as the first idea. If you want to convert things, you can do it by yourself. +2% from patriarch authority, +2% from admin advisor, +1% from region edict and some few more % from decisions. Deus vult isnt that necessary because you will have a lot of claims everywhere and you will get stuck with governing capacity if you try to expand too much. Muscovy is a duchy so you will not have that much of governing capacity believe me. Instead, I would recommend to pick administrative as the first idea slot. +25% core creation time is always great. Buffs of the mercs is ok, but the most important is buff for the loans, admin tech cost and ... GOVERNING CAPACITY. I usually take some loans and force spawn first two institutions because Renaissance goes really slowly to Russia and Colonialism goes REALLY FCKING SLOWLY so its better to force spawn both of them. Second is diplo or trade. Trade ideas as Russia is op as hell. A lot of trade nodes are inland so buff for caravan power increases the income significantly and with admin idea policy gives additional +20% trade efficiency which will make you much richer. As military ideas quality or offensive. I prefer quality because you will have a lot of infantry and the +10% buff is a significant change. You will have good cossack cav and additional +10% artillery combat ability from the Russian ideas in the future and of course discipline. Quality has much better policies than offensive. If you pick admin and trade, you will have additional reinforce speed and morale recovery speed which is very important for an army to recover fast after a won battle and especially after defeat. Quality trade is additional +20% trade efficiency which will go up to +40% with trade+admin. So, in this case colonized trade company Siberia will flow you with ducats so hard that you will be able to fulfill your forcelimit to maximum and still chill collecting ducats. Religious is ok as 4th idea slot because by that time you will start expanding hard into China, Europe and Central Asia (by the way try to expand there as fast as possible because Samarkand is hella rich trade node, which steer to your Astrakhan) and you will need additional missionary and missionary strength to convert so much land. And the last, the +5% discipline icon of st.Michael isnt that strong early game. Manpower pool is small and additional 10% doesnt change much. Instead -3 unrest will be much more useful or if you expand hard, try -10 aggressive expansion reduction and relations improvement icon which is double reduction of aggressive expansion impact. Couldnt tell that story short, sorry guys and good luck. Thank you for that guide, Ludi. p.s Ludi did you really say "No gay"? 7:34 =D
@@LudietHistoria Oh of course, btw not sure if you read my conclusion on the quality matter but tbh its a bit long so TDLR I did many more tests and found out I made mistake when doing the late game battles because tech group, defensive due to the tradition is better at winning battles but quality will make you lose less and kill more troops so its quite well balanced. In my opinion i would also pick quality in most cases but defensive is great as well I feel like my need to know precisely what is the best is a bit absurd sometimes though, this being a nice example lol and also sorry for going off topic. At least we both now know I guess and I can Not bring it up again
Hey Ludi if I took Religious Ideas first, what would you recommend for the following idea groups? Should I follow the same logic for choosing between Offensive or Defensive for my second group? I don't think I'm the best when it comes to managing attrition, and considering the wastelands that you have to march through as Russia, defensive feels both useful and fitting (I mean, look what happens to nations that try to invade Russia, Defensive Ideas fuck them over. xD) I was thinking Trade might be a good one for a diplo group as I can make quite a bit of money from the Novgorod node I believe?
Quick note is tha you can take about 50% from novgorod in the first war, because it is 10 year truce and you can full annex them after. it is technically faster. This gives you perma claims pretty early on the province you need for the horde missions and you can still take novgorod and neva for the trademoney, which helps a lot. If some other nations takes land from nowgorod. honestly who cares just beat them up you have 100k danes and livonia have nothing compared to that.
I also prefer to Guarantee Byzantium. Takes a slot but provides a high chance that you will halt Ottoman's expantion at the start of the game. Later on, when you reach Black sea, you can puppet Byzantium and use them to conquer a but load of land
Nope, don't waste your points on influence, after you integrate the vassals you won't have any more lying around and religious will help you out sooo much more in the early game
I like your videos! Very useful! Could you do one for Aragon too? 1.30 changed a lot on how to play with Aragon considering they lose Naples pretty easily in the early game now.
Is governing capacity a somewhat new thing? I haven’t played eu4 in a good awhile (at least over a year) and I mostly play smaller nations. im hitting max and it’s only 1470 and I still have 3 large vassals to annex .
You can use government reform points to increase governing capacity as well as tech (admin iirc) and one of the idea groups. Basically if you can delay gov reforms and manage with some territories then it shouldn't be a problem.
I will do a Novgorod guide also as it's super different and much harder, but won't do it anytime soon, probably in 3 weeks or so it will be out, want to cover the mainly played nations in the next 2 weeks first!
Why in the second idea as military you choose ofensive instead of quantity? isnt better blob much first? Wich other ideas you recommend for the muscovy game?
Tbh it's a great idea going for quantity, but going offensive first means that your troops get higher pips guaranteed from generals, siege ability and discipline, which in turn means faster sieging of forts and stronger armies. You start with a lot of troops and manpower pool anyway, and can make it bigger after u get quantity later on, but securing the siege ability early on means waaay faster conquests
I've been watching your guides and trying them out in game. the thing is i cant get any of them to work i think you did a byzantine one when 1.30 launched that worked for me at the launch of 1.30. but now none of them work the moscovy guide is impossible couse that my men die sieging the Novgorod forts and by the time im ready to fight kazan they ally with crimea uzbek and nogay evey time and i get swarmed by hordes. ive done eveything you said but it feels like your just getting lucky saves and i keep getting bad saves
@@LudietHistoria I thought of that but doesn't that mean that it will take longer to annex the vassal if you give it land? If so than what are some ways to speed up annexation? Also I tried a Muscovite playthrough and I was 10 years behind on military tech and Qara Qoyunlu beat me in a war because they were one military tech level ahead of me (not to mention that the ottomans are two military tech levels ahead. Also Renaissance institution spread took way too long (I got it in the 1470's. Got any tips on how to embrace Renaissance sooner and stay up to the rest of Europe in tech besides deving places to 10 and Moscow to 30 and giving up a Dip and Adm a month to get 2 Mil? Also got any tips on how to make sure I can do the Revolution mission?
