EU4 1.35 Muscovy Guide - The NEW RUSSIAN MISSIONS Are INSANE 

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"To show you the power of Muscovy I just cut Lithuania in half!"- The Red Hawk, probably

Getting Astrakhan as a vassal is a big brain move. Get their cores back asap and integrate them, as they spawn with vision on all of asia and you get that vision when you integrate them.

Hey man, great video! Just one little thing. A province not having your religion decreases produced good by a lot, so you don't get as much gold. And the higher the dev the longer and harder it is to convert. So you should first convert zlatousk and then Dev it

It’s not hard to remove that bad noble privilege near the beginning of the game, if you don’t give them any more privileges yet, you can summon the diet and if you get a super easy mission for nobles and complete it you can immediately remove the privilege with higher loyalty then influence. Course this all depends on rng with what mission you get, and if don’t complete it fast enough you might not be able to seize crownlands at the very start (since it decreases loyalty) before starting your day one wars. Another alternative and more consistent way to remove it early is to just sell titles at the start and you automatically get that loyalty to immediately remove the privilege, course the downside to that would be not being able to add in one of the mana privileges so you have to sacrifice one at the start, though as Muscovy if you don’t provide to many privileges at the start you can rapidly get that crown land back from just taking provinces with the estates influences are low.

Awesome guide but it has a critical flaw. At the start, you didn't rival countries in the exact same order they rivaled you, the game is already ruined at that point.

During the civil war, it can be worth it checking the stats of your pretenders. I got a 665 on the throne that way. Really nice that the tool tip with their stats are reliable nowadays.

"Money isn't really a problem, even though we're not making any" Ah yeah good ol' Russian Economics 101

There are SO MANY subjects you can play w/ as Muscovy/Russia: -In the east, there's also Sibir and Kazakh, which you can release from Uzbek -One or two of the western hordes (crimea, Nogai, Great horde, Nogai) will get cannibalized by the others, so you could vassalize and reconquer for them -Those 4 lithuanian vassals -Finland -Vassals in the Balkans that were conquered by the Ottomans -The guys you start with of course -Riga is always a good vassal -Teutons often get conquered, that's another good vassal So honestly, opening up w/ influence ideas wouldn't be bad. You'll probably also want admin somewhere along the way, so that meshes really well w/ influence (they have a -15% diplo annex cost policy together)

U almost never wanna open up with trade ideas, its not an early idea group as u can't use all of the 3 merchants effectively early on

This is a great guide! Makes me want to start a game as Muscovy and see where it takes me :)

I started a Muscovy run this morning, and had some bad RNG. Novgorod allied Sweden, and the Hoards all got into a full hug-box, and proceeded to never fight any wars because they had no enemies. I tried to outpace them, but I wasn't able to get the edge by 1610ish, so I'll just be restarting this one.

This is hilarious just finished a russia campaign and you drop this. Ah well I’d like to see how your start differs to mine. Stacking cc modifiers for Russia is so fun.

7:36 Id also take the city of Novgorod here. Trade center and high dev.

Always think it's funny that the auto captions say knob garage instead of Novgorod 😂 appreciate the vid man

plz do burgundy next its really strong with the new reform that gives you free forts and more diplo slots

id always recommend vassalizing riga to maximize their abilities in trade and gain a strong foothold in the baltic trade node

Why you don't use the clericy privilege on +0.5 patriarch authority? It gives you a really nice boost to getting the orthodox icons right at the start

Awesome content as usual. Id love to see your take on playing Poland and turning them into a Cossack republic

Manpower is an issue early on as Muscovy. So Quantity is still not a bad idea.

I had a game going pretty well, but then Denmark, Poland + Lithuania attacked me during my war with Kazan and Uzbek. I got decimated. Shows how different each run can go even when following a guide.

Just finished a Novgorod > Russia run. The trade was so juicy.

