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• gamedeal user

  Oct 4, 2014

  A must-have if you like playing the Byzantines. Has a bunch of great Byzantine decisions and events, plus you get to castrate and blind your enemies. This being CK2, it doesn't limit your savagery - you can blind infants, and lop off baby boys' little weenies if that strikes your fancy (though the game does call you out for being a "real piece of work"). Even if you don't play the Byzantines, it's worth it for just the retinues - they do dilute the feudal aspect of the game somewhat, but it's a great way to make your battles more interesting than "throw the biggest amount of troops at enemy". One of the essential CK2 DLCs, in my opinion.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 6, 2014

  If you own CK2 you must buy this DLC. Retinues, bonus to playing Byzantium, ambitions that grow your stats to minimum of 8. (try ruling witha 0 dip/0 steward ruler) Without factions rebellions are a joke
• gamedeal user

  Jul 13, 2015

  There are two reasons to buy this expansion: One is what it says on the tin: You can play as Byzantium and other Orthodox Christians like Russia, and restore Rome in a special event. The other, however, is critical to any playthrough of CK2, and that is that you have access to retinues. Retinues seriously change the game's balance of power in favor of large empires, and if you have any designs upon a conquest of Europe, you're going to need their power. Retinues are theoretically "standing armies", but in play, they are like mercenaries that cost no upkeep except when replacing losses. Although they are less numerous than levies, with proper stack construction, they are capable of beating levies triple their number and fully exploiting the dodgy rock-paper-scissors mechanics of the game. Basically, once you get to empire-tier realm size, you functionally never have to raise your levies again except to take on another superpower. Since you do not need to dismiss them before declaring war, you can declare a conquest or holy war on a small duke-tier realm while actually already having your army assembled and halfway marching across the border, already. This allows you a first strike capability that gives your side significant advantages. If you build an archer-heavy retinue, you can also sack castles instead of sieging them, allowing you to win small wars in weeks, rather than years. Win wars without even bothering raising your levies! Let your opponents call up their reinforcements - you'll have already won the war while they get their armies to slowly pool together before they start even trying to march towards you! In fact, with retinues in an empire, I often spend much of my time looking for any random target I can even attack while waiting out treaty timers, rather than worrying about how I will maintain my powerbase. This is even more exploitable with pagans or other raiders - sacking with a retinue of raiders nets you lots of cash fast (although you pay back a lot of it retraining new troops lost sacking) while a smaller force can come in and conquer the sacked and pillaged lands in a war right after the raiders sweep through. In total, there's a reason retinues were MASSIVELY nerfed in this game, as retinues completely reverse the trend of making it difficult to keep large empires together, and make large empires extremely simple to expand. Even if you face civil war, having potent retinues are game-changingly powerful. Using retinues makes empires MUCH easier, and in fact, basically TOO easy. That said, once you get hooked on them, you can't ever go back to mere levies again.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 28, 2015

  Adveniat Regnum Tuum, you barbarian scum!
• gamedeal user

  Jul 21, 2013

  Unlike Sword of Islam, Legacy of Rome adds a bit more than just some enhancements to a cultural group (in this case, the Byzantines and Orthodox countries). As it had better, since those countries were playable in the vanilla game, though most of the "new features" listed below were patched into the vanilla game as well. So is it worth it? Ehh... that depends on how much you care about playing characters from these areas. Though this DLC does add some... interesting new options for cruel characters who have some people in their jail. Dig through my screenshots and you will find one that shows this off. "He had it coming." ;)
• gamedeal user

  Mar 26, 2016

  A must-have addition to the game if you want to have a really cool roleplaying experience. Go on, restore the Roman Empire in all its glory and might and found a new dynasty of Emperors that the world will never forget! Sounds too easy considering how strong the Byzantine Empire is at the start of the game? No problem! Go start as a small Italian count, give your dynasty the name of a Roman family and give all your children Latin names, only. Then start becoming independent, build the Kingdom of Latium, then swear fealty to the Byzantine Empire only to disintegrate it from the inside. Crown yourself the new Emperor and then push through with your claims on the world as well as anything and anyone wandering it... *salivating intensely* What? No, I don't have a mad look in my eyes. No, I do not require psychatric evaluation... Go fetch me some claims I can push...
• gamedeal user