1) You should move the merchant from Kazan to Astrakhan before unpausing 2) Penza needs either orthodox or muscovite culture; not both Not even going to go into other stuff...
Good video Ludi, but in name Beloozero oo it is not oo=u, In theory, these are two words Belo who translates as White and Ozero who translates as Lake.
So, like every Eu4 player I would like to share with you guys my current successful run/guide as Muscovy. As a note I have the Third Rome but apart from Sudbenik process that lowers chance of all rebels uprising I don't find it useful. Maybe the events are unique to this expansion, idk. So: 1. Diplomacy: Rival Novgorod, Denmark and Lithuania. The reason being that Novgorod would for sure no longer a valid rival so you can choose between GH and Kazan. I did go with GH first because I saw Poles expanding there and I wanted to cut them off ASAP. In a war against Novgorod take land so you cut them off from Sweden and they'll have no allies. If they did ally Odoyev annex them. Next, tech up to mil tech 4 and if the Poles took Jagilleon attack them and 100% them (actually smth like 80+ with -20 war enthusiasm) to break the PU over Lithuania. Don't be afraid to go in debt and hire mercs (like just over 1000 ducats in debt) it is totally worth it in the long term. After that in my game they got rekt by Bohemia. This is even easier if they at war with Ottomans. Next, either before war with Poland or after, vassalize Ryazan. So, now you would have 6 vassals and don't forget to put them on support because they are suicidal. You can now bully GH for money and humiliation and maybe provinces. In the long term I stole Norway from Denmark with the age bonus. To achieve this let them take the Baltic states so when you siege it along with Sweden and Norway you will have a lot of warscore. Only Norway can be snatched with 80% warscore. 2. Military: build up to force limit like in this video guide and attack Novgorod ASAP. Wait for tech 4 to stomp the Poles and Lithuanians. 3. Admin: focus on admin right off the start because you'll have to core a lot and get the mil lvl 1 advisor to keep up with tech. First idea group should be religious because when you take the land from GH and Kazan you should be able to convert it right away. This causes no rebels whatsoever with positive stability. Second idea group candidate would be Quantity. For institutions develop Neva or Novgorod so it can spread quickly between these two so you can embrace it quickly, start developing when tech cost reaches +10% or +15%. Muscovy is easy to play in my opinion. The only enemy that is in the way is the Ottomans. I may be wrong but there's an event that is exclusive for Third Rome I believe (or maybe it's part of vanilla) for the Independence of the Russian Patriarchy, in this event there's a trade-off between taking a massive 50 patriarchal authority but having PERMANENT claims on whole Greece. Ofc I took this but couldn't core it in the first Otto war because of the coring distance. So, anyway, you should be also good without it if you ally Austria and declare on Ottos with the second best cb in the game(religious) or just with the best one. Does someone know how to take the Mandate of Heaven with Russia, what are requirements, is it even possible?
this guide helps a lot because I got the dlc from you, I never know what ideas to choose I always choose influence but religious is better for muscovy because of all the sunni hordes
I would argue on the idea groups. Yes for Religious First, but Military groups. Go Quantity. Always. Then go Offensive later on. You will always have more manpower, and when you get an economic, or an innovative, or a trade idea group going, you will be able to support 4 and 5 and 6 times more what every other nation, save ming, can afford to use, and abuse.
So here's why it's better to go offensive first as Muscovy. They already have decent manpower reserves and bonuses, BUT with offensive, they can actually get a much stronger army also, and still a bit more landforcelimit, with added siege ability in the early period, when there's massive lack of siege ability.
@@LudietHistoria you are correct on the stronger army, and siege ability, but when you complete quantity and religious it's better for your army quality as well, rather than just simply getting missionary strength and unity for your first free policy. in my case, it allows me to start multiple wars without worrying about manpower, and can go without mercenaries, keeping more money in my coffers, and also, very importantly avoiding the peasants war, times of troubles, and appearing weak to ai, preventing them from declaring wars on me. But. I will say, you're not wrong on another thing, which I don't know if you intend this. Your strategy would make more sense to say,"Go Offensive First, and go after Sweden, and Lithuania." I always take religious and Quantity so I can avoid both european semi majors and remove kazan, the great horde, nogai, oirat, chagatai, the devil, and the manchu minors. In your case it seems more implied that you'd take offensive so you could easily take out the lithuanians before they convert the orthodox provinces, the swedes since catholics convert easier, and go right into bulgaria as well.
