Hopefully this game will be just the start, and among the various expansions there will be one that extends the timeline into the latter days of the empire so I can keep both the Roman Republic and the polytheist Roman religion going through the CK2 era, the Eu4 era and if paradox is feeling really daring the Vicky 2 era. I may actually buy vicky 2 simply for that alone if that were to happen. That particular bit of wishful thinking aside, this game is highly welcome news as far as I am concerned.