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Moscow Starting Guide in Europa Universalis 5
This video provides a beginner's guide to playing as Moscow in Europa Universalis 5, covering starting conditions, exploring interface tabs, economics, values, estate privileges, parliament, and war with Tver.
1. 🇷🇺 Starting the Game as Moscow: Starting Conditions and Potential
- ✅ Moscow has a small starting capital and territory, part of which is not yet integrated.
- ✅ Despite the poverty at the beginning of the game, Moscow has great potential for development and expansion.
- ✅ Main goals: capturing territories around, fighting the Golden Horde and Veliky Novgorod.
00:00 - 00:38
1. 🇷🇺 Starting the Game as Moscow: Starting Conditions and Potential
- ✅ Moscow has a small starting capital and territory, part of which is not yet integrated.
- ✅ Despite the poverty at the beginning of the game, Moscow has great potential for development and expansion.
- ✅ Main goals: capturing territories around, fighting the Golden Horde and Veliky Novgorod.
00:39 - 02:10
2. 🗺️ Strategic Goals and Moscow's Surroundings
- ✅ It is necessary to expand territories in the west so as not to give them to Lithuania.
- ✅ It is important to carry out rapid expansion and create vassals for the development of lands.
- ✅ Moscow is almost completely surrounded by enemies, so you need to gradually expand in a circle.
02:11 - 06:26
3. ⚙️ Overview of the Main Game Interface Tabs
- ✅ Improvements: Studying technologies, choosing development priorities (for example, the growth of institutions).
- ✅ Geopolitics: Searching for colonies (will be needed later).
- ✅ Military Affairs: Assembling a militia for war, assessing the enemy's forces.
- ✅ Diplomacy: Concluding alliances (be careful, allies can betray).
- ✅ Society: Managing culture and religion, adopting cultures to increase loyalty and income.
06:27 - 09:08
4. 💰 Economy: Production and Trade of Resources
- ✅ Resource production: meeting the needs of the population, increasing resource extraction, choosing resources by profit and control.
- ✅ Trade: automating trade markets to save trade potential.
- ✅ It is important to monitor the food shortage and produce a sufficient amount.
09:09 - 10:26
5. 📊 Economy: Taxes, Army Maintenance, and Stability
- ✅ Taxes: rely on taxes from peasants and townspeople, as they bring the most money.
- ✅ Maintenance of the army and navy: reduce to a minimum in peacetime.
- ✅ Stability: maintain around 30-40, but instability can bring buffs.
10:27 - 12:54
6. 🤔 Values: Choosing Directions for State Development
- ✅ Centralization: important due to the power of crowns.
- ✅ Innovation: important for technological development due to literacy and the cost of implementing institutions.
- ✅ Uthocracy: preferable to aristocracy, which brings debuffs.
- ✅ Serfdom vs. personal freedom: serfdom at the beginning, then personal freedom for a developed state.
- ✅ Militancy: necessary for capturing territories.
- ✅ Quantity vs. quality: quantity at the beginning, then army quality.
- ✅ Traditionalism: preferable to capitalism for Russia.
- ✅ Communality: better than individualism, allows you to cancel privileges.
12:55 - 15:59
7. 👑 Estate Privileges: Reducing the Power of the Boyars and Increasing the Power of the Townspeople
- ✅ It is necessary to reduce the power of the boyars and increase the power of the townspeople to increase income.
- ✅ Canceling privileges for nobles is expensive, but necessary.
- ✅ Granting privileges to peasants and priests to increase the militia and centralization.
- ✅ Be careful with estates and their loyalty to avoid uprisings.
16:00 - 17:21
8. 🏛️ Parliament and Preparation for War
- ✅ Choosing a city to hold parliament.
- ✅ Strengthening ties with neighbors to improve relations.
- ✅ Creating a reason for war through parliament.
- ✅ It is best to attack Ryazan or Tver first.
17:22 - 19:09
9. ⚔️ War with Tver: Strategy and Tactics
- ✅ Use armies from the most populated areas.
- ✅ Burn out the enemy army.
- ✅ Lay siege to Tver and Klin to end the war.
- ✅ After the integration of Tver, you can advance on Novgorod and Ryazan, and then on the Golden Horde.