Nooooo, I just started a Muscovy game before I saw this! Oh well, I did mostly the same thing lol! Edit: You got 300 likes! How can I enter the giveaway?
before unpausing: 1. summot the deit, go for whatever 2. sieze land from esates 3. a) boyers: supremecy over the crown, livestalk, strong dutches b): clergy: ministers, oversight, (after the 1st war with Novograd give them expansionist and enforced unity of faith) burghers c) burghers: free enterprise, cossacks 4. Rivals: novograd, Lithuania, Kazan 5. Ally: Livonian Order, Circasia 6. Hire: Free Company (Merc) 7. Recruit 4 Inf after unpausing: 8. Take a loan out 9. Recruit 2 inf 10. complete mission for forcelimits 11. put good general on amry, start moving army to border 12. always royal marriage vassals when possible 13. Use merc to attack novgorad allies, use main 2 armies to attack novograd 14. peace out allies before peacing out novograd, trade power, war reperations, money 15. when peacing out with novograd, take bordering provinces with Order and Sweden. 16. give all provinces to PSKOV and BELOWZERO 17. golden horde and poland as rivals 18. war with kazhan 19. peace out ally 20. take penza and bashgrid, give perm to perm, humiliate, take money 21. 1454, start integrating vassals. 22. do yaroslav and rostov. Then Perm and Belowzero, last Psvok 23. divert trade from all vassals 24. make penza religion/culture, you will get claims on golden horde. Next target. 25. follow mission tree when it comes to expansion. 26. whenever get a chance, conquer tver and ryzan. wait until you get a claim 27. first idea, get religious
I used to Play Muscovy before mission trees were a thing and I always conquered Arabia and Persia but had problems with Poland, Ottomans and Ming, which didn't explode back then
i usually start by attacking novgorod, the will always have odoyev in their trade league so i either annex or vassalize that as a separate peacedeal, sometimes novgorod is also allied to lithuania, in this case i annex odoyev, if they are not allied i vassalize odoyev. if i have to fight lithuania i separate peace them for a province in chernigov (for a vassal release) full money the 2 provinces at the top, and whatever else i feel like in the given playthrough (i only fight lithuania if the poland player picks the local noble, so im gonna eat as much of lithuania as possible to punish him for not taking the pu) From novgorod i take full money and every province that borders nonrussian nations, i usually dont feed my vassals to more than 4-6 provinces, i prefer making new ones because that gives a bigger bonus and makes them faster to annex. as soon as i finish my first war i declare on tver and co bel ryazan, novgorod will be guaranteeing tver and for some reason accepts the cta. i start by sieging novgorod, peace for his capital and full money and warscore, next i go for ryazan, feed to odoyev if he is a vassal or vassalize ryazan if hes not. then i go kill the great horde, peace for money and annul treaties and maybe a couple provinces, depending on circumstances, and finally i feed tver to rostov. i prefer not to fight kazan too soon because they are always allied to uzbek and 1-3 other medium sized nations, but if circumstances make it an easy target i declare, take perms core, the gold mine and cutting off their border so other hordes wont eat into them, after this i wait for truce with novgorod, attack livonia if denmark make it small enough that i can force vassalize, if i get to fight teutons as well thats great, i will force vassalize this as well and make them a march, they are 1 of the best nations to march in the game because of their powerfull traditions. so if things go according to plan around 1460 i will have novgorod city+border, livonia vassal with reconquest on denmark, teuton ortodox march with reconquest on poland/danzig, odoyev with ryazan provinces and the gold mine from kazan+whatever i get the chance to pick elsewhere.
As a Men, who played in muscovy around 20 times I can say, that the best choise is to aliance with great horde and the most heterosexual horde (Nogay), and attack rival kazan for reconquest, took the province, golden province and humiliate rival and money. If kazan allied with Crimea or yzbek you should just took money from them. Also you can give 1 poor province for golden horde if you want to took them into the war against Lithuania. When the war with kazan is ower, you should have anought amount of money to recruit 9 0 0 stack of the mercs, if it's not enought you can recruit a few thousands, deal truth with kazan and declare war against Novgorod when your army upon force limit. Classic truth with Novgorod. After that you can do whatever you want. Hope you understand me cause english isn't my native
You can also take a province from the great horde for the claims on the hordes, and you dont have to change the culture if you make it orthodox it also gives you claimes
You don't need colonists to colonize as Russia. You get the siberian frontier which means you can colonize all of siberia without colonists. Never ever take expansion as Muscovy xD
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Good guide, but I do always wonder why you give the estates so many modifiers and powers. I always just try to bully them out of my way
Playing Russia: How many manpower do you want?
Me: Yes
This guide: No
Great tutorial as usual, i'd white peace out Ryazan, so that you can truce reset quicker with Novgorod. On the other note, the pronunciation of Russian area names, my ears hurt)
Yeah, that's a good point! Might be better just truce them! I didn't plan on warring them soon, which is why I went for the cash though. And I apologise for the pronunciations xD
What a beast. The mad lad is on a literal grind for our enjoyment 💛
Are you not entertained? *pulls out gladius*
I"ve been loving these guides! They are great for the early strategy to get set up. I'd be interested in seeing some more in-depth or late game type guides as well! I tend to have trouble knowing what to do once completing the initial expansions / colonization that take place in Age of Discovery and Reformation.
I plan on covering that part once I finish doing most of the mainly played nations
@@LudietHistoria awesome, im subscribed so I'll keep an eye out!
I had the same thought. Love to see some guides after some 100years, when u did some of the mission tree :) Keep Up the good Work. I enjoy all the starting guides aswell!
Best guide channel, I'd love a starting guide for huastec
Haven't done any in the new world but plan on doing some. Why huastec though? :p
Hussite definitely!
Great guide again! Moskovy was my favorite nation in the first few years after the game came out. I must have played them a hundred times, but then I moved on and haven’t touched them in a few years. Looks like a good time to dress for winter and break out the balalaika!
I’m curious why you don’t keep a vassal or two around to eat the rest of Novgorod after the second war. Seems like that would save some more admin which can be used to help fill Religious ideas set.
Defensive ideas feel way better on Muscovy for me. Your country is essentially a continent, and it's nearly impossible to prevent the enemy from roaming through it, so getting Fort defense+maintance, land manouver, attrition etc is really great in draining an enemy without even fighing him. The policy with Religious is also nice, because it gives an additional +1 Attrition and +1 unrest on top. It feels kind of immersive seeing enemies starve and freeze to death in your large low dev provinces during the winter months.
