Snake IV: Regarding stubborn AI and peace offers, I can't remember exactly what my WS was, I think 34%, and Crimea was 24%, something like that. And I think they had refused the offer once already, but accepted it the second time round. Even Turks can be sensible at times it seems.
PrawnStar: Hmm… Tatar as an accepted culture in Zaporozhie? What grim vision of the future is this?? But perhaps they can be Cossackified, or "siched up" as we say in the trade…
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Duke of Wellington: Oops - no offence meant to Tatars in general of course. But the fact is, when all's said and done, there are Tatars who Khan, and Tatars who can't. These were definitely the latter…
crazypeltast52: Yes, another pithy summation of the Cossack ethos - "beholden to nothing and no-one".
Chief Ragusa: Alas, Kaffa has by now been utterly desecrated by Sunni Tatars, and there is not a shred left of its once proud Greek past. The nearest Orthodox provinces in the OE are (Romanian) Bessarabia in the west and (Georgian) Georgia in the east. Liberating provinces from the Turk is not going to be as profitable as expanding west or north I fear, but someone has to do it I suppose.
stnylan: Yes, I'm very pleased about having a port, even if I can't actually build ships in it for now (non-core province). I thought of seeking out the New World and spreading a little sichness around there, but somehow it just doesn't seem like a Cossackly thing to do.
RGB: First you have to persuade the Cossacks to marry Tatars. I'm not saying sixteenth century Cossacks were at all racist or anything but…
Judas Maccabeus: Quite right - who needs ships when you have horses?
JaxomCA: We shall spread our glorious sichness to infinity… and beyond! And with ships it will of course be sea-sichness…
RGB: Now those are very interesting links. Clearly there is a naval tradition to build up here. Sea-sichness rules!
J.Passepartout: Yes, I am rather worried about you. At least you didn't get onto the sauce theme.
merrick: Yes, where did that spy go? Slippery customer… Incidentally, in case anyone thought bringing in James Bond was just another ridiculous Farquharson-esque anachronism, I actually discovered in my extensive (*cough*) researches that James Bond was actually based on the enigmatic "Sidney Reilly", who, according to one theory, was actually from the city of Kherson, which my army just happened to be advancing on when the first spy was discovered. Coincidence? I think not…
Lord E: Quite honestly I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to beat the Turks - much easier than the Poles, that's for sure. And with every province gained my manpower and army limit gets steadily bigger.
Well, I've played a little more but uneventful stuff. No updates imminent therefore, but stay tuned!