Garbon said:
Did you not read agung pasha's post?
Its easier to add provinces to Russia as apparently its in a different section of the grid than poland. The section of the grid that poland is in can't afford to have all those new provinces, where as the grid Russia is in, can.
OK. According to your logic - if someone dropped his keys under some unlit lamp-post, he must go to some lit post and search these drop keys there, because this lampost is LIT and can provide some light, while unlit post can't provide it?
Excuse me for asking - what was method by gridiron definition. Why some countries received more space/empty sockets for provinces and other less. I've got an impression - like MKJ map is distorted anyway - real Muscovy (modern Moscow or XVI century Moskva principality - no difference) LARGER then all provinces in Benilux region plus Calais and Artois regions - extra. But in this presentation - Moscow region is comparable with Hainaut while in real life modern City of Moscow (not province of Moscow at all!) is 4 times larger then proposed Hainaut province.
In other words - if you start to change actual size of some provinces - why you try to speak some nonsense about some "gridiron" stuff? Move Polish Lithuanian lands in more eastern direction - give Polish community part of Russian quota of you precious "gridiron" and remove all weird things created by MKJ imagination in Russian part of map!
What sort of problem do you have? Poles asked you for some numbers for provinces extra, Russian community asked you to remove all weird things, created by MKJ and you start to speak me about "gridiron". Move border of "gridiron" - as simple as that.
Keep only modern Poland provinces in their part of gridiron and put all former Soviet-held provinces in Russian part of grid. Yep, my Soviet sentiments would be - quite happy by this Solomonic decision (especially by seeing all Baltic provinces in "Russian part of grid"! - come on boys, stop to be nasty, - your old, wrinkled foster mother would be happy to squeeze you in her almost forgotten steel maternal embrasses - again!

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Just move all former Soviet lands in Europe to "Russian" part of your grid - then everybody would be happy

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Dixi