I don’t understand the appeal of tons of new royal houses. There are already 9 of them that fully cover every corner of an already overdone Europe while Asia and Africa have to be content with Sufi and Jesuits on every second map. Every request for them are just lists of houses without any further detail (other than Stuart, but that Scottish stuff would be better as a revolution). It seems like they were running out of ideas with just the ones we have because half the units are just standard units with a royal prefix. I’d rather they fix the royal houses before adding new ones.
I’ll be disappointed if this expansion doesn’t at least include Iceland and Greenland. Given the Scandinavian presence in the arctic, they could justify adding a few more maps there and including an Inuit minor civ.
I’d also be happy with historical battles in lieu of a bunch of maps.