Hope Grumpy don't ban me for this suggestions.

If you don't like it, delete it. I'm not trying to help anyone who don't owns the original game.
With the latest patch (1.03) for Knights of Honor, the "bug" for Daemon-Tools have been fixed, so NOW you can mount your "self-made image" of the CD2 with RMPS.
And for the EXE as a crack, I didn't try it out....I always make a mess with the cracked things and even uninstalling something of Windows.
Prefer a good crack or nothing!

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