Europe stands as the heart of monarchy, since the fall of Rome and the establishment of the Kingdoms. The Church determines the fate of all and cries for war upon the Islamic Kingdoms to the east. The year is 1066 and the Duke of Normandy; William (the Conqueor) has been given consent from the Pope to invade England and overthrow the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom. After the victory at Hastings, the Kingdom of England has been born and a new chapter in Medieval Europe has begun. With the Islamic push stopped at the Frankish victory of Tours, the Christian faith now demands retaliation and cries for Muslim blood. With the age of the Crusades now beginning, the world will now watch the world become divided by two religions and the age of Chivarly, Faith, and Conquest has become the objective for any ruler who possess such power and nobility. Despite the church having united Europe to the power of the Pope, rivalries continue to plague Europe with war. Lords use the peasantry as fodder in order to gain both wealth and reputation to become the most powerful ruler Europe shall ever have. Chivarly, Faith, Wealth, Total War...

This is by far my most favorite Total War game ever, with improved graphics, gameplay, animations, and new weaponry when compared with Rome: Total War. Watching Knights clash in shiny armor make every soldier a spectacle on the battlefield, watch as massive armies butcher each other leaving literally mountains of dead. This game has captured the brutality and chaotic atomsphere of medieval combat, especially with the aftermath of a battle as you are left speechless at the sight of a sea of dead stretching all over the battlefield. Remember Braveheart? That first battle scene at Stirling Bridge? That is pretty much what you would witness with each battle, as the game captures a more realistic and brutal spectacle compared with the First Rome Total War. Defineitly a must-buy, especially with the Kingdoms DLC, so worth it. Stretching from the wars of independence that ravaged England, to the Crusades in the Holy Land, to the wars between the Christians and the remnants of the religion of Paganism in the Baltic region, to the jungles of Central America as the New World has been discovered. This game plus the Kingdoms DLC is worth every cent and shall always remain as my favorite Total War game.

ONE OF THE BEST OF THE TOTAL WAR FRANCHISE

-buy game
-start as the empire of hungary
-take rebel settlements in East
-establish large economy
-buy a bunch of mercernaries
-fail to realize mercernaries are killing my economy
-go bankrupt
-retry campaign
-repeat steps 2-4
-Venice now hates me for stealing a rebel settlement
-meet the Holy Roman Empire
-marry my princess to their heir
-meet Poland
-marry Polish princess to my heir
-start upgrading military
-spam croat axeman
-spam bosnian archers
-first crusade called
-fail to join crusade causing pope to hate me
-Venice takes Vienna
-steal Vienna from Venice
-steal Venice from Venice
-Blockade Venice's last port
-Venice begs for mercy
-gives Venice mercy
-start trading with France, Milan and Turks
-pope dies
-elect new pope from sicily
-get my first Feudal knights
-form alliance with turks
-declare war on Byzantines
-get new crossbowmen
-start taking northern byzantine empire
-Turks take south byzantine empire
-Byzantines are ded
-I AM THE GREATEST LEADER THAT EVER LIVED
-new threat in the east
-NAW can't be too bad
-Mongol invasion
-see five full mongol stacks take a Russian city
-♥♥♥♥!
-start fortifying eastern border
-bring all the troops
-bring my king for morale support
-try bribing the mongols to leave me alone
-Mongols happily accept, then attack
-Mongols take Iasi wiping a full stack
-Mongols attack my three full stacks at Bran
-Mongols kill my king in the battle but they lose
-Well, looks like the worst has blown over...phew
-WRONG
-another full stack of Mongols shows up and takes Bran due to tactical incompetence on my part
-most of my army is ded
-being positively ♥♥♥♥ED in the east I build more troops
-Poland dies
-in a desperate attempt of survival I begin to expand westward
-reluctantly declare war on holy roman empire
-get excommunicated by church
-Milan attacks
-start making guys with guns
-#rekt Milanese army
-steal some territories
-steal more territories
-♥♥♥♥ around
-Mongols begin following me
-Mongols conquer Budapest
-I start to conquer central Europe
-become overly dependent on Mercernaries again
-start losing money
-become roaming blood thirsty conquerors
-France and Holy Roman empire form an alliance
-begin last desperate push
-combine French/German forces defeat last of my armies
-Other people march on my territory
-economy is almost gone due to mercernary abuse
-Fall back to Italian holdings
-lose two more cities
-beg for mercy
-begging accepted
-pope reconciles me
-but now we have to worry about Mongols
-can't expand anymore
-offer to assist HRE, France an Papal states againt Mongols
-maybe one day the lands of old will once again belong to the sons of Hungary
-take a break from campaign
-forget about campaign
-rediscover it two weeks later
-decide I'm to poor to keep playing on that campaign
-now Hungary is a disgraced, scarred and fractured empire
-Hungarians are now known as simply two-time losers
-and I wouldn't have changed a thing

11/10 would watch my empire crumble before my very eyes again!

NON NOBIS DOMINE!
AVE MARIA!
DEUS LO VULT!

(i highly recommed the third age total war mod btw)

i have all of total wars and this is by far the best i have played

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Easily once of the best Total War games ever! While the only real innovation from Rome Total War is the graphics, the game is very addictive, the music is B.A., and requires actual strategy in the campaign and battles. Overall, BUY THIS GAME!

if this game was a potato.. it would be a dusty good potato

This is by far one of the greatest Total War games out there. I loved playing this back in the day and love it still today. The custom battles are great. The campaign is huge and extremely fun complex, making really think about each thing you do on each turn. One wrong move and you can screw yourself over. I learned that the hard way. Overall, this game is fantastic. 10/10

Now let me tell you, I am a great builder, the best in the buisness, I'm great. But you know what's not great? Our country. We don't win anymore. We used to have clear victories, but we don't have them anymore. Our country's in serious trouble. I mean, when do we beat France in war? In an even battle, they kill us. When do we beat Scotland at the border? They're laughing at us, at our stupidity. We invite people from all over the world, including Syria, and we have no idea of who these people are. They are spies, they are sneaky diplomats, they are naffatunes, and some, I assume are good people. But we need a total and complete shutdown of Muslim immigration to England. We also need to build a great wall between as and Scotland, and it will be a beautiful door with a big fat door where people can come in LEGALLY. Islam hates us, they really do. They exterminate and sack our villages, and I'll be sure to protect the Papist community from them. The pope questions my faith sometimes, but it's a disgrace to do so. I sent 4 cardinals into Ireland, I really did, and I built a great cathedral in York. Soon the Moors will declare a jihad on London at this rate. Anyways, when do we beat Venice at trade? They get 40 florins per turn on a resource, and we get 10! Let me tell you, if you crown me king, I'll bring back Blood Eagle and I'll bring back a hell of a lot worse. It'd be a pretty picture to see the Polish Queen on her knees. She's hot, just like my daughter, the future princess Ivanka. If she wasn't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her. Our country is weak! Our military is like number 20 on the turn report. At least that's what the experts tell me. I get a lot of pro players, they're calling me, they're saying "king, you're gonna do something that's gonna be so tough". And it's true. That's why I am officially running to be monarch of England, and we're gonna make our country rich again, we're gonna make it strong again, we're gonna take care of our knights, and it will all be great. Oh and I'll bombard the ♥♥♥♥ out of the Turkroaches with my trebuchets!
t. Donald John Trump