Become The Tsar of All The Russias - EU4 1.35 Muscovy Guide

This is a guide for Muscovy in Europa Universalis IV. In this video I'll share tips on how to form Russia as Muscovy.

Timestamps:
00:00 Opening moves
01:18 Uniting Russia
03:16 Dealing with civil war
04:06 Breaking the yoke
05:54 Expanding into Baltics and Novgorod
07:17 Expanding into hordes
09:27 Conquering Kazan
10:08 What to do next

[svingvejv]

Small tip: if you use the conquest cb you save the 75 diplo points from taking non cores with reconquest cb (due to having claims on everything). It has pretty much no downside when you only have the single core in enemy lands.

[worstyearever]

i just did a novgord campaign and its shocking how powerful the new events are. getting Scandinavia for free and like 2 admin core points is insane.

[spanner]

i think they should scale event based rebellions by your development. i did the english civil war recently and it spawned two 11k stacks on the british isles. i was in the middle of creating an angevin empire that owned the entirety of europe and had a 500k standing army with 250k of vassals. huge huge shame. it was like bringing a machine gun to a boxing match

[MtGuyful]

Pro move: sometimes novogrod guarantees tver, so you can peace out novogrod for 100% war score, day after attack tver (call in novogrod) and reset the truce to 5 years with them

[michadomeracki]

I am still doing my Muscovy into Russia campaign and it is great. I didn't conquer the Commonwealth because they were my only ally for a long time. I gave peasants freedom by giving the privileges to Boyars and later I chose Parlament so a little egalitarian roleplay. I also picked temporary claims with the bonuses just like you. I gave like 4 monopolies, I like them becuse they give you so much mercantilism. I went for Espionage, Religious, Aristocratic, Quality so far.

[criscojr.]

You’re currently my favourite eu4 YouTuber. Good job!

[spanner]

for russia id actually reccomend defensive ideas as a second ideafor russia since it seems almost tailored for them. 20% morale of armies is the single best idea for winning battles. usually high morale and low quality is bad because of mannpower usage but thats simply not a problem with russia. it gives you land maintenance to help with money, and the fort defense and attrition plays into the geography of russia with siberian winters. with defensive ideas you can simply plough your way into an enemy country and ignore the straggler armies as they die to your siberian winter forts. also its a different idea group from normal so thats always a plus for gameplay diversity. that being said you really cannot go wrong with russia if you can survive to age of reformation.

[kremitthefog]

I just thought of a new way to start the Cyprus into France campaign that let's you keep aragon!, take Rhodes and then attack Genoa for their Greek Islands and corsica if you have the range, if not, hope they have a small Italian ally (lucca) that you can vassalize

[PresindentofPain]

I had a Russia playthrough that I did slightly different.

First war should be Kazan, which is on occasion only allied to Uzbek / Crimea. Steal their gold mine + Ural cultured provinces for your vassal Perm, he'll convert them if you integrate them last. Only core the gold mine for income.

Then invade Novgorod, steal border with Scandinavia and don't core anything. Let admin points stack up until you have enough for admin ideas + coring cost. Then attack Tver, tver is quite often either guaranteed by Novgorod, you can use this to reset a 100 peace deal truce back to a 5 year truce. Odoyev can also work since they are usually in a trade league. Full annex either and don't core, just wait for it to run out. By the time truce ends with Novgorod you should enough admin points to get 5 tech + admin ideas to reduce ccr. This way you'll be ahead all game.

Dev the gold mine for big income as you usually would and the world is your oyster. Also, espionage is extremely strong with this, since claim creation cost never increases for Muscovy.

[konstantinosangelopoulos]

I attacked the Great Horde in the first war before they got any strong allies and got rid of the modifier.

[bloodyto]

The guide is good. One thing that is highly recommended is to no CB Byzantium directly after the Novgorod war. Then when the Otto's declare like they always do, you vassalize Byz and call in all your allies defensively. The war is incredibly easy, because the Ottos have no allies and you can call all the allies you want and this happens before they hit the next mil tech. Note you need to improve relations during the Novgorod war with Ottos and PLC/Lith so they give you mill access - That's it.
This is an incredible power move because it sets the Ottos back A LOT, the PLC is not match for Muscovy if Muscovy allies Bohemia, Austria and you have a free reign to expand in ALL DIRECTIONS !

[adundeemonkey]

Something i'd add, is that the main target in the early game has to be nerfing the Ottomans. You need to race to the Black Sea and then get allies together to take Ottomans down. Take Constantinople and release Byzantium. This makes the mid and later game much more enjoyable because if you let them grow then they eventually come for you and the worst thing in EU4 is when you are in a war with Ottomans that they start, as they will simply keep coming for you.

[Yes-klhk]

75 diplo bc you declared reconquest war...not ideal way of playing

[kremitthefog]

Watching that subscriber count slowly tick up is a reward

[liamskeo]

Can anybody help? I follow every step and I just can't amass 10 admin power monthly... I even get a level 2 advisor and still only have 9 per month which means I never complete the first mission!

[vitdunaev]

Я пишу без каких то претензий, просто хочу высказать свое мнение. Гайд плохой. Как с точки зрения действий, так с точки зрения наполнения. Я не особо сильный игрок, но к 84 году, я делал 60+ дохода и 80к+ рекрутов. Тут не рассказано про перенос столицы, нет объяснений застройки или хоть какого-то распределения средств. Воевать с Казанью, не забирая провинцию с ТЦ абсурд, так как она генерирует половину дохода, бедствие легко избегается без траты драгоценного развития. Есть еще много разных вещей, которые не рассказаны или сделаны плохо. Это можно назвать мои 50 лет за Москву, но гайдом не стоит.

[iseeyou]

3:38 Small tip : You could have a decent crownland by not giving away your crownland for monarch point. :V

Edit : 6:37 This guide is just an edited playthrough isn't it?

[DarthFhenix]

I would like if they give the ability to size specific estate's a standar mechanic.

[puudus]

tried this and got declared by the otto-coalition after conquering the same stuff

yeah i died rip 2 hr run

[scarammm]

another great video from bonobo, can you do video about romanian principalities