Bought The Old Gods and played with all the different pagan religions, so far I’m loving it! Lots of balance issues, but with all the stuff they’ve added I’m not surprised.
The 867 start is far less stable than 1066 so don’t expect history to play out as It should. In my current game, 50 or so years in, Lithuania (Me) now dominates most of Russia, the Frankish empire now includes France and most of Italy and Germany, Hungary is a single county kingdom that is about to be conquered by a Polish Slavic pagan duke, and England is a patchwork of several different Norse rulers. I also have 10 military, 10 economy, and 9 culture tech in my capital, I started with 0.
If you are okay with all the crazy, I’d say this expansion is definitely worth it. If you’re not, the patch adds a ton of new stuff to the game for free.
