Different games in the Total War franchise take you from before the birth of Christ to the end of the Napoleonic period and all over the globe. In between battles, there’s a turn-based strategy interface (think a very stripped down version of Sid Meier’s Civilization series) that lets you construct the whole of your war machine. It lets you deploy your soldiers, define your engagement strategy, groupings, pace, and more. First, there’s a real-time war theater which allows you to command your troops’ every move on the battlefield. War is all-encompassing and to give you the taste of blood you crave, the Total War series relies on a dual-engine approach.
