Principality of Lushi

Lore[]

The Principality of Lushi is a small technologically backward state on the Griffon continent. Even since the breakup of the Griffonian Empire Lushi has been dominated by powerful nobles that have kept strict control over their nation through restrictive serfdom.

The current leader of Lushi is Prince Elias Whitecrest, who has big dreams for his small domain. He is a progressive reformer believing in the freeing of the serfs and the establishment of a constitutional monarchy.

Control of Lushi's fate though is held not truly with the ambitious Prince but with the Nobles who control much of the land. These Lords must be overcome if the Prince is to put into place his dreams of a Lushi free of serfdom and prosperous under a more democratic rule.

But there is no lack of challenges to the Prince's rule, his younger brother cares not for the peasant driven ideas of his brother, and would prefer to maintain the nobility's dominance of the land as long as they bend to him first and foremost.

But an ever greater specter haunts the fields of Lushi, the peasants seek salvation from a radical ideology called Communism and the hostile and expansionist Griffon Liberation Army is happy to aid them if the people of Lushi wish, or even if they don't.

Starting Situation[]

The Western Border of Lushi is occupied by the Barony of Angriver, a vassal of the Griffonian Empire at game start, who will not pose a threat to Lushi until the unification, giving Lushi some time to build up against the Imperials.

The East, on the other hand, produces an immediate concern with the Gryphian Host being able to raid into Lushi and possibly even wage full-scale war later on.

The Northern County of Longsword border is safe for the most part and the border with Lake City will only become dangerous if the Princely coup occurs.

The South and the GLA pose the most severe threat with the GLA actively wishing to either subvert Lushi and gain it as an ally or conquer it and gain a new state for the revolution.

Military[]

The Military of Lushi consists of seven 12 width fully infantry divisions that lack equipment at the start, but will be supplied by numerous outdated weapons in the stockpile. Their military fields ~28k men with a division capacity of 42k.

Lushi has no navy as it is landlocked, and lacks both an air force and any airbases to put planes in.

Threats and Opportunities[]

Lushi will be safe for the majority of the beginning of the game with only the occasional Raid from the Cossacks of the Gryphian Host being the only possible threat.

Early expansion opportunities consist mainly in the 2 focus tree sections:

Befriend Prywhen - where it allows you to seek closer relations with Prywhen, hopefully making them hesitant to invade you. It can give you an annex wargoal against the Blackrock Bandits, though a player should note an invasion here is one into the mountains.

Partners in Brodfeld - gives you either claims on the North of Prywhen and aggressive foci against the Kingdom of Brodfeld if they win, or it gives you a wargoal on Prywhen itself followed by a marriage between Lushian and Brodfeldian royalty.

The only other main expansion opportunity is through the rule of Prince Gerar and his "The Lushian Nation" national focus giving claims on many surrounding regions primarily to the South and East along with war justification speed reduction, with the following foci allowing you to core and take advantage of the land you take with these claims.

Gameplay Mechanics[]

Lushi possesses 3 unique decision categories corresponding to both political events for 2 and 1 for industrial modernization.

The Lushian Politics decisions involve the stability of the nation and primarily have to do with Lord Drak, whether to assassinate him, or bribe him as decisions, or deal with him through the focus tree. Otherwise, Lushi has a unique stability boosting decision Plan a Celebration, leading to other decisions of the same sort.

The second political section has to do with Prince Gerar's possible coup, at game start the player can either begin the plot for the coup, or begin suppressing the ideas of Supremacy to prevent Gerar from taking over the nation.

Lastly, Economic Problems is related to the modernization of the Lushi economy.

Lushi also has a unique decision based mechanic of the Lushi Levy, spending 20pp to raise an untrained but fully manned and equipped 6 width infantry division, this can be repeated as many times as Lushi owns and controls states, once per year.

National Focus[]

The focus tree of the Principality of Lushi is very diverse. A tree on the far left can be found that has to do with the state of the peasants in the nation that leads to branches that can only be taken with a certain monarch, with Elias supporting the peasants directly and Gerar promoting corporatism and nationalism. Gerar's Branch then leads to The Lushian Nation, leading to his governmental path of irredentism and expansion, as well as a shared technology line. To the right is the Time is Running Out branch where you deal with the various lords of the realm and establish the Diet of Lushi leading to one military expansion path and one economic expansion path, with Elias's government path also stemming from the foci State and Economic Affairs and Defence of the Realm. Leading to his path of governance based on concentrated improvement and the shared science branch. Both of these Monarch-based branches also lead to the choice between the aristocratic and meritocratic armies.

At the top again towards the right lie the 2 early expansion paths related to the GLA and the Kingdom of Brodfeld. These lead to your expansion paths early on, but can be risky to take.

