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How to become a Tsar! (Russian-Campaign Impossible Difficult)
By Ritter in Rot
In this Guide i show you how to master the Russian-Campaign in Impossible Difficult.
   
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Introduction
Welcome!
Here i let you know how i did this missions, on the easiest way for me.
So maybe you will find a way that is easier for you. But this guide should accompany you well.
Mission 1 - Repelling the Tatar Raid
This Mission is not that hard.
Just be sure that your main Character is not in fights and in an save position, if you do so its really hard to lose.

Go to the Village in the east of your starting point and you have to defend a village from the Tatars.
Tatars Defeatet, you can make upgrades and dont forget to spam Spearman.

You dont need to protect this village, because no one will attack it!


The Enemy do not recruit any soldier, every soldier from the enemy is on the map and can not come back.

Now you can go to the left of your Starting point to get some Soldiers.

On the south from that point you have to kill some of the tatars, then the City in the near will give you access to them.You can trade some things, as long as your Hero is in the near of the market.

You also get some donkeys, that donkeys must go to the south-east.

And as long as you kepp they out of fighting it should be no problem to travel them.

You can also get an cannon on the north-east before you go to the bridge. But you dont really need it, later the Cavalry can destroy the wood-walls.

I did first guard the donkeys to the south-east, on the way you will find Villager just take them to make food.

Put your donkeys to your ally in the south-east and his troops and buildings will be yours.

After that you can recruit some Cavalry.
Just recruit an good Army and than attack the Tatars in the North-East.
The City in the near will help you, so its not an really hard fight.

After you saved the lives, you will get controll over that city.


Than for more Spam power you can go to the City, you where in the beginning.

After you defeatet that Tatars you also get controll of that city.

Now when you think your army is huge enough destroy the last tatars in their base.
Mission 2 - The Siege of Vitebsk
First just go to the west to the second base, now you can choose to attack the army inside or to let them out without fighting.

I took to fight them because i thought they will go to the enemy base and make the defense of them stronger.

After that i let one battalion of spearman and one of musketeers here to guard this village.

Because later it will be attackted.


Now just go with your remaining army to the west way, here i put all remaining spearman and musketeers.
To the other two ways in the south i put one Cavalry battallion In each case to guard them from the trading donkeys.

Defense now the trading shipment.
Later your artillery will come at that point some light-riders from poland will attack your base.
And also some winged hussars.

After that two attacks no one will attack it ever soon.


You can lead your hole Army to the way in the north and start sieging with your artillery, shoot the gate away and maybe one or two Towers but not much more.

Than send your Army in the city and with your artillery you should attack the second wall inside of that castle.

Now you have defeated the enemy in this base, you can choose now if you want to attack the last enemy on the free field our inside your castle. I choosed inside the castle, because its easier.

Put all your remaing men inside the second defense spot and wait till the enemy come.
The enemy now must pass all the towers (hoppefully you didnt destroy all of them) and the towers will shoot most of the army away.

Only a very weak army will now get to you and you will easily destroy the last mens of poland.
Mission 3 - The Defense of Mogilev
Here i used an weird tactic, because my defense faild every time, so maybe you get more luck in defendig in the normal way.

I did not recruit any soldier, i did just some ugrades.

Well i send all my soldiers (Ctrl+Alt+A) to the top of my castle, yes i let the castle alone without units.

When the enemy advance, i destroyed the buildings (like houses) in the near to damage them.


After they come to the wall, you can destroy some wall parts (where the enemy is in the near) to kill some of the enemy men.
And i also destroyed everything of the middle in my castle.

Now the enemy stand in your base, shooten by your towers as long as they live.

I shoot them also with my three cannons as long as possilbe.

After the reinforcements come, i attacked the soldiers in the east. And after the enemy army was in the middle weak, i also attacked them.

Then some winged hussars will attack, but that should be no problem because you will have enough soldiers to deal with them.

Now you must save some peasants, easy, because you will get some cavalry for that.
Just go with them to south-west and kill the soldiers chasing the peasants.
Mission 4 - War at the North
At the beginning spam Spearman and do much upgrades for them.
Also focus on stone and wood resources.

Three times you will have to help your Tsar with resources, for this he will send you some troops.
So its more or less a fair deal.

If he asks you for the first time you can push back the shipment, if you do so, you should trade off things to get the resources you need. If you dont have the resources the second time you will lose.

