King Dave said: I think you're reading too much into it.



Horse Lords will put paid to China. Players are getting carried away about playing as the Mongols, I expect their enthusiasm to wane after playing as them for a short while. Let's face it they expand westward, that's about it. Click to expand...

Why would we shoot the messenger when we can sacrifice him at a Blot instead?I think Horse Lords, besides being a neat expansion unto itself, is kind of a "test case" for the sort of DLC that China would end up being. You have a distinct group with their own unique take on game mechanics, on the edge of the map, with more internal conflicts and tributaries and differently-typed states to subjugate (tribes and feudal and iqta oh my!) and all the interactions that spring from that.If you said, "yeah okay China would probably be like that if it's added" then there we go. If they can make Horse Lords work, that's probably a big point in favor of getting a Chinese expansion.