Bonus: Scorch earth for the full Soviet experience.
Religious has amazing policies usefull in mp for muscovy, I dont usually take defensive as first idea but with religious get get -unrest and more attrition for enemies which stacks on the attrition from defensive which makes mp invaders feel general winter. Or with other mil ideas I forget which ones you can get more bonuses to siege ability and morale.
Yeah, they definitely are really great to take as muscowy!
Spending over 2,000 mil points on making your enemy take attrition, lel.
best first idea is quantity imo, no 1 cares about attrition, good player will siege slowly, and u wont even have troops for dealing with rebels
@@onetwo-gt2tr Quantity Ideas is literally on every objective merit the best military idea group for every nation in the game, lol.
in theory maybe, but if you ever play mp vs someone going meta idea you will see why it doesnt work. Quantity-eco-qual is just such a powerfull combination with top tier policies on top of it, quantity makes you take less attrition, and also gives you more manpower which basically counters the added attrition from defensive, the extra forcelimit makes your army cheaper (assuming you go over forcelimit, which you always should in player wars)
Thanks for the guide really helped never thought of using strong duchies for Muscovy
My pleasure, am happy it was helpful!
you want to use strong duchies on every nation in the game, having a vassal with 1-5 provinces is much better than having those provinces youself, and if you make 2 vassals they dont cost diplomatic relations, which is the only thing preventing me from stacking 20-30 vassals in any playthrough. remember a vassal with 1 province adds atleast 1 to your forcelimit and will build 3-4 units themself, this bonus gets smaller as the vassal gets larger tho (compared to holding the land youself)
Thanks so much, I have been using your guides as a great starter for new games and learning so much from them. Unfortunately I usually don't have the same success with everything, so have to reload and play more cautiously than you. But your guides are so helpful and teach a lot :)
Wow, you are cranking these ones out!! One thing I have had issues with in the past when playing Russia is how to deal with Ottoman once you border them, but before you are getting large enough to deal with them, and how to deal with Poland if they are in a strong alliance. Even Denmark can be a bit hard in the start. Also it used to be that the strategy was to sprint for India and the Trade companies, but I guess this is not true anymore?
So after taking all of novgorod and the smalle russian states, focus on the hordes and go east. Take lithuanian lands when poland is wear and livonian lands after you finished taking all russian lands. Can also go into persia for the trade if you want
So integrate Yaroslavl Rostov, then perm and beloozero and Pskov at the end.
Wow can you make your vids more detailed than that 😂. Your guides are awesome!
Happy to hear that you enjoying my videos man ^-^
Really enjoying all your guides. Keep the good work up ! :)
Thank you so much for the kind words Splexo! Will try to get 1 guide out per day ^-^
I agree. The religous idea group is great for almost all the nations but for muscovy its just amazing.
Ive played about 3k hours in EU4 and Muskovy is definitely my most played nation, If you feel confident in wars I'd highly recommend going Aristocratic Ideas for your first military Idea set. Ive found that with your huge force limit and vassal swarm that Defensive and Offensive are really not necessary (even against poland/lithuania) until later in the game. Aristocratic gives you a MASSIVE 33% manpower mod that will keep you up to strength, and extra diplomat which is very useful given that you only have 2, and the cav combat ability helps a lot when fighting in steppes against hordes.
Muscovy is prob one of the most fun nation, but mid/lategame as russia it becomes tedious ur just getting to big xD
That same issue exists with almost every european power.. unfortunately EU4 doesn't really let you play as an influential regional power without some other country across the map getting biggus dickus syndrome and making the rest of your run terrible regardless
Can you help me then? I tried one and Muscovite in my playthroughs is always ten years behind techwise. For God's sake I had lv 8 military tech and Quar Quarian in the middle East (whatever it's called) had lv 9. How can I stay on the same level as the rest of Europe?
@@Canada1994 through manpower probably historically Russia way always behind in tech but mad up for it in size and manpower
@@Canada1994 To be honest you just have to play game, eventually you will get it. Try playing without iron man first, maybe even choose easy difficulty (not very easy tho), and just play the game. Eventually you will start noticing that things are easier and easier to do, like wars, managing mana, your income, etc.
EU4 is a very complex game, so there isn't just some secret, that, once you learn it, you become a pro. It's a process of getting better at the game
@@Pashashab Yeah I know. I don't play ironman (I never have with any Paradox game) and I play on medium because I played and beat March of the Eagles on medium and EU4 is the more advanced version of that game. I also play on medium on Victoria 2 but I play on civilian on HOI4 but I have been playing on recruit for the major powers. Right now I'm taking a break from EU4 until Leviathan comes out and it's been months since I really played HOI4 because it's just boring for me (though I hope that the next dlc and/or update will reignite the interest)
Also I have noticed that I am getting better at the game and becoming more confident in my abilities and not so terrified with coalitions anymore. I also don't feel that the mission trees are as impossible as I once did.
Your becoming one of my favorite eu4 channels
Ahahah, really? That means a lot hearing it, thank you bro!
@@LudietHistoria challenge: play as brandenburg and dismantle the empire by 1500
Hey, could you please give some more detail on the estates like what exactly to look? probably because I am missing some the DLCs, my options are different.
Some of the estates' privileges are exclusive to Emperor DLC.
I never played with Muscovy but with this guide I definitely will play when I finish my run with Granada.
You should! It's a lot of fun!
This guide is simple and easy to understand, keep up the good work!
Amazing content, keep up the good work!
Appreciate it Demar! Thank you bro!
Thanks for making video. Honestly I Don't know play Muskovy really good.
