EU4 A To Z - Forming RUSSIA As NOVGOROD Is WAY MORE POWERFUL 

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"I love Democracy. I love the Republic." t. Novgorod

I'll pretend like I didn't see the Angevine Empire guide video

Selling boats only works in separate sales of one to two boats each. Looking at reasons for refusal will help. Only worth it really early game imho and even then.

You have to split the boat stacks up. Lots of countries will buy 1-2 boats but nobody will buy 6 or something due to force limit

23:40 "Look at their starting morale." It's higher than mine 24:00 "I'm not patient enough to wait that the morale gets up" Hmmmmmm, somehow that feels like, i don't know, that's the reason?

You can sell boats one by one, not all stacked up. There's higher chance they would accept that way, cheers.

Pro-tip: the best way to form Russia is to start as Sweden, release yourself as Finland, finnish the mission tree to get the permanent attrition bonuses, then form Russia. That attrition buff is incredible with Russian geography 😮

Господинъ Великiй Новгородъ одобряет

Veche Republic Russia is one of the most hype ways to play in EU4! Screw the boring ol' tsardom

A lot of comments mentioning boat selling. You can actually get (120 + 80) for selling heavies for 40 each and transports in batches of 2 for 20. I play Novgorod every patch as part of my quest to get their final mission done ASAP, just a fun challenge. A few tips if anyone wants to try them: sell heavies, you can keep transports if you want. You can actually form trade leagues as Novgorod. An easy starting pick is Odoyev and Gotland (might need to improve or dip rep advisor). This instantly allows you to pick naval doctrine (recommend the unique one for marines) and also boosts your land force limit and manpower. So I highly recommend trade leagues as Novgorod. You can usually ally Scotland at the start. They are useless in wars, but if you improve relations with Ireland minors you can enforce peace on England later and get a single province as beachhead for future wars. You have to obviously ferry your troops to Scotland first. That way you can completely ignore England's navy and snipe their capital. To take a province you might need dip tech 7 or 8 for colonial range, if you didn't get any provinces from Norway or Sweden earlier. This way you can farm England for money and the final Novgorod mission (top trade node) is easy to complete since you disrupt their trade by occupations during war. The first war should be a show of strength on Tver. If you are lucky they don't ally anyone, but it's possible they get an alliance with Ryazan. Second war should be Muscovy. It doesnt matter what the peace deal is, as long as the truce ends before 1461. Try to ally Poland (in my games it was always possible if they got the Lithuania PU) and make sure you have enough favors with them for next Muscovy war. After this get a tech advantage over Teutons and Livonians and declare war. Sometimes you can get Teutons as a valid rival and can push for an extra humiliate there. Don't take any land from Teutons in the war (or take Konigsberg for extra AE and dip cost, this way you will get a Coalition after annexing Livonian order but will avoid fighitng Danzig later on. Do not core it). You can completely annex Livonian order or at least take the provinces bordering the Teutons. Immediately after the war start the spy network on Teutons: claim Memel, Konigsberg and Danzig (all three of them, but focus on Danzig to have a CB ready at any time). In about 1460 declare on Muscovy and call in Poland. When the Danzig event fires declare on them Immediately. If Danzig didn't get Konigsberg you can restart and try your luck again, otherwise you have to aim for Danzig itself and sometimes Teutons snipe it very fast forcing you to wait until Poland unsieges it first. You can recruit marines or smth on the border to snipe the sieges. Poland cannot protect them against you since you are in a war together but they will protect them against Teutons. Make sure you take Konigsberg or Danzig (+Memel if they got it from Teutons) and peace out, otherwise they will finish their war with Teutons and automatically get to be a vassal of Poland even tho they are at war with you. Finish your war with Muscovy. Poland usually annexes the Teutons completely. Use the province you got to release Teutons and make them a march (again: this will not work with Memel due to wrong culture). You can now get the provinces back from Poland via favors (or break alliance and reconquest) and concentrate on expansion in Sweden. If you got Memel and released the Teutons you can avoid fighting Poland before forming Russia (mission requires you to own Danzig and Memel directly or through subjects). As soon as they annex Danzig return that province with favors. They will usually break their alliance due to them being stupid warmongers and suddenly getting -200 relations so make sure to use Poland in all your wars (Sweden, Ottomans etc) before that. After this initial phase try to focus on expanding through Kazan or Great Horde to get to Samarkand node early and push that juicy trade. You can create a trade company in Nogai area as Novgorod and with a trade post and TC upgrades get an extra merchant (this usually requires you to delete Marketplaces in Astrahan state and mb don't state it fully just yet). If you are feeling confident you can take on Crimea (they usually ally Kazan) as a vassal, note that you have to cobelligerent them and if they expanded prior they may be over 100% warscore. Using them as a vassal take any adjacent province from Genoa or Circassia on the coast and core it. This way you will have colonial range on Ottomans and can get a Byzantine core super early before their core on Constantinople expires. Sometimes Crimea gets an Ottoman related event and cedes some provinces to them, making them easier to vassalize (and for less AE) and providing a ready CB on them in return. All in all this is a super fun start and is super challenging and rewarding if you fight Ottomans and England early on. Still, if you don't want to tryhard it just focus on trade and on pushing to Samarkand for trade income and you will have enough money to outpay your way through any war.

