G’day my name is Taamati Hanson-Pou, I am one of the designers working on Medieval II: Kingdoms, the expansion pack for Medieval II: Total War. My work primarily involves campaign design and construction, typing in spreadsheets and drinking coffee. In this diary I’m going to be taking you through the Britannia campaign, one of four […]

Named after the Roman goddess Juno, and hopefully marking the beginning
of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, June has arrived. This month’s
Create A Calendar Competition saw an unprecedented number of screenshot
entries. But first, it’s time for something completely
different…
Kicking things off this month we have a
submission from Ruud Kroon in The Netherlands. Six months into the
contest, Ruud […]

Hi guys,
We have posted a brand-new video entitled “Medieval 2 - Russian Dance” on our MySpace Community Videos Blog. The edited Medieval II action is fantastically choreographed to the rousing music from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Suite. With a hilarious finale, click on the link above now to watch the video and leave your feedback. […]

Known to the Finnish as Toukokuu (which means the month of Sowing), May is now officially upon us. As the sun continues to shine brighter in the northern hemisphere, this month sees Victory In Europe Day (VE Day) remembered, La Revolucion de Mayo celebrated in Argentina, an increase floral bouquet sales for Mothers Day in the […]

Medieval II had gone Gold and work began in earnest to have the first update ready. However, it wasn’t long before our thoughts turned to the expansion pack. Notebooks accompanied us everywhere we went and on many a late night, the complaints of our better halves would go something like: “When are you going to […]

As many of you will know by now, we recently decided to delay the release of the second Med II patch after some further testing brought up concerns about the integrity of the code. Many of you were understandably very upset about this. I came in on my day off to face the music on […]

Hi guys,
 
To kick
start our new Official
CA Discussion Thread on our Forums, we asked the community
what they would like to find out more about regarding Medieval II: Total War
Kingdoms. 
Your replies were fast and plentiful, and before long we
had four pages full of great questions.  Instead of just picking out a
couple of questions from the list, […]

First off - hello. I’m Mark Sutherns, I
work at CA UK in the Studio Marketing department and hopefully, you’ll be
seeing a lot more of me on this very blog and on the forum in the months ahead.
Enough of the introduction though, let’s get down to business.
 
I wanted to make a post to follow up on
some […]

Official British Summertime has begun,
Easter is just around the corner, and pranksters across the land have been
making the most of their whoopee cushions on April Fools Day.  It can only mean one thing - it’s time for
another ‘Create A Calendar competition’ blog!
 
Sami Pesola from Kent kicks things off
this month with a gorgeous shot from Medieval […]

In the first part of our exclusive
Developer Q&A, we learned the favourite factions and building strategies of
the team at The Creative Assembly and SEGA. 
Now in the concluding part of this Q&A, discover our personal
tips for Medieval II success!

 
What is your favourite battlefield strategy?
 
Mark O’Connell: 
Mine is to bombard the approaching enemy with a rain of missile […]