The DLC Crusader Kings 3 Has Needed - Roads to Power Review

[@carltonleboss]

Landless gameplay will work so well in total conversion mods imo.

[@h.l.malazan5782]

Finally, the Ringbearer can be a Ringbearer; and Nazguls can be Nazguls.

[@cba2make1up]

Hedge Knight gameplay in AGOT will go crazy

[@yemmlie]

@@cba2make1up I'm gonna be thick as a castle wall!

[@wendigo7176]

@@h.l.malazan5782 Geralt can be the witcher

[@trollwayy5981]

@@cba2make1upI want to be an adventurer who learns how to be a shadowbinder in asshai

[@pelayla]

amazing review... i agree with everything

[@Tarkusarkusar]

This guy is BASED

[@YipYop-w6i]

I concur

[@metalmask5]

u right

[@donpollo3154]

Bless you

[@masxalis6978]

You are actually awesome

[@StreetSoulLover]

So I can be a Norse wanderer who turns up at the gates of Constantinople and LARP as a Varangian Guard Sweet!

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Sort of, yeah. You'll always be your own adventurer, and you can't really like, "swear fealty" to the Byzantine Emperor, but you can absolutely just do contracts around Byzantium and mess around with the politics, or always join the Emperor's wars.

[@alexabood2516]

@@Tarkusarkusar so being a courtier is not an option? I couldn't just be a commander in the byzantine army, but then leave court if I wanted to down the line?

[@Revens1]

@@alexabood2516 you can seize power and gain land but at any point give it up and wander again i think, havent played it too much yet

[@legobatman5067]

@@alexabood2516you can play as a courtier but you need a mod for that

[@alexabood2516]

@@Revens1 that and the forge a new destiny thing are really cool mechanics that should help late game burnout

[@Thomas-nd2om]

The modding possibilites are basically endless too whilst we're at it. Finally we can have our administrative Abbasids!

[@tutentyp6934]

I wouldn't turn on administrative for the Abbasids. The Caliphate was actively falling apart and the central authority was pretty low with govenerships becoming hereditary and effectively independent. Maybe making only Mesopotamian governships and the rest clan vassals would work without making the dynamics too ahistorical.

[@captainpancake8177]

​@tutentyp6934 what about more bookmarks? You get to play them in 769

[@tutentyp6934]

Why not?

[@RKGrizz]

OPB is way more negative than Tarkusar... what a time to be alive.

[@JoeBurner1720]

OPB really thought he cooked on that review lmao

[@joeessen1059]

OPB thought legends of the dead was a 9/10 lol

[@balticpagan1495]

Paradox forgot to pay him this time XD

[@AlbertJanVaartjes]

@@JoeBurner1720 @joeessen1059 You guys really want to burn OPB, don't you? Sheez, just saw his video and here you guys are too. What about his opinion bothers you so much? :/

[@rsandino]

​@@AlbertJanVaartjes he's been less critical to worse stuff than this DLC

[@cephasoj108]

We are so FREAKING BACK

[@キュウリジョー]

I won't call them out by name here in the spirit of community goodwill, but the stark contrast in opinion between this review and other, less positive reviews is kind of baffling to me. Like, here the takeaway is "there's SO MUCH stuff to do, it's super cool and re-centers the focus of the game on the characters" vs "this adds too many events and they're annoying and landless play is a boring slog" in the other reviews. For the record, I totally agree with the take in this review -- I haven't played yet, of course, but all of these changes sound absolutely phenomenal to me. Great review, look forward to playing tomorrow.

[@loutre1178]

I think reactions are going to vary a lot depending on how people play adventurers. Like a full landless campaign vs a temporary option in a broader game, camp purposes, etc. It makes sense that he's playing very hands-on, military type adventurers which engage with core game systems beyond the scheme gameplay loop.

[@HoboTango]

My only complaint about this DLC is that it cost, at least in my country, just a bit less than the base game itself. And to me its an automatic refusal to buy. Unless of course the content added would have been just a bit less than the base game itself, that would have been okay. But on top of all this, you also need to get a 30$ DLC in order to enjoy everything tyhat DLC has to provide ( Royal Court). So huh yeah, no thanks.

