From The Creative Assembly - Medieval: Total War™ is a game of empire building and epic real time battles set in the European Middle Ages, 1087-1453. This is the period of some 400 years when northern Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East were in a state of constant upheaval as new princely states fought each other. This colourful and vibrant age is the time of Crusaders and Saracens, the Hundred Years War, the Holy Roman Emperors, heresy and inquisitions, the Spanish Reconquista, and of Teutonic Knights and boyars, wild Baltic pagans and the rise of the Turkish Empire and the final fall of Constantinople, the last bastion of the old Roman world. It is a time of intense competition between the kings, princes, bishops and merchants, between religions, new nations and radical ideas - all of which helped make Europe into the cockpit of the world for the next 650 years.
Medieval: Total War™ gives you the chance to experience all of that, in all its blood-soaked magnificence! You can command armies of knights, men-at-arms, archers and peasants and make your people the new masters of Europe. Medieval: Total War adds new levels of depth, accessibility, gameplay and strategy to what has gone before in Shogun: Total War™. The successful game ‘split’ first seen in Shogun: Total War between a turn-based strategy element and a real-time battle system has been kept and enhanced.
From Guide - Medieval Total War is the second game in the Total War series and is set in Europe during the middle ages. With 3 different game modes you have the ability to select one of 12 factions or nations to play in the campaign for European conquest. Battles can include thousands upon thousands of troops across large battle fields.
