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THE HISTORY CHANNEL Great Battles of Rome takes real-time strategy gaming and blends it with top quality program footage from The History Channel to create a truly immersive strategy experience. The game starts from the founding of the great city of Rome and continues through to the crowning of Augustus while letting players fight every great battle of the Roman Empire along the way! Your men travel with you on this historic journey, and the game treats each squad like a character, allowing the player to customize each unit’s skills and appearance. A powerful gameplay engine faithfully recreates the strategies and tactics employed by Rome’s greatest commanders, allowing players to pursue the ultimate goal of creating the most powerful empire the world has known.