[@myfairlady343]

​@@HoboTangoyou get 100 hours pit pf 30 dollars is a good bargain in my book

[@jackthehat1093]

Landless adventurers are such a cool idea that I've been wanting for a long time but it's way too easy to get gold and land. Apparently I'm in the minority of gamers who want challenge in their grand strategy games. If you're familiar with CK mechanics you should be able to conquer or even just be given a duchy within a few years. I was offered the duchy of Barcelona as a bribe to abandon my contract against them and call off my 200 unit army a few years into the game. For this feature to work there needs to be a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. At the minute it's incredibly easy and gaining land makes you significantly less powerful.

[@9pmInTokyo]

Elder Kings mod gonna hit different now. Especially with that inevitable flavour lore-based events.

[@scyobiempire4450]

i’m 100% going to become a khajiiti caravan and steal artefacts to gift them back to elsweyr

[@DynMorgannwg]

‘Scuse me but WHAT IS TÛRKOI?! WHAT DID YOU DO TO MUH WHOLESOME AHH BYZANTINE EMPIRE I look forward to the next video

[@cheesebox183]

elder kings adventurer would be perfect

[@SwordEncarmine]

man I really hope your review doesnt get corrupted by early access, just happens way too often I really liked One Proud Bavarian but after his 9/10 video for legends of the dead :( i hate access journalism

[@Tarkusarkusar]

I try to be as unbiased as I can when making reviews, and I do assure you that the only "payment" I've been given is just access to the DLC. If that's something that might turn you off, you'll have to wait for another reviewer that bought the DLC I suppose. Yeah OPB's 9/10 baffled me too, to the point that I streamed myself ranting about it for a few hours, and then he DM'd me about it lol.

[@IgnasV]

@@Tarkusarkusar I appreciate the honesty, but yeah, due to such events your review can't really be taken at face value (at least as a non-regular viewer). It's not the "free" copy of the dlc that bother me, it's that when people like iSorrowProductions, that refuses to make videos about dlcs they don't like, don't really get invited to do that as often anymore. I don't even remember what did they give iSorrow recently after he told everyone how he disliked few of the controversial dlcs everyone else made videos praising.

[@spooderpoog]

In case you haven't realized it yet: One Proud Bavarian is a blatant Paradox shill.

[@IgnasV]

@@spooderpoog Was super hyped and followed him through Victoria 3, started when he played mostly CK2 but damn, I could not stand him anymore after that, but he might be genuinely enjoying the game, because he makes plenty of videos about them.

[@1992zorro]

​@@spooderpoog His knees must not be proud anymore after sucking Paradox as much as he does

[@frags6940]

Secret societies would go so hard with this.

[@lephantomchickn3676]

HASHASHIN! Fr tho, Hassan-i-Sabbah has his own featured campaign now.

[@alexabood2516]

I do miss societies and also barony-level sovereignty (venice owning one city in a county)

[@miguelpadeiro762]

Hashashins when there no Hashish in the Masyaf​@lephantomchickn3676

[@carltonleboss]

I'm so glad the scheme system has been overhauled. I always thought it was way too easy to destroy large realms through murder. Also, your Gigachad Stories are gonna be LIT.

[@chaoticflorius]

Double Upload. Letss goooo!

[@feliuscattus3220]

Yooo didn’t expect to see you W mans

[@Alister222222]

It's interesting to contrast this review with One Proud Bavarian's. This one definitely makes me feel more hyped to get the DLC. It will be interested to find out who's right out of you two.

[@DontKnow-hr5my]

29.99 Euros is a hefty prize for a DLC though... like... that is almost a whole Game.

[@wurzelbert84wucher5]

It's insanity, but people are consuming everything like starving piranhas!

[@alexgmcm]

It's a big expansion though, they've always been pricy. Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction was $35 at launch. In 2001 dollars.

[@alexabood2516]

Right? if you model your games to develop over a decade only through the additions of DLC, you should make that content way cheaper than DLC for AAA games. Paradox makes their DLC as imperative (pun intended) to own as just regular content updates for other games. On the other hand though, they don't release that many games, so instead of buying a new, but half baked game every 2 years, we are forced to buy a new DLC every 2 years that isn't a new game, but that greatly improves the game we have. It's a less common form of game development.

[@hochiminh590]

Piracy.

