

You won't always manage to kill them off that way, but it'll leave you with fewer awful rulers in the long run.

In addition, whenever you get a crummy heir, make them a general ASAP and always leave them leading an army. That gives you far more flexibility to change your National Focus - make sure you're using it. That's the biggest difference you can sustain without triggering unbalanced research, and you never want to cross that line unless you're about to go into a war and you're not too far away from catching up.Īs Russia, you're an Empire. However, by setting your National Focus intelligently, prioritising the right technology upgrades over ideas (more of that in a second), and spending money on the right advisors to compensate for particularly awful rulers, you should at least be able to maintain the balance of Admin and Diplo tech two levels (and never more than two levels) behind Mil tech. When playing as a nation that's aggressively expanding and using vassals to do so, it's not unusual to end up falling behind in Admin and Diplo tech.

Most of the best options in your situation involve changing the past, unfortunately.