I really think it’s worth it at be beginning of a Muscovy campaign to take the burgher loads estate interaction, gives you 500 ducats to start with and close to 0 interest payments.
Great video Ludi and one question, how do you give lands to your vassals like you did in the video?
u go to vassal tab and click on give province or when conquering it there is a button to change land owner, and it will go to the owner when u ask it on peace deal
@@onetwo-gt2tr yeah I found out, tnx :-)
Nice starting guide for Muscovy. I have formed Russia before, but can't rightly recall what i did, so will have a reason to try again. A horde nation would interesting guide. Thanks
Glad it was helpful Kevin! I will cover a horde soon!
Found your channel cause of Sweden guide and IT was awensomr
Happy to hear that you liked the video bro!
It`s a good guide, but I have some points on that because I`ve played as Muscovy a lot. First of all, give the cossacks the privilege for extra +25% manpower from steppe regions because its freaking broken and it gives +100% manpower instead of 25% so basically you will have a lot of manpower in the start of the game. The only province of Quasim (it might be wrong as soon as I`m playing in Russian language) will provide ez 1500 or more manpower. Second thing is that you can use your first splendor points for "transfer subject" and easily take away Norway and support independence of Sweden. So Denmark will be completely destroyed and the Scandinavian region will be divided. I strongly not recommend to go religious as the first idea. If you want to convert things, you can do it by yourself. +2% from patriarch authority, +2% from admin advisor, +1% from region edict and some few more % from decisions. Deus vult isnt that necessary because you will have a lot of claims everywhere and you will get stuck with governing capacity if you try to expand too much. Muscovy is a duchy so you will not have that much of governing capacity believe me. Instead, I would recommend to pick administrative as the first idea slot. +25% core creation time is always great. Buffs of the mercs is ok, but the most important is buff for the loans, admin tech cost and ... GOVERNING CAPACITY. I usually take some loans and force spawn first two institutions because Renaissance goes really slowly to Russia and Colonialism goes REALLY FCKING SLOWLY so its better to force spawn both of them. Second is diplo or trade. Trade ideas as Russia is op as hell. A lot of trade nodes are inland so buff for caravan power increases the income significantly and with admin idea policy gives additional +20% trade efficiency which will make you much richer. As military ideas quality or offensive. I prefer quality because you will have a lot of infantry and the +10% buff is a significant change. You will have good cossack cav and additional +10% artillery combat ability from the Russian ideas in the future and of course discipline. Quality has much better policies than offensive. If you pick admin and trade, you will have additional reinforce speed and morale recovery speed which is very important for an army to recover fast after a won battle and especially after defeat. Quality trade is additional +20% trade efficiency which will go up to +40% with trade+admin. So, in this case colonized trade company Siberia will flow you with ducats so hard that you will be able to fulfill your forcelimit to maximum and still chill collecting ducats. Religious is ok as 4th idea slot because by that time you will start expanding hard into China, Europe and Central Asia (by the way try to expand there as fast as possible because Samarkand is hella rich trade node, which steer to your Astrakhan) and you will need additional missionary and missionary strength to convert so much land. And the last, the +5% discipline icon of st.Michael isnt that strong early game. Manpower pool is small and additional 10% doesnt change much. Instead -3 unrest will be much more useful or if you expand hard, try -10 aggressive expansion reduction and relations improvement icon which is double reduction of aggressive expansion impact. Couldnt tell that story short, sorry guys and good luck. Thank you for that guide, Ludi.
p.s Ludi did you really say "No gay"? 7:34 =D
Wouldnt it be less AE to take the novgorod provinces yourself and then give them to your vassals since you have claims on them? Or does it not matter?
That is what I did, sorry if I didn't show it all, tried to keep the video as short as possible so it doesn't get boring xD
@@LudietHistoria Oh of course, btw not sure if you read my conclusion on the quality matter but tbh its a bit long so
TDLR I did many more tests and found out I made mistake when doing the late game battles because tech group, defensive due to the tradition is better at winning battles but quality will make you lose less and kill more troops so its quite well balanced. In my opinion i would also pick quality in most cases but defensive is great as well
I feel like my need to know precisely what is the best is a bit absurd sometimes though, this being a nice example lol and also sorry for going off topic. At least we both now know I guess and I can Not bring it up again
@@phobics9498 to always look to perfect your knowledge of the world is what makes us great if you ask me, so never apologise for that!
Hey Ludi if I took Religious Ideas first, what would you recommend for the following idea groups? Should I follow the same logic for choosing between Offensive or Defensive for my second group? I don't think I'm the best when it comes to managing attrition, and considering the wastelands that you have to march through as Russia, defensive feels both useful and fitting (I mean, look what happens to nations that try to invade Russia, Defensive Ideas fuck them over. xD) I was thinking Trade might be a good one for a diplo group as I can make quite a bit of money from the Novgorod node I believe?
Ludi you’re the best! Great EU4 player!!!!!
i just started playing my first muscovy game a couple days ago and just formed russia, if only i had this guide!!
Ahahah, perhaps it will help for future reference in case you start another muscowy game ^^
i lern a lote from you´re vids lud :)
Happy to hear that ghost king!
Great guide Ludi, and great accent!
Thanks bro, really appreciate it!
thanks so much i can finally play muscovy good
Great content! I like it!! :D
Another great video as always :-). By the way would love to see a Papal States guide!
Coming soon! It's on the list for next week!
Ludi, make Maya guide plz
Guys, leave a like here for Ludi to see it
these days , we get one guide each day! playing the game is long , but at least we have the choice
Ahahaha, am happy to offer you the choices! You can always come back and rewatch later in the future if you plan on playing a nation I covered!