Idk it seems to me that I am the only EU4 player who doesn't enjoy playing while constantly losing money and keeping big ass loans. I mean, I was trying to restore al-Andalus as Tunis using Hawk's guide like three times and it was almost physically hard for me to keep playing. I noticed that playing as muscovy seemingly isn't for me also (even though it should be since im russian)...

Does aggressive expansion even get this guy?

I would have co-belligerated the Horde when you declared on Tver and Ryazan, because you could have occupied Sarai and so gotten rid of the Tatar Yoke earlier. The Yoke is a really high expense at the beginning if the game.

serfdom mission in tsardom branch is currently bugged so taking serfdom will either prevent you from modernizing or stop you from fulfilling missions so I don't think it is good idea to take serfdom

Giving all privileges on day 1, when you know you will declare on 11 December is very bad, you basically lose 5% Crownland that you could get from conquering Novgorod's lands, because of the high influence.

11:10 south novgorod looks like bulbasaur

I may be wrong, but I believe occupying Sirai is enough to remove the Tatar Yoke

Hey Redhawk, just curious: Do you not ever take the Clerical Education privilege from the Clergy? I think it's super strong and it's fairly easy to keep them loyal for that extra reform progress growth. Never seen you pick it, that's why I'm asking.

for some reason the war vs great horde is by far the hardest thing in any Muscovy campaign I play

One thing to note, you can get rid of the unique boyar privilege on day 1, simply by taking the nobles agenda, granting the calling the diet privilege that automatically completes an estate agenda, and then revoking the bad privilege

Another great guide, as usual! I was wondering if you were planning to make a guide about money management. I always take the Burghers Loans at the beginning of a campaign, but always end up spiralling into debt. How fast should the Burghers Loans be reimbursed? How to avoid struggling with rebels whenever army maintainance is lowered?

Protip, after starting as muscovy, culture shift to ruthenian to form ruthenian tsardom. Then take the unique ruthenian govt reforms. Then culture shift to muscovite and form russia, you'll keep the rutheniangovt reforms as long as your religion is the same. By 1520s, you can give most of the estate privileges and at the same time maintain low influence and high loyalty. Some of the Russian missions require you to micromanage estate influence/loyalty. My method makes those missions a breeze.

muscovy is probably the best nation for newer players. I learned how to play hoi4 with muscovy don't need to care about navy of much about trading alliance navigation and no need to worry about AE its just pure war mechanics.

Yooooo what's up Red Hawk

How did you regain stability during the Muscovite Civil War so fast, as it seems the amount of admin points during the time didnt change, so did you increase stab? Something is not adding up there...

Is this a good foundation for Relentless Push East, or should that be the specific focus of a campaign going for that achievement?

I was just thinking to myself the other day, “Man, I love RedHawk’s other guides for this patch. I really wish he had a Muscovy guide, because this country is a way harder start than anything in Western Europe.” And suddenly, here it is: a guide video for Muscovy.

Yo can make a video on forming the latin empire as the knights?

"We need to come up with a name. What's in our country?" "Moscow." "And?" "That's it." "oooo so it's kind of Moscow...y?" "Genius."

Yeah, I followed this and had a coalition form against me of Novgorod, Kazan, Nogai and Crimea, which thankfully never fired, but then I went bankrupt. Hmmmm, yeah...not what I was planning 🤣

Could you do any guides for weird ass countries like Odoyev?

Nice to see you not in pain

If you plan to wc or sth with muscovy. You can 1 no cb Byzantium. It locks ottomans out of its mission tree. It cannot expand effeciently. You can just forget about them for 100 years and come destroy them later on. 2 you can get Burgundian inheritance as Russia try expand west and keep improving. Common rival, etc

Selecting the second option in the Muscovite Administration Adaption event only makes sense if you're planning to blob out way past your mission tree's permanent cores. I tried it and it did more bad than good, constantly putting me on the clock, wasting time recreating claims that I would've never lost to begin with with the other option. It's annoying and only exists as an option for random expansion. It's definitely anything but a default recommended option that you made it seem to be. Otherwise, a really nice guide.