Below these are the dedicated army and airforce modernization branches allowing for the rapid and significant modernization of the Lushian military. Uniquely the focus Defensive Bunkers allows for the construction of a large number of forts on the borders of Lushi if the player wishes to play defensively. One should note though these paths require the focus Defense of the Realm to access.

Spoilers below, we recommend these are best experienced in game before reading

Though within Lushi lies the secret peasants revolutionary Lushi focus tree, if the peasants of Lushi are forced into serfdom and the country remains unstable enough for the Peasants to seize weapons and leave their farms to band together a communist revolution can occur forming a new Communist state, which can then either persue ties to Prywhin or stay on its own

Spoiler end.

Tree Bonus	Elias (purely political)	Gerar
Rush Time (d)	735	1,050
Complete Time (d)	1,211 days	1,610
Political
Stability	24%	18.5%
Political Power (Flat)	150	150
Military
Recruitable Pop	0%	5%
Training Time	0%	-5%
Construction
Civilian factory	3	4
Consumer Goods	-10%
Infrastructure	6	11
Production
Military factory	2	2
Factory Output	5%	0%
Dockyard Output	5%	0%
Production Efficiency Cap	Cap: +15% Gain: 0%	Cap 15% Growth 0%
Science
One-off reductions (50%)	1 50% Construction 1 80% Industry 1 50% Synthetic Resources 1 70% synthetic Resources 2 50% for mechanized	1 50% Industry A focus with a 25% chance to give each of these: 1 50% mechanized, 1 50% infantry equipment 1 50% industry, 1 50% support artillery
Combat
Organization	0	-10% then +10% so netting 0%
Recovery Rate	0	+5% then -5% so netting 0%
Resources
Resource Gain Efficiency	15%	15%
Synthetic Refinery	1
Oil	14	10
Rubber	14
Other Notes / Bonuses
	These numbers do not include the reductions in the Poverty modifier which is removed through these trees

Technology[]

Army	Naval	Air	Tech / Industry
Musket (Vorderlader Model 70)	None	None	None
Doctrine			Racial
None	None	None	We Can Fly?!

Politics[]

National Spirits[]

Lushian Feudalism	Resource Gain Efficiency: -10.0% Daily Political Power Cost: -0.20 Research Time: +10.0% This country's rural population are still largely peasants with little to no rights nor say in politics.
Demands For a Batter Life	Weekly Stability: -0.50% The peasants of Lushi demand to get a better life. They think the feudal system is skewed in favour of their lords, who can feast, while they have to be hungry.
Prywhen Communist Influence	Stability: -20.0% Daily Communism Support: +0.04
Lord Marven Drak	Recruitable Population: -1.0%
Lord Gordon Matton	Resource Gain Efficiency: -10.0%
Lord Kelvin Rosefeather	Consumer Goods Factories: 5%

Leaders[]

Leader	Party	Description
Prince Elias Whitecrest	Non-Aligned (Despotism) / Harmony (Harmonic Monarchism) Whitecrest Dynasty / Prosperists	Prince Elias Whitecrest took power in the Principality of Lushi in January of 1006. He is still young and ambitious, with grand plans for his nation. The Prince knows that Lushi has the potential to modernise in the shortest terms and catch up to the rest of Griffonia. He has elected to pursue peaceful foreign policy and to focus primarily on improving the quality of life of the citizens. Many believe that Prince Elias is the leader Lushi needed long ago.
Prince Gerar Whitecrest	Supremacy (Imperialism) Searchers of Harmony	Prince Gerar Whitecrest, younger brother of Elias, sees Lushi as a strong nation that could occupy the whole basin of the Evi river. Inspired by the writings of notorious Wingbardian Fascist Beakolini, he aims to create a corporate nationalist state, rooted in religion and military. He dreams of getting rid of the monarchy and proclaiming himself the leader of the nation.
Toridan	Communist (Equestrian Socialism) Green Rod's Commune
Razech Oumont	Supremacy Searchers of Harmony

Staff and Designers[]

Political Advisors

Name	Trait	Prereqs	Effects	Cost
Princess Mira Whitecrest	Popular Figurehead	Current ruling party is not Communist or Supremacy Not: Princess Mira married	Stability: +15.0%	150
Karka Rich	Captain of Industry State Investor	Current ruling party is not Communist	Civilian Factory construction speed: +10.0% Infrastructure construction speed: +10.0% Refinery construction speed: +10.0% Research Time: -2.5%	150
Reka Aumont	War Industrialist	None	Military Factory construction speed: +10.0% Dockyard construction speed: +10.0% AI Modifier: Focus on War Production: +10.0%	150
Rabec Renouf	Prince of Terror	None	Effect of partisans on us: -25.0% Foreign subversive activities efficiency: -30.0% Non-core Ponypower: +2.0%	150

