Total War: Arena

Total War: Arena is a free to play, team-based, multiplayer real time strategy (RTS) game by Creative Assembly. It is currently in Closed Beta phase since 24th of September, 2015.

For now it only runs on Windows.

General Information

Engine

The game engine is based on Rome II's, however the way it works is very different.

Gameplay

Total War: Arena is a new type of game for Total War, which is set in Antique Age, for now.

It is a team vs team battle game where teams consist of 10 players while each player has 3 units to control under the command of a iconic, historical commander. Battles are made on custom made battlefield maps, where team play, strategies, and tactics have a big role.

Along with battles there is an extensive unit tree tier progression for each faction, where you can unlock new equipments or new units by either unit or commander experience. Maximum unit tier is 10.

Each commander has 4 unique abilities, which are also bound to a progression system. So just like units, they gain experience and get better in time. Abilities capped with 10 level.

Apart from the units that needs to be unlocked by progression, there are few Premium units that can be bought with gold, in-game currency. They have some advantages as getting more resources from battles, but they are well balanced with other units, if not weaker. And as they aren't tied to unit tree, they can't unlock any new units.

Premium

Players can choose to purchase one of the temporary Premium packs with in-game gold to get %50 more resources (silver, commander xp, unit xp) from battles.

Premium packs don't have anything to do with Premuim units.

Factions

Currently there are 3 playable factions in the game.

• Roman Republic/Empire
• Greece (Hellenic)
• Barbarians

Commanders

Currently there are 7 playable commanders is in the game, while there is one Work in Progress (WIP).

TW: Arena Devs said that there will be more, they also said that there will be female commanders too.

Roman

Julius Caesar

His abilities are designed to make him a supporter and engineer General.

Germanicus

His abilities are designed to make him a heavy assault General.

Scipio Africanus

His abilities are designed to make him a cavalry assault General.

Greek

Alexander the Great

His abilities are designed to make him a cavalry assault General.

Leonidas

His abilities are designed to make him a heavy defensive General.

Miltiades

His abilities are designed to make him a disrupter assault General.

Barbarian

Arminius

His abilities are designed to make him a scouter assault General.

Vercingetorix (WIP)

To be decided.

Maps

Currently there are 5 maps in the game. Also there is one confirmed map that is WIP currently.

Battle map is chosen randomly by the game.

• Thermopylae
• Marathon
• Salernum
• Germania
• Rubicon
• Alps (WIP)

Downloadable Content

There isn't any DLC confirmed yet.

System Requirements

To be decided.