Could you please direct me to the place for that ? <| sep |> I played competitively but not on gb , I played on a different website for it <| sep |> That is a very embarrassing situation for him . <| sep |> Anything by Bill Bryson . <| sep |> Must have felt like a fantasy come true . <| sep |> Nope , quite a lot of posts go unup voted . <| sep |> I think you get more value out of flat development as opposed to trade in the case of Russia . The land will be contiguous and easy to control , so imo it ' s better to enjoy all that extra tax money and manpower on top of the default tradeproduction bonuses . Trade companies would somewhat offset the taxmanpower deficiency because of the merchants , but since Russia is mostly landlocked your merchants aren ' t as effective as they would be for coastal regions mostly because you have more flexibility with pirating and protecting trade , thus you can really capitalize on pushingcollecting from the nodes . What I usually do when I expand in that region is to assign the coastal provinces to trade companies , and state the inland provinces provided I have easy access to them . It ' s the best of two worlds , as you can develop or build in the coastal provinces to make sure you get the trade company merchants .