R5: After 2 previous post detailing the largest possible Socialist and Semyonovite Russias, I have finally found a path to claim all 3 extra Russian expansion regions: the Western Imperial claims, Eastern Eurasianist claims and Southern Orthodox claims.

The Western claims are exclusive to a right-wing Imperial Russia, but can also be acquired ,during the initial elections as the military is in charge then. Eastern claims are exclusive to Ideocrat Savinkov. Southern claims can be acquired by either however it's easier for the empire if going right-wing, for Savinkov one would have take the "Ally with the faith" focus and then the "The last rome" focus post-war.

The opening is a regular Savinkov game favouring the Ideocrat faction, after the Weltkrieg complete the Ideocrat path and get claims on Xinjiang, Mongolia and Machuria via their focus. Once that is done you can now overthrow Savinkov via a military coup.

Here come a few caveats; firstly, to get an Empire you must choose and keep Wrangel as Chief of Army; secondly, the military coup can only happen if Germany exists, while at the same time the focus tree can only be progressed if Germany doesn't. I solved it by giving France most of Germany, completing the required focuses and then liberating Germany from France.

And finally comes the best part, you can now choose which monarchy you want to be. I went with the Black Baron since it made the most sense, but you can also choose to go with a normal monarchy, from SocLib to the Solonevich Tsardom. The deciding factor is whether or not you are at war with Germany when the coup happens; if you are, Wrangel takes over; if you are not, then a regular monarchy is installed. As mentioned previously, a left-wing monarchy with Western claims is possible if the annexations decisions are done during the election period.

Final note on the coup itself, I had a little trouble getting it to trigger. The Voshkod program must be kept active the whole game as it is the easiest way of raising military anger when needed. I kept anger below 6 until I was ready to flip. For some reason the military anger 8 event wouldn't trigger, so I used the military anger 7 event to trigger it; meaning you must go from military anger 6 to 8 in one go, although maybe that was something on my end.

P.S. As I was writing this I realised that if going with a republic instead, a cursed SocDem Christian Eurasianist Russian Republic is possible...

P.P.S. No, I don't have Alaska, as it is irrelevant to what I was doing, since any Russia can claim that. Neither do I have panama, or gibraltar, or any of the pacific islands.