Not Beloozero, Belo - “white” ozero - “lake”. So this is just double “o”.
sounds like below zero lmaoo
Hello, great guide, but some of the estates (livestock monopoly for example) are missing for me. Can you tell me, which dlc adds those to the game?
That would be the Emperor DLC!
I'm not sure if I agree with giving Novgorod land to vassals.
Quick note is tha you can take about 50% from novgorod in the first war, because it is 10 year truce and you can full annex them after. it is technically faster. This gives you perma claims pretty early on the province you need for the horde missions and you can still take novgorod and neva for the trademoney, which helps a lot. If some other nations takes land from nowgorod. honestly who cares just beat them up you have 100k danes and livonia have nothing compared to that.
I also prefer to Guarantee Byzantium. Takes a slot but provides a high chance that you will halt Ottoman's expantion at the start of the game. Later on, when you reach Black sea, you can puppet Byzantium and use them to conquer a but load of land
What do you think of influence and using the hidden cores all through Lithuania then Poland and just replace subjects as you integrate them?
I think that is the best way to eat up lithuania, release and feed cores to the ruthenian lords
Your videos are sent from god himself love your work
Great Guide! Next Guide: Venice, please!
Coming soon! Not next but definitely coming!
@@LudietHistoria Thx Bro!!!!
Is there any point to taking Quantity ideas as Muscovy/Russia, or is that just overkill?
It's a good mil idea to take as your second idea, but truth be told, it's not fun anymore lol, you get so OP xD
Great vid! Would love a vid like this for Hungary
Nice guide, a question is, with the vassal swarm, would it not be better to go for influence ideas before the religious ones?
Nope, don't waste your points on influence, after you integrate the vassals you won't have any more lying around and religious will help you out sooo much more in the early game
@@LudietHistoria Ok, thank you very much :)
The opening background is Polish, isn't it? Hussars, Polish banners and colours, and polish noble clothing. Am I missing something? :D
Shhhh you saw nothing here *jedi hand wave*
@@LudietHistoria aaa gdzie jestem, i co tu dzieje?
I like your videos! Very useful! Could you do one for Aragon too? 1.30 changed a lot on how to play with Aragon considering they lose Naples pretty easily in the early game now.
Shouldn't you build bardiche infantry instead? I think building more strelsy increases cost for upping ur stability
Is governing capacity a somewhat new thing? I haven’t played eu4 in a good awhile (at least over a year) and I mostly play smaller nations. im hitting max and it’s only 1470 and I still have 3 large vassals to annex .
You can use government reform points to increase governing capacity as well as tech (admin iirc) and one of the idea groups. Basically if you can delay gov reforms and manage with some territories then it shouldn't be a problem.
Very nice, would we be able to get the other side of the coin? That is to say one about Novgorod?
I will do a Novgorod guide also as it's super different and much harder, but won't do it anytime soon, probably in 3 weeks or so it will be out, want to cover the mainly played nations in the next 2 weeks first!
Why in the second idea as military you choose ofensive instead of quantity? isnt better blob much first? Wich other ideas you recommend for the muscovy game?
Tbh it's a great idea going for quantity, but going offensive first means that your troops get higher pips guaranteed from generals, siege ability and discipline, which in turn means faster sieging of forts and stronger armies. You start with a lot of troops and manpower pool anyway, and can make it bigger after u get quantity later on, but securing the siege ability early on means waaay faster conquests
I've been watching your guides and trying them out in game.
the thing is i cant get any of them to work i think you did a byzantine one when 1.30 launched that worked for me at the launch of 1.30.
but now none of them work the moscovy guide is impossible couse that my men die sieging the Novgorod forts and by the time im ready to fight kazan they ally with crimea uzbek and nogay evey time
and i get swarmed by hordes.
ive done eveything you said but it feels like your just getting lucky saves and i keep getting bad saves
Have meet similar difficulties unfortunally :-(
@@Daniellarseng yeah I feel like he just gets lucky or there something he doing that he not saying.
Strelktsy? More like Trotsky. Subbed anyways. Nice job here m8.
Cheers mate, will try not to send the strelktsy to Mexico :p
Bezhetsk is city Бежецк. "ZH" "TS" on russian is not two letters. Its one letter like "J" or "G" probably and "TS" its "C" sound. So Be[G]e[C]k
Alright, with this bit of help, I might just give Muscovy a shot.
your guide is very good, you have gain my suscibtion and my like
Nice vid, but wouldn't it be better to take novgorod's land instead of giving it to vassals? Also whne does Aragon guide release?
Aragon is on the list! Better give to your vassals since they waste their admin points to core it and you dont waste your admin points this way
@@LudietHistoria how do you give provinces to vassals? I only see an option to sell, but it hurts the prestige
@@LudietHistoria I thought of that but doesn't that mean that it will take longer to annex the vassal if you give it land? If so than what are some ways to speed up annexation? Also I tried a Muscovite playthrough and I was 10 years behind on military tech and Qara Qoyunlu beat me in a war because they were one military tech level ahead of me (not to mention that the ottomans are two military tech levels ahead. Also Renaissance institution spread took way too long (I got it in the 1470's. Got any tips on how to embrace Renaissance sooner and stay up to the rest of Europe in tech besides deving places to 10 and Moscow to 30 and giving up a Dip and Adm a month to get 2 Mil? Also got any tips on how to make sure I can do the Revolution mission?
1) You should move the merchant from Kazan to Astrakhan before unpausing
2) Penza needs either orthodox or muscovite culture; not both
Not even going to go into other stuff...
Do I see polish army in the background of Muscovite guide? I like it :D
Poland go brrr sir :D
The amount of content you spat out in these days is amazing haha.. but now I don't know who to play as....
