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About the Game

The Dark Ages might be drawing to a close, but Europe is still in turmoil. Petty lords vie against beleaguered kings who struggle to assert control over their fragmented realms. The Pope calls for a Crusade to protect the Christians in the Holy Land even as he refuses to relinquish control over the investiture of bishops - and their riches. Now is the time for greatness. Expand your demesne and secure the future of your dynasty. Fill your coffers, appoint vassals, root out traitors and heretics, introduce laws and interact with hundreds of nobles, each with their own agenda.
A good lord will always need friends to support him. But beware, as loyal vassals can quickly turn to bitter rivals, and some might not be as reliable as they seem... Stand ready, and increase your prestige until the world whispers your name in awe. Do you have what it takes to become a Crusader King?
Crusader Kings II explores one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy. Medieval Europe is brought to life in this epic game of knights, schemes, and thrones...

Key features:

Start a game at any point between 1066 and 1337 and play until 1453
Pick a Christian lord and make sure his dynasty survives as you play a succession of his descendants through the ages
Gain Prestige for every successive character you play, furthering the glory of your Dynasty
Expand your feudal domain - and keep it from falling apart
Unravel the plots of your courtiers and vassals, each with their own opinions and agendas
Take up the Cross and fight the Moor, the Heathen and the Heretic.
Defend against the onslaught of the Mongol Horde
Struggle with the Pope for control of the bishops
Relive the Middle Ages with up to 32 other players in a competitive multiplayer mode

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Windows

OS: Windows 7
Processor: Intel® Pentium® IV 2.4 GHz or AMD 3500+
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 2 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce 8800 or ATI Radeon® X1900, 512mb graphics memory required.
DirectX®: 9.0c
Sound: Direct X-compatible sound card
Additional: 3-button mouse and keyboard

Mac OS X

OS: Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
Processor: Intel Core Duo Processor (2GHz or better)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 2 GB
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 6750 / NVIDIA GeForce 320 / NVIDIA GeForce
9600 or higher, 1024MB graphics memory required

SteamOS + Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Processor: IntelR PentiumR IV 2.4 GHz or AMD 3500+
Memory: 4 GB
Hard disk space: 2 Gb
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 6750 / NVIDIA GeForce 320 / NVIDIA GeForce
> 9600 or higher, 1024MB graphics memory required.

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The Marriage Game

Marry another character

Full House

Sire five children

Always Bet On Duke

Work your way up from Count to Duke with a single character

Royal Blood

Achieve a score of 10,000

Until Death Do Us Part

Have your spouse assassinated

One is not Amused

As a ruler have a council that is not content.

Crusader

Fulfill the goal of a Crusade

Exalted Among Men

Fulfill the Become Exalted ambition

It's Good to be the King

Work your way up from Count to King with a single character

You Owe Me

Have someone owe you a Favor

Paragon of Virtue

Fulfill the Paragon of Virtue ambition

Pilgrim

Go on a Christian Pilgrimage

Turbulent Priest

Assassinate a vassal bishop that likes the Pope better than you

We’re In Business

Successfully establish a trade route

Typhoid Mary

Contract three symptoms.

Follow Me

Successfully intervene in a youth's development to force one of your own traits onto them.

Stargazer

Build an Observatory

No Solicitors

Go into Seclusion.

Pay to Win

Win a war using Mercenaries.

Hospitable

Build a Hospital.

Not a Tribe

Play as a Tribal Ruler and Reform to Feudalism

Dragon Blood

Achieve a score of 50,000

To Mecca!

Go on a Hajj to Mecca

Keeping it in the Family

Sire a child that has the Inbred trait

Celebrity

Amass more than 15,000 in prestige

New Ways for Old Gods

Reform one of the Pagan religions

A Pope of My Own

Set up an antipope

Mercotransaction

Create a mercenary band and have them bring in money for you.

It's Better to be the Emperor

Work your way up from Count to Emperor with a single character

Divine Blood

Achieve a score of 100,000

Mr. Doge-Elect

As a Patrician, win an election and become Doge

On English Neck a Norman Yoke

Starting in the "High Middle Ages" bookmark as William the Bastard, become the King of England

Merchant Prince

Amass more than 20,000 in wealth

An Honest Mistake

From Seclusion, kick someone out who did not have the plague.

Saint

Amass more than 10,000 in piety

All Three Popes

Play a game where there are two simultaneous antipopes

By the Gods

Gain the Theologian trait

Casanova

Successfully seduce 10 people by targeted seduction with one character

United the Kingdoms

Hold the kingdoms of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland

The Yes Men

Have all members of your council be Loyalists.

