As of 1573 king Vasily III was in the middle of the raiding of Sibir. By now he was in his middle years and had earned himself the title the great war king of Russia. Mayby not as much of an acheivement as he himself founded Russia, but non the less... The Sibirian troops soon surrendered and Vasily could easily claim more than half of the Sibirian provinces. On his way home to Moscow he thought to himself that he would let the armies recuperate while he spent some time with his family, but he had hardly gotten past the door step before the news that Poland and Lithuania had declared war on Sweden where his third cousin still reigned. Naturally he too declared war on Sweden. His cousin might've become a bit upset, but war is war, and hadn't his forefather envisioned that the Rurikovich family would rule a Great Russia with ports on the Baltic Sea!? Unfortunately Vasily III died of an upset stomach after pea soup meal soon after the first troops sat foot on Swedish soil. If the arsenide in the soup was the work of Swedish infiltrators or his own family was never revealed but one can speculate.
This left the hastily crowned king Vasily IV with a war he had no interest in - he himself was a scholar - and the war took a turn for the worse as he realised that the swedes had caught up to the earlier tachnologically superior Russia and that the foolish englishmen had let themselves be fooled into an alliance with them. Just as his father, he was a man that finished what he started though - even if he didn't start it himself - and though the war dragged on for almost five years he kept the Russian army going with the money he had initially saved up for a new manufacory. After secret consultations with the not so great britain a deal was brokered for future help with Denmark, and Vasily left the conflict with all Swedens provinces associated with the Novgorod tradenode and returned to his scholarly occupations in Moscow.
Vasily soon realised that Russia would fall helplessly behind the courts of Europe technologically if nothing was done to rationalize Russias scientific departments. He therefore spent the rest of his life preparing his country for what he himself called westernization. His life proved not to be so long though, as he died of a heartattack way before his time and, as his father before him, left his heir with an unfinished project. King pavel however was not so scolarly inclined as his father and seized the opportunity to vassalize the tiny neighbour the Livonian order. As a Rurikovich he felt the responsibility to finish what his father started and the westernisation project will soon be a fact!
Session: 1573
Land: Russia
AAR bonus: Administrative power
On-Time bonus: Administrative power
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Jag insåg just att jag inte kommer hem från London förrns niotiden på måndag, så jag kommer inte kunna spela... Tror att alla jag känner som spelar EU4 redan är med här, men om nån bara startar westernisation-processen och höjer stabiliteten åt mig så borde det inte vara så illa att ghosta en session.
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This left the hastily crowned king Vasily IV with a war he had no interest in - he himself was a scholar - and the war took a turn for the worse as he realised that the swedes had caught up to the earlier tachnologically superior Russia and that the foolish englishmen had let themselves be fooled into an alliance with them. Just as his father, he was a man that finished what he started though - even if he didn't start it himself - and though the war dragged on for almost five years he kept the Russian army going with the money he had initially saved up for a new manufacory. After secret consultations with the not so great britain a deal was brokered for future help with Denmark, and Vasily left the conflict with all Swedens provinces associated with the Novgorod tradenode and returned to his scholarly occupations in Moscow.
Vasily soon realised that Russia would fall helplessly behind the courts of Europe technologically if nothing was done to rationalize Russias scientific departments. He therefore spent the rest of his life preparing his country for what he himself called westernization. His life proved not to be so long though, as he died of a heartattack way before his time and, as his father before him, left his heir with an unfinished project. King pavel however was not so scolarly inclined as his father and seized the opportunity to vassalize the tiny neighbour the Livonian order. As a Rurikovich he felt the responsibility to finish what his father started and the westernisation project will soon be a fact!
Session: 1573
Land: Russia
AAR bonus: Administrative power
On-Time bonus: Administrative power
*** OBS ***
Jag insåg just att jag inte kommer hem från London förrns niotiden på måndag, så jag kommer inte kunna spela... Tror att alla jag känner som spelar EU4 redan är med här, men om nån bara startar westernisation-processen och höjer stabiliteten åt mig så borde det inte vara så illa att ghosta en session.
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