Mounted skirmishers provide an effective counter to cavalry.
Fortune-seekers came from the coast, from the steppes, and most of all from the Nordlands. As the empire expanded eastward, that trickle of traders became a flood. For centuries, brave traders ventured there to buy the pelts of fox, rabbit and ermine from the tribes of the woods. Wild honey can be found, and bog iron, but the real prize has always been fur. "The Sturgian forests are forbidding and cold, but great wealth lies within.
But the idea of a monarchy has never sat easily with the independence-minded boyars, and the potential for rebellion always lurks under the surface of Sturgian politics. Under pressure from the empire, they elected a prince to lead them in war, and eventually the princes became a hereditary office. As boomtowns sprung up along the great rivers of the north, the local tribal leaders forged marriage pacts with Nords and other adventurers, hiring their swords to subdue their neighbors. The confederation of small kingdoms that is now the Principality of Sturgia came into being only a century ago. Their cultural Penalty is that relations get damaged 20% more when dissaproving in kingdom decisions.Ģ00 years later, in Mount&Blade: Warband, the Sturgian empire has extended its holdings southward to some of the Empire and Battania, but the Sturgians have experienced a cultural split, with the Nords living in the west and the Sturgian Vaegirs in the east.
Also, their Armies lose 20% less daily cohesion. Their Cultural Bonus has their costs for upgrading and recruiting of infantry reduced by 25%. Heavily armoured infantry bearing thick shields to form a shieldwall is the core of Sturgian military, although cavalry and archer units are also employed prominently. The principality's history began when Nordic traders and adventurers migrated from the northeast territories seeking land and wealth, and eventually formed diplomatic and marriage alliances with the native tribes of the Sturgian region, merging the two cultures together into something new, with a violent, warlike but also mercantile mentality. The Principality of Sturgia is a kingdom in Mount&Blade II: Bannerlord ruled by Grand Prince Raganvad, and occupies the snowy northernmost mountain territories of the continent of Calradia. Skolderbrotva Forest People Lake Rats Location Sturgia in blue
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