I bought it and gave it a month of tries. At first I thought I was just a failure at trying to figure the game out but I think thats what they want. That's how the game is played. Always feeling dumb and never succeeding.

During my first play I ended up getting my backside handed to me during my invasion of the caneries

Married a wife several years older than me who only produced one hair, she then proceeded to not divorce me so I ended up failing at killing her and she fled back to her homeland

I then managed to betroth my son to his club footed 2nd cousin cause she was hair to a larger kingdom then mine, didn't check blood relations there

All before marrying a 19 old hottie at the age of 36 before being shot by peasants during a ride out and dying at the age of 37...

And not been able to figure out how to merge fleets so I could actually get my guys on board some bloody ships

I'll try again in a bit...

okay... I'm now officially obsessed with this game.

Its bloody difficult but thats the fun of it.