Crusader King

Starting in the "High Middle Ages" bookmark, hold the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Dark Lord

Become Grandmaster of any devil-worshiper society.

I Shed Blood of Saxon Men

As a Christian non-Saxon, completely conquer Saxony in a game starting in 769

Bring it On

Win 7 duels with one character

Great Hunter

Kill your prey in the Epic Hunt

Let’s Play

Gain the Hedonist trait through carousing

Res Publica

Play as a Tribal Ruler and Reform to Merchant Republic

Pentarch

As an Orthodox Christian, hold Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem

I'm Sorry, Desiderata

Divorce a Lombard Princess as a Christian

Viking Raider

As a Viking, return home with 1,000 worth of loot

Snipped off to China

Send a Eunuch to the Chinese Emperor.

Russkaya Pravda

As a character with the Russian Culture, hold the Empire of Russia

Aptly Named

Die from the Black Death.

Legacy of Rome

Restore the Roman Empire

I Got Better

Recover from the Black Death.

Holy and Roman

Found the Holy Roman Empire in a game starting in 769

Hard Ruler

Starting in the "High Middle Ages" bookmark as Harald of Norway, become the King of England

Beyond the Indus

As a ruler of non-Indian culture, conquer a King or Emperor title in India

Protector of the Holy Places

Have Rome, Jerusalem, Mecca and Medina within your Realm

I can see its Stripes

Kill a tiger by your own hand

Dream Home

As a Patrician dynasty, build every upgrade for your Family Palace

Off with their heads!

Execute 10 or more prisoners in a single action.

Survivor

Play a game all the way through from 1066 to 1453

Child of the Dragon

Request an Imperial Marriage from China.

Seven Centuries

Play a game all the way through from 769 to 1453

Prester John

As a Catholic, have a border with Miaphysite Abyssinia

Close Call

From Seclusion, kick someone out who had the plague.

Kingdom of David

As a Jew, create the Kingdom of Israel

The Frisian Coast is Long

Be King of Frisia and hold the Atlantic coast from Léon in Brittany to Jylland

Scarrrrrred for Life

Become One-Eyed, One-Legged and One-Handed.

Persistent Survivor

Play a game all the way through from 867 to 1453

Black Widow

As a woman, have three different husbands killed

And Stay Out!

Throw the Aztec invaders back into the sea

The Outside Bet

Starting in the "High Middle Ages" bookmark as Svend II of Denmark, become the King of England

Trade Empire

Your Republic maintains trade posts in 80 provinces

The One Who Brings Benefit

As a Zoroastrian, become the prophesied Saoshyant

There Can Be Only One

Become immortal.

Wise Guy

Gain the Legendary Wisdom modifier

Dwarf Fortress

Have seven courtiers with the Dwarf trait

S.P.Q.R.

As the Roman Empire, reclaim the old imperial borders

Empressive

Play as three consecutive generations of empresses

Little Brother Rules!

Become Emperor of Francia as Carloman, brother of Charlemagne

Decadent Warrior

As a Muslim, crush a Decadence revolt

A Curious Trinket

Send an invaluable artifact (Quality: 4 or 5) to the Emperor of China.

Mudslinger

Successfully slander 20 people with one character

Saint Thomas's Dream

Rule an Indian Kingdom or Empire as a Christian and convert all its provinces

Holy Smoke

Sacrifice another religion's head as a Norse or Aztec pagan

My Very Own Subcontinent

Become Samrat Chakravartin

From Servant to Saint

Have a character you used to play be proclaimed a saint and have their Saintly Bloodline running in your veins.

I am the Law

As a vassal use a favor to change a law.

Family Bliss

Have 6 close family members as friends

Zero to Hero

Found a Legendary Bloodline while part of a Warrior Lodge.

Looking East and West

Be Emperor of both Persia and Rajastan

Saxons Everywhere, Unite!

As an Anglo-Saxon or Saxon ruler, be king of both Saxony and England

The Caliphate Strikes Back

Starting in the "High Middle Ages" bookmark as the Abbasid Caliph, become independent and hold an empire title

Birthright

As the Anti-Christ/spawn of Satan, become Grandmaster of the Satanists.

Over Your Dead Body

As a Tribal ruler, gain a title you have a claim on by duelling the holder.

I Do Not Play Chess

Have 100 kills in your Kill List.

Peace in Our Time

Enforce peace for 6 or more vassals.

Empire of the Sun

Rule as Emperor with the Reformed Zun Faith

Khan of Khans

Conquer continental Western Europe as the Mongol Empire, starting in "Age of the Mongols" bookmark

Iron Crown

Hold any Emperor or King title as a Lombard after 1300

What Schism?

Convert both Rome and Constantinople to the same (Indian) religion

Run With the Wolf

Play as a character with Wolf's Blood.

