Since they're free, they may as well not waste time and work on additional content. While they work, the rest of them is free. In the meantime, coders and programmers do their stuff and they connect all the pieces. When artists finish their stuff, other people translate it into textures and models. Not all members of a development team work all the time. It wasn't 'stripped', but it was most probably made before the release and finished post release. That's how all of their nations came to existance. Slavs lived in peace with the Byzantine Empire most of the time, gaining land in exchange for protectiong Byzantine borders. It covered most of the Balkan peninsula (except Bulgaria and Constantinople). The Kingdom of Serbia at it's peak (around 1350) was the largest of them. Soon after they were defeated by the Ottomans. Most of their squabbles were between themselves and their neighbours (like the Bulgarians). Even so, none of them were very noteworthy untill the late 13th and early 14th century on a grand scale. Slav kingdoms did rise to a position of a 'local major power', but they still weren't comparable to the other nations in terms of wealth and power. Spartacus and Viriathus weren't featured in any RTW either. The Balkan Slavs did cause rebellions here and there, but it was long after Attila and long before Medieval 2. I already mentioned the Russians and the Poles as they are featured in Medieval 2. I agree that they are not that important for this game time period however Svyatoslav conquested the Bolgars and Caucasia, the Republic of Novgorod defeated the teutonic and the swedish, although that happened later. there were the bulgarians and the poles as local powers, slavic armies made several sucessful campaignes against Constantinople. I disagree about the medieval II unimportance. Frankly, they're also unimportant for this time period as well, but since CA decided to add Nordic and Celtic tribes (who were also kinda unimportant in this period), they might as well add the Slavs. Poland also has Slavic origins and their language is understandable to other Slavs, but i do not know how they identify themselves. Russians are covered in Medieval 2 though. Soon after most of those kingdoms were conquered and they ceased to exist for 5 centuries. At the start of Medieval II most of the Slavic kingdoms are way too small and uncomparable to the other avalible factions. They were simply small and unimportant in the time periods covered by the games. Originally posted by 57th Roman Emperor:Not really.

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