Eurasian Union
Weight, resilience, old-world reach — integration-first continental power.
Origins
Declassified synthesis: a post-reform bloc stretching from integrated industrial cores to contested peripheries. The Union prefers consolidation over spectacle — cities brought online slowly but durably.
Ideology
Stability as infrastructure. The state treats civil morale as a budget line: shocks are absorbed, not denied. Expansion is legitimate when logistics and integration timers align.
Strategic identity
Mechanical through-line: faster integration of captured cities and stability tools that reward long arcs. Play patient; win by outlasting rivals who over-extend.
Iconic units
- Main Battle Tank — Heavy line — breaks sieges, punishes overconfidence on open ground.
- Artillery — Standoff deterrence; coordinates with integrated supply hubs.
- Machine Gunner — Cheap anchor for chokepoints — buys turns while trunk lines finish integration.
Notable cities
- Moscow — Model integrated capital — template for late-game fortress belts and the anchor of every trunk line.
- Novosibirsk — Corridor junction where the trunk → garrison → integration template was proven; holds the center of the network.
- Vladivostok — Maritime terminus of the corridor — port income and a naval flank the land-first Union cannot afford to lose.
Leaders
Chair, trunk-line council
Broker between regional administrators; accountable to infrastructure metrics, not polls.
Anti-cult figure: career built on handing off integration nodes on time and under budget.
“A city you cannot supply is not a trophy. It is an incident.”
Marshal of the rear network
Owns roads, siege cadence, and garrison shifts between corridors.
Heir to depth doctrine: hold the line until nodes are closed by logistics, not drama.
“We do not win battles. We turn off the enemy’s spreadsheets.”
Active conflicts
- Periphery integration timersCurrent state
Neither side calls it frozen; de facto mutual micro-blockades of supply.
Contested cities on trunk junctions: every turn prices stability, AP, and science.
- Pacific terminus rivalryCurrent state
Port expanded; hull queues remain a political indicator.
Vladivostok as the maritime outlet of the corridor—honest competition plus diplomatic ETA mistakes.
Iconic moments
- 2036 (codex legend) · Novosibirsk — corridor node
Night armor convoy holds the crossroads while the city’s integration timer drops one beat.
The trunk → garrison → integration template becomes Union standard.
- 2039 · Almaty — science node
A level-3 city survives bloc transition without losing level—a rare engineering triumph.
The Union brands slow, reversible integration as a feature.
- 2041 · Minsk — corridor reroute
Overnight supply reroute: the city stays integrated while the trunk slides to a backup path.
Proof the Union prefers creeping logistics over storming.
Trajectory seeds
Stability above 70
Player keeps a connected road network and does not leapfrog empty nodes.
Which breaks first—science or cash—if a neighbor declares a long economic siege?
Logistic encirclement
Heavy corps pins the center; light forces prune branches.
Should you trade a city back to neutral to avoid stability tax?
Double front
One neighbor presses west, another probes south—both wait for an AP priority mistake.
When is it better to trade periphery so you do not lose the capital next cycle?