In past europa universalis 2 games I would cheat as russia by inserting that event in peter the great's reign that gives russia latin technology tree status. For my for the glory game I would like to know what strategies others here have used to make russia reign supreme across siberia and eastern europe, so please feel free to post ideas as currently I am being constantly wiped out by novgorod,lithuania etc. Thanks!
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I can't imagine how you could lose to Novgorod, literally all of its neighbours invade it right at the start, and they have horrible troops (-1 fire and -1 shock).
In any case, it all revolves around taking your initial cores (especially from Novgorod, who is the only other Russian country which isn't a OPM) by diplo/force vassalazing and diploannexation (so your BB doesn't skyrocket).
In AGCEEP you can keep the horde off you simply by following the events you're given. Meanwhile, Lithuania may get some friends among your former vassals through events, though they themselves have the possibility of breaking with Poland, which would leave them vulnerable. Whatever happens, try to attack them only while they are distracted in another war, with a 1 siege leader, and of course, avoid snow-laden provinces like the plague. If you're quick enough you'll get these while still Orthodox.
Moscow and (far more importantly) Novgorod are really rich. That, combined with your high serfdom allows you to raise huge INF stacks to slay.
The general rule in any war you have an advantage in is to cover as many provinces as possible, for the loot and to make sure the enemy doesn't recover from his initial losses, though the snow may make this a bad idea. With enough troops you should, however, be able to do this to most enemies.
Once the Russians are united and Lithuania humbled, it might be a better idea to settle down, reduce your BB (as you won't be getting any more breaks and increase tech spending (perhaps infra 1 and then fully LT until you reach level 9 would be the best route). Eventually you'll turn into Russia and the events will handle your eastern conquests (other than colonization, obviously) quite well, you even get annexations!
From then on it's smooth sailing for the rest of the game if you wipe out Poland in time.
BTW, at least in ACGEEP the event improving your tech group is still there.
In any case, it all revolves around taking your initial cores (especially from Novgorod, who is the only other Russian country which isn't a OPM) by diplo/force vassalazing and diploannexation (so your BB doesn't skyrocket).
In AGCEEP you can keep the horde off you simply by following the events you're given. Meanwhile, Lithuania may get some friends among your former vassals through events, though they themselves have the possibility of breaking with Poland, which would leave them vulnerable. Whatever happens, try to attack them only while they are distracted in another war, with a 1 siege leader, and of course, avoid snow-laden provinces like the plague. If you're quick enough you'll get these while still Orthodox.
Moscow and (far more importantly) Novgorod are really rich. That, combined with your high serfdom allows you to raise huge INF stacks to slay.
The general rule in any war you have an advantage in is to cover as many provinces as possible, for the loot and to make sure the enemy doesn't recover from his initial losses, though the snow may make this a bad idea. With enough troops you should, however, be able to do this to most enemies.
Once the Russians are united and Lithuania humbled, it might be a better idea to settle down, reduce your BB (as you won't be getting any more breaks and increase tech spending (perhaps infra 1 and then fully LT until you reach level 9 would be the best route). Eventually you'll turn into Russia and the events will handle your eastern conquests (other than colonization, obviously) quite well, you even get annexations!
From then on it's smooth sailing for the rest of the game if you wipe out Poland in time.
BTW, at least in ACGEEP the event improving your tech group is still there.
Trying to vasslize/annex Tver and Ryazan was easy in Europa Universalis 2/agceep but in ftg agceep it seems that there is some event always appearing soon which makes tver and ryazan always break off alliances/vassalizations with muscovy. So I suppose only conquests are an option. Vassalizing an allied novgorod did not work either as, as soon as I upped the influence points to near 200, novgorod always tried to vassalize me so blocked me from vassalizing it.
Oh well, I will just have to take the risk of invading novgorod. So far, though, I usually get wiped out by the winter as I cannot conquer provinces in sufficient time.
Oh well, I will just have to take the risk of invading novgorod. So far, though, I usually get wiped out by the winter as I cannot conquer provinces in sufficient time.
AGCEEP tries to steer events into the historical way. Muscovy at first did not vassalize those western princedoms but Lithuania did and the Golden Horde vassalized the southern ones - so try to get them later and first concentrate to build your economy and gain your full independance from the Golden Horde after Kazan splits away from the GH and the Standing at the Ugra event. If you have further questions about AGCEEP please ask them in the AGCEEP subforum
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?480-AGCEEP
Novgorod should be a walk in the park, though you must conquer it through wars. Its CoT should make the annexations of the other Russian states easy (not sure though).
The best item you have for facing Winter is your cheap troops. Continuously training more to replace your losses is vital.
Speaking of AGCEEP, small guys should switch to your side somewhere in 1430s, don't bother. Elimination of Novgorod is absolute priority numero uno. Once it's done and little Russian buddies are on your side, go against Golden Horde.
AGCEEP makes Russia's formation event available from 1480. Easy peasy.
Also, speaking of East, don't bother with taking too much territory. There are annexation events for Kazan (1546), Astrakhan(1550?) and Sibir(158x), just make sure to control their capital after these dates. Nice insta-annex is nice.
Make use of winter. No need to fight your enemies, let attrition deal with 'em. Also, try to minimalize your own casualties. Move to siege provinces in Russia around April/May, when snow's away. You can really take all dem bastardos on with a powerful ally like General Winter.
Russia is one of the funniest countries in FtG. I love building massive empires from scratch.
AGCEEP makes Russia's formation event available from 1480. Easy peasy.
Also, speaking of East, don't bother with taking too much territory. There are annexation events for Kazan (1546), Astrakhan(1550?) and Sibir(158x), just make sure to control their capital after these dates. Nice insta-annex is nice.
Make use of winter. No need to fight your enemies, let attrition deal with 'em. Also, try to minimalize your own casualties. Move to siege provinces in Russia around April/May, when snow's away. You can really take all dem bastardos on with a powerful ally like General Winter.
Russia is one of the funniest countries in FtG. I love building massive empires from scratch.