The time for your trade empire to flourish has come. Today Patricians can finally rise to power in The Republic, the third expansion to Paradox Interactive's much praised Crusader Kings II.
(...) play as a Patrician in one of the great medieval Merchant Republics. Expand your trade empire as you compete with the other Patrician families for the coveted position of Doge and the leadership of the Republic.
A recap of the main features:
• Experience a new and different type of game by playing as one of the great Merchant republics of Venice, Genoa, Pisa, the Hanseatic League or Gotland.
• As the head of a Patrician family, you must guide your Republican dynasty through fortune and misfortune in a world dominated by kings and emperors.
• Build Trade Posts and expand your Mercantile empire by controlling the sea lanes and coasts of Europe... and defend it against rival Patricians, Republics and greedy feudal lords.
• Improve your Trade Posts and your prestigious Family Palace with dozens of unique new buildings.
• Compete in the Doge elections, compensating for lack of age and Prestige by investing money in your campaign fund. May the richest man win!
• Survive feuds with other Patrician families and plot to seize Trade Posts from your rivals; new Plot and many special events for characters in the Republics.
• New Republican skin for the interface.
• Unique Clothes and ship models for Republics.
The base game was patched to version 1.09 introducing a number of enhancements and fixes as per the respective change log.
You'll be happy to find too, Sire, that the expansion can currently be purchased from a number of reputed digital retail outlets for not much coin.
