Europa Universalis IV: The Cossacks | Muscovy - Part 50

Welcome to Europa Universalis IV, playing as Muscovy with the latest Cossacks expansion! In this playthrough we seek to forge mighty Russia, westernize, and colonize a randomized new world, all while balancing the finicky new estates system.

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[brbliss]

16+ hours watching you play plus many, many more watching quill18 play have cut my learning curve significantly. At around 100 hours myself I think I started to understand roughly what I was doing. Without you guys it would likely be a lot higher. Plus these are more entertaining than most of what is on tv.

[Slothfulgamer-cblx]

Yeah I listen to you why I do other things like clean.

[michaeljohnston]

Hi Pravus, really learning from your Muscovy run especially about vassal feeding and diplo annexing.I haven't tried them or got Cossacks yet.
A couple of suggestions1. Wouldn't manufactories give a better return than some of the other low returns builds2. Estates could do more if you allocated provinces more proactively e.g. Give all estuaries and cot to burghers to get +20 trade effic and -10 dev cost; once you've completed this round of cultural conversions might be a good time to review estate allocations3. Are the obsolete forts providing any AT benefit? If not scrub the redundant (adjacent, internal) ones; save $ and build more useful fort line4. Can vassals get fed so much that you can, t dip annex them? What are the limits?5. Not sure what you're merchants are doing
Thanks again. I've subscribed

[daveyV]

who doesn't love a bit of genocide now and then?