Charter of Crowns

Forge an empire across the ages

Claim territory, master technologies, and lead your nation through history.

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The Game

Build, Expand, Endure

A historical real-time strategy game for PC. Build cities, push your borders outward, research in your library and guide your nation from the first temples to the modern skyline.

A walled city with a golden border around its territory

Claim Territory

Borders grow with your cities.

A landscape that flows from an ancient temple to a modern skyline

Advance Through the Ages

From antiquity to the modern era.

A commander raising a banner above an army

Lead the Campaign

Write your nation's story in a sweeping campaign.

The Ages

Every Age Rebuilds Your World

Advance from tribal halls to marble forums and stone keeps. Each age changes how you build, fight and trade - and how your cities look.

  1. A thatched tribal hall of the Dawn Age
    Age I

    The Dawn Age

    Tribes raise halls of thatch and timber and the first circles of stone.

  2. A Roman forum building with columns and a tiled roof
    Age II

    The Classical Age

    Marble forums, legions, harbours and the first great wonders.

  3. A half-timbered medieval town hall with a bell tower
    Age III

    The Medieval Age

    Stone keeps, walled cities and cathedrals that rise for generations.

  4. A glimpse of later ages: a domed palace and the towers of a modern skyline
    Age IV and beyond

    Many More Ages

    Age after age is on the way - all the way to the modern skyline - each one rebuilding your world.

The Nations

Choose Your Nation

Every nation is a people of its own: its own story through the ages, its own buildings, warriors and wonders, and a ruler with a temper of his own. More nations will join them.

A painted portrait of Richard the Lionheart, crowned, in a red surcoat with golden lions
Richard the LionheartRuler of the English

The English

From Stone Circles to the Tower

In the Dawn Age they are Neolithic Britons, raising roundhouses of wattle and thatch behind palisades and timber circles. Rome brings them walls and bathhouses; the Middle Ages, cathedrals and the Tower of London.

Through the ages
Neolithic Britons → Roman Britain → the Kingdom of England
Their wonders
Dawn Avebury, Silbury Hill, Skara BraeClassical Hadrian's Wall, Stonehenge, the Baths of Aquae SulisMedieval Canterbury Cathedral, the Tower of London, the Guildhall
Their ruler
Proud, chivalrous and quick to anger - and he remembers what you did to him.
Great generals
Boudica, Caratacus, Alfred the Great
Heraldry
The golden lion on royal blue; the cross
A painted portrait of Saladin in a green and white turban, a sword at his shoulder
SaladinRuler of the Saracens

The Saracens

From Jericho to the Alhambra

Their Dawn Age tribe builds round mudbrick houses on stone footings, flat roofs reached by ladders, and the first walled town with its tower. Then come the caravan cities of the Roman East and, in the Middle Ages, the domes and gardens of Jerusalem, Baghdad and Granada.

Through the ages
The Neolithic Levant → the Roman East → the realm of Saladin
Their wonders
Dawn Göbekli Tepe, the Tower of Jericho, Rujm el-HiriClassical The Pharos of Alexandria, Petra, the Temple of BaalbekMedieval The Dome of the Rock, the House of Wisdom, the Alhambra
Their ruler
Patient and measured - and merciless to anyone who breaks his word.
Great generals
Hannibal Barca, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Baibars
Heraldry
The golden eagle on crimson; the eight-pointed star
A painted portrait of Charlemagne, white-bearded and crowned, in a green robe with golden fleurs-de-lis
CharlemagneRuler of the Franks

The Franks

From Carnac to Chartres

As Gaulish tribes they raise longhouses on rows of oak posts and the standing stones of Carnac. Roman Gaul gives them temples, arenas and aqueducts; Charlemagne's kingdom, chapels, abbeys and cathedrals.

Through the ages
Gaulish tribes → Roman Gaul → the Frankish kingdom
Their wonders
Dawn Carnac, Gavrinis, the Grand MenhirClassical The Maison Carrée, the Pont du Gard, the Arena of NîmesMedieval The Palatine Chapel of Aachen, Mont-Saint-Michel, Chartres Cathedral
Their ruler
Imperial and sure of his destiny.
Great generals
Vercingetorix, Charles Martel, Joan of Arc
Heraldry
The golden boar on green; the fleur-de-lis
A painted portrait of Justinian, crowned with pearls, in imperial purple and gold
JustinianRuler of the Byzantines

The Byzantines

From Dimini to Hagia Sophia

Their Aegean tribe builds whitewashed houses round the chief's megaron, behind rings of dry-stone walls. Greece and Rome give them the Parthenon and the Colossus; Byzantium, the great dome of Hagia Sophia and the walls of Constantinople.

Through the ages
Aegean tribes → Greece and Rome → Byzantium
Their wonders
Dawn Çatalhöyük, Dimini, KerosClassical The Parthenon, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Library of CelsusMedieval Hagia Sophia, the Golden Gate, the Hippodrome
Their ruler
Cunning and lawful - he would rather pay in gold than in blood.
Great generals
Leonidas, Julius Caesar, Belisarius
Heraldry
The golden double eagle on imperial purple; the Chi-Rho

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