[@thechunguses]

I hope this is true because I really do love ck3 and want to see it succeed hope it doesn't make the game run worse to much do

[@cba2make1up]

I always feel I can count on your reviews man, thank you

[@HatsMcHats]

An excellent review, thanks!

[@JohnDoe-yz5wh]

Love your videos, really excited for this DLC. With Spheres of Influence, Vic 3’s diplomacy got a huge facelift. With Roads to Power, I see a similar change coming with CK3’s role playing. There’s a lot to be excited about for the future of paradox games, I’m so excited to see new systems get implemented and how they’re gonna interact with previous entries. Trade and merchant republics are the next obvious step.

[@danny8231]

This was a really good review imo. Thank you, I wi try myself and hope to try it out myself. Do you know if you can can landless Robin Hood? Steal from the poor and give to the rich?

[@Tarkusarkusar]

you can indeed play a Robin-Hood-like character, at least in terms of stealing from the rich. There are also contracts to give to the poor, but the two won't like, interact in any way. The roleplay is in your head at least though

[@FreeFenrirWorks]

Can you create your faith as a landless adventurer?

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Yes

[@chezgomit]

Can you reform a pagan religion as a landless adventurer?

[@scyobiempire4450]

@@chezgomitno as you need to own 3 hole sites

[@jwatts56]

Imagine in the CK3 AGOT mod with Danaerys scourge of god conquered seed. Looking forward to playing this

[@ArnoCannotConnect]

The DLC looks great. My only disappointment is that I wished paradox would implement an imperial decay mechanic simiral to CK2 HIP to simulate the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire Also the lack of merchant republics, again, make the Byzantines have almost no problems (apart from the civil wars of course). In time and with mods I can imagine that we will have a truly challenging Byzantiun run. Until then, what's here looks really fun and a sliiiiight shift towards mechanics for crusader kings, rather than sheer power creep, which is appreciated

[@theblahj]

he told me in dms he actually thinks the DLC is a 2/10 and is never gonna release a gigachad guide again

[@Tarkusarkusar]

you're special, you get the real review

[@donpollo3154]

He told me he is becoming a full time victoria 2 KZbinr and that he wishes they remove language as a mechanic in ck3

[@Wormopera]

Awww that's so cute he must care a lot about you

[@Alorand]

A big disconnect was how little language and culture matters for adventurers. I was expecting more friction stopping me from running to all the corners of the map to pick up their best men-at-arms.

[@scyobiempire4450]

yeah, especially as you can take a trip to india and build a building in your camp that gives you permanent access to elephantry the vikings shall match on Rome with elephants…

[@magnus69]

neutral review… I am ambivalent towards everything

[@Paloriel]

bureaucracy is just administrative procedure, I think what you were getting at is that bureaucracy is "automized" administration and therefore doesn't require intervention (oversight has a different connotation in this context) but what it requires depends on your goals which is why you get out what you want. You require high efficiency to conquer the world? intervene and optimize the procedures. You just need to stay alive? nothing is required.

[@GeoffreyBronson]

It's awesome how you say you couldn't ask for more from the landless character system because it's so fleshed out but the very next DLC is bringing them more content. When CK3 was announced I had no idea it would go in this direction and it's glorious to see.

[@jaedenn_]

Something I also really love is the extra little things Paradox made for the pre-made adventurer groups. The fact they have some special mechanics dedicated to the story of those characters is great, and I hope Paradox will do more things like it.

[@BillosUK]

Just subbed. Very insightful video and you just earned Paradox another sale of the new DLC. I like how you mention other youtube videos and other youtubers in the video too. Makes me know that you have researched and looked into the new dlc a lot and are giving a more unbiased view and not just trying to get clicks but helps paradox players!

[@Kriosaivak]

Great review, and it doesn’t even mention the smaller additions like the new Harrying of England mechanic. What an excellent DLC.

[@darkphoenix2745]

I'm grateful PDX added the byzantine goverment alongside a bigger update instead of it being a dissapointing minor update.

[@jordonvh91]

You summed up my feelings perfectly at the end. This is the most excited I've been for base game CK3 in probably since Tours and Tournaments and I'm frothing at the mouth to see what the CKAGOT people do with all these new toys (and tons of others, that one just happens to be my personal obsession)

[@forgott_8182]

mods with this dlc will be sick

[@stoutalarm8374]

Its all coming together gents.

