Takes a long time to get Norse up and running, not too long mind you, just a lot longer than before due to BFC coming so late. Almost makes it mandatory to get amber online ASAP for SoU .. it may be cheap but Norse power-houseness hits around the time the UHVs are done so double build speed is required.
Not a problem for the continentals as the pope is doing a heck of a job spreading his propaganda, very late to Scandinavia though and I end up having to do it myself from Ireland or *shudder* Palermo.
Also, the late expiration of the pagan shrine allows anyone to build SoU. It was practically hardwired to Norse before and almost always required getting an indy city with the shrine intact, is it possible to remove it as option if not in fact pagan?
France is almost too easy now, twin axes handle all flatland cities and sergeants all the hill cities. Placed my last two German cities (Augsburg was razed by barbs) in 808, had all of France settled plus two cities in England - just because

Dipped below -10 stability but once courts, manors and the feudals came around it evened out nicely.
FRA seems to have the UP from RFC as other civs are very pleased with them, I can get 4-500G every semi-regularly (~30) turns or so just by asking around .. could you check to see if something is amiss there?
Three times while playing I saw the "Do you want to take over the Spanish" immediately followed by "The Spanish has been destroyed" .. has Cordoba been doped up or something
