俄罗斯帝国

俄罗斯帝国

政府类型	绝对君主制
执政党	斯拉夫派（保守主义）
首都	圣彼得堡 (ID 994)
人口	1534万
主体民族	俄罗斯
被接受民族	乌克兰、乌戈尔、白俄罗斯
识字率	10%
国家价值观	Order
科研学派	Avantgarde Intelligentsia
地位	列强

政治的秘诀是什么?和俄罗斯人签约。 奥托·冯·俾斯麦 (1815-1898)

在游戏开始时，俄罗斯帝国已经是最强大的国家之一。凭借其在欧洲和亚洲的广阔的土地，充沛的人力和大量的省份，俄罗斯可以轻松地成为游戏中最强大的国家。对于新手来说，它被认为是一个不错的选择，因为俄罗斯的体量意味着它有着很好的容错率。

政策

俄罗斯开局时以斯拉夫派(保护主义，干涉主义)为执政党其他的选择包括西化派（自由贸易，自由放任）和泛斯拉夫派（保护主义，国家资本主义）。

国家的工业在开局时会一事无成，因为俄罗斯缺乏推广技工产生所需的识字率，而且它的工业科技落后。当俄罗斯工业化后，泛斯拉夫派的国家资本主义既允许你手动建立工厂，也允许资本家建立他们自己的工厂。只要拥有合适的工业科技、识字率和资源，俄罗斯的工业就会迅速崛起。在1860年前建设工业会生成大量无效率而空的工厂，大规模工业扩张应当集中在1870-1880年。

俄罗斯在数十年内都不会有大量的自由主义支持度，因此这里在很长时间内都很不可能有政治或社会改革。¨

决议和事件

俄罗斯有很长一系列的独特决议和事件：

决议

Events

Economy

Russia has some fiscal issues considering the large investments needed and the size of the country. Keeping both education and administration spending at the maximum will help with literacy and administrative inefficiency issues. Russia's literacy is extremely poor and if this issue is not fixed, it will result in Russia falling behind technologically. Initially it is probably best to use Russia's two National Focuses on clergymen in the two largest states of Kiev and Moscow as this will help to increase literacy and the rate at which technologies can be researched.

It is best to encourage capitalists, clergy, clerks and Bureaucrats. One can do so with National Foci and giving tax cuts to middle and upper class. The tax rates for lower class can however be kept high to finance the big investments needed in education and bureacracy. One can leave leave them with only enough money to eat so that they have enough strength to keep working and breed.

Military - As Russia has a large population, one can field more troops than even the strongest neighbours (except the United Kingdom). It does not even require that big of an investment to do so, so it might be a place to spare some money.

Tariffs. Russia's tariff efficiency is lousy to start with (due to poor admin efficiency). High tariffs will also result in inefficient factories, but that will not be a problem until one actually has an industry to speak of. One can increase the tariff as needed considering that it will hurt the industry.

Navy. Russia has a large starting navy, but it does not have much need for one, at least early on. The biggest threats will invade over land. It can be disbanded with a great saving in cash, or at least one can stop buying clippers and steamers in order to safe money. It might be wise to keep a navy large enough to beat Denmark or Prussia and to get colonization points.

Research

The academia start with an "Avantgarde Intelligentsia" administration. In simple English, Cultural techs have a 5% bonus along with a 5% penalty on industry and 25% penalty on navy techs. Culture techs is arguably the most lacking in Russia at the start of the game. The techs which raise research points, literacy, national focus and plurality. Early on, Russia needs only stray from the culture techs if it really needs a military tech due to some expected war in Europe or if it needs additional output from farming or mining.

Arguably the Russia's biggest issue is it's Literacy rating. It is both important in order to keep up in tech with Prussia and the other European states and to make the population promote to workers and capitalists.

Maximum education spending is also encouraged to build up the research level. This, along with giving priority to technologies that increase research and education, helps Russia achieve a respectable research rating in the long run.

Ideological Thought is a good choice for Russia's first tech, to boost plurality and give another national focus. Otherwise if financial problems persists, Freedom of Trade or Practical Steam Engine will benefit a lot of POPs and permit Russia extra income. Medicine, Positivism, Functionalism, State and Government are also excellent early techs for Russia.

Diplomacy

Russia's lackluster technology means that it doesn't have many influence points to spend on influencing other nations. It is therefore important to prioritize key areas of Russian interest:

Manchuria. Should Russia bring Manchuria into its sphere, two events, The Ruler of the East and Peking Convention, give it cores and later annexes Outer Manchuria.
Sweden. Sweden starts with friendly relations with Russia, which makes it easy to sphere. It does, however, have cores in Russian Finland. They prevent any sort of military alliance until Sweden takes abandon Finland. They tend to do so every other game.
Korea. Korea has lots of coal, a large population and is a decent ally. Russia gains a border with Korea after annexing Outer Manchuria which helps spread Russian influence, though the USA tends to try and sphere Korea early on.
Persia. Like Sweden, Persia also starts off with friendly relations with Russia and can easily be sphered. One must decide whether they want to sphere the country or annex parts of it first.
Central Asian nations. Khiva, Kokand and Bukkhara are not worth a lot, but they are easy to sphere or conquer and their remote location means that they are less likely to be influenced by other great powers.