[@torstenwelches9394]

thumbs up for the Endless Space 2 music in the background 😄

[@bartswitalski]

Can't wait to play it ... also as a landless vampire in Paths of Damned mod

[@drakehound2244]

Thank you for the glowing review... I already prepurchase but it seems it brings CK3 back to where it should be. And based on your and Koifish squeeling so loud, both of you are really happy with the Roads to Power.

[@pelayla]

awful review... i disagree with everything

[@Tarkusarkusar]

This guy is CRINGE

[@YipYop-w6i]

I disconcur

[@metalmask5]

u wrong

[@donpollo3154]

Damn you

[@masxalis6978]

You are actual rage bait

[@sneslive1556]

Adventuring reminds me of playing a free officer back on one of the Romance games. That was indeed rather fun.

[@Jake-eg1bh]

Wow great review and honestly I hope they listen to your ideas on how to improve!

[@foxdavion6865]

Other than the new mechanics and how the tours system conflicts very hard with the simple scripted RNG system of the firing event chains associated with the unique adventures starts in 1066, the rest of the DLC is pretty solid. BTW Adventures used to be more OP before the patch, where if you started in the 12th century start you'd still wipe landed armies 4 times your size. However after the patch, yeah you fall off hard after 1160 as a Mercinary, I'd recommend not playing a merc fo4 the 3rd start date onwards. I'd say the Norman, Turkic and Alan Horse Mercenary bands of the 11th century were the last hoo rah of powerful roaming bands both historically and in the game itself also.

[@Thukad]

What if Adventurers were able to keep some of their MAAs as special troops?

[@jsg7692]

Agreed. I think that would help incentivize settling down while not being so jarring

[@Thukad]

@@jsg7692 You could even introduce some cost to it.. maybe it requires more prestige or cost to legitimacy because the common folk see the foreign soldiers all the time. Something

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Yep, I agree with this idea. Definitely would help with the immense shock of going from landless to landed.

[@igorgs737]

Finally they bring out the big guns. Hopefully republics/nomads/china come soon (2025/26).

[@stoopidapples1596]

Telling you now, china is probably 6+ years away is my guess.

[@ryankasch5561]

I hope china is never added, especially with the fact that we already have the superfluous Gulf of Guinea africa and barebones india. Republics and nomads though are my hope, especially republics with the somewhat overlap with the new admin estates system.

[@stoopidapples1596]

@@ryankasch5561 looking back at the floorplan, they mention republics and trading in the same breath. You are right, republics are very close to admin govs, and adding to that they mention that trading would have much to do with new lifestyles. With landless play, this very much opens the door to merchant play, which I think is what's hinted here. So i predict trading and republics is our next large DLC, probs releasing early 2026

[@gumloproductions]

I think China is in the back of the dev's minds due to the full map graphical file having a large blank area to the east big enough to fit east asia (but cuts off completely in Africa), and the tear in the map teasing it. Though I also don't think it'll be JUST a China update, it'll come with some big feature to warrant adding it, like trading/silk road, or an adaptation of the admin gov I just desperately want to play as Tang and push out into Central Asia to recreate the battles with the caliphate, or just a whole game about that lol

[@foolsgold5588]

How viable does it seem to survive/remain independent of Saladin as Jerusalem in 1178? Sal having the Conqueror trait seems like a big issue for my favorite historical gigachad Baldwin IV

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Well, you know, it's CK3. If you're good at the game, none of it is hard. If you're bad at the game, it's impossible. Surviving as Baldwin is as simple as getting an alliance with Byzantium, France and Sicily or something, or better yet, converting to Christianity and just making Saladin your friend. You have a million options. Assuming you mean a Christian Baldwin who doesn't submit to Saladin, you definitely can't beat him with just your own military. You'll need friends.

[@miguelpadeiro762]

​@@TarkusarkusarThird Crusade anime where Saladin is defeat by the power of friendship (it also heals leprosy)

[@luluciel532]

be an adventurer is what i want in crusader kings 3 gameplay from the beginning

[@TechnicalDirectorFM]

I might need to call in sick for a few days from work…

[@TheDAWinz]

That GIGACHAD video with a blind man is going to go hard

[@Kasaaz]

Pillars of the Earth mod when?

[@JohnSmith-rk7zy]

Where would they place Kingsbridge in England ?

