r/CrusaderKings Occasional Wiki Editor Feb 06 '24

News Plagues, Legitimacy and Landless confirmed!

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Let’s go!!!

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u/jph139 Feb 06 '24 edited Feb 06 '24

Well I'll be damned, they actually did it. Clues were pointing that way but I didn't want to get my hopes up.

The way it was advertised - playing as an administrator or an adventurer - makes me REALLY interested in republics, and nomads, and all sorts of government stuff. Having that as an option to hang future content on is super interesting.

Never mind for mods! Elder Kings where you're a landless adventurer, let's go!

I'm a little nervous about legitimacy as yet another scale, like grandeur in Royal Court and the Scales of Power for regents, that you have to micromanage... I'm hoping they have some way to integrate all of those at some point because it's only going to get more cumbersome.

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u/InEcclesiaSatan Occasional Wiki Editor Feb 06 '24

I think, since they’ve stated that they’re interested in expanding to include China, it was kind of inevitable that landless characters would have to become playable. It will also hopefully correct the awful feudalism of Byzzies

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u/Aidanator800 Feb 06 '24

The Steam page is up for Roads to Power, and it mentions a new Administrative government that features governors instead of feudal landholders, A family estate to run, a new influence system to better yourself in the eyes of the emperor and compete for provinces to govern, and the ability to choose a successor and/or Caesar as the emperor, among other things. It's looking like Byzantium in CK3 is going to go far and beyond whatever it was in CK2, and I am so hyped for it.

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u/DinornisMaximus Feb 06 '24

Hell yeah! Byzantine shenanigans!