The Irish’s main goal is to drive the English from the Emerald Isle. Using these to bait the enemy into attacking you as England is critical, as you won’t be able to defend everywhere else at once. In return for this, they are now essentially castles, and critically, several units placed in them will not require any upkeep. They cannot be placed but are static features on the map. The best way to handle these threats is to use the extensive fortress systems that the English have built to secure your territory.įortresses work differently in Kingdoms than in the base game. Meaning that the advantage in heavy cavalry and infantry the English possess is now rendered null.Įngland is the toughest start in the campaign, and it’s an experience close to playing the Western Roman Empire in Barbarian Invasion, as your territories are overextended, rebellious, and underdeveloped. The Baron’s Alliance is also the only faction that can truly challenge England in terms of the quality of its troops. This forces the English to maintain large standing armies within their own territory, as well as on their borders. The Alliance acts as a rebellion faction for the English, when a city or army revolts they will join that faction, instead of just becoming rebels. Playing as England you’ll be trying to maintain your holdings across the Isle while simultaneously battling a rebellion at home: The Baron’s Alliance. The other factions will feature less well-equipped rosters but will have the advantage that England will have to deal with Ireland, Wales, and Scotland at once. The most interesting dynamic comes from the fact that England, with far superior troops, is overextended and trying to maintain its hegemony across the entirety of the British Isle while dealing with strife at home.
The Brittania campaign is the most ‘vanilla’ of the four campaigns and will see you fighting mostly armies of the same western-European caliber in 1258 across the British Isle. Now that I write that I’m beginning to think that creating expansions based on large-scale invasions is a running theme in these early Total War games. Medieval Total War II Invaders might be a better title for the expansion, though this may sound too close to both Barbarian Invasion, Viking Invasion, and Mongol Invasion. In the Crusader campaign, the Crusader factions themselves are foreign invaders, while the Mongols will invade later in the campaign. This can take place on multiple levels as well, in Britannia, the English will be the invaders for almost every faction but the Norwegians are also launching a full-scale invasion of the isle. The lush jungles of Central America are a far cry from the wind-swept hills of Scotland or the scorching deserts of the Levant.ĭespite this, the common theme throughout each campaign is the conflict between outside invaders and the natives. There is also a great contrast between each campaign setting. The focus allows CA to really hone in on the specifics of the conflict at hand, and give the factions more depth than they otherwise would have. It’s often the case where Total War plays at its best in these smaller scenarios, though I still do love the sweeping grand campaigns. CampaignsĮach campaign takes place on a zoomed-in section of the Medieval II map. Instead, CA chose to include different mechanics that serve as experimental ideas some of which would presage the changes to come in the next Total War game, Empire Total War. It would have been easy for CA to just take the units and mechanics from the base game and repurpose them for these campaigns since most of these factions already appear in the base Medieval II. Each puts its own twist on the standard Total War formula. The four campaigns are Britannia, the Crusades, the Teutonic, and, the Americas. Total War expansions are usually a place where Creative Assembly experiments with some of their more radical campaign ideas and Kingdoms is no different. Medieval Total War II: Kingdoms is the first and only expansion for Medieval Total War II which features four all-new campaigns, each with its own period, map, and unique factions.
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