  Jun 14, 2017

  Have you ever wanted to reform Rome? Be a benevolent ruler? Spread prosperity amongst all of your- scratch this. Have you ever wanted to castrate a ten year old? Then this is the DLC for you.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 15, 2017

  It's really a sad thing, this DLC is. Not because it's bad or anything, in fact for what it adds to the game, it does a lot for what it's priced at. But these features aren't DLC features, they're NEEDED to play the game. Ask anyone on the forums about what DLC to buy and you will see this DLC close to the top every single time. You can't play the game without it, since it adds so many things that most CK2 players just ASSUME are in the game to start with. Like the ability to raise troops from a vassel without pissing off the underlines below him. I never knew I paid for this, and I'm almost 100% sure most people who play this game won't know that the faction system, which is built into other DLCs like Conclave, was paid for with this DLC. This content shouldn't be named "Expansion - Crusader Kings II: Legacy of Rome" it should be named "CK2 Basic Features Pack."
• gamedeal user

  Oct 25, 2017

  DO NOT BUY THIS DLC, the only good part it had was nerfed into worthlessness years ago. Retinues used to be the reason to get this DLC, but now retinues totally suck and you can't have enough of them for it to even matter... This was done AFTER i had paid for the content. I paid for retinues that were good, they took my money, and then changed the DLC to make it so retinues are worthless. Totally ripped off, what a scummy thing to do.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 17, 2017

  TL;DR: Paradox is like a merchant that sells you the box of a puzzle containing only the 4 corner pieces, and then procedes to tell you that if you want to see the rest of the puzzle, you need to pay individually for each one. In exchange, they promise you to work hard each week for a new puzzle piece, ensuring you they are hard to create and time-consuming. Each week, you pay the price for the new piece. At first, you are excited to see how they fit and what will it look like. Then some weeks pass and you start feeling like this wasn't such a thrill after all, playing with an incomplete puzzle. By the time you don't enjoy the game anymore, you're already hooked and can't stop paying the price of each piece until you can finally have all of it, all under the promise that it will get better once it's complete. By the time the final pieces start arriving, you've already assembled the puzzle multiple times with the pieces you had. It's at this point you realize this felt very much like a scam and feel extremely stupid for trusting someone that sells you a game in pieces. Let me put you in my personal perspective about Paradox's marketing ways: Mount and Blade: Warband, a game created by Taleworlds on a very poor engine and featuring a very poor campaign in it's release state, is nothing more than a base for the community to use it to create the best thing imaginable within the boundaries of what the engine lets them create. Taleworlds, being a tiny studio with a mediocre budget, successfully ensured that the core mechanics of every M&B worked as best as possible and that the game was ridden of bugs to ensure that not only multiplayer worked but also that content-creators would perfect the game by letting the community decide what was the best direction for it. There's only so much a dev can do to a game before it becomes too expensive to create, thus reflecting it in the final price. This in turn results in rising developers creating projects for their portfolio to help them in their future careers. [Grand Strategy game name placeholder], created by Paradox, is a game made on an engine that, after 4 years of development, still struggles to accept/run mods, can't run multiplayer without crashing or desynching constantly from other players (and don't even think on mp rounds using mods), until last year still lagged a lot when played at full speed and was prone to crashes. It took almost a year for it to even have decent loading times on an HDD. Paradox believes that they should be the only ones to decide what direction to take in a mostly-singleplayer game, and their unwanted/unexpected changes come to a heavy cost to your wallet. Paradox is a company that releases a game in a state that could easily be called "alpha" due to the lack of any noteworthy mechanics, and charges the player base every 6 months which is when a major patch is released, all while hiding behind a mask of underfunded, indie devs who need their fans' support to keep developing the game. They lie straight to your face by claiming these are "expansion packs", ignore your suggestions and delete your complaints on the forums, ruin every mod that is ever developed by constantly changing the version of the game and ultimately dismiss you as a customer. They won't even let you roll back to a previous version of the game because they released an extremely useful/required mechanic contained in their newest expansion pack, instead of within the patch that contains a bug/balance-fix, to play the game the way it was meant to be played from the start. In resume: don't buy from those that promise fullfillment at the end of an expensive road. Buy from those that give you that fulfillment since the beginning, or let YOU tune their product to reach that fulfillment.