Oh and in the south-east is an treasure, you can get this after your frist send for the Tsar.

After you have some spearman attack Lithuania and Eifland, dont attack Poland (Blue Player) he will become later your Ally. And he can and will help you destroy the swedens, just defend his attacks.

Eifland is weaker than Lithuania you can decide who you gonna attack first. You should also capture some Peasants, with them you will have two Nations. And if you capture later swedens Peasants you will have three Nations.

After you destroyed Lithuania and Eifland and also have Poland as Ally i recommend to attack the White Sweden first. Because the Black Sweden did not send attacks, while the white did. (I dont know if this is common)

White Sweden destroyed, you will have much time in spending creating an huge army.
Poland will also sending attacks on the swedens and so they help you.

After your Army is big enough, just beat the last enemy in the north-west.
Mission 5 - War in Livonia
This mission is easier than it looks.

First spam Villager and Spearman, Villager mostly to make food, but some of them for wood and gold.
Than i split up my Musketeers (~35 in on group) and order them to the spots to afraid the swedens. And the spearman go to defend the Villager while they farming food in the north-east.

While the Cavalry waits with one of the musketeers group.
When the swedens are scared they break up the siege and go to the fortress in the east to siege that one.

I tried to steal some siege weapons with the cavalry, while the swedens runs away.
I manage to steal the bombards, but they got destroyed, at least they cant use them to siege.

Now you should let one battalion guard the river-pass, because the swedens send sometimes riders to destroy your food-production. The rest of your army should walk to the fortress in the east.

The swedens can not siege with bombards (because they dont have some anymore) but they siege with some cannons.

I waited that the swedens invade the Allied fortress and then i manage to attack the swedens behind while they kill our ally.

Now when you have destroyed the swedens main-army its closly won.
You have now endless time to make an huge army and to destroy the rest.

Some Englands can help you, they are in the north-west but the cost 5.000 gold.
Well i didnt got the gold but its not hard without them.
Conclusion
Thank you for reading my guide! I hope it has helped you to completed the Russian Campaing in Impossible. If you have any question or correction let me now!
12 Comments
thirdkeeper 22 Jul, 2024 @ 12:39pm 
Great to see a good tactician at work :honor: - Thanks!
[HWK] Turenne ®™ 22 Jun, 2021 @ 8:09am 
My bad, i just had to destroy the buildings lol
[HWK] Turenne ®™ 22 Jun, 2021 @ 8:03am 
How to get art for the last mission please ? it's impossible, i have killed everyone, captured or destroyed most of their buildings (with their towers) but i still not winning...Strange.
Ritter in Rot  [author] 17 Jun, 2021 @ 7:24am 
Last time i wrote them was about 4 years ago, at that time they did still release some dlc's so they where still kinda active. When they dont fix the achievements in the first place then i hope they at least still doing the activations.
Glad i could help you and thanks for the reward!
[HWK] Turenne ®™ 17 Jun, 2021 @ 6:31am 
I contacted them, will see what happens...I hope i will not 1 year, last time i contacted them, i never got any answer. Thanks anywyas, i gave you a reward by the way.
Ritter in Rot  [author] 17 Jun, 2021 @ 3:38am 
They probably already have your mp profile saved with your Information somewhere. Cause you made an account in their game. I think its necessary for identification so they can assign you the right things.

But you dont have to do it if you dont want. Thats the only way i know how to get bugged achievements. Cause they wont fix them.
However for some achievements you can do workarounds to get them.
[HWK] Turenne ®™ 17 Jun, 2021 @ 1:09am 
huuu....So they can get our personnal informations ? Notably mp password...
Ritter in Rot  [author] 16 Jun, 2021 @ 9:48am 
Yeah i had planned to make an guide on France aswell, didnt had much time in the past, perhaps i can make one in the future.

Back in the days if you actually Fulfilled an achievement and it did not trigger you had to send the developer some things and then they activated it for you.

Thats what they told me back then:
Please, send your profile.dat to our support at support@cossacks3.com along with the list of achievements.

No idea if they are still doing it.
[HWK] Turenne ®™ 16 Jun, 2021 @ 4:51am 
Very nice guide, sad i can't find one for the french campaign...By the way i wonder how did you get 100% at cossacks3 with all these succes bugged.
dklimen2 18 Aug, 2020 @ 12:27am 
Maybe you could do death to the tyrants?