Quote Originally Posted by Perplexed
No, Muscovy only became powerful after the Mongol conquests which left Kiev and other cities in ruins, but before that Kiev was the most powerful Russian city, certainly more powerful than Novgorod at this stage, and the original Russian state. If CA is unwilling to allow more than one Russian faction, then Kiev should be the one, not Novgorod.
Your not getting it. Factions like The Russians, The Spainish, The Egyptians, and the Turks. Even the HRE to a certain extent, aren't frozen in time. The dynasties change, just not overtly, as time goes on. The Spanish faction is the Spainish as an ethnic Identity, not a kingdom. So it's all Spainish factions minus Aragon or Portugal. The Turks represent the Seljuks and the Ottomans. The Egyptians are Saladins dynasty then the Mamluks. The Russians are Kievan Rus then Muskovy. The HRE changes from the Vitelsbahs HRE to the Habsburg HRE. That's the way CA did it in MTW. For the Turks when the game went from high to late eras you changed fro playing the Seljuk Turks to the Ottoman Turks. The HRE dynasty changes from Vitelsbah to Habsburg when you get to the high or late era.