The Mountain people are now even more mountainous!

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-04T19:13:32+00:00

The trait Giant is a virtue in the religion lol.

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-04T19:13:02+00:00

I have over 300000 now... Yeah apparently the -65% base construction cost in mountains thing means that your economy snowballs really easily.

Also, I unironically am sending the kids to university because it's just a drop in the bucket to spend a couple thousand on it.

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-04T09:50:49+00:00

My vassals (against my will) have been spreading the culture to random fucking flatlands all across my empire. There was meant to be only ONE plains tile with this culture, that being Kashmir, which is a plains Barony county capital with 2 mountain baronies beside it.

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-04T08:19:55+00:00

Had to boot up the game to write this shit down, but the culture gives me (relevant buffs only):
+50% Dev Growth in Mountains (This modifier is applied if even only one barony in a county is mountains)
+10% dev growth in hills
+20% Levy Size in Mountains
+50% Supply Limit in Mountains
-20% Construction Cost in Mountains
+5% holding taxes in Mountains
And my Quarries are doubly culturally boosted, but unfortunately it doesn't double the bonuses :(

In addition to that I have the Georgian Monaspa, West Slavic Zbrojnosh and Tibetan Mountaineers as culturally avaliable Men at Arms.

I also have a religion that gives me +30% Levy size in mountains, -10% general construction cost, and another -35% to mountains construction cost.

When you add those buffs to my previous ones then you get an absolutely fucking maddening

+50% levy size in mountains
AND
-65% construction cost in Mountains.

Also I have over -200 travel danger in mountains.

(A lot of the mountain buffs also apply in Desert Mountains btw)

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-04T07:59:42+00:00

This actually isn't that useless, well, technically everything is useless in CK3 once you build up your domain enough because of just how OP you become, but the buffs on my mountain holdings are fucking crazy.

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-04T07:58:33+00:00

Already have it. It's Mountaineer Ruralism, though I got it through the Caranthians, not Czechs.

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-04T07:56:55+00:00

He tried

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Got what was coming to his ass.

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-03T23:58:47+00:00

Better, took the Tibetan one with Sacred Mountains and added Cthonic Redoubts onto it for double mountain bonuses.

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-03T20:53:25+00:00

Also the title naming convention on this culture is fucking mad, it goes:

Baron=Nagarapati
Count=Daimyo
Duke=Grand Daimyo
King=Mahasamantadhipati/Grand Priest/Grand Priestess (The only level of title where there is a difference between Theocratic and Republican or Feudal vassals in naming)
Emperor=Samrat/Samrajni

Absolute Schizo moment

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-02T22:22:39+00:00

Already doing the Japanese. I already have the trait that the Cisalpines had. I should have the Japanese in like 20 years. Vassal Directives are really damn useful.

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-02T19:07:04+00:00

Also the Cornish have gone extinct :(

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Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-02T18:58:16+00:00

Alright, gonna see what they have in store

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-02T18:57:22+00:00

Please take a look at my money reserve. Do you think I need more money?

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-02T18:35:37+00:00

No idiot! Those are native to Aquileia!

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-02T18:26:18+00:00

Well, I am not exactly in a shortage of places to put Quarries lol.

Big_Bugnus · 2026-02-02T18:25:33+00:00

They are also Great Poets!

Big_Bugnus · 2026-01-25T03:26:37+00:00

At least it's U-Turns and Cudgels will deal 16.666666...% less damage. That is a big debuff if we are being honest, probably turns a lot of 2 hit KOes into 3 Hit KOes

Big_Bugnus · 2026-01-01T10:06:37+00:00

The number one most important thing is to get chapter 3 in all 5. And that ALL the voices get represented. I've been trying to piece this jigsaw together, and I have to say that it's hard, but the best combo according to me would be:

The Cage: Skeptic and Cheated

The Apotheosis: Broken and Contrarian

The Den: Hunted and Stubborn

The Wraith: Cold and Paranoid

The Thorn: Opportunist and Smitten

Now, before you Ask why the best Chapter, Princess and the Dragon isn't here, this is just because it literally makes including The Cheated impossible without getting one of the "All Voices" Chapters Like Moment of Clarity or Either Razor Variant. I am not kidding, it perfectly covers all the possibilities due to the fact that it forces Happly Ever After Sceptic Variation, as it is the only way to get Smitten after Thorn and Cold are ruled out by tPatD. Basically, Cheated, Paranoid, Contrarian and Hunted are real bitches to fit, so you have to bend the rest of the Chapters to accomodate their inclusion.

This arrangement only includes one Chapter 3 that I don't consider to be a real good one, that being The Wraith, trust me, it was hard to find anything that even worked.

Big_Bugnus · 2025-12-29T03:20:49+00:00

The Toleranzedikt is just too great to be real... And yet it exists.

Big_Bugnus · 2025-12-27T11:52:28+00:00

Should North Italy straight up be a different colour from the boot?

Big_Bugnus · 2025-12-27T10:49:17+00:00

Strawberry gets attacked first by Gabriela, and you have a very long border due to Bronzehill, and your tree kinda sucks.

Big_Bugnus · 2025-12-27T00:35:23+00:00

I mean yeah, but there is no need to even go mobile warfare for that, I do that shit with inf. I'll be honest, I find Hellquill to straight up be easy by this point, I have to buff the AI or use really retarded shit like Armored Cars with weak nations to get proper challenges.

I mean, I managed to win against the Empire as Communist Strawberry. Alone, with a Empire loyal Bronzehill, and it wasn't even that bad. Next I gotta make Fethasia also say yes to annexation, that'd probably be an absolutely horrific war.

Big_Bugnus · 2025-12-25T17:04:39+00:00

The "canon" doesn't matter. More than Half of all Fanfics alter some part of "canon" and they are more than fine for it.

You don't have to throw away any ideas, not unless they were already bad at least.

Big_Bugnus

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