So far I have played two games with this mod and I would like to summarize my opinion as an ordinary player:
What I dislike:
1.The tournaments are very-very irritating.In these tournaments, I'm fighting with another hero, not the hero I'm developing.Nothing depends on my hero's skills, armor, or weapons.Mostly, all is about to luck.I can win at level 1 and loose at level 33
2.After the third month I have my own kingdom with one or two cities and several castles, but I have to stop expanding my realm, bacause I don't have vassals. I must develop my 'Persuasion' skill to level 9-10 minimum and rise my relations with other vassals to max.To do this,I loose minimum 1-1,5 years in game with pointless actions and 2-3 days in real life(unnecessarily lost time).But still is not enough! In my last savegame:I have renown=2457,honour=269,right to rule=99. My companion(Lezalit) have 'Persuasion' skill at 8 and more than 10 vassals from the other realms have relations with me at 100(devoted to me) and relations with their kings between 20 and -19.Also they don't have own fiefs, but when I send Lezalit to persuade them nobody wants to join me.I get messages of sort:Your messenger is unconvincing or Blah..blah..the current state of your realm.
Finally I conquered the whole Calradia with only one vassal(Matheld)!
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I consider this as a bug(gamebraking).It's not normal realm with 1 castle to have 20 vassals and in this time my realm with 15 cities to have 1 king and zero vassals!
My point is:To be abble to persuade any vassal from another realm the player have to develop his or its companions 'Persuasion' skill to level 9-10 minimum,which will take 1,5 or 2 years or maybe more.For this time, the player will conquer Calradia twice, and will not need from any vassals at the end = vassals are useless in third phase of the game.I need them in second phase, when establishing my kingdom!!!
P.s.:Solution:Vassals, who do not have fiefs = -10 relations with their kings at every week
What I like:
Everything exept above mentioned!
Question:The ships in game are very interesting,but what to do with them?For what purpose to use them in my game?The cost of one ship is 60 000 ,which means that I can't use them for making a money?Needless 60 000 I would possibly have at the end of the game when I have conquered many cities or if I win from the national lottery.
Despite all my criticism, this is the best mod I have played so far!