Ahahaha, well, am sorry to mix up your feelings about who to play, but if you ever need a guide for a new playthrough, you know where to come! ^_^
Good video Ludi, but in name Beloozero oo it is not oo=u, In theory, these are two words Belo who
translates as White and Ozero who
translates as Lake.
After expanding by all missions, should try India or try to take the Lubeck trade?
Both tbh
I dont have third rome dlc or craddle dlc, so i wonder how powerful the special units are, and how they work
wath would you recomend me about recruitment in EU4 update 1.28?
My friend likes this game. I really want this
So, like every Eu4 player I would like to share with you guys my current successful run/guide as Muscovy. As a note I have the Third Rome but apart from Sudbenik process that lowers chance of all rebels uprising I don't find it useful. Maybe the events are unique to this expansion, idk. So:
1. Diplomacy: Rival Novgorod, Denmark and Lithuania. The reason being that Novgorod would for sure no longer a valid rival so you can choose between GH and Kazan. I did go with GH first because I saw Poles expanding there and I wanted to cut them off ASAP. In a war against Novgorod take land so you cut them off from Sweden and they'll have no allies. If they did ally Odoyev annex them.
Next, tech up to mil tech 4 and if the Poles took Jagilleon attack them and 100% them (actually smth like 80+ with -20 war enthusiasm) to break the PU over Lithuania. Don't be afraid to go in debt and hire mercs (like just over 1000 ducats in debt) it is totally worth it in the long term. After that in my game they got rekt by Bohemia. This is even easier if they at war with Ottomans.
Next, either before war with Poland or after, vassalize Ryazan. So, now you would have 6 vassals and don't forget to put them on support because they are suicidal. You can now bully GH for money and humiliation and maybe provinces.
In the long term I stole Norway from Denmark with the age bonus. To achieve this let them take the Baltic states so when you siege it along with Sweden and Norway you will have a lot of warscore. Only Norway can be snatched with 80% warscore.
2. Military: build up to force limit like in this video guide and attack Novgorod ASAP. Wait for tech 4 to stomp the Poles and Lithuanians.
3. Admin: focus on admin right off the start because you'll have to core a lot and get the mil lvl 1 advisor to keep up with tech.
First idea group should be religious because when you take the land from GH and Kazan you should be able to convert it right away. This causes no rebels whatsoever with positive stability. Second idea group candidate would be Quantity.
For institutions develop Neva or Novgorod so it can spread quickly between these two so you can embrace it quickly, start developing when tech cost reaches +10% or +15%.
Muscovy is easy to play in my opinion. The only enemy that is in the way is the Ottomans.
I may be wrong but there's an event that is exclusive for Third Rome I believe (or maybe it's part of vanilla) for the Independence of the Russian Patriarchy, in this event there's a trade-off between taking a massive 50 patriarchal authority but having PERMANENT claims on whole Greece. Ofc I took this but couldn't core it in the first Otto war because of the coring distance. So, anyway, you should be also good without it if you ally Austria and declare on Ottos with the second best cb in the game(religious) or just with the best one.
Does someone know how to take the Mandate of Heaven with Russia, what are requirements, is it even possible?
this guide helps a lot because I got the dlc from you, I never know what ideas to choose I always choose influence but religious is better for muscovy because of all the sunni hordes
I would argue on the idea groups. Yes for Religious First, but Military groups. Go Quantity. Always. Then go Offensive later on. You will always have more manpower, and when you get an economic, or an innovative, or a trade idea group going, you will be able to support 4 and 5 and 6 times more what every other nation, save ming, can afford to use, and abuse.
So here's why it's better to go offensive first as Muscovy. They already have decent manpower reserves and bonuses, BUT with offensive, they can actually get a much stronger army also, and still a bit more landforcelimit, with added siege ability in the early period, when there's massive lack of siege ability.
@@LudietHistoria you are correct on the stronger army, and siege ability, but when you complete quantity and religious it's better for your army quality as well, rather than just simply getting missionary strength and unity for your first free policy. in my case, it allows me to start multiple wars without worrying about manpower, and can go without mercenaries, keeping more money in my coffers, and also, very importantly avoiding the peasants war, times of troubles, and appearing weak to ai, preventing them from declaring wars on me. But. I will say, you're not wrong on another thing, which I don't know if you intend this. Your strategy would make more sense to say,"Go Offensive First, and go after Sweden, and Lithuania." I always take religious and Quantity so I can avoid both european semi majors and remove kazan, the great horde, nogai, oirat, chagatai, the devil, and the manchu minors. In your case it seems more implied that you'd take offensive so you could easily take out the lithuanians before they convert the orthodox provinces, the swedes since catholics convert easier, and go right into bulgaria as well.
Nooooo, I just started a Muscovy game before I saw this! Oh well, I did mostly the same thing lol!
Edit: You got 300 likes! How can I enter the giveaway?
You've already entered! I will do the Livestream tonight and pick the winner from among the ones who commented on this video!
Ludi et Historia Awesome! Tonight? It’s almost midnight lol!
before unpausing:
1. summot the deit, go for whatever
2. sieze land from esates
3. a) boyers: supremecy over the crown, livestalk, strong dutches
b): clergy: ministers, oversight, (after the 1st war with Novograd give them expansionist and enforced unity of faith)
burghers
c) burghers: free enterprise, cossacks
4. Rivals: novograd, Lithuania, Kazan
5. Ally: Livonian Order, Circasia
6. Hire: Free Company (Merc)
7. Recruit 4 Inf
after unpausing:
8. Take a loan out
9. Recruit 2 inf
10. complete mission for forcelimits
11. put good general on amry, start moving army to border
12. always royal marriage vassals when possible
13. Use merc to attack novgorad allies, use main 2 armies to attack novograd
14. peace out allies before peacing out novograd, trade power, war reperations, money
15. when peacing out with novograd, take bordering provinces with Order and Sweden.
