Ehh perhaps 1st Ivan

I’m unsure

How about PLC?

Mongols would be cool

Winged Hussars are already kind of in the first game. What if they were the point?

Did PLC ever fight Golden Horde?

Wait nevermind, the Princedoms were around by then.

Yeah old Russians are not really looked into for video games much

I believe there was conflicts with the ottomans too there which would be interesting

At least in the south

I like Pre Golden Horde Russia. Kievan Rus, best Rus.

Though ottomans are later on

But for real Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Joan of Arc Electric Boogaloo would be an amazing setting.

Perhaps.

Would love to get burned at the stake

Where you get to help Joan of Arc take back France and be involved in the political scheming. Getting to meet the Burgundians and English leaders.

Kind of reminiscent of the first game where you try to take back Bohemia from the Hungarians.

the rus are pretty much entirely a different entity from russin

The Rus are the ancestors of Russia. The Rurikovids were the ones who eventually formed the unified state.

Ivan 1 is a Rurikovid.

Maybe the first Vikings or "Rus" were different from the Slavics they conquered, but they assimilated into the rest of the population and even began speaking a Slavic Language and formed a new Slavic Culture.

the founders of the modern russian state

were what

nevsky?

It is like the Norman Conquest

who was grand prince of moscow or something

I didn't say Modern

and he was from novgorod

I said Unified

Novgorod is actually where Rurik first conquered and settled.

then the rus arent ancestors of russia at all

lol

Until one of his descendants moved to Kiev.

they have almost no territorial overlap with early russia

:/

and the prevailing migration patterns at the time were to the west

Yes they do.

with the mongol hordes...

You are talking too late.

@Sham00e almost the entirety of the kievan rus state was commonwealth land

the orthodox rus's decendants were a distinct subculture within the commonwealth