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… it is the Age of Charlemagne. 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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