16. give all provinces to PSKOV and BELOWZERO
17. golden horde and poland as rivals
18. war with kazhan
19. peace out ally
20. take penza and bashgrid, give perm to perm, humiliate, take money
21. 1454, start integrating vassals.
22. do yaroslav and rostov. Then Perm and Belowzero, last Psvok
23. divert trade from all vassals
24. make penza religion/culture, you will get claims on golden horde. Next target.
25. follow mission tree when it comes to expansion.
26. whenever get a chance, conquer tver and ryzan. wait until you get a claim
27. first idea, get religious
I was just doing what you said, then out of nowhere i got a PU over ryazan, how lucky is that?
How are you able to take the gold mine province, even though it doesn't border any Muscovy provinces? That's not normally possible
It borders my vassal perm
@@LudietHistoria I didn't know you could core next to vassals like that, despite having may
hours in the game, well now I know, thanks!
I used to Play Muscovy before mission trees were a thing and I always conquered Arabia and Persia but had problems with Poland, Ottomans and Ming, which didn't explode back then
*revolution sounds intensify*
Why not vassalize Crimea before the Ottos?
Thanks man for this video , can you bring next a guide for Byzantine ? ;)
Thanks man! I already have a Byzantium video, check the channel page!
Muscovy/Russia is my favorite nation in this game. They're so stronk
AND
They're Orthobros.
I love Muscovy also! Orthobros unite!
@@LudietHistoria бог с тобой
i usually start by attacking novgorod, the will always have odoyev in their trade league so i either annex or vassalize that as a separate peacedeal, sometimes novgorod is also allied to lithuania, in this case i annex odoyev, if they are not allied i vassalize odoyev. if i have to fight lithuania i separate peace them for a province in chernigov (for a vassal release) full money the 2 provinces at the top, and whatever else i feel like in the given playthrough (i only fight lithuania if the poland player picks the local noble, so im gonna eat as much of lithuania as possible to punish him for not taking the pu) From novgorod i take full money and every province that borders nonrussian nations, i usually dont feed my vassals to more than 4-6 provinces, i prefer making new ones because that gives a bigger bonus and makes them faster to annex. as soon as i finish my first war i declare on tver and co bel ryazan, novgorod will be guaranteeing tver and for some reason accepts the cta. i start by sieging novgorod, peace for his capital and full money and warscore, next i go for ryazan, feed to odoyev if he is a vassal or vassalize ryazan if hes not. then i go kill the great horde, peace for money and annul treaties and maybe a couple provinces, depending on circumstances, and finally i feed tver to rostov. i prefer not to fight kazan too soon because they are always allied to uzbek and 1-3 other medium sized nations, but if circumstances make it an easy target i declare, take perms core, the gold mine and cutting off their border so other hordes wont eat into them, after this i wait for truce with novgorod, attack livonia if denmark make it small enough that i can force vassalize, if i get to fight teutons as well thats great, i will force vassalize this as well and make them a march, they are 1 of the best nations to march in the game because of their powerfull traditions. so if things go according to plan around 1460 i will have novgorod city+border, livonia vassal with reconquest on denmark, teuton ortodox march with reconquest on poland/danzig, odoyev with ryazan provinces and the gold mine from kazan+whatever i get the chance to pick elsewhere.
Make a similar video about Vijayanagar please!
I will! It's on my list of guides to do!
Obrigado pelo vídeo
What about stealing Norway from Denmark? Sweden is possible as well if you eat their Finnish provinces at the very beginning.
I never thought of giving the provences to vassals to save admin
What do you mean "same month"?
Do a Novgorod guide!
Ludi you sounded very tired
As a Men, who played in muscovy around 20 times I can say, that the best choise is to aliance with great horde and the most heterosexual horde (Nogay), and attack rival kazan for reconquest, took the province, golden province and humiliate rival and money. If kazan allied with Crimea or yzbek you should just took money from them. Also you can give 1 poor province for golden horde if you want to took them into the war against Lithuania. When the war with kazan is ower, you should have anought amount of money to recruit 9 0 0 stack of the mercs, if it's not enought you can recruit a few thousands, deal truth with kazan and declare war against Novgorod when your army upon force limit. Classic truth with Novgorod. After that you can do whatever you want. Hope you understand me cause english isn't my native
When to invest into colonization?
on miniature u used a picture of polish-lithuanian commonwealth army
Shhhh, no one has to know :p
@@LudietHistoria beware polish pseudo historians lmao
@@paradox3367 they are everywhere xD
I would like a guide for Kazan.
You can usually Vassal Swarm Novgorod in the first war.
Kazan is allied to like all their neighbors in my game
You can also take a province from the great horde for the claims on the hordes, and you dont have to change the culture if you make it orthodox it also gives you claimes
Still not as bad as when I was showing my sisters boyfriend how to play as Castile, and Granada was allied to Morocco, Tunis and Ottomans.
How do you the province from Islam to Orthodox? It says it will never be completed
I think PDX fixed it, I did it twice and you don't get PP if Lithuania gets PUed by Poland.
Noob question: Why not take Expansion as Muscovy for that colonizer?
You don't need colonists to colonize as Russia. You get the siberian frontier which means you can colonize all of siberia without colonists. Never ever take expansion as Muscovy xD
@@LudietHistoria Thanks a lot. I knew it was a noob trap and I fell for it... figures! 😂
How do I get relations with Pskov to 190?