

History NowĪs well as covering all manner of important historical events, some leading figures of large-scale slaughter will be present on the battlefield, each with a few personal death-bringing tricks for use on the hapless enemy. All medieval life is here, and they're all power-hungry. There'll 23 playable factions, including the crazy face-painted mugs of the Aztecs and the Native Americans. Compared to Barbarian Invasion and Alexander, Kingdoms contains a trebuchet-load of extra goodness, being primed and ready to fire by The Creative Assembly offices over in Australia. The dusty siege-filled Crusades get a look in, as do the Germanic scraps that were the Teutonic Wars, a military plunge down into the more central bits of the Americas and some barneys on home turf with the Britannia campaign.

BIGGER, BOLDER AND certainly more crowded than any Total War expansion yet, Kingdoms is set to feature not one, but four hugely different campaigns set in heftily different situations, even if the common theme of blood on rusty metal prevails.
