General Information
Chernigov is a Ukrainian principality that is playable from February 20 1054 to 1349, where they are annexed by Lithuania.
See also: Lithuania, Kiev, Polotsk, Galicia-Volhynia, Smolensk, Krakow, Zaporozhie, Theodoro, Crimea, Astrakhan, Great Horde, Wallachia, Transylvania, Moldavia, Riga, Odoyev
Strategy
Decisions
Form Rus'
Requirements:
- Primary culture is Russian, Ukrainian, or Byelorussian
- Does not exist:
- Is not
- Owns Core Provinces:
- Novgorod, Kiev, Minsk or
- Tver, Yaroslavl, Ryazan, Smolensk
- Administrative technology of at least 28
- Is not a subject nation
- At Peace
Upon Enactment:
- Country changes to Kievan Rus
- Gain25 Prestige
- Gain Rus' Ideas & Traditions
- Gain country modifier Increased Centralization for 20 years:
Reclaim Ruthenian Legacy (Form Ukraine)
Requirements:
- Primary culture is Ukrainian or Byelorussian
- Ukraine does not exist
- Is not:
- Owns core provinces: Kiev (280), Ruthenia (261), Volhynia (279), and Zaporozhia (283) or
- Owns core provinces: Kiev (280) and Zaporozhia (283) and have a ruler with at least 5 Diplomacy
- Administrative technology of at least 55
- Is not a subject nation
- Is not a nomad nation
- At Peace
Upon Enactment:
- Country changes to Ukraine
- Gain 25 Prestige
- Gain a permanent claim to all non-owned provinces in the Ruthenian and Red Ruthenian region and area.
- If an HRE member and not an elector or emperor, all own provinces are removed from the Empire.
- Set government rank to Empire
- Gain country modifier Increased Centralization for 20 years:
- Trigger country event "New Traditions & Ambitions" unless using custom ideas
Ruthenian Ideas and Traditions
Traditions:
- +10% Manpower Recovery Speed
- +15% National Manpower Modifier
Ideas:
- Mother of Russian States: +0.5 Yearly Legitimacy & +0.5 Prestige
- International Influences: +2 Tolerance of Heretics
- Zaporizhian Cossacks: +15% Cavalry Combat Ability
- East and West: +10% Global Trade Power
- Legacy of Ancient Rus: -10% Stability Cost Modifier
- Reuniting Rus: -5 Years of Separatism
- Birth of Russian Orthodoxy: +1 Tolerance of the True Faith
Ambitions:
- +5% Discipline