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Played a game as rampaging Russia, going well after VP victory just to continue conquest. Already had a nearly-complete Poland (had every component other than Danzig), and a continuous swath of territory from the Crimea to Picardy (see attached map). This includes every single territory (minors and provinces!) in the CoTR courtesy of much sadistic beating on the AIs (2 unconditionals ea. PR/AU/TU, 1 ea. FR/GB, and targeting of the controlled minors during wars to get as many as possible before their owners sued for peace). There was no previous instantiation of the CoTR in this particular game.

The manual does claim that Russia is eligible -- which is a deviation from the AH version of the original EiA rules, which only permit Austria, Prussia and France to do it. The only error message is 'Cannot create kingdom', which raises the question of whether it's an error in the manual and Russia simply isn't permitted (my suspicion), or whether there's an additional limit (like number of kingdoms or so forth).

/Zapped the files by mistake, but got a screenshot.

I just looked at this in the game DB and Russia is definitely not allowed to create the CotR. This might be a manual issue. We'll take note of this.
Appreciate the heads-up.

My bad . . . .

The CoR components are from EiH 4.0 Kingdom Formation Chart for the 1805 campaign but the manual sites the Kingdom Formation Chart for the 1812 campaign, which includes Russia. According to my notes, I had a good laugh about Russia being included back in August of 2006 but obviously did nothing about changing it. Guess the joke was on me in the end. Another addendum item – thanks.

Richard