Tank Designer

Name	Trait	Prereqs	Effects	Cost
Nedhern Design	Mobile tank designer	Has completed focus Li-1 and Rico Design Study	Armor Research Time: -10.0% Armor Maximum Speed: +5.0% Armor Reliability: +10.0%	150

Ship Designer

Name	Trait	Prereqs	Effects	Cost
Pry River Sailing Company	Escort fleet designer	None	Naval Research Time: -10.0% Screen Range: +30.0% Screen Sub Detection: +10.0% Screen Speed: +10.0% Screen Build Cost Ic: +10.0%	150

Aircraft Designer

Name	Trait	Prereqs	Effects	Cost
Soaring Wings Design	Light Aircraft Designer	Has completed focus Lushi Flies High	Air Research Time: -10.0% Fighter Agility: +10% Fighter Max Speed: +10% Carrier Fighter Agility: +10% Carrier Fighter Max Speed: +10%	150

Materiel Designer

Name	Trait	Prereqs	Effects	Cost
Erus Acel	Infantry Equipment Designer	Has taken Erus Acel focus	Weapons and Equipment Research Time: -10.0% Infantry Equipment Production Cost: -8.0%	150
Nagy Fegverek Artillery Company	Artillery Designer	Modern Artillery	Artillery Research Time: -10.0%	150

Industrial Concern

Name	Trait	Prereqs	Effects	Cost
Afli Master Guild	Industrial Concern	None	Industrial Research Time: -10.0%	150
Lushian Polytechnics	Electronics Concern	Has completed focus Poly-Technics	Electronics Research Time: -10.0%	150

Theorist

Name	Trait	Prereqs	Effects	Cost
Crovin Laar	Military Theorist	None	Land Doctrine Research Time: -7.0% Army Experience Gain: +0.05 daily	150

Chief of Army

Name	Trait	Prereqs	Effects	Cost
Zofia Neel	Army Organization (Expert)	None	Division Organization: +8.0%	150
Marven Drak	Army Morale (Expert)	Has completed focus Drak's Marriage Owns Drak's Castle Not: Marven Drak is killed	Division Recovery Rate: +8.0%	150

Chief of Navy

Name	Trait	Prereqs	Effects	Cost
Martin Wille	Commerce Raiding (Specialist)	None	Convoy Raiding Efficiency: +10.0%	150

Chief of Airforce

Name	Trait	Prereqs	Effects	Cost
Horty Makkorty	Night Operations (Expert)	None	Night Operations Penalty: -20.0%	150
Dormin Ghalk	Ground Support (Expert)	None	Air Superitory: +15.0%	150

Military High Command

Name	Trait	Prereqs	Effects	Cost
Scar Blackkryl	Infantry (Genius)	None	Infantry Division Attack: +15.0% Infantry Division Defense: +20.0%	150
Peter Brigand	Army Regrouping (Genius)	None	Division Recovery Rate: +12.0%	150
Barto Miroven	Army Logistics (Expert)	None	Division Attrition: -8.0%	150

Economy[]

Laws and Development[]

Laws and Development
Conscription Law	Trade Law	Economy Law
Limited Conscription Recruitable Population: 2.50%	Export Focus Construction Speed: +10.00% Research Speed: +5.00% Factory Output: +10.00% Dockyard Output: +10.00% Resources to Market: +50% Civilian intelligence to others: +20.0% Navy intelligence to others: +10.0%	Civilian Economy Industrial Research Speed: +3% Electronics Research Speed: +2% Consumer Goods Factories: 35.0% Military to Civilian Factory conversion cost: +30.00% Civilian to Military Factory conversion cost: +30.00% Fuel Gain per Oil: -40.00% Fuel Capacity: -25.00% Infrastructure construction speed: +10.00% Military Factory construction speed: -30.00% Civilian Factory construction speed: -30.00% Refinery construction speed: +5.00%
Scientific Development	Society Development	Illiteracy
Small Science Base Daily Political Power Gain: +0.20 Research Speed: -55.00%	Agrarian Society Resource Gain Efficiency: -50.00% Monthly Population: -25.0% Construction Speed: -50.00% Production Efficiency Cap: -20.00% Research Speed: -50.00% Factory Output: -50.00% Dockyard Output: -50.00% Factory Bomb Vulnerability: -50.00%	Modest Illiteracy Construction Speed: -10.00% Research Speed: -30.00%
Poverty	Race
High Poverty Monthly Population: -13.0% Consumer Goods Factories: 11.0% Construction Speed: -16.00% Research Speed: -7.50%	Griffon Uses Griffon Racial Tree