"Imagine cold winters, princes in sable-rimmed cloaks, opulent halls where sinister old men practice vile magics or seduce their masters' wives. Think of Rasputin. Think of orthodox patriarchs and bizarre sectlike movements of religious fanatics living in hiding. Imagine the monsters, heroes and bogatyrs of Russian fairy tales.

When Bogarus was added to Dominions 3, I already had some ideas about the predecessors. My imagination was influenced by Kievan Rus' when the nation was given Vanir ancestors. I wanted priests and an institutionalized religion that brings the Russian Orthodox Church to mind and some sectarian movements on top of that. I did some research and I was quite happy when I found the skoptsy, the "castrated ones," and other strange religious movements." –Illwinter

By the Late Age, there were no Vanir left in Vanarus, and the Chudes had disappeared into myth. The Kingdom has survived the loss of its founding race, but it is a very decentralized realm. Like with Vanarus before it, the Kingdom title seems to simply imply that there can be no King, and that the best anyone can be in the realm is a “Prince”; the Princes each control a few cities and the bitter lands around them, and most of them serve under “Grand Princes” that answer to no one but themselves. The Grand Princes focus outward rather than inward, letting the Princes decide what is allowed in their cities, who in-turn have allowed and even financed some pretty-whacky traditions and practices. The only truly-unifying force in Bogarus is religion (though some worship a bit differently from others); if the Eparchs hadn’t reformed from their aloof ways and pulled the ears of their Grand Princes to alert them of the Awakening God (you), then they probably would’ve still been butting heads for dominance by the time you arrived. With the Ascension Wars beginning, the fragmented realm looks to carve out an Empire in your name, and many great Heroes may arise from your inspiration.

Bogarus is a nation of competent mages who hate being in battle, incompetent troops who hate being in battle, and Sacred troops that are hated by everyone else. In other words, it's beautiful.

They have powerful and diverse human mages (possibly the best in the game), sad troops (with the best being the expensive Malaia Druzhina heavy cavalry), and a deep roster of national summons.

Your nation is made up of common human Rus, having cold Resistance (3) which grants them immunity to chill Auras combined with most foot troops having Snow-Move, lets them scert by most downsides of being a cold nation. (your mounted and mages don't get snow move, and since calvery have naturally high movement, The most important power of the nation are the slowest factor in your army. )

Your troops would have been ok in the Early Age but the Late Age places higher expectations of using better armor and crossbows.

Sprite	Unit Name	Special Attributes	Comments
	Voi Spearman 8 8 5	cold Resistance (3) Snow-Move	Millie with javalin not good with all the armor going around.
	Voi Axeman 8 7 5	cold Resistance (3) Snow-Move	Millie with axe Not good.
	Voi Archer 8 5 5	cold Resistance (3) Snow-Move	bowmen in a crossbow age. ok later on with Wind Guide and Flaming Arrows
	Khlyst 10 3 5	sacred Stealthy(40) cold Resistance (3) Snow-Move Cause Unrest(+0.5 per month) start with affliction(10%)	Masticistic finatics. Are one of the cheapest recrutible sacreds in game and they show it by having horable stats and lickly to have a affiction. They are flimsy and can't hit to far above their waight class unlike Flaglents. You need a hellbless to make them a fiable front line but scales are more viavable to your survival. They are your only recrutable steathy national troops.
	Peshtsi Spearman 10 15 9	cold Resistance (3) Snow-Move	Better equipped but still not good enough your best ground troop is the City guard as he has ok melee defense and provides extra siege chaff.
	Peshtsi Axeman 10 18 9	cold Resistance (3) Snow-Move
	Peshtsi City Guard 11 20 12	cold Resistance (3) Snow-Move Castle Defence Bonus(1)
	Grid Druzhina 25 28 36	cold Resistance (3) mounted	Light Calvery with sword and hoof attack. makes for your best "Cheap" flankers
	Malaia Druzhina 40 42 46	cold Resistance (3) bodyguard (3) mounted	A heavy carvery is equivalent to the Man's Knights of the Tower. Your most viable expanders.
	Black Hood 18 16 20 Foreign Rec only	cold Resistance (3) mounted	Bowman on a horse that can only be recruited outside forts. You take them if you want your unbuffed arrows to more likely land and deal damage than Voi Archers. don't have them fight crossbows.
	Styag 30 23 36 Foreign Rec only	cold Resistance (3) standard (1) mounted	Mounted standerd with lance. Recrute only one to boost your Druzhina's moral.

national spell or summon cost and usecase, judgment if it's good. fix from Rus

One of Rus's selling points is its sheer amount of exclusive summons.

• Summon Simargl 1 Conjure 2, for 1, ( Simarglx1). Too slow if your trying to amass a flying fores but fine as Patrol chaff.

• Summon Firebird 11 Conjure 3, for 2, ( Firebirdx1) Alchemist should be spamming for the influx of lucky events in your fort, especially since they also something Siegers should mess with.

