The economy can be built by building trade routes, farming the land, mining for resources and taxing your population. Once troops are trained, they must be paid, so every unit drains a small amount of money from the treasury.

Troops and agents can be trained from settlements and the number of men trained is removed from the settlement’s population. Buildings can be bought in settlements to gain improve the settlement’s income, growth public order, troop quality and to allow more powerful troops to be trained there. A player will have to manage a number of settlements, similar to Sid Meier’s legendary Civilization series. The campaign will play in a similar fashion to that of Rome: Total War. The campaign requires the conquest of 45 provinces along with specific provinces, usually either Rome, Jerusalem or both. The campaign uses the same 3D map that debuted in Rome: Total War. This adds a remarkable touch of realism to the battlefield along with improved battlefield animations, resulting in men who don’t always try the same combination of blocking, parrying and striking, whatever their opponent may be. This replaces the “clone armies” of previous strategy games such as Rome: Total War, Medieval: Total War or Age of Empires III. Some men have a different breastplates, others have different designs on their shields. If you look closely at this screenshot of Knights, then not only do the units skins look fantastic quality, they are not all the identical. The AI is reported to be a huge step forward from Rome: Total War and the graphics are just fantastic.

The Grand Campaign spans a period of some four hundred and fifty years (1080 – 1530), the most turbulent period of european history, spanning the golden age of chivalry, the crusades, the discovery of gunpowder, the discovery of America, the Rennaisance and the formation of professional armies. In order to complete the campaign, a player must lead armies across the battlefields of Europe to the Holy Land, before crossing the Atlantic to do battle with the Aztec Empire and conquer the New World. Medieval 2: Total War is the latest in the Total War series of strategy games from Crative Assembly, which builds on the success of its predecessors, Rome: Total War, Medieval: Total War and Shogun: Total War. Search Search for: What is Medieval 2: Total War?

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