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* ''Total War: Rome 2'' (2013)

* ''Total War: Attila'' (2015)

 

The games' system is an interesting hybrid, with a continent-scale strategic turn-based game that jumps to real-time battles for resolving conflicts between opposing armies. The main campaign takes place on a [[Risk-Style Map]] divided into territories, cities, and fortifications. Here the player manages his or her empire, selects construction projects for settlements, raises armies, hires and dispatches agents, conducts diplomacy, and marches troops around. When those troops encounter a hostile army or attack a settlement, the game [[Astronomic Zoom|zooms in]] to the conflict and loads a battle map, where the engagement plays out in real-time.

* [[Generic Doomsday Villain]]: ''Attila'' gives this sort of treatment to the man himself. Attila the Hun even lampshades this in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu8I4TzxSxE one trailer], showing how he's aware of his historical notoriety as the "Scourge of God." And doesn't give a single damn about it.

* [[Genghis Gambit]]: All over the place, man. But in ''Shogun 2'', this is actually inevitable: when you control about 1/3 of the landmass, the Ashikaga Shogun will sic everyone in Japan who is not you, at you. It's called Realm Divide, and is the sole reason you [[Gotta Kill Them All|kill everyone on your way to the throne]] instead of [[Being Good Sucks|sparing them by making them vassals]]. Same thing happens in ''Rise of the Samurai'', only it's the Emperor himself calling the rest of Japan down on you.

* [[Gladiator Revolt]]: The ''[[Thera]]'' mod for ''Medieval II'' has this as part of the background for the Uruk Dominion.

** Some cities in anarchy in ''Rome'' will also have "The Gladiator Uprising" as their rebellion, though it's not different mechanically from other rebels.