Have 1k hours in eu, played russia extensively ottomans stomp on me with ease this ain't right how shit Russia is now. When you finally do a landgrab and take claims say off crimea btw which had 2 6 shock generals (bullshit) raised auto and still as Russia I can get up to 250k rebels spawning. Russia seriously got nerfed way too fucking hard. It needs to be a tier 1 nation as it was in 1.7
P.S Ah I miss 1.7 the superpowers were so well balanced within one another, I do agree with things like the buff on Spain but Muscovy is legit shit it cannot contend with the Ottomans and the ridiculously good generals the hoardes get for some fucked up reason makes it a ridiculous strangle attempt to kill them
Why should Russia be a tier 1 nation? I've been told they're only a regional power!
In all seriousness, how is Russia weak? Unlike other great powers, you start a multiplayer game lined up to expand where others may be surrounded by humans who will not let you. Trying to play Castile or Austria when a human is in France, and vice versa, really slows things down. Muscovy, meanwhile, is probably not facing a bunch of humans in Kazan and Golden Horde etc. So you can still push AT LEAST to the east just fine. Russia gets massive bonuses to manpower, force limit, and some army tradition - perfectly good combat ideas. How is your military struggling? Did you grab like aristocracy and quantity for your only military idea groups or something? I don't see how you can whine about generals with a country who gets an army tradition bonus, about rebel totals when your country is THE BEST at recovering manpower as you whack-a-mole them away, or about Crimea (a horde) being OP in 1.8!
Sorry, but it seems clear that the problem here is you are bad. You're either bad at the game or you're bad at diplomacy. If it's just you and the Ottomans and a bunch of ai, sure, you ARE at a disadvantage. So is almost everyone but a very few select western great powers. If it's a multiplayer game with a bunch of players, and nobody picked Mamluks, Timurids, or anything else that might counter the Ottomans, so they can out-expand Russia, AND people aren't helping you defeat such an obvious blob... it sounds like you failed at either picks or diplomacy. If you ARE in a game with a bunch of people, you are one of the few truly powerful countries that is almost impossible, barring an early team-up, to stop from being able to expand somewhere. They can't keep you out of Siberia, and out of the hordes, and out of Novgorod, and out of Lithuania. If other human players deliberately picked all these various countries and prevented you from expanding, perhaps you should suck it up and not pick Muscovy?
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