Re: Russia's Next move
In hindsight you may find it better to approach taking Vinius and then Thorn as your highest priorities. Helsinki and most certainly Stockholm are distractions and can be taken after your priorities are in order. Riga can be had after Vilnius also. I tend to keep Vilnius and Ryazan as castles. Thorn is more iffy since it can be a big money maker but the Danes are likely to attack your holdings in the Baltic (Thorn as a castle make your responses easier.)
In your current case -- I would not make Poland a vassel unless you hold the Polish castles. Vassals without castles are not a threat, but vassals without towns are very dangerous, IMO. The Polish castles are the key to supporting a campaign against Bran. Bran is the key to the entire Balkans assuming the Hungarians have done their job and buillt it up.
As far as vassalage is concerned, I always wanted to sack Cracov and then trade it for Halych at the same time as getting a Polish vassal. I have never done this though. Usually the Poles have started to push west while Russia is at war. This almost insures terrible Polish relations with the HRE. It might also help keep Poland loyal as a vassal.
Once Russian controls the Balkans including Constantinople -- the campagn is essentially won. Your only real decison is to where to expand to complete the settlement count and whether you wish to tacklle the Mongol after they have settled.
In answer to your question on Mongol timing -- I do not know. I think the Retrofit Mod is simply taking the code from Kingdoms .exe and not introducing any new scripting. The only other change is the rebalancing of the units. I can easily be wrong though since I have not personally tried to dig into the code -- hear say is all that I have on this.
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but if they back stab you then slaughter, just keep them downlow by making sure they don't any more cities.
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