Reviews by dorugradinaru

I bought chapter 3 in full advance last year and Roads to Power, among the rest of the chapter, definitely delivered, so, naturally, I'm here do do it again.

Great Byzantium rework. As a huge Byzantium fanboy, this is all i ever wanted from it. Cant speak for other nations, cant get myself to play anything other then Romans now :D

If you want to buy all the packs, this pack is for you.

Cool clothes, you get what you pay for.
if you dont need drip, dont buy.

I really liked this DLC. I wouldn't say I loved it, though. The 3 other countries that got a focus tree were kinda mid and didn't really enjoy playing them, but India's Focus tree is A LOT of fun!

The new international market and Military Industrial Organisations massively shake up the game play and add a lot of new options, especially when playing as minor nations.

The new focus trees are fun, in depth, and expansive.

And one of the new infantry models has a pet deer.

An absolutely must have DLC.

Victoria 3 is what could be a very positive experience with some major downsides, some of which are intrinsic to Paradox's model of game release. It does succeed very well at it's main purpose of being a simulation of economics and politics in the Victorian era and those are by far its' best parts, but is dragged down by two problems. One of which is simply, lack of content, the truth is the game has barely any change between the various nations both in gameplay and in flavor. A representative democracy like the USA will play exactly the same as and have exactly the same events and objectives as a expansionist monarchy like Imperial Russia.

The Swiss focus tree is weirdly complicated and confusing. There is a lot of ideology and internal government balancing that you need to do to make little Switzerland do something interesting. For example: to form the Alpine confederation you need to go to the council side and increase your fascism and non-aligned support, but not too much, so that you can annex Austria and then demand land from France and Italy. You go through this huge balancing act just to end up as non-aligned or democratic again, and continue doing the same thing as Switzerland as before: balance out the surrounding great power's opinion of you and be defensive. There is also this very confusing militia system that you often run out of time to do or mess up in some weird way due to the canton-council control and you have to keep flipping back and forth to maintain or abandon the militia system which can lock you out of a bunch of focuses.

Truly a disappointment, so far the flavor packs have been far more welcome additions. This DLC sounded like it would be really fun but in practice it is pretty limited and frankly a lackluster addition. I would far have preferred to get my beloved Merchant Republics back or anything of real substance that adds depth or variety to game play. If you can get it 75% off then it is probably worth it.

Very Innovative to add superevents to regions, opens massive amounts of potential DLC and Modding content. This was a big and risky step to make for Paradox, but the system implemented is very smooth and is very fun in the context of a game end goal. The next struggle added should be a Byzantine Content patch with a Turkic/Islamic Invasion Struggle, but that is just me. Potential for CK3 is crazy with this, hope Paradox realizes how many doors have opened with this new mechanic. I certainly love it, I hope everyone else does too.