Sometime those random events will be duplicated in consecutive years. If nothing of significance happened in a particular year, the game will add in a random occurrence (A town in the Duchy of Savoy was destroyed by a giant, who then disappeared is one of my favorites). This gives a year-by-year recounting of your game from the very beginning, in the style of an old English chronicle. Over time, you’ll see them civilized (and want to, as tribesmen don’t generate gold, and, frankly, recruiting them becomes expensive).Īn interesting feature is the Chronicle. Now, in the early game, undeveloped lands will have tribes from which to recruit soldiers. Now the game has a much better sense of “era.” The addition of tribes increases this effect. You flow from the huge Frankish empire to the Viking invasions to the spread of Christianity to the Crusades to the invasion of the Mongol horde. It’s nice to have a bunch more years to play with, especially as the game now has more of a sense of change over time. This expansion includes an earlier start date- 769. I’m sure the prestige bonuses were nice, but the succession split must have been painful This was nice from a historical perspective, but seemed to result from the AI acting against its own best interest. The result of this was the historical split into 3 different kingdoms. But I watched as Charlemagne himself created kingdom after kingdom within his own empire. It was nice as a goal for me to grow my duchy into a new kingdom. Still, I became a little concerned with this feature.
The implications for exporting your CK2 game to Europa Universalis IV grow even more exciting with this development. Instead of being limited to the historical options, players can shape the game in an even more personal sense, allowing what happens in the game to dynamically shape the map. The CK2 sandbox now allows would-be monarchs to create their own de-jure kingdoms. At this point, I took note of a new ambition option- Become King of Savoy. A third duchy was taken over the next 20 years. I hopped into my first playthrough as the Duke of Upper Burgundy, and, with my experienced CK2 player savvy, quick took over the rest of Duchy of Savoy, and usurped that dukedom for myself as well. The new Charlemagne expansion is an excellent opportunity to re-examine what makes Crusader Kings 2 a unique effort in the genre, and a reminder to long-time players why they’ve put so much time into the game.
Instead, Crusader Kings 2 sees its newest expansion, an effort which refines the game’s stellar leadership model, adds some new features that give players new challenges and goals to work toward, nearly a century of new gameplay content, and even a campaign chronicle feature. If it were an EA sports game, instead of this review, I’d be writing about how the game’s servers were now being shut down.
In the era of modern game, this is normally when you see a game put well to pasture. Crusader Kings II, Crusader Kings II: Charlemagne, Grand Strategy, Paradox Interactive, The StrategistĬrusader Kings 2 was released nearly three years ago.
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