Overall this is a DLC almost essential to the game. There were no added technical issues with the game, and I thought the graphical change to the user interface looked nice. It is interesting to see how what you want it to say will affect the outcome of the message on it, and it gives a large amount of prestige. The other one is that once a lifetime, you can build a rune-stone to commemorate a number of things. This can be exercised once every 9 years and itвЂ™s a good way to dispose of all the Catholics imprisoned over the years. The first is being able to start a festival that gains you piety by sacrificing people and having a feast. While not as narratively impressive or pleasing as Sword of IslamвЂ™s Hajj event, there are two interesting ones. Speaking of events, there are a few more of them. A huge amount of income can come as a result of this activity, and it definitely leads to a devaluing of money, and more interest in looking at prestige, especially in the form of events. This doesnвЂ™t necessarily have to be a siege, as a lot of the money can be taken out before the siege is complete. Once toggled, this ability allows an army to go to a non-friendly province and loot it. The fact that vassals do not complain if their levies are out for too long also means that huge armies can be led with no money issues.ДЄnother new and interesting mechanic is looting. Paradox definitely recognised that this was a far more militarised group of people, as there are is now a punishment in the form of prestige dropping if you have not been in a war for a while, and to ParadoxвЂ™s credit, it always keeps the style of play frantic and tense. This can lead to massive conquest in a short space of time. This allows a pagan ruler to subjugate another ruler once in his life- which means taking all their land. Playing as a Norse Pagan I quickly expanded to England and Ireland with these new Casus Bellis, after unifying DenmarkДЄnother interesting Casus Belli is a completely new one named subjugation. Like Muslims (check out my Sword of Islam review here) playing as a Pagan definitely gives a faster paced game, and their ability to use the вЂconquestвЂ™ Casus Belli to conquer a single province of anyone who is not their religion means gaining land is far quicker. England is especially interesting, and one scenario that IвЂ™m going to play is attempting to unify it under one ruler.ДЄnyway, enough of Christians, the main focus of this added piece of content is the ability to play as pagans. Considering that many of us have spent our time seeing Western Europe as a bunch of unified nations, itвЂ™s a joy to see them as fragmented petty kingdoms. The extra game time is a huge draw of this expansion a large part of the deal with this new starting time isnвЂ™t simply limited to pagans, you can still play as a Christian, a Muslim or as a republic (as long as you have the other DLCs that is). The expansions gives many more playable characters This pitch alone should leave any fans of the base title watering at the mouth, but when you find out theyвЂ™ve represented this group of people as faithfully and with as much detail as Christians, itвЂ™s hard to say no.

The last of the big three religions in this time period of Europe has been unlocked in the latest DLC for their excellent title Crusader Kings II, along with around 200 years of extra gameplay. IвЂ™m going to assume that you have either read my earlier review or re-assessment, or you have got the base game, as all that will be discussed are new features and the affects they bring onto the game. The best expansion yet to ParadoxвЂ™s medieval grand strategy title.

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