However, caring for their children is also important for noblemen – after a respected landowner dies, you will continue to play for one of his offspring, and if the little brat is badly brought up, you should expect problems. They have corresponding problems: while a mere man from the street is worried that his children have nothing to eat, lord thinks how to seize more land, which of the applicants for the royal throne to support and what religion to accept. Only instead of ordinary people, the player controls dukes, kings, and if you’re lucky, emperors.
Despite being classified as strategy, Crusader Kings has always been something akin to Sims in the Middle Ages.
