I would just like to give some feedback for this mod, in case the developer ever comes back and decides to update it. I really do like this mod, but it does have some drawbacks.
I'm playing my second campaign with this mod now, and this time I have been playing with fog of war off just to check and make sure whether KoJ would appear - and they did not appear at all. Now, this may be a result of having the march hotfix for the RR/RC compilation, or it may not. But it does lead to the rather unfortunate circumstance that Egypt has it extremely easy.
And that sort of thing can result in:
You may notice I am in a bit of an odd position for Kiev, but that's because the first thing I did was to move my empire northwest and to make Turku my new capital. But that's beside the point. The point is that Egypt is already heading for a solid win this early in the game. A cunning alliance with the Kwaz. empire saw to it that the Turks were sandwiched quite early already, and the Roman empire lost all its possessions in Turkey quite quickly already too.
Now, these sort of things can happen, of course, but it is made rather a lot easier by the fact that there is no KoJ to hold up Egypt for a bit. Even in vanilla Stainless Steel I've always felt Egypt was rather ridiculously strong compared to the other factions, and without KoJ they seem to really be able to steamroll their way to victory. So I would suggest that if the developer plans to return to this mod, he might want to adress this issue.
Then another thing I've noticed; for some reason the AI has a really, really hard time developing its towns. I've barely seen any of the AI factions even build so much as a stone wall, even when it comes to their capital cities. I'm not sure why that is; it might not be able to cope with the new population requirements or perhaps it is something else. But it is a rather large flaw.
Despite these flaws though, I have to say I really do enjoy the slower pace. I do actually enjoy that certain factions just get more of a chance (like the Kwaz. empire, which usually only enjoys a short sunrise, and then gets gobbled up quite quickly by the mongols). So I really do hope the developer of this mod returns to iron out the flaws, and it would really be the perfect mod for me.