Great Indian Sultanate

Rule the Empire of Rajastan and convert all its provinces to Islam

Kali Maaa

Sacrifice a King or Emperor tier character to Kali

Viking Ummah

Have a capital province with Norse culture and Muslim religion

The British Raj

Rule the Empire of Britannia as a Hindu, Buddhist or Jain character

Medieval Schlieffen

Be simultaneously at war with the Aztecs and the Mongols

Red Sea Resort

Convert Mecca to Hinduism, Buddhism or Jainism

The Black Bishop

Fund an immoral bishop and get him elected Pope

One Arrow Alone can be Easily Broken but Many Arrows are Indestructible

As a steppe horde, have a population of 150 000.

Pax Mongolica

Build 3 fully upgraded silk road trade posts.

Jihad Sultan

As a Muslim King or higher, become Grandmaster of the Assassins.

Bless my Reign down in Africa

As a King or Emperor, have one of your domain Counties under the influence of a successful Rain Dance.

Let's go out into the Field

Defeat a sibling in a war using the rival casus belli.

Got Land

Start as the holder of Gotland and form the empire of Scandinavia.

Not So Bad

Survive the End Times.

Eternity Denied

Kill a character with the Immortal trait.

Prodigious Five

Have at least one child with each of the five level four education traits.

Go West Young Mongol

As a steppe horde, have an independent tributary King or Emperor in the British Isles

"Never start a Land War in Asia"

Start in Western Europe and completely conquer the region of Mongolia.

Papal Mache

Have elephants trample the Pope/Caliph.

Sword to Ploughshare

Settle a steppe mercenary with more than 20 martial in your lands.

Steppe by Steppe

As a steppe horde, conquer the whole steppe region.

Nobody's Business but the Turks

Conquer Constantinople as a Turkic steppe horde.

Norse-East

As a Norse character, become King of Mongolia.

The Good Old Days

Have the kingdom of Frisia as your primary title and have the duchies of Flanders and Brabant be dejure part of it.

Black Pope

Have a priest you corrupted (as a Satanist) become Pope.

Unwelcome Visitors

As an assassin, assassinate a Crusader King in the Holy land.

Shadow Prince

Sit on the council and have every other council member as well as the ruler owing you a favor.

By Jupiter!

Reform the Hellenic faith.

Love is a Battlefield

Find love after a duel.

From the Ashes

Starting in a Shattered World, rule an Empire.

Venetian Guile

Win a Crusade targeting Byzantium.

Bön Appétit!

Eat a character of the Bön religion.

Sakya Trizin

Starting as the Count of Sakya in 1066, rule as an independent Buddhist King or Emperor and control all Buddhist Holy Sites.

White Hun

Starting as the last remnant of the White Huns (the Count of Mohadavasaka in 769) restore the borders of the Hephthalite Empire.

Who Needs Vasco da Gama?

Own all the silk route ports in india as a European merchant republic.

A Servant No More

As Mu’nis al-Muzaffar of Galilee in 867, become an Emperor and have at least 100 realm size.

Rise of Civilization

In a Shattered World with ‘Holding Types’ set to ‘Tribal’ or ‘Tribal & Nomadic’, adopt Feudalism or Republicanism.

Bloody Line

As a religion worshipping Bloodthirsty Gods, sacrifice enough people to found a Bloodline.

Pagan Fury

As a ruler with any Pagan religion, win a Christian Crusade targeting you.

Headhunter

Found a Bloodline as a particularly cunning, ruthless and skilled Duelist.

What Could Have Been

Start a Random World with all possible settings set to ‘Random’ and play for 200 years.

Not so Great

Starting in a Shattered World, defeat a Great Conqueror in a war.

Under the Power of the Eternal Heaven

As a member of the Ashina clan, solidify your divinity by ruling as Religious Head of the Reformed Tengri religion.

Lech, Czech, and Rus

Unite the Kingdoms of the three brothers, Lech, Czech and Rus, into one Slavic Union.

Heathenous Ways

Starting as Erik the Heathen in 1066, rule the Kingdom of Sweden with the reformed Germanic Faith.

L'Eglise, c'est Moi!

As an Emperor, grab the crown out of the Pope's hands and crown yourself.

History is in my Blood

Have 5 Historical Bloodlines on your character.

Deus Vult

Create the Empire of the Outremer.

Lord of the Flies

Start a Random World as a 0 year old Count, with the maximum character age set to 0, become King or Emperor within 16 years.

The Horde

The Duel

The Voyage

The Battle

The Runestone

The Khan

The Sunset Invasion

The Feast

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December 7, 2020

free to play on Steam since October 2019