In this game, you can…

• …fight battles with up to nine commanders and hundreds of units spread across a huge map.
• …create and share entire new campaigns, factions, and game modes, turning the base game into dozens of different genres.
• …carry veteran survivors from one scenario into the next, then spend village gold to recruit fresh troops around them.

In this game, you can…

• …assassinate the Pope, sack Rome, then get welcomed back into the Church when a new Pope gets elected.
• …trade a marriage proposal for a whole castle and a new general in your family.
• …fight off Mongol and Timurid invasions, including armies with armored elephants carrying cannons on their backs.

In this game, you can…

• …open your borders to Gandhi, then watch him pillage your land, annex cities, denounce you, and launch nukes anyway.
• …send a nuclear fleet across the world, punch through a submarine blockade, fire the warheads, then drop XCOM squads to seize the top superpower's capital before the space race ends.
• …absorb a nearby city-state instantly, then trigger a chain-reaction war where your allies help wipe out an empire.

In this game, you can…

• …get ambushed, eat a tactical nuke minutes into the fight, then rebuild your entire battle line mid-chaos and still win.
• …lead an army of thousands of rats with poison bombs, lightning cannons, and rapid-fire guns that can erase units fast.
• …play on a stitched-together mega-map where every race from both games is in one campaign with wildly different starting situations.

In this game, you can…

• …march an army from India to Northern Europe while fighting across three continents and multiple oceans.
• …get steamrolled in Europe, evacuate half your empire by ship to the New World, seize a South American foothold, rebuild, then sail back for revenge.
• …trigger colonial uprisings so early the United States can form in 1710, then land troops and erase it in 1711.

In this game, you can…

• …capture aliens alive, interrogate them, autopsy them, and turn their bodies into new weapons and armor.
• …infect civilians into zombies that burst into new aliens, spreading the outbreak across the map.
• …blow holes through walls and erase enemy cover with rockets and grenades.

In this game, you can…

• …fill the mid-lane with turrets, rocks, meteors, mines, and drones, then shove those objects left and right to block shots and set up hits.
• …attack the shopkeeper instead of shopping, turning a safe stop into a real fight with consequences.
• …play cards to move and bank that movement for a later turn.

In this game, you can…

• …import British marines through a single foreign-trade port, buy an ironclad, and mow down elite samurai with Gatling guns and cannons.
• …grow powerful enough that allies and vassals flip on you, then fight off a coordinated dogpile ordered by the Shogun himself.
• …recruit a new general from the rank and file when leaderless troops win battles, promoting a regular soldier into command.