There's a Medieval: Total War Preview on Games Domain offering impressions of Creative Assembly's upcoming follow-up to Shogun: Total War, their 3D RTS game. The article describes the game's huge scope in terms of the time period covered (1087-1453), the locale (480 maps set in medieval Europe), and gameplay ("We're anticipating over a hundreds hours of gameplay in the full campaigns"). They also go into RPG aspect of your general's leadership, the variety of units available, diplomacy, tweaks to balance the value of siege weapons, the impact of landscape and weather, castles, and more. Accompanying the story are a baker's dozen new screenshots.