Well, you're talking about Muscovy in 1444? As far as I remember Muscovy in 1444 doesn't have any releasable states, just vassals. This could actually be a good point.
Still. it was pretty monalistic at that time. And after oprichnina it became even more stable.
Muscowy has in fact already one releasable state: Nizhny Novgorod (2PM if I recall correctly).
Ukraine is the primary tag of Ruthenian culture, all of LIT and POL's Ruthenian-culture provinces start the game as cores of Ukraine, and given that Lithuania has great difficulty making the Ruthenians stop being Orthodox, and AI Russia will see no reason to culture-convert the Ruthenians to Russian (since it's the union tag for the East Slavic, so Ruthenian is always a no-penalty culture), I find it quite unlikely that you'd see a game where Ukraine could not be released from AI Russia unless it was a case of "they'd never acquired the Ruthenian provinces in the first place".
That's human Muscovy. AI Muscovy doesn't, AFAIK leverage coalitions to drag Novgorod back to war
That's human Muscovy. AI Muscovy doesn't, AFAIK leverage coalitions to drag Novgorod back to war
Muscowy has in fact already one releasable state: Nizhny Novgorod (2PM if I recall correctly).
If tatar nationalists somehow pop in Kasimov (tatar/muslim province in Muscowy) instead of tatar patriots, then a Qasim sultanate core can be created. Following Danzig example, it's possible that the Qasim Sultanate starts with a 1444 core in AOW. So potentially 2 releasable states at game start.
Finally a Vladimir-Suzdal releasable states would complete the set nicely in my opinion.
That isn't true, Castile has the "Spain must be Christian" mission, which removes their cores once completed.
You can still release the previous vassals + Novgorod until 1594. There are also hordes such as Kazan, Nogay, Kazakh, Uzbek, Sibir.
