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Complete your Total War collection with this Definitive Edition of Total War: EMPIRE, which includes all DLC and feature updates since the game’s release:

Take on the Warpath Campaign and lead one of 5 new Native American factions in an epic war to defend your lands and drive out the invaders.

Build up your armies with the Elite Units of the East, Elite Units of the West, Elite Units of America and the Special Forces Units & Bonus Content packs, which together add over 50 elite new units.

Total War: EMPIRE Definitive Edition offers hundreds and hundreds of hours of absorbing gameplay and every bit of content made for the game. See below for full details.

About Total War: EMPIRE
Control the land, command the seas, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.
Total War: EMPIRE takes the Total War franchise to the eighteenth century Age of Enlightenment a time of political upheaval, military advancements, and radical thought, captured in stunning detail.
Total War: EMPIRE introduces a host of revolutionary new features, including true 3D naval combat. For the first time in the Total War series, you will be able to intuitively command single ships or vast fleets upon seascapes rich with extraordinary water and weather effects that play a huge role in your eventual glorious success or ignominious defeat. After pummelling your enemy with cannon fire, close in to grapple their ship and prepare to board, taking control of your men as they fight hand-to-hand on the decks of these wooden behemoths.
In addition, Total War: EMPIRE will see further enhancements to the Total War series’ signature 3D battles and turn-based campaign map. Real-time battles will pose new challenges with the addition of cannon and musket, challenging players to master new formations and tactics as a result of the increasing role of gunpowder within warfare. And the Campaign Map, the heart of Total War introduces a variety of new and upgraded elements, including new systems for Trade, Diplomacy and Espionage with agents; a refined and streamlined UI; improved Advisors; and a vastly extended scope, taking in the riches of India, the turbulence of Europe and, for the first time, the untapped potential of the United States of America.

About The Warpath Campaign
A new detailed North American Campaign Map expands the Total War: EMPIRE experience, with 5 brand new Native American factions, new units and technologies.
Experience battles in the new Warpath Campaign and lead one of the 5 new factions in an epic war to defend your lands and drive out the invaders. Or take these units and their unique strengths into multiplayer battles.
• 5 New Playable Factions including the Iroquois, Huron, Plains, Pueblo and Cherokee nations.
• Expanded North American Territories - A new, more detailed North American Campaign Map featuring new regions and a new start date.
• New Elite Units including Mohawk Elite Warriors, Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, Navajo Scout Warriors and many more.
• Two New Agent Types - Infiltrate enemy territory with the new Shaman unit and sabotage the opposition with the cunning Scout.
• 18 New Tribal Technologies including Spirit Medicine, the Call of the Wild and Dreamwalking creating a brand new tribal technology tree.
• New Winning Objectives for each of the playable factions.

About Elite Units of the East
The Elite Units of the East adds 12 new elite units to the Maratha and Ottoman factions and expands the map further East than any previous Total War game.
Most of these soldiers' expertise developed on the battlefield - some are fearsome brigands, others of them are drawn from a strong academic background, learned warriors.
They will provide a vast array of tactical options: intimidating and cowing your enemies.
• Haydut Irregulars (Ottoman Empire)
• Wallachian Boyars (Ottoman Empire)
• Bosnian Panduks (Ottoman Empire)
• Circassian Armoured Cavalry (Ottoman Empire)
• Armenian Archers (Ottoman Empire)
• Libyan Kuloglu (Ottoman Empire)
• Palestinian Auxiliaries (Ottoman Empire)
• Cairo Janissaries (Ottoman Empire)
• Mounted Nizam-I-Cedit (Ottoman Empire)
• Rajput Zamindars (Maratha)
• Poligars (Maratha)
• Barawardi (Maratha)

About Elite Units of the West
The Elite Units of the West introduces 14 completely unique units from all the major Western factions. Featuring all new infantry and cavalry units, equipped with the best weapons and having undergone the most rigorous of training, the Elite Units of the West bring even more options on the battlefield to all tacticians seeking to defeat their enemies.
• Hungarian Grenadiers (Austria)
• Horse Guards (Britain)
• Swiss Guards (France)
• Blue Guards (United Provinces)
• Gardes du Corps (United Provinces)
• Guard Grenadiers (Poland-Lithuania)
• 2nd Hussars (Prussia)
• Bosniaks (Prussia)
• Frei-Korps (Prussia)
• Gardes à cheval (Russia)
• Siemenovski Foot Guards (Russia)
• Walloon Guards (Spain)
• Legion of the United States (United States)
• US Marines (United States)

About Elite Units of America
The Elite Units of America adds 15 new elite units to the American, British and French factions of Total War: EMPIRE. In the last half of the 18th century, the political upheaval from thirteen of British Colonies in North America ultimately led to the 1776 Declaration of Independence and changed History forever. The 15 units have all played a major part in the American Revolution. Though their background owes a lot to European military traditions, their identity is tied to the destiny of the United States and gave these men courage and audacity like no other soldier on the battlefield.
• 1st Delaware (United States)
• 1st Maryland (United States)
• 2nd Continental Light Dragoons (United States)
• 2nd New York (United States)
• 33rd Foot (Britain)
• Brunswick Dragoons (Britain)
• Hessian Grenadiers (Britain)
• King’s Royal Regiment of New York (Britain)
• Lee’s Legion (United States)
• Morgan’s Provisional Rifle Corp (United States)
• Pulaski’s Legion (United States)
• Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment (France)
• Royal Welch Fusiliers (Britain)
• Company of Select Marksmen/Fraser’s Rangers (Britain)
• Tarleton’s Light Dragoons (Britain)

