Everyone else is, including the Count of Zaragoza that you forgot had a claim for your Duchy of Leon that he inherited when you left his loving father die in your dungeons for treason.
It set the bar so high that I personally risk it will probably be many years before any other grand strategy game focused on expansion can reach this depth.Īt the center of this tremendous effort to present players with a game of internal and external politics is intrigue. It becomes obvious very quickly to anyone playing it, that Paradox went to great lengths to produce the deepest and most engaging set of rules for diplomatic gameplay in any strategy game to date. Not to say that combat comes as a second thought to the player strategy to secure their bloodline through the 400 years of gameplay, but combat is just one of the ways the player has to achieve their goals and likely not the one where they will be spending most of their time playing around.
The focus resides on diplomacy and politics. Combat and conquest is a secondary element to the game.
