
New Armor Designs: New historical armor designs from across the centuries, integrated with the new Tournament and Accolade systems.Knightly Accolades: Honor your best knights with special titles and accolades that will give bonuses to them and the armies they lead.Ease your way with a large entourage that marks your importance or travel light so you can get down to business.
Travel System: Plan your route to these great activities, choosing safety through civilized lands or risking everything for a more direct route through dark forests or dangerous mountains. Honor your in-laws, cater to your vassals and demonstrate your power. Grand Weddings: Save your gold for an elaborate ceremony that centers on the real meaning of marriage – politics. Grand Tours: Take a trip through your realm to take stock of your vassals, gifting them with your benevolence or extorting them for higher taxes. Choose the events, set the destination and use the tournament to improve your social standing or military prowess. Grand Tournaments: Host a grand demonstration of feats of arms, attracting nearby nobles and wandering knights. Not to mention the perils of leaving an ambitious regent at home to rule in your stead while you see the world." Whether it is becoming master of the arena at a tournament, impressing your vassals with an extravagant royal wedding, or personally touring your realm on a grand tour, all of these activities could have world-changing consequences. Gather information for blackmailing purposes or call in favors whenever your plans need an extra bit of influence."In Tours and Tournaments, your character will be able to change the course of history through grand activities. Seduce other characters for love or political power. Recruit agents to assist your schemes to undermine or murder anyone who stands between you and power. Use your spymaster to discover plots against your dynasty and your rule. Supplement your income with ransomed prisoners or raiding parties on neighboring realms. Hire mercenaries and Holy Orders for your major wars. Research new technologies to increase the wealth and military might of your realm. Recruit men-at-arms units and powerful knights to supplement your royal levies. Violent characters may develop a fearsome reputation, cowering your timid subjects into obedience with the dread you inspire. But what do you do if the legal heir is not quite up to the job? experience the drama and pageantry of the Middle Ages!Īdopt one of five different lifestyles, perfecting your skills in military strategy or kingdom management.Īcquire character traits that will guide your actions, but beware if you act against your nature! The stress from denying your truest self could bring a new host of troubles!Ĭhoose appropriate guardians for your heirs, or train them yourself. Knights, peasant revolts, pilgrimages, Viking raiders. Gather new lands and titles to cement your legacy.īe a pious king to bring the religious powers to your side, or strike out on your own, designing your own splinter religion and earning everlasting fame or eternal damnation. Guide a dynasty through the centuries, ensuring the security and power of each new generation.
Arrange marriages, champion the faith and establish new empires in this modern classic - unlike any other strategy game you’ve ever played on console.Ĭhoose a royal or noble house from a number of realms on a map that stretches from Iceland to India, from the Arctic Circle to Central Africa. Play a master of the battlefield, conquering your enemies, or play a subtle seeker of secrets, using plots and poison to advance your agenda - all in the same game. As one ruler dies, they are replaced by an heir who may have very different abilities or interests, forcing you to adjust your long term plans. Finally on console, you can live the life of a medieval ruler in Paradox Development Studio’s award winning strategy role-playing game, Crusader Kings III! Assume the leadership of a medieval noble family, increasing its power and reputation through the generations.