On the campaign map you manage provinces, diplomacy and attrition; on the battlefield you manage lines, flanks and morale. The two feed each other — a bad march costs you a battle, and a bad battle costs you a province — and the monster units give each faction a genuinely different tactical identity.

One hundred and twenty gigabytes is the largest install in this issue, and it is worth stating plainly. The campaign is dense, the siege rework improved the worst part of the previous games, and the combined map mode stitches three games into one enormous sandbox.