The fewer wars you wage the better your people will respond, as frequent and drawn out conflict will rapidly damage morale and your armies’ integrity.Ī shrewd ruler will seek to bring peace quickly and decisively.Įach playable faction has a unique set of challenging ‘Kingdom’ requirements to meet for the dedicated and shrewd player. Wars are significant and dramatic events between kingdoms, and should not be undertaken lightly. The sign of a great true king is in knowing how far your people can be pushed. With over 300 new units, you will have the opportunity to recruit iconic military forces of the period, such as Thegns, Fyrd Axemen, Scola Knights, Berber Jinetes, Gazehounds and the feared Seax-armed Saxon warriors. Influences ranging from illuminated manuscripts and early stained glass work will lend colour and atmosphere to your campaign.Īge of Charlemagne includes a diverse selection of playable factions, each one featuring its own faction traits, unit roster and unique and challenging conditions under which they can be named a ‘kingdom’ in their own right.Įach will be exclusively revealed in the weeks up to release day on stay tuned for details or check back here just before release.Īge of Charlemagne includes all new units to better reflect the advancing warfare of the period, characterised by more heavily armed and armoured infantry and an increasing prevalence of cavalry of all categories, especially the emergence of knights in the Norman style for the first time. The User Interface is now resplendent in a style inspired by the art of the Middle Ages. With 52 conquerable provinces, it provides a detailed and vibrant geopolitical starting position, offering hundreds of hours of potential gameplay. The brand new Age of Charlemagne Campaign map is focussed in on Europe from the year 768AD. Greatness awaits you, if you have the steel and vision of Charlemagne. Opportunity presents itself in tying together vast new kingdoms, powerful new states that can be marshalled under a banner of civilisation drawn from ashes. While the old Empire is now a fading memory, the threats and consequences of its passing echo, resonating in new dangers and pressures for fledgling nations. Europe remains a melting pot of conflicting ideologies and long held distrust. A good king is a shrewd man, who knows precisely how far his people can be pushed.ĭo not mistake a reluctance to go to war as a sign that a nation is unprepared for it.
New technologies and new ways of waging war will only get you so far. You’ll face a new age, but an exhausted world, weary of conflict and battle. There have been kings and kingdoms before, but this is a time where truly great men united entire nations, built lasting legacies and defined what it meant to be a king. Will you make your mark in his image, or will you become your own king?Ī Unique Campaign with New Gameplay MechanicsĪge of Charlemagne is an epic expansion for Total War: ATTILA, set in the Middle Ages on an sprawling new campaign map of Europe. It will take guile, charm, intelligence and ruthlessness to succeed above all others.Ĭharles the Great, King of the Franks, the Father of Europe. The Saxons, the Saracens and the Vikings will all have something to say to a man of such ambition. Charlemagne finds himself at the head of a new age of education, religion and warfare, and sees all as tools to unite, stabilise… and expand. A situation that ill-befits a man of his vision, and their relationship clouds as he feels the fiery blood of his grandfather, Charles Martel, stir in his veins.įriends, enemies and opportunity populate a continent tired of conflict, the people eager for peace. The year is 768AD and, after the death of his father, Charlemagne is to share the Frankish throne alongside his brother. It is the age of a chosen few, an age of greatness, when the first true kings built vast kingdoms from the ashes of past empires. Whatever the cost, and whatever the means. But even after the apocalypse there are men willing to give everything to return to light, to knowledge, to civilisation. The world lays in tatters, exhausted, bleeding, scarred and burnt, the people desperate.
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