9:12 Actually Nogorod's naval doctrine is REALLY good. Free sailor forcelimit means you don't have to pick a naval idea to get marines which means more manpower for you to use however you like. It's a no brainer, honestly.

The Ottomans are actually playing heavily with Eyalets this update. They made that choice with Mamluks almost every game. I even had to separate peace Mamluks when they called me into that war to get what I wanted from them

nice angevin guide video lol

I petition for Mr. Hawk to do more "chill and have some fun" A-Z campaigns

So regarding that you could form Byzantium as Novgorod might be because the historic Republic of Novgorod actually was like super influenced by the Byzantines.

This Russian invasion of Ottoman lands around Crimea, followed by being beaten up unexpectedly, reminds me of some certain events in the real world... 😅

I live in Venice so the opening of the video was quite fascinating!

Слова ушкуйник испужался XD. Спасибо за новое видео, обожаю формировать Россию именно из Новгорода.

If Novgorod exists then where is Oldgorod?

You can do 1:1 as Novgorod vs Russia. The strat is simple: build a fort in shenkursk, built one huge doomstack, play defensively and kill them when they are on your fort. Tested in all version from 1.25 to 1.35. works. It only doesn’t wort if Russia allows Denmark and invites them to bang you aswell. Then you’ll need another fort in I think Karelia or something like that.

You gave us Angenvin and took it back... I will sue you!!! Cant wait for that guide , as always good work.

Why not continuing into a second part video and try to get Frozen Assets achievement?

Ah, the return of the "accidental war declaration!" That used to happen all the time but not so much recently. Great to see it make a comeback!

The only time I saw Novgorod beat Muscovy was when they immediately allied Poland (who got the PU). They gradually took land through war until the could form Russia and, somehow, the same year they got a PU on the Commonwealth. It was some nutty diplo. I think Ryazan managed to push into Tatar lands too because I remember Russia was limited to the western half of the region.

Two comments on saving admin to core: 1. Take mission first after returning 4 cores from Muscovy and then core the additional you've took (25% cheaper with permanent claims); 2. Same with Finland/Stockholm conquest - Golden era and then coring (10% cheaper).

3:28 not saying that you should sell ships every game or whatever but you can't just sell em in a chunk of 8; you possibly can sell a few if in batches of 1 - 3

The key to beating Muscovy as Novgorod is that you have to attack them at the same time as either golden horde or kazan. Poland/Lithuania doesn't work as they don't have a reason to attack. The most lucky is if Muscovy attacks Kazan and then you attack at the right time. Getting Tver as an ally (they start independent) also is good. Later you can vassalize them. I think red hawk left the war way too long. It should be possible to get some kind of war with Moscovy in the first 5 years.

