Imo give them another go.
The standard catholic roster still has plenty of versatility and with Sicily you just never know where you will end up on the map.
Last time I played with them I had ships all over the seas and couldn't resist the tempation to invade into Scotland and Ireland and work my way down.
So eventually I was a Sicilian king with heaps of Clansmen and Gallow-glasses pushing the English out of their comfort zone of their own Isles.
great fun.
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