The game features four playable races: the Romans, Carthaginians, Iberians and Gauls. You are given a set of circumstances, or a mission statement, and then attach companies to your hero to set about the task. Players can attach up to 50 units to a hero. The drawback, though, is that should you individually select a group within the attached company, they will detach from the main body, and you have to control them individually unless you re-attach them to the hero.