Napoleon: TW gets Peninsular expansion

By Robert Purchese Published 26 May, 2010

Guerrilleros in our midst this summer.

Napoleon: Total War will expand this summer with The Peninsular Campaign add-on, sold exclusively on Steam.

This revolves around the 1811 battle for the Iberian Peninsular. Basically, Napoleon and his mates have been bashing on Spanish and Portuguese doors for a couple of years and are generally doing pretty well. So well, in fact, that Spain has been forced to authorise local militias to fight back using guerilla warfare.

That Iberian Peninsular has been broken into 32 regions ruled by four playable actions: Britain, France, Portugal and, for the first time, Spain.

New agent-type the provocateur will be available to Britain and France, and the priest offered to Spain and Portugal. Only Spain, however, will have access to the Guerrillero.

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Portugal there, home of Ronaldo.

We're promised a host of multiplayer features, although these aren't fleshed-out anywhere that we can see.

Our Napoleon: Total War - The Peninsular Campaign gallery has the first screenshots.

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • LiveForever #1 2 years ago

    They really like to expand before they fix.

  • Mkwone #2 2 years ago

    There's only one expansion this game needs.

    Sharpe

  • RedSparrows #3 2 years ago

    DAMN, Sharpe's already been mentioned.

    'Special Unit: Shaprie and Harper. Special skills: God-like ability to piss off snooty superiors and kill Frenchmen'.

    In other news, this is a fascinating campaign, I hope the game does it justice. I wish I could play Empire :(
    Edited by RedSparrows at 26/05/10 @ 11:40

  • hiddenranbir #4 2 years ago

    NTW expansion before further ETW content? Christ.

  • Evolution #5 2 years ago

    Featuring Sean Bean?

  • Matfink #6 2 years ago

    TW series is losing it :(

  • TomSwift #7 2 years ago

    Woop woop! Napoleon was really polished compared with Empire, so I don't see the harm in more DLC. Why shouldn't we Napoleon fans get more content?

  • hiddenranbir #8 2 years ago

    Because we ETW fans are still left wondering about ours?

  • Discalceaterabbit #9 2 years ago

    I'm still amazed anyone bought Napoleon, considering the shoddy mess that was Empire.

  • TomSwift #10 2 years ago

    @hiddenranbir
    There were shitloads of unit packs, weren't there? Plus there was that Warpath thingy-me-bob for Empire which I heard good things about.

  • AphoticCosmos #11 2 years ago

    I got Napoleon recently, and I wish I was at home running it on my rig. It's certainly a lot more polished, diplomacy is leagues better and it's, in general, a return to form for Total War. Empire was good in principle but was really unrefined; it crashed every other minute, you couldn't negotiate with anyone after about a decade or two because they all hated you from territorial expansion, the historical accuracy was somewhat dubious (Portugal had Brazil FFS, and yet in every game they get wiped because Brazil isn't on the map and Goa and Lisbon fall way too easily), the naval battles were nice in theory but not very well polished . . . it goes on. Napoleon basically fixes everything.

    Now what I'd love to see in the next game is either a proper mid-Victorian industrial era game with a full world map, but using the same nicely polished engine of Napoleon, or moving it into WWI where empires are already established. Sea battles between dreadnoughts . . . a man can dream.
    Edited by AphoticCosmos at 27/05/10 @ 00:40