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That's the engine which powers Total War. Or, if you're more a strategic player, you press 'auto-resolve' for the battles and get back to working out which Duke is best to be your Chancellor this year.

The other half is where the units are generated: a Civilization-style turn-based wargame where you gather armies, research new stuff, play with taxes, engage in diplomacy, or set everything to 'auto-govern' and click next turn a lot. It's for game balance reasons, apparently. My favourite historical error is that they've put Glasgow on the west coast of Scotland. Morale also comes into it, with a strike which makes the opposition lose its nerve (a flank charge, for example) being enough to cause troops to turn tail and run. As such, considerations like terrain and positioning come significantly into play. You don't build on the field of battle, you just have an army which has to fight it out. So battles are fought between armies of up to twenty units, each one consisting of over a hundred men.

The idea is a sort of streamlined credibility while it tweaks a lot of the historical details for the purposes of a real-time strategy game, it's also a lot more like a wargame than almost anything in the mainstream.

Empire is the fourth period (and fifth game) to be explored by Creative Assembly in a Total War format, after Japanese Shogunate wars, Medieval (twice) and Rome. It's also quite a lot of game, full of so many individual bits and pieces that a little top-level over-view will probably profit us. Empire not only captures the glamour of shiny buttons and musket-shot - it convinces me that there is glamour in shiny buttons and musket-shot. As such, Empire has me excited about a period of military history I wouldn't normally give a damn about, reaching for the meagre reference points I have to process it: from Sharpe to War and Peace, whether it's in the right period or not (and it's usually not). It was appropriate that Rome: Total War was used as part of the BBC's Time Commanders TV series - Total War is simultaneously dignified history and entry-level pop. The Total War games have always bridged the world of hardcore wargames and the PC mass-market. The biggest anachronism? At the moments when the cannons were going off and the thin red line was being turned into thick red paste, I found myself humming the 1812 Overture.

Empire total war pirates of the caribbean mod