The new expansion to Napoleon: Total War, the Peninsula Campaign, is out and a quick scratch of the surface reveals a lot more than a few new maps to battle over. Mark O’Connell from The Creative Assembly wrote an excellent guide to the new campaign in a blog post on the official Total War site. It’s such a good insight into exactly what’s new on the Spanish Peninsula we’re running it here.
For me, Napoleon: Total War fixed many of the issues, glitches and curious design choices of Empire: Total War. Which makes this deal doubly attractive.
Fun fact: I’m a history graduate, so when a Total War game comes along, I’m normally first in line. Especially when it involves pipes, muskets and rad uniforms, because they remind me not of Napoleon, but of Waterloo. The movie.
We’ve held some truly silly competitions here at Kotaku. But getting you to rewrite the lyrics of Abba’s “Waterloo” in order to win a copy of Napoleon: Total War is perhaps the silliest yet. Let’s see who “won”.
