[RFC-DoC] Russian Domination

[baseballpie]

I want DoC so bad every time I read an update....

So do I.....

 

[Lone Wolf]

The British army that destroyed the Tamil kingdoms had moved north, to the range of Russian general Apraskin's troops, who met the British next to Hyderabad. The Padishah's troops took no part in the ensuing battle, content only to guard the city itself.

The British were better equipped and had better weapons then the Russians. But Apraskin concentrated his cannon fire upon them, managing to inflict a decisive defeat on the troops in red coats.

That highlighted English stack was then eliminated at the cost of one more Musketman

Tsar Alexei Rurikovich was elated to hear about the victory. He immediately ordered Apraskin to continue the fight and drive the British into the sea. "Let our Orthodox armies to the warm waters of Tamil lands", the tsar ordered.

Apraskin, however, insisted, that the Russian army is not strong enough to successfully assault the British fortified positions, that the British would not repeat the mistake which cost them the Battle of Hyderabad.

Alexei was most displeased. He thought that Russian armies are naturally superior to the heretical troops of Western Europe. His next message to Apraskin removed the general from the position of chief commander of Russian troops in India, transferring him to a remote desert outpost in Central Asia. The general, hurt by what he felt was the tsar's betrayal, soon died from drinking too much vodka.

Apraskin's successor, the boyar Golytsin, immediately ordered Russian troops to storm Calcutta. At first, the results seemed to favour the Russians, but then the British started to shell the attackers with their own artillery, making their own counterattack at the dispersed Russian troops. Nevertheless, Golytsin managed to lead the remainder of his army to safety.

Lost a further Musketman on the offensive, called off the assault when I realized that the British Cannons defend well enough not to allow me to capture the city, and one more Musket was lost IBT in the British counter-attack.

Golytsin escaped the Tsar's further displeasure by conquering parts of Bengal that were held by a small kingdom subject to the Khmer Empire.

A peace treaty with the British was signed soon, under which Queen Elizabeth III acknowledged Russian protectorate over the Padishah of Delhi. Tsar Alexei, however, was forced to accept all British conquests in India, Calcutta included.

Russian performance in the war with Britain wasn't really that bad, but them failing to reach their goals of pushing the British from the subcontinent strengthened the reformer fraction of Russian aristocracy, who felt that they need to learn some things from the West. The fate of Poland, which failed to resist the powerful and dynamic Prussian state, with its king being forced to flee to his Romanian possessions, was also a warning to Russia.

Poland soon collapsed, ironically, on the same turn they captured Constantinople.

Emboldened by Russian armies' mediocre performance, Persia refused to send tribute to Russia, severing all links with Smolensk. Armies were sent to reconquer it.

Russian diplomatic prestige was still strong enough for a mixed delegation of Greek and Turkish statesmen who wanted to re-establish the old Byzantine Empire on a more multi-national base to seek support for their project in Smolensk. Russia was only too glad to support the initiative.

The World.

 

[GreekAnalyzer]

You must take revenge on the Brits for this humiliation.

 

[Lone Wolf]

The civics of some AI civs. Note that I improved the rarely-used ones (Leoreth over-estimated the effectiveness of the GPP bonus).

After the old Tsar died, he left no male heirs, only his daughter Anna.

Anna, in a European-style dress the court adopted during her reign.

She faced large opposition from the nobility, but she had the support of popular nobleman-general Dolgorukiy of the reformer faction. Anna and Dolgorukiy announced their invitation of European engineers to Russia, in order to transmit the techniques of burgeoning European industry to Russian soil. Most of these engineers were from Germany and Netherlands, countries hostile to England, Russia's main geopolitical enemy in India. The conservative faction was silenced by the might of the new Russian army.

But not everything was fine in India. The nizam of Hyderabad, a vassal of the Delhi Padishah, who was himself subject to the Crown of Smolensk, decided that with Anna being embroiled in her struggle with the conservatives, his independence would not be suppressed by the Russian troops.

