StrengthsRemoving the vassal raised levy opinion malus makes it a lot easier for you to wage war for extended periods of time without hurting your realm stability due to heavy opinion penalties. It only really affects Hellenic, since Hellenic is the only pagan religion that needs to create its own warrior lodge anyways. The warrior lodge thing isn't really a weakness, by the way. However, this is something you can take advantage of if you also go for the Infidel Tax doctrine, since it would mean that you would always have a +25% tax rate on infidel provinces. The AI not converting their provinces can definitely be a weakness if you want to stamp out heresies and infidels for better taxes and levies, since you would have to handle all the proselytizing yourself. You would have to really take advantage of the prosperity Peaceful brings to improve your provinces to make up for the lost income. Having a restriction on raiding can really hurt as well, since for pagans, most of the income comes from raiding, due to how poor pagan provinces tend to be.

But not being able to acquire large swaths of land at once with easy CBs means you will have to get creative if you really want to expand, such as acquiring and landing title claimants to foreign kingdoms and pressing their claims.

Peaceful, unlike Jain, at least still allows the county conquest CB, so you will still have some way to wage war. Weaknesses Losing out on the most powerful CBs, the Holy War CB and the Great Holy War CB, will severely restrict your ability to expand, if that is part of your agenda.

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