Really...i find the franchise lacking ...but one friend was playing and invited me to play so i begun with england lost the game sadly and then I've started again this time with Scotland(it was vanilla version)...and thus my addiction begun untill one frightfull March day when after slaughtering the last remaining faction in Teutonic Campaigne i sat down and contamplated...from that day on I haven't played the game, deleted it form my hard drive, and sent the copies to the bottom of the sea(a closet in my home town just in case i want another go )

The game is awesome ..really entertaining but really played with all faction, finished the game with all factions(except those that can't be played unless moded), played mods LTC, SS...the only one i havn't played is BC I've started a game but soon after got bored and the new Kingdoms appeared .

My word of advice...play it with moderation...it really gets addictive.