Honestly, half of Congress decisions in this mod don't really make much sense and don't add much flavour, either. I'm thinking of deleting all code associated with them altogether. This transfer made my vassal Mughals Unstable.

The Padishah might have considered being subjugated to a woman to be dishonorable, but he knew that with Dolgorukiy's army reforms he doesn't have much choice. He requested new Russian weaponry, which was granted to Delhi by Anna.

Russian court poets glorified the large space and the multitude of their country.

The advance of Russian industry, however, was done at the expence of common people. Enserfed to the government factories, they worked in horrible conditions, making guns for the new model army.

New Russian state factories.

Meanwhile, the Russians advanced further East, reaching the Pacific.

Anna's government strengthened the relationship with its Mongolian and Indian vassals, exporting the new Russian industrial goods to these regions.

In 1812, Russian army again appeared in India. After the Nizam was brought to submission, General Dolgorukiy delivered an ultimatum to the British General-Governor of Indian Territories, demanding immediate British withdrawal from India. When the British refused, war was declared. Bangalore, a city that had seen better days, was taken by the Russians in 1814.

 

[Moai_Spammer]

subbed

 

[GreekAnalyzer]

Nice, nice wolf.

 

[Lone Wolf]

China had a Defensive Pact with the English, so Russia and China ended up at war. Chinese patrols in Siberia were eliminated, albeit not without some difficulties, since most of the troops were far away.

But the Mongols, my vassals took the worst of Chinese fury.

The Khmer, another English ally, invaded India. I quickly paid them off (the diplo text is what Suryavarman said).

Cannon fire is on my side now, English possessions in India fall like flies. The lines illustrate the way Russian army picked all these cities.

After Russia conquered all British India, the Brits agreed to sign peace, paying an additional contribution. I had liberated all cities except Madras to the Mughals.

But the situation on the Chinese front was tougher. Mongolia went Unstable after Chinese captured Dunhuang and Karakorum, with only makeshift Russian troops preventing a complete military collapse of Mongolia. Note also the Mongolian Great General in NW of the screenshot. He never moved to Mongolia, staying fortified in Russia. AI continental border weirdness is a likely culpit.

 

[Lone Wolf]

I'll finish the story more quickly now.

The New World.

Kovno flip.

Trade.

And the Emancipation of the Peasants. It's all about Capitalism and Laissez Faire now.

The Congress makes some sense this time.

Declaration of war against China, and, by extension, Korea.

Capture of Beijing.

 

[mrrandomplayer]

Nuuuuuuu! Bring back teh commentary!

Seriously, the commentary is good. Please bring it back! It adds flavor to the story.

 

[baseballpie]

No!
Russia musts has k0mmunism1

 

[Lone Wolf]

I'll post both quick gameplay updates and non-gameplay story vignettes from now on. Time for a vignette.
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Tsar Mikhail II was deeply puzzled and a little offended.
The anarchist assassin who attempted to shoot him (good thing the bullet had struck a wall instead of someone else) had cried out something about the Tsar being "a tyrant and an oppressor of the Russian people". Why are they so against him? After all, no one had ever wanted to assassinate his great-grandmother Anna, and she, by all accounts, had a much harsher personality.
He knew that he shouldn't really bother about that. After all, the common people loved him. How could they not? Everyone knew about Russia's glorious victories in the East under his leadership. The celebrations in honor of capturing Pekin were massive and full of joy - of this simple joy only common people know.
It was he who had emancipated the serfs. Sure, he had to compromise somewhat, but in some cases he had been quite harsh in opposing the nobles who wanted to keep all the land the peasants worked on.
Frederick IV, the King of Prussia and his distant relative, had respected both his country and him personally. Who opposed him, really? Only small groups of repressed revolutionaries at home and the loud, noisy group of radical emigres in London...
His thoughts, as usual, shifted towards geopolitics.
London, this den of vipers and thieves. If there's a god worshipped in London at all, his name is Mammon. This English overseas commercial empire - how different its spirit is to the Russian one! How he would wish to see it destruction someday...
And Mikhail II again felt himself comfortable, his mind plodding the familiar geopolitical road.
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Gameplay update later.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Manchuria is ours.

