Genre Explainers
How Total War Works: Turn-Based Campaigns and Real-Time Battles
How Creative Assembly's Total War blends a turn-based campaign map with real-time battles: settlements, armies, generals, morale, terrain and auto-resolve.
Total War
Genre Explainers
RTS vs 4X vs Grand Strategy: How the Strategy Subgenres Differ
A clear map of the strategy family: RTS, real-time and turn-based tactics, 4X, grand strategy and hybrids like Total War, compared side by side.