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finally soon we will be Pegan lord. kill all the Muslim & crists. man i love it how they let us go back in time to play from 857yr or something. i wonder what can we do with the pagan lord?? anybody know? can we make our own religion??? create our own gods?? man i love it if we can offer our wife to the gods, by throwing them in to the deeeeeeep pit....lol... can we create ourself as a king and gods??? well last question, and idea when its comeing out??? 😵

You basically play as barbaric hordes who ravage and plunder. War is a big part of their culture so going too long without one causes unrest and rebelling will occur.

Pagans have no levies or standing armies to speak of. They instead have to declare their intentions for war and wait until enough of their populous forms up a army eager to ravage and plunder for riches and glory.

The new start date of 867 AD will allow us to take control of the Kingdom of Rus in it's earlier days.

You will not be allowed to create your own religion. The Zoroastrian religion will be further expanded upon and you will attempt to re-establish its greatness.

You WILL be allowed to sacrifice to Odin at the great Blot, which seemed to be a ceremonial tribute to their Norse gods. Who or what you can sacrifice is yet to be announced.

"Adventurers" which has not really been expanded upon just yet are added. They seem like rogue armies which will attempt to capture weaker provinces in an attempt to form their own kingdoms.

As for the release date, it is slated for Q2 2013. Which is anywhere between April 1st and June 30th.

Hopefully this clears up some questions. I know I am definitely looking forward to it.

[Edited by Slvrbuu, 2/9/2013 2:51:55 AM]

I wish they would expand the timeframe FORWARD in a future DLC after this one, though. Even when the concept of Nation came about around 1500s, the family/dynasty/marriage thing was still very important.

[Edited by ArchDuke, 2/13/2013 9:12:03 AM]

noway jose.... i dont want to play gun& rose warfaire... its sicken me to even think about gun war, we had enough of those ****ty stuff. if you wanna play that go to Victory or M.eagles...... push time Forword its will be the stupidest thing Paradox will ever do for CK2... this is all about holy war, knight, king, and Religion... not people Revelution or goverment run the country...

1500s did not have any of the stuff you mentioned.

1453 was the end of the Middle Ages, and with it, the end of the Medieval era. This is when the Ottomans captured Constantinople and caused the collapse of the Byzantium Empire (The Eastern Roman Empire).

The Medieval era started around 1066 with the Norman conquest of England. Hence the start and end dates of Crusader Kings II. Also the Hundred Year' war ended in 1453 between France and England.

The era after the Middle Ages is called the Early Modern era. Which is the time when Europe made great cultural movements (the Renaissance era)

It will be interesting to see the new start date, 867.
- Before the creation of the Holy Roman Empire (962).

- Western Francia was still around, before the Capet dynasty would assume the throne of France.

- Basil I usurps the empire of Byzantium (assuming this is why it's the new start date) and creates the Macedonian dynasty. Considered by many to be one of the greatest Emperors of Byzantium.

- The Kingdom of Alba (which will probably still be called Scotland) was recently formed (c860)with the united Picts and the Scots.

plus this is in the middle of the viking era.

Just reading this makes me want this DLC now. Play before the creation of the Holy Roman empire?! Awesome.

who cares Arch duke... if 1500 have gun and rose war or not... i just dont want to see a good game like ck2 trun in to the gun battle... there are other game that fight in WWll use gun and tank Bah bah bah.. so i dont no why people keep asking for CK2 to go forword in time...

if its possible i would like to see it go back even ferther... like in the dragon time, with Magic...Monster still Rule the land... You worry about other kingdom to take you land?? thats not all... why not makeing it you have to be worry about dark magic to Rule over your kingdom...

why not let us play as a great Wiz merlin?? K. Arthur... or other great Wiz power??? now that is more like a good old Ck2... Then we go Forword with EU4.. make a DLC for this game to be able to like with EU4... BAM