

Islam had early problems as well - the Sassanids and Alexander's heirs crushed them, and Islam never spread far into the East and never reached the northern steppes. Alexander's realm was far more enduring, and Rome far less capable of crushing its successor states.Ĭhristianity never really took hold in the east, and without events like the council of Nicaea religion is a much more local affair in this world. In this alternate timeline mod a thousand points of divergence, both minor and major, have created a fragmented world of many small kingdoms and dying empires.

The mechanics focus a lot more on characters and their interactions and abilities, than on painting the map with the colours of your empire, and one bad heir can cost your dynasty a lot of the prestige and lands their parents have fought hard to aquire or maintain, while one masterstroke of dynastic marriage could see your family inherit a realm larger than your own. For those not familiar with the base game - Crusader Kings 2 is a dynastic grand strategy game where you pick one ruler and then play through with his heirs until the end of the game, where your score is determined based on the prestige of your dynasty.