About Special Forces Units & Bonus Content
The Special Forces Units introduces six of the most influential military forces of the 18th Century. True to the period, these exclusive elite units become available on the campaign map via a certain faction or once a specific geographical region is under control. This pack also includes three more exclusive Elite Units.
• HMS Victory
• Rogers' Rangers
• Ottoman Organ Gun
• Ghoorkas
• Corso Terrestre Guerillas
• Bulkeley's Regiment
• Death's Head Hussars
• The USS Constitution
• The Dahomey Amazons

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Recommended1h playedJul 2026

i have to be mentally challenged idk what im doing

Not recommended310h playedApr 2026

My heart bleeds at first when I see my thumbs down for a Total War game that basically feels good - and looks good. I'm an old RTW+mods and MTW2+mods player (3000hrs), and I like Rome 2, Attila, and Britannia. Troy and Pharao is ok. but... not the topic here. Only now, after more than 15 years, have I decided to give this a chance, alongside Shogun 2 (which is a much better Total War game than Empire). Both eras didn't really appeal to me. A few good things first: yes, you really feel like you're playing a game set in that time, and you definitely feel the Total War spirit. The graphics and animations are top-notch for 2009 (and even better with mods), and the naval battles are still incredibly beautiful today (something even current pirate games can't achieve). Garrisons are well implemented, research is okay, and the ministers are fine too. However, you do sometimes have to resort to mods or small script files, etc. It's not just bugs, but also illogical game mechanics. I briefly had Empire 2.0 active, but I uninstalled it immediately because, starting around turn 10 or 20, the Ottoman/Istanbul bug makes me wait 20 minutes in a single turn. Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't always help. I had PuA too, but I wanted to play vanilla first. I also have seen some shogun2 - empire total conversations in progress, nice!! The lag problem with the fortresses can be fixed in the game files. You can also patch the performance. Thankfully, that's doable. (just written this, and the next fortress battle was delayed with this lag, Paris) sidefact: your artillery with endless ammo shoots the fortress into blocks...and like a miracle, after the battle it is undamaged - but only on the campaign map, for real it repais slowly for years.. You can not repair. Gift the province to an ally and it will be repaired in 1 turn.(as you can not hold the conquered provinces as many you can conquer at one time - this takes time - a point for reality of its era I think, but strange for this franchise) more things to argue about: The province division. It has its merits... but also not really. Spain, France, Britain... bam, one province ;) Auto-resolve. Fine for some garrisons, fine for some early see battles. but really bad, on Very hard. army control zone is too small. One point, how to reinforce your army far from home on enemy territority? solved in Shogun2. I mean this for the reality factor, not for the game fun. The map is ... where's South America? More Asia? Diplomacy. So awful... honestly. You get a war declared on someone you've never even dealt with. Yes, some fix the expansion penalty/negative reputation—but hey, that was actually realistic. If you take Texas, Spain will be angry with you, not Prussia. Otherwise, my researches are worth about a fifth of what I have to pay for it. Oh dear. Most of the time they don't want to trade, not even a trade route. Which brings us to the real problem. One-port trade? Seriously??? I'm constantly getting sick of this. So the enemy can theoretically block your 50k income port with just one galley? No, not just that, the one from your trading partner is enough. Even if the trade nodes are top-notch and plundering the route itself is fine. Okay, so always keep some ships at home. But you also need to have them at your trading partner's location—nothing will happen if you're not at war with their enemy. Side note: the income "playing" a pirate on a trade route is to your treasury by "magic hand"... would say, you dont need trade ships, go on raids to trade routes. save money So, let's talk about the logic. I only get money from the trade nodes and my own plantations if I sell the goods to others? Even if I own 30 provinces? So my people don't want that? Even if they're the same (conquered) provinces I traded with before. That's so stupid. Why didn't they just leave it like it was used in the games before? And increase the overall volume, in line with what comes out of the nodes? Having a trading partner gives you a bonus or, for example, duty exemption. But the way it's implemented here is just a complete lack of thought. The entire trade system collapses because of a single small route or even a port—especially for world empires. And they still have it like that in Shogun 2. I think later games did too, like Rome 2 and Attila... The tax logic is basically okay, and then again not. (Except that the AI has massive advantages here too, just like with happiness, max tax level but max wealth increase too?!). But there's income only like a VAT on any economy? Was this in this way in this Age? No general tax on residents. Otherwise, I cannot explain the differences between a small plantation island and southern Italy with 10 million inhabitants. BTW: France..on map noted with 10millions citizens, on city tab 100.000.000 !!!! or for what food/ population when your "villages are grown" ? seneseless...waste of slots. there is noted: as more people, as more building slots...its a joke for most provinces. some can not even have a fortress. finally for Empire2 from CA: I'd also like a sequel to start in 1600 or 1500. Gunpowder, for example, ended the Middle Ages. In the 17th century, the Spanish Tercio was dominant. You don't see any of that here, and in MTW2 they were just pikemen. Ah yes, with a world map, of course. ps campaign AI. it knows that land units can save your harbours against being damage by enemy ships ;) but not, that you should take more than one galley to transport your invasion army.

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