So I inherited Russia - Dealing with massive territory

[Spikee78]

Like the title says:

The goal ofcourse is to get more. But, what if my focus (as a player) is on Europe, I'm attacking someone, maybe fighting several allied enemies at once, and I'm attacked in my Siberian backyard.

Ofcourse, you can try prevent it by improving relations and all that, but what if someone -does- attack?

How can I manage that? I can't fly east to west and back all the time, trying to keep track of what's going on.

Anything that can help me (us) as a player, with such a scenario?

 

[YuriiH]

If you are afraid of your neighbours, there are two (obvious) hints:
1. Hold an army in Siberia.
2. Hold an army in the Urals.

 

[TenshiN]

You have tons of troops, so why not disband a few stacks and recruit them in your Russian territories in case you might need a response over there? You surely will still have enough troops in your main territories to crush any european opposition.

 

[Spikee78]

Maybe I wasn't sufficiently clear, I don't mean strategy-wise, but gameplay. How do I keep track of all things going on, sending the right amount of troops to the right amount of enemies and all that. Even if I get a normal attack (no other enemies jumping in) I may have to fight numerous fronts. Might get hard to keep up (as a player).

How do you manage the logistics of such a massive nation.

 

[TenshiN]

Maybe I wasn't sufficiently clear, I don't mean strategy-wise, but gameplay. How do I keep track of all things going on, sending the right amount of troops to the right amount of enemies and all that. Even if I get a normal attack (no other enemies jumping in) I may have to fight numerous fronts. Might get hard to keep up (as a player).

How do you manage the logistics of such a massive nation.

I generally know how many potential fronts i do have and check on them often to make sure my troops are in good position/have orders/just to see whether the enemy is attacking. Not that difficult once you get used to it. I also pause often, because why not?

 

[blusarge27]

Who exactly is going to attack you? I mean you seem to be the strongest easily. Are there really any alliance blocks that could actually take you down?
Even if you are fighting in Europe, I don't see anybody in the East who's going to attack you in Siberia. Yeah, Bukhara looks big but his armies will be way smaller than yours, and Ming, well, he's just going to sit there raking in tributary gifts. I highly doubt he has any reason to attack you.
I think you'll be fine.

 

[Stadhouder]

Maybe I wasn't sufficiently clear, I don't mean strategy-wise, but gameplay. How do I keep track of all things going on, sending the right amount of troops to the right amount of enemies and all that. Even if I get a normal attack (no other enemies jumping in) I may have to fight numerous fronts. Might get hard to keep up (as a player).

How do you manage the logistics of such a massive nation.

You could adjust your message settings to pop-up and auto pause for when a ford is sieged, your army has finished sieging, an army engaged with enemy, etc.

 

[pikaemperor]

Maybe I wasn't sufficiently clear, I don't mean strategy-wise, but gameplay. How do I keep track of all things going on, sending the right amount of troops to the right amount of enemies and all that. Even if I get a normal attack (no other enemies jumping in) I may have to fight numerous fronts. Might get hard to keep up (as a player).

How do you manage the logistics of such a massive nation.

For sake of your sanity you ignore one front and let the AI carpet siege it (trying to fight in multiple fronts at once is asking to get stackwhiped or waste a huge amount of time with unnecessary micro), that's a good enough reason to delete all forts as then you don't have to do actual sieges to take it back later when you have finished of the other fronts with higher priority. That's a big why we need army automation, and one that works properly(before anyone says rebel auto-hunt which is broken).

 

[Dominion]

I guess nobody told you that the AI only declares after calculating standing forces of you+allies (those who would honor the CtA) vs they+their allies.

With a nation of that size you can field enough troops to never get attacked again so you don't have to worry about multiple fronts.

have fun

And if they really attack you, who cares.

These lands have no forts and no dev. They're worth nothing regarding total WS.

 

[otaats]

Nobody will ever declare on you because of Russian holdings. Ming is safe behind their tributary tampons, and Bukhara is ridiculously weak, although they don't look like so. About Siberia - the only real threat you have on the east is Ming, and they won't declare on you while you're as strong and superior as you are, plus you don't share border directly with Ming, so they really don't care. If you do fight Ming though, again, you should have the upper had in mil tech. That way you don't even need superior numbers. Ming's manpower is kept at 0 for most of the game, and they would take tons of attrition by just traversing the vastness of Siberia. On the other hand, if you would to fight Ming on their turf, you can quickly carpet siege their northern provinces and take Beijing quite quickly, which would give you big war score. I just wouldn't worry about Siberia if i were you. Literally no one in the East will DoW on you. For precaution against the Ottomans, i would annex Gazimukh, and build forts on western and eastern Caucasian pass. EZ win against Ottos every war.