Empire: Total War gets Warpath add-on

By Robert Purchese Published 21 September, 2009

Playable Native American factions.

SEGA has announced a downloadable Warpath expansion for Empire: Total War.

Due October on Steam for £5.99 (€6.99), the add-on opens a North American campaign and brings five new factions to the table: Iroquois, Huron, Plains, Pueblo and Cherokee. They'll be playable and battle the stinky European invaders during the campaign.

The tribes have a new tech tree to explore and units to create, and can be picked for multiplayer bouts as well.

SEGA also reminds us that the Empire: Total War patch 1.4 will be out tomorrow, 22nd September. This adds a couple of historical scenarios to play with and clears up some minor bugs.

Head over to our Empire: Total War - Warpath gallery for the first batch of screens and art.

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Comments (26) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • UberFrog #1 2 years ago

    Is it still not possible to play a complete grand campaign in multiplayer?

  • Danoxth #2 2 years ago

    Still waiting on multiplayer before I pick this up, single player may well be quite good but over LAN / net game is where its at for me.

  • SleepyDeathFred #3 2 years ago

    I'm finding the whole American focus a bit boring. Where is the (whole) Seven Years War, the almost constant warfare between Britain, France and Spain? The game seems to have forgotten that relentless British expansion was by far the most notable change in this period (at least in terms of what a strategy game can represent!) - the eighteenth century was Our century, not the Americans'!
    Edited by 1 at 21/09/09 @ 18:58

  • Garwoofoo #4 2 years ago

    Some minor bugs?!

  • Turambar #5 2 years ago

    I got this at launch and still haven't played it yet. I got to the choose your country/empire/whatever screen a few times and couldn't choose because I have no interest in representing any of them, I know it's just a game but it's a barrier i just haven't been able to cross yet....

  • Baranga #6 2 years ago

    Hey, how about fixing major bugs first?

  • BlackBabyJesus #7 2 years ago

    I agree with SleepyDeathFred.
    Fighting as or against the native americans is far from the most exciting thing in a 1700's game.

  • Quickstick4 #8 2 years ago

    bit disappointed really and agree with SleepyDeathFred

  • SleepyDeathFred #9 2 years ago

    @ Turambar
    Yeah, where are the Space Marines, the forces of Mordor or the shadowy Brotherhood of Nod? Surely someone more fun to play than the nations/countries of the early modern period should have been represented!

  • Shikasama #10 2 years ago

    Total War: World of the Lord of the Warhammer Starcraft: Attack of the Clones

    I'm with Sleepy Death Fred

  • blender #11 2 years ago

    ahh empire has finished its beta phase. time to buy

  • organica #12 2 years ago

    Still not completely sold on this after a few plays. Maybe I haven't broken through on it yet, but so far I much preferred Medieval 2. Would have been nice to have had Africa opened up rather than more North America stuff.

  • StooMonster #13 2 years ago

    DLC on Steam this time, I wish the Fallout 3 expansions were likewise.

  • Turambar #14 2 years ago

    @SleepyDeathFred

    Yeah because that was my point.... At no point did i say there was a problem with nations/countries/empires represented in the game. I said there was a problem with me. I guess it must just be fun to deliberately misread things on the internet then be an asshole about it.

  • SleepyDeathFred #15 2 years ago

    You may have a point, Turambar, but really, what were you expecting from the experience? I guess I'm just wondering why buy?

  • phycus #16 2 years ago

    I can only guess there is more money to be made from yanks who'll no doubt buy this expansion. Sad fact is the series went downhill when sega got involved.

  • rob76 #17 2 years ago

    how can people say the series went downhill etc.?? Apart from the shed load of bugs it was released with, the strategy and battle elements of the games are huge steps forward from all its predecessors. At release this game was unplayable due to the ridiculous amount of bugs but now it has stabilized and must say it's a cracking game in all aspects.

  • hiddenranbir #18 2 years ago

    Time to do a GERANIMO and hound the WHITE MAN. Even though I'm a century out!

    ayayayayayayayayayayayayayayay!

    At least this hints at Empire having quite a long half life. Franky I hope next for some campaigns in India.

  • Drogul #19 2 years ago

    Yep, Total Wars is becoming old news, even with the naval battles, etc... the game is basicly the same since the first Shogun Total War, take out the cosmetics and some features that don't work as they should like diplomacy and you got the same game as Shogun. I bet that next in the series will be Rome 2: another graphical update, maybe some naval battles with roman galleys, and there you have, more of the same...

  • UberFrog #20 2 years ago

    I'll get the next in series when they introduce grand map multiplayer, civilization scale

  • Dagdriver #21 2 years ago

    Warpath? No thanks, not interrested, don't care about NA ;o)

  • Lin #22 2 years ago

    why is Creative Assembly incapable of actually expanding their games? why do they insist on giving us pathetic little mini campaigns instead of actually intorucing more content & starting times into the grand campaign (which is what the total war games areactually about). if i buy this it will only be for the mods that will eventually reintroduce stuff into the grand campaign like CA should be doing. and if the next game demonstrates their continued complete inability to write decent campaign map AI then i won't make the mistake of buying it like i did with empire.

    some other developer really needs to enter this genre. a bit of competition would do the world of good.

  • hiddenranbir #23 2 years ago

    They have entered this genre, they haven't done very well.

  • SixFootHalfling #24 2 years ago

    So essentially faction.playable = true?

    For £6, they can fuck off, I ran through a campaign to unlock these, as its always a laugh playing with swords against cannons, and was pissed when I found out they weren't playable.

    As there are mods available that do exactly this, I can't see me paying for this any time soon.

  • Kerome #25 2 years ago

    More content?! Each TW game contains it's own unit list of about 250 units, 20 factions (most playable, some not), 400+ buildings, plus map, tech, mechanics and timeline overhauls, and you're whining about wanting more content for free when you see a DLC announcement? There's obviously some truth in what they say about the online TW community...

    It looks ok, and I'm sure it'll find takers, though the American tribes are not my cup of tea.

  • lmephisto #26 2 years ago

    Sound like the expansion of Age of empires 3.......