I considered this , but i actually have more super kills then melee kills 9 % vs 7 %. I have only ever ran bladedancer dont even have the others leveled up , so one would expect that if bladedancer did count toward melee I would have more melee blade dancer blink strike then super kills alone . <| sep |> That ' s Matthew Stafford . The Lions Quarterback . He has a knack for 4 th quarter comebacks . <| sep |> Well it introduced the council , which may have more or less power . Which I think is a nice addition no matter if you are playing as vassal or as independent ruler , because it makes internal politics a bit harder , making uprisings against an absolute rule more usual , generating the choice for you to have a stable but maybe more weak realm or an unstable but very strong realm . without conclave you have always the last one making the game very easy if your neighbors are no match for you . Also , I like that the education is a bit more random . Many players here dont like these things because they say they are just to random . I don ' t feel that way , I think without is just to easy because your perfect calculated heir will never have trouble from within the empire . And randomness is the whole base of this game . that being said , there are some downsides , making this review mixed , too also looking on features of the free patch now initially the were no laws to stop vassals from fighting against each other fixed now , thank Ahura Mazda defensive pacts work a bit weird , and a larger expanding realm will nearly have 100 % threat all the time , as nearly nothing lowers it and you get 15 % per holy war . also norway helping out ghana is just silly . sometimes the council is just meh you ' ll have guys with 100 opinion of you being malcontent voting always against you the worst point AI empires will often have rebellions to raise the power of the council you ' ll get this faction , too , everybody lower than 75 joins in . they will win in the most times and after some generations of rules there will be a ton of realms with elective monarchy and a fully enforced council making that realm sooooo stable that it will never break apart eu 4 like blobbing in the worst case . So all in all my recommendation buy it , if it ' s on sale which it is now , you ' ll have your funhate towards it the first few times you play and then , if you like the game more without it , disable it again . while paradox really likes money the mostly deserve it , too xD .