• Sloth of Bears 2 Conjure 3, for 8, ( Great Bearx10 + [lv]) Summon more bears for Sieges but not soo good in combate.

• Contact Sirin 2 Conjure 3, for 8, ( Sirin) A way to steal Male Commanders. If that doesn't work, giving them Handful of Acorns and some other weapon that can be used in the misc slot like The Pebble Pouch can dispatch a variety of problems

• Summon Likho 1 Conjure 4, for 10, ( Likho) Summon and let her sit in a eneimy Provence to cause annoyances.

• Contact Alkonost 2 Conjure 4, for 15, ( Alkonost) Summable Flying Greater Priest, leader, and Throne Claimer. Decent alround Utiltiy.

• Summon Rusalka 11 Conjure 4, for 16, ( Rusalka) Hard for LA to use. Create more Low-level Death mages and a way to expand underwater. Can kill most things with a Water Lens Summon a Water Elemental and then spam skeletons until the assadination target is dead.

• Send Vodyanoy 2 Conjure 4, for 20, ( Vodyanoy) only target Sea province. Conjure a Stealthy Water mage underwater. She won't Be Establishing a foothold underwater by herself and without gems, but she can raid if you had already created a foothold down there. Is A means of fighting a water war if the ocean nations had failed to conquer most of the independents. They are also will climb water magic for you, getting you into Water Queens and Naiads
  

• Send Lady Midday 11 Conjure 5, for 10, ( Lady Midday) Basically summons a weak Disease Demon. Is Very fragle. not high priority for a Starets to cast.

• Summon Zmey 2 Conjure 5, for 5, ( Zmeyx1) Cool 3 headed Dragon but held back by the fact its a reptile and all of Rus's line is a cold nation. May be ok if taking a Hellbless.

• Contact Gamayun 3 Conjure 5, for 25, ( Gamayun) Get a Flying Air and Astral mage. Very mobile with Fly and Cloud Trapeze to support your army with Paralyze and Mind Burn.

• Send Bukavac 4 Conjure 5, for 5, ( Bukavac) only target Sea province. They are very hard to deal with especially if your having a bunch of Vodyanoy sends several aginst one providence. These are Giant Trampler that will clear out Fishman settlement and many of their armies.

• Contact Beregina 31 Conjure 6, for 35, ( Beregina) a amphibious Water mage with nature support spells and may to take a decently sized force underwater.

• Contact Cloud Vila 4 Conjure 7, for 40, ( Cloud Vila) Mountain and borders only. Take a A strong air mage that's a flying true Healer. Also a means to go into nature magic by forging the boosters needed to summon a Mountain Vila.

• Contact Mountain Vila 4 Conjure 7, for 40, ( Mountain Vila) Mountain and borders only. Nature Air communioning, True Healer 2 mage comes prepackaged with a Vine Bow for going off-script. Mix of Fairy Queen and Ivy King, those too expensive to use recklessly. if you only need a generally strong nature mage, an Ivy King is far more resilient for cheaper.

• Contact Leshiy 6 Conjure 8, for 60, ( Leshiy Leshiy) Forest only. Takes a lot of climbing to get a nature mage that can be potalty 7 while in forests. Only get so someone, not your pretender can hold up Gift of Health or Enchanted Forests

What magic path/mages define your nation, what can you level, e.g., thunderstriking, astral, elementals, earth buffs, blood, what is recruitable anywhere and good, what are some summons you are likely able to get and are useable

What is the best spell you can use in combat. What spells the best support your national lineup, Is there weakness that you need to fix? Any tricks you should be aware you have?

Lots of astral communions, with Blood, death, fire, Earth, and Air cross paths. being all astral allows blood mages to enter communions without using the more fatiguing Sabbath version.

Being all astral allows your Starets to be Magic Dueled, but having so many mages that can also Magic Duel will protect them.

What is the best ritual you could cast. Are there any globals you want up, any units you should be summoning? Are there any Generic rituals few nations can cast?

Do you have any National items(Construction Level, Price, and required Paths). Any unique generic items few other nations can forge? What item would be useful on your unit lineup (non-standard recommend thug gear)?

Is recommended to find a way to get Earth Boots so you can get more 2.

Your do have fast researchers, boosted by Owl Quills, Skull Mentor and Lightless Lantern

do you have a game plan? Anything you should always be working toward? Any National weaknesses?

What kinds of scales dose your nation like? Do they require any to function? Any blesses your sacreds would like? Do you desperately need an awake expander? Examples of Pretenders?

How to expand, potential pitfalls and how to get around them, obvious weakness strength, how much do you have to focus on war/infrastructure

what is the first big research rush, what is the first big powerspike, where do you shift recruitment to? what are the big magic diversity issues, are there particular globals you should gun for

How do you close out the game if you are in it, is the high-level research stuff you can do uniquely well, does your nation fall off, aka do you have to force things to conclude swiftly

youtube of someone discussing the nation
guide page on steam??
forum thread or AAR