I just lowkey love you kept Gotland around for all these years😂🤣

For selling transports I've gotten 30 ducats for 2 boats before, so you can easily liquidate them into about 100 ducats. Most tiny Baltic states will buy one or two. Sure you don't regain the sailors like if you disband them but you make decent money for it.

2 novgorod vidoes in one day, feeling blessed

You need to put your boats in two or three smaller stacks to sell them. AI won't buy them if you sell 8 ships and they go over the ship force limit.

What mods are you using ? Some UI aspects look different

That’s literally how every war with ottomans goes for me, I’m confident I can win. I hype myself up. But it always turns out to be just barely unless it’s late game, then it’s just a slog…lol.

If you ever do a guide, please use Streltsy infantry. They're free!

Usually, nobody will buy the whole lot of my ships because it would put them over force limit. But if I break up the fleet, I can sell it in pieces. If that's too fiddly for you, that's fine, but it does usually work.

You should split the transport ship stacks to sell. You can sell them 2 by 2 to most of the nations that aren’t rivaled to you in the Baltic

Didn't you used to get heavies as Novgorod in the start? I remember selling off my navy and hiring mercenaries to kick Muscovy's teeth in when I last played as them. And you sell boats one or two at a time, nobody can afford a full fleet.

You need to sell each transport one at a time, ships in general are easier to sell like that

Now I want to form Byzantium as Novgorod. :D

As far as feedback on the Unification of Italy video, I'm not sure what your value added was in a crowded market, nor do I feel you had a unique twist to it. Consider how ToldInStone focuses on one narrow, interesting question with high production values---hi res images and high quality audio---paired with clever writing, or how even Historia Civilis has its trademark little square animations, though it is hampered like your channel with a narrow and unreflectively (positive or critical) perspective. Finally, Montemayor has by far the best presentation of individual battles on RU-vid, and takes the historical analysis seriously, summing up and engaging very detailed professional historical analysis with unparalleled visualizations. Birds' Eye View doesn't really have any of that. It is broader than an encyclopedia entry, but as an uncritical admiring valentine. I don't know what information I wouldn't have gotten from Wikipedia.

Pretty chill campaign

Would it be youtube-safe to get the borders of 1942 (or 1940) Germany with Nuremberg or is it asking for too much ?

Only real spot I’ve been able to sell boats especially transports as early were in the Italian city states and sometimes in Asia anywhere else diplo tech 3 isn’t really enough to do strong naval stuff or they already have access to their own

U can sell boats just sell them one by one. Don't need heavies early on sell them one by one and u will have like 150 duckets with cogs and heavies sold. Also if u picked specific privileges you can earn up to 4-5 duckets a month with army maintenance up to the max and full army capacity. But with the regulae guide privileges you all guys pick hard to get much earning... And be sure to change merchant from white sea node to novgorod or transfering to your node from some other node.

Tried doin this without a guide and now i think i will try again

12:53 if you look up; "what the actual fuck" in the dictonary you will see this picture

I've always played Nov on hard. No allies with the - 20 modifier. Just have to fire a trade war and cheese away muscovy manpower

Can’t wait until you eventually have to play Bani Yas

Ever since 1.36 the Ottomans can do the Egypt Eyalet thing (in Domination they always refused it). Can be really scary, especially if they integrate them, you can get like a 2000 dev AI Ottomans within like 100yrs.

if you dont mind selling the ships 1 to 2 at a time you probally could sell them nobody wants 8 cogs but they might want one.

Taking the CCR and not enserfing the peasants are, imo, massively, massively better.

angevin guide spoiler? 👀

how you was earning so much like over 40 ducats from trade that early?

I never knew that Novgorod was so powerful and I've been scared to play them until now

Funny to see St Petersburg become capital of Russia in 1520 when the city wasn't founded until 1703

in latest patch AI sweden never seems to break free from denmark... at least not in the first 10 years

Frozen assets guide plz mr hawk???

