The Creative Assembly’s award winning Total War series continues to expand as the Digital Team will be bringing out Total War Battles: Kingdom. This will be a free to play, persistent world strategy title set shortly after the Dark Ages. Check out the trailer above.

In Kingdom, you’ll be tasked with building and expanding your realm as well as taking part in large battles. You’ll have to war with surrounding kingdoms which can lead to large multiplayer wars in a battle for the throne. You can even take advantage of tactics like spying and espionage, besides the usual betrayal and deception, in order to one-up your enemies.

Total War Battles: Kingdom is currently in closed beta for PC but will be releasing across other platforms like tablets and Mac. As for a release date, we only have the “coming soon” tagline to go by.

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