Make a full video playing Muscovy to the end!

Whats the name of this mod that charges the font of the letter + adds this more vivid color to the red and green modifiers?

Have to disapprove of any guide where you annex Riga instead of making it a vassal. If you make Riga a vassal and complete their mission for their buffs they’ll be a 1 province vassal that will, pay you upwards of 20 ducats a month in vassal tax. Riga is like 10 times more valuable as a vassal than as a low dev province in your empire.

I wouldn't agree that you don't need allies as Muscovy. If Poland-Lithuania and Austria-Hungary become allies (which is not a far-fetched scenario at all) then you're in for a lot of trouble expanding into Eastern Europe without allies. Normally I try to ally Austria and use them against both the PLC and Ottos. Either are feasible to be defeated alone, but why bother when you can use allied cannon fodder? And later, when you need to fight Austria itself, you drop it for France and (if available) Spain, GB, someone strong from Italy.

At this point you may integrate "Below zero". Hmmm that makes sense

Could anyone help me? Regaurdless of how cloaely i follow the beggining steps i can only get up to 9 admin power per month even when hiring a level 2 advisor (no level 3s are ever available) i simply do not understand how red hawk was able to get his admin power that high...

What are you doing steppe province?

Can u do Sweden or Austria next after ideas have changed i wonder what's best for them.

Does this strategy actually work? I've tried like 4 times now, and I'm constantly taking out new loans, having huge revolts, the great horde and the other steppe tribes just ally each other. Like sure, I'm expanding quickly, but it's very unstable.

I’m taking religion first every time as muscovy

The events related to the third period of the Muscovite civil war are not unavoidable. If you are either super lucky or willing to savescum, your starting heir can reach the age of 15 without the event triggering at all and you can abdicate and not have to deal with it at all.

Is the "Event Insight" that pops on your mission tree a mod? Don't think I've seen it before. Thank you!

Hello Mr Hawk

Ive been trying this but i just cant seem to get a good start. Its either; Hordes ally otto/timurid and ally each other, i get coalitioned because i expand too fast, poland declares on me when im eating hordes, or i get peasants war. How can i reliably avoid all of these? Im copying the opening moves and up until end of first war with Novgorod

Not sure I agree with opening with Trade - I think Admin or Diplo are the better open.

yeah, muscovy is very strong this patch.

While i was fighting Novgorod, I somehow got an event that randomly gave me a PU on Tver. Is this good or no?

I have found Muscovy and later Russia pretty boring to play after the first 2 times. Sure, they were changed, but I just find the part of the world you play in extremely dull, and often tedious once you have gotten all the way to the eastern part of the continent.

Wish you would continue this!

is trade ideas not better to take second due to the vassalizing ?

Did The great hoard change? Can you do a new guide

I need help , why do i only begin with 6 Admin Points per Month am i missing a DLC?

I’m in the year 1452 now. Trying to follow this but the Greate Horde and Kazan are allied with the timurids and Uzbek. I get swarmed by the hoarde anytime I try to conquer them. Should I just focus on the Baltic and/or just develop more till I’m stronger ?

Side note, don't integrate your subjects, when you form Russia there is a mission that before the Age of Absolutism requires you to have 7 subjects (you already start with 5) and you'll most likely already have completed all the pre requisites and the missions blocking it while you're still Muscovy so it's best to keep them around, vassalize Ryazan and Odoyev so you can continue through the mission tree.

What graphic mod do you use?

Damn, 1.35 made Muscovy OP

Muscovy is food. Signed: the Great Horde.

