Plus, the devs say that their merchant republics DLC already has features which "carry a fair amount of risk" Image credit: Paradox Interactive Naval warfare won't be coming to Crusader Kings 3 with the big merchant republics expansion Paradox are set to roll out towards the end of this year. The studio say that they want to make sure they do sea battles justice, and so didn't want to shoehorn them into a DLC which already comes with "a fair amount of risk", while also blowing up their planned development timeline. They've said as much at the end of a deep dive into the Silk and Silver expansion , the second of two major add-ons announced as part of the medieval strategy game 's fifth chapter of DLC earlier this week. "Since this will be a topic both asked about and discussed, if we do not bring it up ourselves, I will rip off this band-aid sooner rather than later," a Silk and Silver game designer going by the handle Snow Crystal wrote. "There will be no naval warfare or naval battles in this DLC.…