Golden Age to compensate for the instability of having cities under occupation.

This army was destroyed on this turn and the turn after this with minimal losses. Even slightly damaged Cossacks easily deal with Cavalry.

After some more skirmishing next to Xi'an and Pyongyang -

and

Hanoi was soon culture swarmed and returned to China.

Almost all mainland Asia (with the exception of Tibet, Indochina and the Arabian peninsula) now is under Russia's overlordship (the rebel city in China was soon stormed by the Cossacks and given back). But the population requirement (20% more then the second in population) remains far away from us so far.

 

[Alexius08]

Are you going to extort some techs from your vassals?

 

[Lone Wolf]

You can't really forcefully extort techs from vassals even in regular BTS, much less in RFC in position such as mine, where my techs cost 8% (or is it 10%, I can't remember and I can't look it up easily, since it's in the dll) more per each city past tenth, and my 10-or-less-cities vassals are aware that they'll be giving me much more beakers then they seemingly provide by giving me a tech (since every tech costs less for my vassals then for me).

 

[GreekAnalyzer]

Techs cost 8% (or is it 10%, I can't remember and I can't look it up easily, since it's in the dll) more per each city past tenth

I've always thought this as stupid. Anywho, nice job vassalizing Corea and China.

 

[Lone Wolf]

From An Investigation Into International Politics, a work published by Grechkin, a pro-government Russian publicist:

The main political question of our times is the battle between the Christian Orthodox civilization of Russia and the commercialized, international pseudo-civilization of England and America. Portugal and Germany may attempt to play the role of neutral powers, but ultimately, they'll have to pick a choice. While German spirit of order and submission is more attuned to Russian values then to the Anglo-Saxon commercial chaos, its materialistic, irreligious spirit starkly contrasts it with the spiritual Russian foundations. Russia leads the whole Asia behind her, she had pushed England out of what rightfully belongs to the Russian spirit. Time to take the battle to the enemy.
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Indeed, Russian national spirit never seemed stronger then at the end of XIX century, during the Grand Olympic Games of Asia. Note also the settlers in the capital. Each city cash-rushed some in preparation for the final domination push.

We disembark settler parties on remaining "free" islands, but not settle anything there yet.

In the North, I cash-rush a lot of Galleons for disembarking on the British Isles.

The Congress again doesn't make sense in transferring Scotland to Scandinavia just because Scandinavia settled that city before it flipped to the English. Still, it's beneficial for me so far.

The armada is in the North Sea, war is declared. World War I begins. The date of 1914 is certainly fitting.

Meanwhile, look who we have here. Yeah, Hitler is in DoC, but since he appears only when Germany adopts Totalitarianism, and AI's in default DoC rightfully never adopt this (buffed in my modmod) civic, many people probably had never seen him.

 

[Lone Wolf]

The British made a fatal mistake. They had a large mobile army on the island, but instead of assaulting our landed troops from London, they attacked directly from the west, leaving the capital relatively undefended.

Nevertheless, the Battle for London was bloody. Russian artillery, undamaged in the Landing Battle, proved to be the key for success.

It was obvious that London could not be held. Russian generals ordered the city to be burned to the ground, as survivors fled to the English countryside.

The British Home Army took their revenge on Russian troops after the Burning of London. Only a fraction of Russian troops survived and was evacuated.

But as Russian ships reached the new port city of St. Petersburg, they were greeted by more and more Russian troops.

(Good thing that 10% additional tech cost doesn't apply to commerce. Capitalism civic allows you to quickly rush-buy an army).

The next part of Decline and Fall of the British Empire was played out as Russian troops landed in Scandinavian Scotland, making themselves immune to a British counter-attack.

 

[baseballpie]

Goodbye England.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Notice how England is always my archnemesis in these games?

 

[baseballpie]

This means your next story will be England?