25:18 As a heads up, you MAY NOT want to take religious ideas as Muscovy despite its synergy with Orthodox nations. As Russia, you have a mission that requires the Patriarchs to have +70 Loyalty, a bunch of influence, have high religious unity, AND you needed to have done at least 4 estate agendas for them. Its a surprisingly difficult mission to take, doesn't give you a ton of rewards, and you HAVE to complete it in order to get to some of your really awesome missions OR you can take "Separate Church and State" to lose the Patriarch estate and take it for free with some admin tech discount. To take that Gov reform, you need to have taken either Innovative or Humanist Ideas. Humanist is a surprisingly good alternative to Religious, even if it isn't as powerful as it used to be, and it will help alot with rebels and all too. You can always switch out of it later if you play long enough to get the reform that removes all penalties for Heretics and Heathens. Another slightly unorthodox idea group you may want to try out is Espionage as well. You don't need the Claim States since you already get that but the AE reduction, Siege ability, and extra diplomats can really help you expand very quickly especially once you get into Europe proper. Additional tips 1: I'm so glad Hawk took Trade ideas as his recommended first idea group at tech 5. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE A MIL IDEA AT TECH 5. You will fall behind in mil tech and die probably by Poland. 2: You have a mission as Russia that requires you to have 7 Loyal Vassals with less than 20% disloyalty in order to progress your mission tree. Keep that in mind when you are conquering. Historically, Muscovy did this to help conquer the Steppes and parts of Siberia. 3: You need to be really careful when you decide to attack Poland Lithuania. Obviously, its bad to wait too long to fight them, since Poland especially gets some nasty mil ideas later in its national ideas as well as some big eco ideas so it can field massive cavalry armies, and the game can't really emulate the stranglehold the Sejm had on Poland historically so they just turn into this OP deathball that can't be stopped except by a more powerful deathball. But you also don't want to fight them too early, because the Ottomans get Invasion CBs onto Moldavia and claims on the Black Sea provinces they control and boy if you thought Poland was hard to deal with, the Ottomans pre-1650 is even worse. 4: Keep the year 1650 in mind whenever you play a nation that wants to attack the Ottomans but can't/doesn't fight them early game. That's around the year that the Decadence disaster will almost always fire for them, which will send them into a massive death spiral of disasters, some of which have absolutely ludicrous requirements to get out of. They will basically turn into pushovers after being in those disasters for about 10 years. 5: You don't necessarily have to go after Novgorod first, though it is always a good idea to do so. Because you start off focusing Admin, you can hire an adviser and take the mission as soon as you build to 80% force limit, allowing you to go after other countries within the Russia region as well. 6: Don't support Sweden's independence if they ask you. Them breaking free on their own but getting locked in a cycle of reconquest and independence wars with Denmark is probably the best thing that can happen.

You totally forgot about the power of God in Russia. Icons.

For some reason I can’t get the 10 admin power, only 9 bc my leader. How can I fix this?

Aragon to roman Empire guide asap please

Lol at 19:46 I thought you cheated when I saw +2 stab and 0 corruption. Then I looked at the date and it took you 2 years to have 0 corruption and +2 stab.

Prokopiy von Knorring? Yeah, that's definitely russian name in the Late Middle Ages - Early Modern Period

My game just decided that Ivan the terrible must die at age 29 :(

why does the peasants war keep firing for me?

I didnt get the new missions, wondering if anybody would know why?

I'm just learning EU4 and this video confused the hell out of me. All my instincts on how to play are wrong

People that commented before watching, SHAME ON YOU!

Novgorod guide tho?

When will my economy start to stabilize ?

make a Inca guide

How to survive peasant war disaster after war with Novgorod?

try CK3

I am a very experienced player but sorry this guide is way to fast

Stuff like that 🙃

so real redhawk

is not your next nation to play in a to z ?

Do Tibet next and how to overthrow China and be a regional power!

Plays the nation that historically formed Russia, declares war with Kiev as the war goal... (-_-)

Lmao you're improving relations with Novgorod after your war with them

Declaring for kiev sounds really wrong with what's happening with today lol 😅

PLZ do Ashikaga guide

I have no idea what you are doing here. it does not relate to the game i have.

Ugh you make such gross border gore. I think Imma run a Muscovy game to get like a bunch of 'cheevos