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Tinto Flavour #20 - 23rd of May 2025

Hello, and welcome one more week to Tinto Flavour, the happy Tuesdays & Fridays in which we take a look at the content of Europa Universalis V!

Today we will be taking a look at the content of Muscovy, and its ‘successor state’, Russia, after Grand Prince Ivan III ‘the Great’ proclaimed himself ‘Sovereign of All Russia’. This is a special TF, because it’s the first one in which we show the content for one of the seven ‘Tier 1’ counties, those that we consider the most important in the 1337-1836 period, and thus, that have the most content in the game.

Let’s start taking a look at it, as usual:

The Grand Principality of Muscovy stands at a crossroads of political maneuvering, and economic troubles under the Tatar Yoke, and an ongoing power struggle among East Slavic principalities, each vying for supremacy within the fragmented Rus' territories. The Tatar invasion continues to cast a long shadow over the region and Muscovy, like many other Rus' principalities, remains a tributary to the formidable Golden Horde.

Guiding Muscovy through these complexities is Grand Prince Ivan Rurikovich, a leader keenly aware of the delicate balance required for survival under Tatar dominion. He has skillfully managed the principality's affairs through diplomatic initiatives and strategic alliances and now seeks to consolidate power and enhance Muscovy's standing within the Yoke, with aspirations to unite the Rus' land under one banner.

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As usual, consider all UI, 2D and 3D art WIP.

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This is the starting diplomatic situation of Muscovy:
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Muscovy starts in a Personal Union with a bunch of principalities, including Novgorod, which is a Republic that elects its rulers among those of other countries.

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This is the current starting state of the Tatar Yoke, with Muscovy being entitled as the ‘Grand Prince of Vladimir’ - or, in other words, the ‘tribute collector’ for the Tatars. We won’t talk about this feature today, but in the Tinto Flavour devoted to the Golden Horde.

These are some of the privileges that the Russian countries have available from the start:
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Also, this starting Legal Code Policy:
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Here you have some of the advances available for Muscovy and Russia through the ages, as usual:
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And now let’s move into the narrative content. Muscovy has 109 Dynamic Historical Events available, while there are another 73 unlockable after having formed Russia, which makes for a total of 182 available DHEs - that’s what being a ‘Tier 1’ country means, in regards to content. Many of them will unlock very different types of other content assets, as you’ll see now:

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This is an event that may trigger if Novgorod elects another ruler, as happened historically.

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If you build the Kremlin, there will be further events related to it.

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If Byzantium falls, and some other conditions are met, you might be able to marry a Greek princess, and proclaim your country as the ‘Third Rome’.

If you expand your country, you might be able to form Russia at a certain point:
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The Russian Principalities account for approximately 460 locations, so you need to conquer some more from the Golden Horde to get to the 508 required. I forced it through the console to show it to you, but one of our QA testers made a recent run, and he was able to form it around 1500, OOC.

When the Age of Reformation starts, there will be this advance available for the Russian countries:
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That unlocks:
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It’s also possible for a unique disaster to trigger, the Time of Troubles:
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Time of Troubles has many different events happening, on top of the DHEs:

If you overcome it, there’s even more late-game content, of course:

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… And much more, but that’s all for today! As today is Friday, this will be the schedule for next week:
  • Monday -> Tinto Flavour about Venice and Genoa
  • Tuesday -> Tinto Flavour about Serbia and Georgia
  • Wednesday -> Tinto Talks about the Orthodox and Miaphysite religions
  • Thursday -> Third ‘Behind the Scenes’ video!
  • Friday -> Tinto Flavour about the Roman Empire, AKA Byzantium
And also remember, you can wishlist Europa Universalis V now! Cheers!
 
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@Pavía can you compare number of DHE for Muscowy/Russia in EU5 to those of earlier entries of the franchize? 187 seem a lot anyway, but just for comparison.
I think that after Domination, there are around 100 events in EU4. Counting both DHEs, disaster-related events, etc., there are over 200 events available for Muscovy/Russia in EU5.
 
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You have an event about the Little Ice Age, right? As I know, one of the reasons for the Time of Troubles is precisely the climate problem, a very short summer led to famines, don't you want to add this trigger to the event too?
 
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I'm curious, who are these Tier 1/Tier S countries? My guesses would be: England/UK, Muscovy/Russia, France, Ottomans, Castile/Spain, Yuan/Ming/Qing and uh.... Germany?
 
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It's Kiev and not Kyiv. Don't fall for western propaganda and discredit thousands of years of history like you did by changing the Bosnian flag to red...
delete your account.
 
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Can settle the frontier be used anywhere or is there geographic restrictions?

Same question for Sweden colonization cabinet action
Their title suggests so but it is not specified in tooltip
Places where you can create a Colonial Charter, there isn't a hard-locked geographical scope for it.
 
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Yes, and also Cossack-related flavour; we will tackle both together in a future Tinto Flavour.
My special thanks to you and the whole team!
I could not even imagine that I would get the happiest news the day Muscovy TF comes out :D

Also a minor correction – it should be Kormleniye, Voysko, Preobrazhenskiy, Semyonovskiy, Tysyatskiy, Razryadny to have consistent transliteration for the Russian dialect in the game (like you have Ryad, Velikiy and all Russian locations etc.).
 
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Forgive me if it's a dumb question, but why the name of the event is Sophia Komnenos while the flavour text says she's from Palaiologina dynasty ? If it's from when BYZ got annexed then she would be a Palaiologina as the Komnenos where only in Trebizond at that time ? Unless she's somehow born from both dynasties (even though I think I'd have heard about it if such an union existed) in that case you should stick with one.

... Ok after a quick search she indeed has Irene Komnene Palaiologina as an ancestor but I stil lthink it's weird to call her Komnenos in the event name. Did I miss something ?
 
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Tsardom clearly refers to an imperial entity. If I'm not mistaken Eastern Romans and Bulgarians fought entire wars over this matter in the middle ages. I agree though, that there should be some flavour regarding the "Western shift" from Tsardom to Empire.
But Bulgaria is considered a tier 3 in the game depsite being a Tsardom, so the Tsardom of Russia should be the same for consistency, eventually they should be able to rank up through an event and become the Russian Empire
 
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Places where you can create a Colonial Charter, there isn't a hard-locked geographical scope for it.
So, Russia could use it to colonize Mexico with it for example? That seems somewhat strange tbh. Maybe limit it to require a land connection to the capital or perhaps indeed a hard-lock to the Old World.
 
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