The humbling from the ottomans at the end was funny. Still, a win is a win

No Frozen Assets?

i asked for a novgorod guide once before and i will ask for a guide again

Seeing the eu4 map without extended timeline is weird

Even when Hawk plays a Republic he enslaves the commoners.

Ivan the Terrible is screaming and crying right about now.

I have spent like hmmm probably 1/50 of my life playing as either Muscovy or Novgorod and getting bored early on either cuz i have too many loans or don't expand as fast as all guide i find on youtube. When i take it slow and take only money from enemies I don't expand much but when i expand much i fall into bankruptcy and without many buildings built.... Ehhh makes me wonder should i quit

Whatever you do with Nuremberg it should have something to do with racing.

I love seeing strong Bohemia

Honestly watching you make beginner and dumb mistakes over and over is entertaining af

To sell the ships you have to split them into 1 stacks and literally any nation with a coast line will buy them. Don't ask me why, they just do.

You have to sell them one by one! They never will buy more than 3 ships in baltic.

You're missing big time on selling boats, you don't even bother to check why they don't buy it! It's because it exceeds their force limit! What you need to do is sell your ships separatly, so 2 to the livonians, 2 to danemark etc... You can make easy 100 ducats in the first month which is much needed.

As Nuremberg converting all Bavarian provinces to Franconian will definitively make all Bavarian watchers super happy!

I played novgorod until 100k army commonwealth attacked me

We should take Ryazan and than give it to the horde 🤣

It would be fun to see republican England or a celestial republic!

Hawk, stop it… You CAN sell heavies and transports, but you have to split them beforehand. No one wants 8 transports, but 2… Now we’re talking)

0:10 So, you declared independence from EU4?

Why do I see the San Marino flag when I look at you?

I came from the future and the next video will be about the Angevin Empire, you can charge! hahahaha

Novgorod has access to a Tier 2 gov reform which gives better Republican Tradition than Republicanism as well as some other bonuses.

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There is not a single part of Novgorod that is within Scandinavia. Half of Novgorod is within Fennoscandia however. I wish people would stop lumping things into Scandinavia that aren't. It's enough with Americans who think the entirety of the Nordics are part of Scandinavia.

You to need to try harder. No one want to buy 8 transports, but if you make the transport fleet smaller, say 1, 2, 3, or 4 transports, you will find buyers. Is it super worth it? Probably not, cause it's unlikely you'll get full price for them. but you will most likely get half their value. Really I wish the AI would sell you ships, as it would reduce the wait time for building a navy.

barbarian simulator

i thought novogorad was the original former of russia tbh

Not colonizing?

Do you actually make eu4 tutorials but dont know how to sell ships ???

In case you havent noticed,Kosovo somehow gained independence this game

Why does he not lower inflation?!

The true Russians, as they also formed Kievan Rus some hundreds of years before

For the love of... Divide your ships, and sell them 1 by 1. I mean you have the skills to take tha Basileus achievement with Byz, yet in the same time you dont know something as simple as that !?!As a fellow with ADHD i almost got destroyed when i saw that !!!

Why build forts???

good national ideas? Those ideas was shit in my opinion

Nobody wants to buy 8 transports at once… you can sell them 1 or 2 at a time. If you can’t be bother$d to do something just say you can’t be bothered to do it instead of being intellectually dishonest like this.

Dude you are slower than me. U can declare a trade cb war and get money and trade power. No need to expand... You are focused so much on alliances it's just crazy but i guess you wanna play safe then be sorry

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I don't like Novgorod in eu4. It should have much more western feel. The reason Moscow was so authoritarian is berceuse they were conquered by Mongols and their elites learnt to be extremely ruthless. Novgorod was never conquered by Mongols and so their institutions remained unmolested until they got conquered, destroyed and resettled into the middle of nowhere.

How are Novgorod ideas good lmao, please use that word sparingly.