Total energy to master first time: 4186
Total energy to master second time: 4571
Total energy to master third time: 5248
Total energy to master fully: 14005
Best exp payout job: 'Threaten a Gang's Supplier", Chapter 3, 1.804 exp/energy
Best money payout job: ‘Smuggle Consumer Electronics for the Vory', Chapter 1, R$1,852/energy
Special item reward for full mastery: Barsuk SUV, combat vehicle, 36 attack 52 defense.
Collections: Tattoos, +6 Defense Skill
Consumables: You need 40 Intel on Dimitri to master Baklany.

Baklany is the first episode in Moscow and the difficulty is on par with consigliere. The 2 first jobs don’t require items bought in Moscow so you can do them to get you started on the elusive rubles.

Baklany is pretty straight forward and requires almost no extra farming rubles outside what you get from mastering jobs.

Vory or Mafiya choice doesn’t matter here as the unique loot for both sides is worse than what you can get from Cuba or fights.

Total energy to master first time: 6842
Total energy to master second time: 7642
Total energy to master third time: 8951
Total energy to master fully: 23435
Best exp payout job: 'Fix a Local Election for the Vory', Chapter 2, 1.828 exp/energy
Best money payout job: ‘Bribe an Election Official’, Chapter 1, R$3,278/energy
Special item reward for full mastery: Boss Karpov’s Pistol, combat weapon, 50 attack 38 defense.
Collections: Matryoshka Dolls, +7 Energy
Consumables: You need 45 Photos of Kaprov to master Boets.

Boets is substantially harder than Baklany, not only does it require almost twice as much energy to finish, you also need a lot more rubles outside mastering jobs. However, if your business is well set up before you start Boets you will be fine. Otherwise I suggest farming rubles from the jobs in the next episode as the payouts are much bigger, the best money payout jobs in each episode are always conveniently placed in the first chapter.

You will want to pick Mafiya as your side each time. The loot is trivial again but Vory side consumable job requires a concealable camera each time you do it while Mafiya doesn’t.

The collection items found in this episode are really useful for boosts (-20 energy costs on jobs), so you might not wanna vault the collection right away as vaulting a collection will make you unable to find a specific collection item ever again. Instead, you should farm the dolls and send them over to a friend or another account to hold them. The reason you want to send them is that when you have 5 or more pieces of a single collection item, you will stop finding them.

Total energy to master first time: 9441
Total energy to master second time: 10865
Total energy to master third time: 12843
Total energy to master fully: 33149
Best exp payout job: 'Replace a Guard with Your Own Man', Finale, 1.829 exp/energy
Best money payout job: ‘Case the Rossiya Banc Building’, Chapter 1, R$5,114/energy
Special item reward for full mastery: Ex-KGB Bodyguard, combat armor, 48 attack 30 defense.
Collections: Russian Leaders, +4 Attack Skill
Consumables: You need 52 Bank Guard Uniforms to master Brigadir.

Very similar exp/energy ratios to Boets and a slightly higher total energy requirement, brigadir is the first episode that requires some serious rubles farming unless you have really good reserve of rubles before you start it.

The Vory/Mafiya choice here is not very interesting, it doesn’t matter in the slightest. Both loot items are much worse than what you can get from Cuba with twice as less energy costs.

Total energy to master first time: 14887
Total energy to master second time: 18085
Total energy to master third time: 23417
Total energy to master fully: 56389
Best exp payout job: 'Buy Off the General's Command Team', Finale, 1.832 exp/energy
Best money payout job: ‘Manage an Escort Service Catering to the Soldiers’, Chapter 1, R$7,294/energy
Special item reward for full mastery: Cossack Armored Vest, combat armor, 18 attack 48 defense.
Collections: Vodka Drinks, +4 Stamina
Consumables: You need 62 Officer Corps Paychecks to master Avtoritet.

This is what I’m talking about. Remember Boss tier in New York? Avtoritet eats just as much energy as Boss and it’s only a mid end Moscow tier. That means if you want to complete Moscow anytime soon, you will need a nice energy pool, I recommend at least 1000 max energy.

Now I know that max energy doesn’t affect your regeneration but each level up, energy pack and godfather refill will be affected by your max energy and it adds up for A LOT in the long run.

On top of this, the episode needs a massive amount of rubles to complete. That means you should have every business fully upgraded by the time you start to master Avtoritet if you don’t want to waste too much energy doing a job over and over again just for the rubles.

The Mafiya/Vory choice couldn’t be more obvious. Not only is the Mafiya loot worse than what you get from Cuba, a Mafiya only job requires consumables unlike its Vory counterpart. On top of all that, the Vory only loot (Shturmovik) is the best offensive combat armor in the game at the moment and in very high demand.