Medieval: Total War is set in the four centuries spanning from the preaching of the first crusade in 1095 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 Medieval: Total War takes everything that was compelling about the critically acclaimed Shogun: Total War & adds new levels of depth accessibility gameplay & strategy. This period of history saw the emergence of the modern world through a time of brutal conflict & social upheaval. This is the time when the nations of Europe emerged from the endless struggle between competing feudal overlords; when Richard the Lionheart & Saladin fought for control of the Holy Land; when there was a Holy Roman Empire that was neither Holy nor Roman nor even an Empire; when the English & French learned to really hate each other during the Hundred Years War; when Kings took & held their thrones by the power of the sword; when knights ruled the battlefield until English archers shot them down with their rightly-feared longbows; when a Pope could gr