Medieval: Total War

Experience the Middle Ages in blood-soaked detail. From the green grasslands of Western Europe to the deserts of Northern Africa, from the First Crusade to the fall of Constantinople, use diplomacy, trade, espionage, and assassination, spread your religion, and wage total war to expand your influence and secure your reign—building a dynastic empire across four centuries. Total War follows on from 2000’s Shogun: Total War. As with Shogun, gameplay is split between a turn-based campaign map—where you make strategic decisions, recruit and move armies, besiege settlements, fight naval battles, and deploy emissaries, spies, and assassins for diplomacy, alliances, and bribes (or more clandestine actions)—and battles. Religion plays a major role: whether a faction is Muslim, Orthodox, or Christian affects allegiances and public loyalty. As a Catholic nation, you must heed the Papal States and join a holy war if necessary or risk excommunication. If public order and loyalty fall too low, rebellion or civil war can break out, and you may choose to support rebels or the current rulers to quell unrest or topple a tyrannous regime.

In Medieval: Total War, you lead a ruling dynasty through four centuries of Middle Ages warfare, from the First Crusade to the fall of Constantinople. Expand across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East through conquest and siege warfare, while also managing diplomacy, trade, espionage, and assassination. Faith and politics drive the campaign as Catholic, Orthodox, and Muslim powers navigate shifting loyalties, Papal demands, and the risk of rebellion or civil war.