[@CHRB-nn6qp]

One weird thing I appreciated in this DLC is that the camp/estate UI is very minimalist. It makes it run way better on lower end pcs like mine, yet the minimalist art style still looks really nice.

[@mcaidenvl3841]

I was worried after seeing OPB's video, but your review made way more sense and now I'm super hyped!

[@Kristaliorn]

Thank you

[@mortache]

Sounds like Adventurers should have Men at Arms upkeep or some other kind of heavy expenses. Just look at Bannerlord and how stressful it is to have a huge army before you have a stable source of income. Land used to be the only stable form of income, without that you would only live from day to day. Or you could keep trying to high roll and keep playing as a vagabond

[@Ugnutz]

All of the Stuff they added in this DLC would work so well for a Roman Empire themed total conversion

[@scyobiempire4450]

i fully agree with this, the DLC got me back into CK3 the (administrative) High Kingdom of the North Sea has beaten back the catholics out of britannia, yet on the death of the 3rd High King, a border jarl gave up their title to go solo as a mercenary company. she helped the Byzantines beat back some turks and the HRE collapse the italian empire (didn’t realise it would fully collapse) before becoming a great conqueror and invading Iberia and shaking up the struggle between the muslims and christian’s my only complaint is that the new scheme system has made witchcraft inductions a lot more difficult as while they previously had all witches join the scheme, the new system lacks that

[@spaceranger1444]

I think a cool one to use the roads to power dlc is the one earl in England who is of the house of wessex

[@cheesebox183]

i'm even more excited to play this now. i can't wait for tomorrow

[@frankiecedeno3724]

Hopefully the wanderer flavor pack was planned in part to make adventuring more interesting. Before adventuring was confirmed it was already nice to get another skill tree but the synergy with landless gameplay is obvious

[@alexabood2516]

OP Byzantium was like the game's main issue for quite some time so i'm excited to see how the new AI will work out. I never really had an interest in ruling that big of an empire starting off, but maybe it could be fun climbing the ladder as a count or adventurer now.

[@crimsondawn9397]

I like the idea of doing big decisions related to renown and then having adventures with my dynasty members that are more powerful due to dynasty

[@aaroncabatingan5238]

I've been waiting for this DLC to come out. I can finally LARP as myself. A wandering drunk hobo.

[@frosty8724]

What did they cook? Is there cooking in CK3 now? Im so confused, you didnt mention cooking in this DLC.

[@jackthehat1093]

You can hire a camp cook once you build the mess hall. He gives hostile scheme resistance buffs. Exciting stuff.

[@logo050400]

I loved ck2. I got ck3 on launch and never got the dlc cuz I wanted to wait because of how Paradox games tend to age like fine wine with dlc. This dlc made me pull the trigger and buy all the dlc when it was on sale last week. I absolutely love the dlc. I'm addicted haha

[@JuveVinny]

Awesome video. But how are you not using the clear notification mod? 16:05

[@dawood1547]

Been waiting for tarkey's take

[@melbifk]

Another positive of this dlc and update is that it open game even more to modders. Yes yes I know dlc should be good on it's own but we can get both

[@oldylad]

Yeah, it’s good on its own and improves modding. I’m pumped to play a Nord mercenary in ek2

[@denniswilkerson5536]

Landless is gonna help us restore dying cultures in Ironman and that’s all I’m really worried about

[@realinus]

Thank god we have the Chad review

[@JenniferTaylor-s7r]

Tarkusarkusar. I was watching your mugal empire video and I just got to the part where you asked for our opinion and I guess I'm just biased I'm a nerd and I enjoy history but with your Victoria 3 I personally like the expansion in expanding your borders what was ck3 which I found your channel at you were the one that made me like ck3 and want to eventually get it exactly what you said is the part I like that imagination the fact that you talk about the characters you like chagatai the third I'm just using him as a metaphor but you actually speak about them you'll show us them you talk about them until the day they pass and then you speak about the new one and one of my favorite series has to be the Charlemagne or the Merovingians personally my favorite is the mad Merovingian he named the whole country after himself which I thought was hilarious sorry for the long text kind of got bored I don't know but the last story video I saw you make was the Spain al undas I can't spell and to me and I can't say for everyone else I really like your story content both Victoria 3 and ck3 so all I can say please keep up the great content and to have a good day see yall

[@JenniferTaylor-s7r]

Sorry for the no punctuation or anything I use Google voice typing as I'm just slow my three neuron activated brain cells cannot

[@ilayohana3150]

What maybe annoys me the most is how the modding community is doing a better job than paradox. Its great and free but people likely wont discover ck3 that way.

