Note that the mod doesn't really intend you to play a releasable nation and thus it has less flavor then other nation that were actually meant to be played!
I released myself from Russia because:
- Then they don't get an immediate core on me
- They would ally and actually join me against Smolensk
- More pops then released by Smolensk
- You get a port (not of much use)
This is interesting stuff only, so if you came here to get bored, it's time to go!
At the start of my campaign I declared a war on Smolensk to get myself started which resulted in Smolensk loosing 20k pops to emigration (per day!) at one point.
Post 1st Expansion War borders (ew)
Some 36 years later I had beaten Russia, who had annexed Smolensk previously because of Russian unification rebels a month after the 1st Expansion War, so hard that not only did their puppet Vitebsk have a democratic revolution and had broken free, but IT WON A WAR AGAINST RUSSIA WITHOUT ANY FOREIGN INTERFERENCE!
Meanwhile Russia had 2 PRETTY POWERFUL ALLIES ON ITS SIDE (Hispania and Armenia)!
Also a thing to note here is that Vitebsk's flag IS A CHAD! This is literally chad democratic Vitebsk beating a coalition of 3 powerful countries... ON ITS OWN.
Just look at the war score (-26.40 for Vitebsk) and military power difference (Vitebsk: 14 vs Russia Restoration Alliance: 262, that's a 18.7 times difference!)
Considering how the Flag of Vitebsk looks, I had to do it.
My THICC endgame name placement.
Russian Republic is my puppet now. This is why you must always invest in all countries ALL THE TIME. Also a bit gory borders, but I wouldn't go over the infamy limit. I took what I could get.
For those who don't know: if a country goes communist and nationalizes its investments, the investor gets a "Make Puppet" cb (not in all mods though).
Ural Italy)
Sphere Naples > Click a button > Profit!
Bought Alaska (or Halesca as it's called in this mod) and released it for infamy reasons.
It sadly didn't get much immigration(
Endgame cores
After a while I started declining events that offer me to core stuff in the far east and Siberia, since it's more infamy then it's worth (2 per state) and culturally pretty much fully Russian anyways.
Cores pt. 2 (don't mind that war with China)
Endgame Ural State map with Russian Republic and Helesca as puppets
Endgame world map
This mod is a lot of fun, go play it!
Thanks to Savs for working on this beauty (u/Savolainen5 for redditors out there)
The main part is now over, now for some additional editorial remarks (or just me rambling about why I should've been able to annex Russia proper)
This mod does have a well-implemented increased infamy reduction (additional -.05 for all great powers), but it was still not enough to get me Russia. And while that may not have been exclusively because of infamy reduction¹ I still think that if two countries have THE SAME PRIMARY² CULTURE and one is A SPHERED PUPPET OF THE OTHER that annexation makes sense. There are Russian Unification rebels, but if they win the only thing they do is to annex the country to THE Russia (Russian Tsardom as the start; the country I puppeted). And since Russia can't be annexed into Russia (duh), they don't even appear there (even if the country just switched gov. typed 3 times in 1 year, which happened after Russia went to war with Poland to take Kiev). The mod also has Patriot rebels type³. The 2 "Russias" in the beginning have content/flavor (talking about the Russian Tsardom and Smolensk, I don't think their puppets have flavor). I looked at all decisions and events involving annexation (looking for the `inherit` line) and none of them are possible to execute as the Ural State, so I made myself a cultural union⁴ just to see how the map would look like.
Why did I stop playing in 1894? There are definitely challenges to overcome (getting Russian settlers in my stated colonies in Mongolia and Kazakhstan) and wars to be fought (me owning Sakhalin with Japanese cores is prone to cause conflict), but with conquering the rest of Russia and cleaning up the Chinese border as my only goals infamy-wise, I would rather play a game as a country that actually has actual content.
¹ I used every possible opportunity until around 1880 to declare on intervene or get called by an ally against Russia, which kept me in a war with decreased infamy for long periods of time. if i hadn't done that Russia would have crushed me very quickly: more pops, bigger army, allies, cores on the parts of Smolensk I took and no other places for me to expand into besides Siberia. And no I wouldn't be able to reach China that way, Russia gets cores on Siberia. There an only be one Russia and the mod shows that.
² I would have written accepted if it wasn't for Russia accepting Tatars and me also accepting more people like Belorussians, Ukrainians and Ugrians.
³ They work like this: break free, join country with that accepted culture. e.g. if a state in Poland were to get occupied by Ukrainian Patriots, I would get that state because the Ural State has Ukrainian as accepted.
⁴ Cultural union tags can get an event that you can see in the picture if they have a sphereling of their culture group. That way if Germany were to sphere Bavaria, Bavaria would eventually get annexed. That event is expected to fire once a year if the conditions are met. There are rules and exceptions for this, but if you want to know more look at the code, this is a vanilla event (event id - 60120).
Border with Russian Republic annexed.
I'd take Kiev back from Poland, 2 small provinces that Lithuania for some reason has cores on leaving Lithuania proper intact and take 2 states from BIG FINLAND with a bunch of accepted Ugrians, but that's would put me in a rabbit hole of hypotheticals and I solve practical problems)
The true borders of the Ural State
Hope you enjoyed this little AAR (?). By the time I'm finishing this I am no longer sure if this can be considered an After Action Report, but let's call it that.
Also first time posting anything here, hope I didn't break any rules.
If you have any, questions, I will try to answer all of them.
After posting I noticed that only Smolensk emigration was showing up in the attachments, not sure why.
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