Medieval: Total War 2002

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Creative Assembly's 2002 turn based strategy and real time tactics game for Windows, the second Total War, set in the Middle Ages. You build a dynastic empire across medieval Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from 1087 to 1453, with warfare, religion and politics leading toward conquest of the known world. It has a turn based campaign map where you move armies across provinces and handle agents, diplomacy and religion, and a real time battlefield where you direct the land battles and sieges. The map is divided among twenty factions of the period, twelve of them playable, and others, such as the Golden Horde, emerge at their historical time but are not available to you. Each reign still has a place in a bigger story, since the campaign follows history and factions arrive on schedule.