[@scyobiempire4450]

i discovered CK3 through EK2 (and HOI4 through Kaiserreich)

[@ilayohana3150]

@@scyobiempire4450 so?

[@Dpmt]

I wonder if an El Cid landless game would be fun now that it is possible.

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Definitely. El Cid even gets special story content, which is basically just a couple event chains, but cool stuff nonetheless.

[@SomeDudeOnTheInternet75]

I cannot wait to see what the Game of Thrones mod does with these mechanics

[@McDudes]

Oh cant wait ro play as a Viking mercinary band. Traveling to the byzentines to be vergian knights to war and theb hopefully getring some land.

[@emperoroak7331]

Haha, I did with Asian Burmese mercenary who went to Byzantine and became strategos, and his son with Greco- Burmese lineage man became Emperor of Byzantine and his grandson became Imperator of revive Roman Empire 😂😂, Half Asian Roman emperor with new Roman Empire from Mesopotamia to France 😂

[@frankiecedeno3724]

The conqueror trait makes me happy since the one conqueror mod stopped updating a while back. Maybe this isn’t a good thing but I want CK3 to just steal and implement cool mods into base game.

[@jackthehat1093]

Okay before I watch these are my thoughts. The unlanded adventurer is something I've been wanting for ages. It is quite fun to play for a while. But here's the problem. It's way too easy to acquire gold and land. I was offered the duchy of Barcelona after only a few years in return for abandoning my contract against them. The thing is, I only had 200 units and a few knights at the time. I rejected but later on in the game I joined a peasant revolt thinking I'd install an AI ruler as Duke. 6000 event troops spawned in. One battle and one siege later I'm the Duke of Lancaster back to playing the same old easy feudal gameplay. All of the gold I invested in my mercenary band was wasted. There's nothing rewarding about it. The rise from peasant to duke should be somewhat challenging but now I know the mechanics I could probably do it within a few years. I love this game and hate to always criticize it but it offers nothing to veteran players. Every update just seems to make the game even easier. No amount of fiddling with the settings can make the game remotely challenging. The RPG aspects are still bare bones too. I want to be whipped up into a vengeful rage but neighbouring rulers just seem to exist with little or no interaction between our realms. Even playing as Alfred the Great I have to take the initiative and go on the offensive because the AI does nothing after the initial invasion. Oh and they've still not fixed the court physician thing. If you hire a court physician AFTER getting an injury or illness, they won't treat you and you can't manually make them.

[@SnoweyViking]

I liked this review, but its interesting to me in the comments how many people rely so much on reviews and the personalities that make them. These people do not deserve to be put on a pedestal. They might be good, they might be arrogant, they might be trying to farm your views with clickbait. In general, YOU should make your own decisions. So many games are being destroyed by reviewers creating arbitrary negative press because somehow it gives them more clout. The player loses when this happens. Having said that, i thought this review was yes on the positive side, but was quite honest in its approach. 🎉

[@nisse18]

It is about time! Just too bad we have to wait for years for a rich CK experience.

[@oldylad]

Yep, glad they’re beginning to get it at least. Ive always liked ck3, though it hasn’t been better than 2 until now imo. I think despite its lack of stuff its looks and far better base systems make it better than 2 in a few ways, and the landless stuff pushes it past 2

[@Slavaboo1]

How do you feel about the new achievements? Any chance you'll be doing another speedrun?

[@Tarkusarkusar]

Most of them are pretty simple. Nothing breathtaking by any means but I mean, achievements aren't all that important for me in a review setting. There are lots of things to do outside of achievements. In terms of another speedrun... you know, pushing the date to 1178 does make the End of An Era run much easier.... perhaps I should go for it.

[@mrpilkington9710]

I like the adventurer system I would have liked the camp to be 2.5D though instead of the medieval map thing they did. It would also have been fun if you could play till the end of the game as one amassing a powerful mercenary company

[@hirannes2217]

Guess I won't be skipping out on this expansion afterall

[@ybox1054]

this place is nuts!

