Is Kingdoms worth buying?

[zor]

I already have m2tw vanilla. Does Kingdoms offer anything new or better in terms of the original grand campaign? Do you think there's a chance they'll release a 2nd expansion?

And would I have to uninstall m2tw (since it's already patched to 1.03) before installing Kingdoms?

Thanks in advance.

[cassu]

Kingdoms offer smaller campagins then vanilla:the americas, crusades. britannia, teutonic. If you dont like to have these kind of smaller campagins you can get stainless steel that gives you the whole map and the new factions.

You dont need to uninstall m2tw before installing kingdoms and it patches to 1.3 if you haven't already patched

I think Kingdoms is worth it whatever these securom whiners say

[WarMachine187]

Yeh,kingdoms is worth it.Theres more factions and stuff and little more direction.Its a big step up from the alexander expansion.Which would get a little boring after beating it the first time.This expansion,however has alot to offer.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Kingdoms is definetely worth getting, the campaigns are a lot more immersive, and some of the most annoying bugs eg pikes not working are now sorted.

[PBI]

As expansions go Kingdoms is well worth the money, with its four new campaigns, and with a lot of the more annoying bugs fixed in the latest patch (though I wasn't aware they had fixed the pike bug Caledonian, was this in the patch?). The only concern for me is over the Securom issue, but I must say that I haven't had any problems caused by it; I think it's supposed to conflict with certain programs somehow, but not apparently any programs I have. The principle of the thing (Securom installs un-deletable files on your computer without your consent) is rather galling, but not enough so that I am likely to refuse to buy any CA games. But it's probably worth reading up on to make sure you don't have anything which will make Securom grumpy before you buy.

I should point out the current version of SS (6.1 I think) with the Kingdoms factions added requires Kingdoms to play; there is an older version which runs without Kingdoms but I don't think it has the Kingdoms factions in it. If you want a good mod which will run without Kingdoms I would highly recommend Broken Crescent; it has a new campaign map centered on the Middle East and has a very different feel to vanilla in terms of the factions and unit balance, so I would suggest it if you are bored with the grand campaign.

As far as I am aware there are no plans to release a second expansion, the next CA release will be Empires in November. But Kingdoms feels like four expansions, there is easily enough in it to keep you busy until then.

[Must`]

It is definitively worth buying, it's like 4 games in price of one, one of the best expansion for any game ever. Every campaign has something unique and all of them are interesting on their way.

[G^2]

As PBI and everyone stated, Kingdoms is a great expansion. I honestly didn't like the vanilla Grand Campaign very much because there was too much going on and it wasn't very historical. However, with Kingdoms, you can really immerse yourself in the time period and conflict. I played the kingdoms campaigns more than the Grand Campaign. Also, SS 6.1 is a great mod, that you need kingdoms for, that in itself is reason enough to get it.

As for Secu Rom, I personally never had a problem. I don't know what it effects or how it works (other than its anti-pirating software) but I figure I pick up stuff off the internet all the time which has to be worse than Secu Rom. Many other Org. members have Kingdoms and I haven't heard any complaints about Secu Rom affecting anyone's computer.