I don't think I have ever seen Russia form, except in one game where I played as Teutonic Order and I beat up Poland and Lithuania a lot, which must have allowed Muscowy to focus on the Golden Hoard and survive.
I never saw Russia in Vanilla.Spain, GB and even Scandinavia are very common in my games.
I don't think I have ever seen Russia form, except in one game where I played as Teutonic Order and I beat up Poland and Lithuania a lot, which must have allowed Muscowy to focus on the Golden Hoard and survive.
Funny, in my games I see GB almost each time as well but the behaviour is exactly the opposite: they typically steamroll Ireland and Scotland in the first century of the game, usually even the first couple of decades. Then they either proceed to become one of the leading powers for the rest of the game or get pummeled by another major country (France foremost) and never recover.I see GB in like 75% of my games, usually whats been happening is England gets steamrolled in the 100 years wars, is forced to give up Wales and Cornwall and any other country they have, then Scotland invades. If England recovers, they are usually able to roll there way into forming GB pretty regularly.
The alternate history aspect of EU - esp. when compared to other players' experiences - never ceases to amuse me