[@nutcrackit7396]

I just wish we could be become a baron from being a landless character. Perhaps a count/duke likes you so much that they grant you a barony and you serve him as a knight. Whenever he goes to war he takes you with them as part of their army. your own troops joining your liege's army. Eventually plot or work your way up to becoming a count and up the ranks of nobility.

[@cypress7792]

wait… THE MOD IS COMING OUT WITH RTP??? When I saw your video I assumed it was still in the planning phase

[@BlixtenPK]

One question can you as an adventure raid if your like Norse? Also amazing review keep it up!!

[@Tarkusarkusar]

no, you can't raid as an adventurer except through one contract where a lord essentially sponsors you to raid someone's land via a war. You can steal from people though via criminal contracts.

[@anghoulrak806]

Would be nice if you could take some popular DD comments that the Devs answered or changes asked by a lot of people and say if the Devs did really listen and made some of those changes, and what changes they were... I think this should have a lot of weight in any review.

[@Tarkusarkusar]

That's a pretty good idea. I'll think about it for next time, since I can't go back and change this review now lol. I sort of did that back in the Legends of the Dead review, since player expectations were a lot more relevant for that DLC. Its reception was low in a lot of ways because of the misalignment of expectations and actual product.

[@anghoulrak806]

@Tarkusarkusar Do a video about it after release S2

[@EtherealLlama]

Since Landless sounds largerly as characters going on perpetual tours, how much use do they make of that event framework and how soon do events start noticeably repeating?

[@cristofori2230]

Are you using mods? I see at 16:40 there's a Roman Empire in charge of Sicily and N.Africa, while the Byzantine Empire was renamed to ERE. Was it an event?

[@franciscovegamarquez7646]

Ok review... i agree in some aspects

[@Lost-Mind]

It sounds like they could use the administrative government as basics for a merchant republic government type when we get it. I am looking forward to adventures also the adminstrative government type.

[@oldylad]

I’m hoping that merchant republics use landless mechanics. Like make it so that you can be elected if your camp is in the capital of a republic like Venice, or allow a landless character to purchase a home in a city similar to ck2 so that if your goal is to lead the republic you can choose to set up a permanent “camp”

[@neptune1873]

Good review !

[@unnamedshadow1866]

I still want Merchant Republics and Hordes.

[@jimbob8840]

Aside from the success of admin govt as its own thing, it seems like it will be pretty easy to effectively adapt it to enable both republican govt *and* playable papacy via a cardinal-family system

[@miguelpadeiro762]

I hope they leave theocracies for last because we REALLY need Republican and Nomadic governments! Hopefully EU5's nomadic country mechanics can shed a light to CK's team on how they can do it The fact that 1/4 of the map, that should be unsettled steppe land, is settled tribal land has kept much of the game from developing realistic dynamics in the region.

[@oldylad]

@@miguelpadeiro762the landless system has opened a lot of doors, including your suggestion. If they go through with “unsettling” land in the steppe, that could lead to the East Asia DLC people have been theorizing about a lot (the map being ripped in the East im unsure if they removed that), less rulers means potential for more elsewhere. Imagine RPing as Marco Polo visiting China and then returning to Italy and being elected as doge of Venice

[@oldylad]

@@miguelpadeiro762and with the provision system I think nomads could be very interesting and unique more than just their ability to move

[@miguelpadeiro762]

@@oldylad I am a firm believer of the ripped map theory lol, I think they'll explore expanding the map eastward once they deal with the Nomad problemm as it will also work as a barrier of worlds that'd only be united with the Mongol empire.

[@leoe.5046]

I remember a byzantion mod from the early days of ck3 that I really liked. I think it was called Rhomaioi - However, I don't even remember, what it did🚬

[@kaisermosh4057]

war elephants make adventurers unstoppable you can dog the mongels and any empire if you play tactical

[@SpiderMonkey6l]

i feel kind of bad for the devs. this dlc is going to raise the bar for them by so much

[@edgyguy7084]

"which Koifish showed of in his Haesteinn video." which.... one....? xD

[@jacobneufeld6768]

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[@jasonhansen]

The best part of CK3 is it makes me want to play CK2

[@dustblazing67]

why endless space music? it confuse me

[@Tarkusarkusar]

cause it's a nice soundtrack