Threats and rivals

Russia has two natural rivals: Austria and Prussia/ North German Federation/ Germany. Luckily, they are also hostile to each other. The worst thing that could happen to Russia is the formation Greater Germany. Other rivals could include the United Kingdom should they decide to make Asia their main area of expansion. Should they successfully westernise, China and Japan can also pose a threat. Japan has cores in the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin, which they might try to contest.

The Ottoman Empire is another potential enemy. Forcing them away from Great power status opens the possibility for the decision Defender of the Eastern Christendom. The decision gives prestige pr. month (12 prestige pr. decade) so it is best to provoke early. On top of that, releasing Bulgaria, and the Ottoman controlled provinces of Serbia, Montenegro and Romania gives multiple good allies against Austria.

Fortunately, there are several possibilities when looking for allies against these threats. France is the obvious one. They too have a conflict with the German nations over Alsace-Lorraine, an ongoing rivalry with the UK and are eager to get an alliance with Russia. The Scandinavian states or a united Italy are also potential allies.

Targets of conquest

There are a lot of nations that Russia can attack to strengthen its position.

Tabriz region in Persia, if one decides not to sphere it can easily help the Russian economy and is easily achievable with even a fraction of the army.
Korea is easy to conquer, but they might create problems with Crisis' later in the game. However, in HoD and AHD, Korea will be protected by the mighty China.
East and West Galicia ( Ruthenia) in Austria contains the accepted Ukrainian pop's and it does also weaken one of the biggest contenders. It will most likely also contain quite a bit of industry. One should however consider that weakening Austria too much will strengthen Prussia/North German Federation in the long run, and might come back to bite Russia later.
China. Attacking China can provide RGOs and large numbers of pops. However, a large number of pops with a non-accepted culture can cause issues with unrest. As pretty much the only other nation capable of matching the number of troops Russia can put into the field, a westernised China is major threat to Russian interests in the area. Rapidly enlarging your army up to around 100-110 brigades can allow you to seize rich states such as Manchu Manchuria from Manchuria substate, or Suzhou, Southern Anhui, and Zhejiang from China proper. These states have huge amounts of pops leading to insane tea, silk, and timber production. Fujian and Jianxi states in Guangxi substate have the same RGOs as well, and if China suffers from a revolution (causing all substates to break off) it might be better to target the substates instead of China itself.
Japan. Japan can potentially grow very powerful, so one might consider hitting them early on to beat them down. Every Japanese state is rich, and will boost the economy as well. However, the Japanese army is formidable even before westernising and they are often sphered by the United States fairly early on.
Prussian Poland. Taking parts of Prussia has many advantages. It prevents them from forming Germany without a Crown from the gutter, it weakens one of Russia's main enemies and they have a good amount of industry. It is however the hardest of the mentioned potential targets and one might choose to wait a little.
Prussian Silesia. This state contains coal, iron, and grain, good to produce glass and subsequently liquor. It also contains the largest population of all 1836 Prussian states, which will augment your poor literacy.

Colonization

Russia starts with a big fleet and the potential to make it enormous. It can reasonably expand its control to any part of the world, and does not need to choose where to prioitize because it will never realistically run out of colonial points. It does however have a bad literacy but with investment in education and the right prioritizing it is possible. One does however need to give up on other research in order to be ready in 1870.

Africa

Omani Zanzibar or Kenya, Danish Ghana, Egypt or Zulu are possible footholds that Russia could use to engage in the Scramble for Africa.

东南亚

与非洲一样，俄罗斯需要在东南亚站稳脚跟。可能的目标包括文莱, 柔佛或越南。

Siberia, Central Asia and Alaska

It is possible to colonize Sakhalin straight away in 1836

Russia can colonize the island of Sakhalin at the very start of the game, as well as the nearby Kuril island chain later on.

Other than those two, there are uncolonized regions in northern Siberia, Central Asia and Alaska (if one does not decide to sell it to the United States. There are no competitors in these regions, except the UK in Alaska, so they can be safely ignored to allow a focus on colonizing elsewhere.

USA can decide to take the decision Seward's Icebox, where they offer to purchase Alaska for 70.000 ducats. Russia will get the event The Alaska Purchase?, where they can decide to sell Alaska or keep it. If one intends to colonize with base in Alaska, it will be a good idea to reject the offer.

Industry

Until Russia gets her literacy up, she will not have craftsmen; if she builds factories, they will be empty and inefficient. It is therefore advised to stay away from Laissez Faire in the early game. Most of Russia's factories will be closed by the capitalists due to the lack of clerks for a long time.

As the before mentioned technology struggle is resulting in slow research for those vital industry related techs and no clerks in the early game, Russia has to be a bit more careful with factory placement to have profitable factories. So, ensure that one have vertical integration between the states/factories as much as possible. e.g. timber/lumber/clipper shipyard or iron/steel/steamers or grain/glass/liquor.

It is adviseble to start off with a cement factory in the high population states (Moscow, Kursk, Kiev etc.) as it is cheap to build and should make a profit. Progressively build steel mills and lumber mills in the states where one can and build fabric where Russia has cotton, liquor where there is grain etc. Then build additional related industry according to the natural advantages - e.g. glass factory where one have a liquor factory, regular/Luxury clothes where one have built a fabric factory, etc.