Prior to this strategy, I would always trade Karelia to Sweden for Estonia & Livonia when Sweden suggests. I'm also not helping to slow down Maratha by denuding the treasuries of the Mughals and Persia. The reason I restarted my most recent game is that I had only 5 years left to get my required southern provinces (which includes Persia) and these were occupied by stack after stack of hindus. I also go the Museum route for Muscovy to help keep order and because Moscow gets a unique top museum structure. This means that gentlemen (unless on tech-stealing duty) all remain within Muscovy. This means that Muscovy gets 3 schools, and I specalize one each for military, industrial, and enlightenment tech and allocate gentlemen appropriately. The starting school at Nizhny Novgorod is eventually replaced by a smith but not until other schools are operational. Luga, though, in Ingria works well for a school when it appears. I avoid building a school in Tartariya, it always seems to lead to trouble. (When the Bashkira and Komi schools become wealthy, which always happens eventually, I convert them into industries. So by fairly early I have 5 schools operating. Bashkira and Komi get one new town and these both become schools. I send my starting priest to Bashkira to convert them fully.
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The first new town slightly south of Moscow is made into a school, and this becomes the primary school to upgrade up to and including modern university. With the initial cash bonus, I also upgrade the two remaining fur traders to markets. I re-arrange starting towns as follows:ġ) The poor weavers in Muscovy north is dismantled and replaced with a church.Ģ) The poor weavers in Muscovy east is dismantled and replaced with a school.ģ) The growing tavern in Muscovy east is dismantled and replaced with a weavers.
The others are exempt till they're worth taxing. Starting treasury expands from initial 6k gold to 34k gold. This is one area where autocalc battles is your friend: 45 mounted cossacks vs 600 peasants w/ pitchforks? see Persia declares war within a decade, and they don't do anything with Arkhangelsk except build up archers and muslim mobs. To recap:Ģ) Arkhangelsk sold to Persia for 8k goldģ) Don Voisko & Astrakhan sold to the Mughals for 12k gold As noted in the thread 'Selling off poor Russian provinces' I give myself a big cash boost on the first turn by selling off 4 of the starting 9 provinces. Add a preference for the early and mid-period game, and lots of restarts results. I have this habit, when getting into the last few turns of the game, to realize all the things I could have done better.