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5.0 Single Player Campaign
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[5.1 Overview]

A. Starting a game

 	When you first start the game, you should go to single player and 
click prologue to start a tutorial campaign as the Julli faction. Here you
 will learn all the basics of playing the game. Once you finish the tutorial 
you can choose to continue or you can quit and start one of the three 
imperial campaigns. The first time you play, I suggest you leave the advisors
on, they help you understand many basic concepts about the game. At any time, 
you can go to options and disable the advisor. The easiest faction to start
out as in my opinion is the Julii, because their only enemy in the 
beginning is the Gauls to the north which are easy prey for your strong Roman
Army. As for the campaign difficulty, you should try medium campaign 
difficulty and medium battle difficulty if you are fairly new to the Total
 War series. Otherwise put it on hard/hard if you want somewhat of a 
challenge. I would not recommend very hard for beginners because everything 
is stacked against you economically and militarily. Once you beat either 
the short imperial campaign or the full imperial campaign, you will unlock 
all the different playable factions. Another way to unlock playable factions 
is to destroy them in campaign mode. You start the game as one of the three 
Roman factions, the Julli, Brutii or Scipii. If you chose the full campaign, 
your goal is to conquer Rome and own 50 provinces.

B. Game modes

	The game is presented in two modes, a campaign map and a battle map. 
Most of your time will be spent in the campaign map, controlling your cities
armies, fleet, and agents. This mode is represented as a world map where you
see all your assets from an overhead perspective. Gameplay on the 
campaign map is turn based. You must perform all the actions you want to 
perform and are able to perform within one turn. You can perform actions
with your armies, fleet, and agents as well as govern your cities as you see 
fit. In this mode you can also perform diplomatic and family actions.

C. Campaign Map

	On the campaign map, you can only see locations where your armies or
other units have sight range. Settlements are represented as cities with 
banners representing the ruling faction. The amount which the banner is 
filled with color represents the strength of the garrison of that city. 
Cities which you own have a summary beneath the name with symbols giving
you quick information. Put your mouse over these symbols to find out 
what they mean. Armies are represented as soldiers with banners. Like 
cities, the strength of the army is represented by how full the banner is
with color. Armies with generals have stars representing their command
ability. Use this to size up enemy armies before attacking. Fleets are 
represented on the water as ships.

D. Control Panel

	The control panel on the bottom right shows information regarding
the city or unit you have selected. The coins represent income, the face
happiness, the  + sign population growth, the unit symbol represents training 
of units, the tools represent construction, and the gears represent 
auto-management. The minimap on the bottom gives and overview of the world. 
You can get information by using the mouse and hovering over cities. You 
will recieve messages and events on the left through small icons; make sure 
you review these messages by left clicking them, you can remove them by right
clicking on the icons. Once you have selected a unit you can also choose the
next army, fleet, agent, or settlement by clicking the arrows next to its 
name in the control panel.