For the next major entry in Creative Assembly’s Total Wars series, not all the changes are going to be related to land battles. Sure, regions of land can be captured without having to take over cities and there’ll be new and modified systems for upgrading units and AI behavior, but quite a bit will shift with the naval portion of the game as well, making it a more significant part of play.

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It’s in their faces; a mixture of trepidation and excitement. They rattle their rectangular shields, knock spear heads against one another. Their leader, a Legionnaire, or maybe just a Centurion, gives the kind of impromptu speech that’s been practised a thousand times. Not that it matters. Waves crash against the sides of the Trireme longboat, and the collective grunt of a thousand oarsmen in across a dozen other boats drown out the specifics of what he’s saying. But you can tell it’s the impetus to victory – you can see it in the way he moves his arms, the conviction on his face. The sunlight flashes across his helmet.

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