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Steam Achievements

A New Rome - Demonstrate outstanding ability, and capture one hundred regions.

Accomplished Strategist - Complete the main campaign game on the easy difficulty setting.

Affairs of Honour - Use your duellists to kill twenty men on the "field of honour"

American Hero - Complete the Road to Independence campaigns freeing the American colonists from British rule!

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Assassin! - Use your assassins to kill, in unlooked-for fashion, twenty men who hinder your plans.

Blooded - Demonstrate your sense of duty and honour: complete ten multi-player battles.

Bloody Madman - Carve a bloody path to victory: kill a hundred thousand enemies!

Command of the Ocean - As a commanding admiral, win ten multi-player naval battles.

Conqueror of All - Be hailed as a true conqueror: kill a million enemies!

Drumbeat to Victory - Draw the sword and march onwards: complete one quick battle.

Emperor of Europe - Subdue and hold all the provinces and regions in Europe at the same time.

Expansionist Power - Capture ten regions, anywhere in the world.

Founding Father - Take one region by conquest, somewhere in the world.

Grand Tactician - Win ten classic multi-player battles.

Into the Breach! - Attack! Attack! Attack! Win ten multi-player siege battles when commanding a besieging army.

l337 Guard - Achieve victory in ten multiplayer battles, cutting a bloody path to greatness through your enemies' plans.

Maharajah of the Indies - Have mastery over all the provinces and regions in India at the same time.

Marshal's Baton - Achieve victory in fifty multiplayer battles, dashing your enemies' hopes in pieces in the process!

Master of the Americas - Conquer or control all the provinces and regions in the Americas at the same time.

Observe Diplomatic Niceties - Use diplomatic threats to good effect by making gains from five separate negotiations.

Only Obeying Orders - Ensure that thirty missions, regardless of detail or type, are successfully brought to a conclusion.

Perfidious Beast - Use treachery to best effect by turning against at least five allied nations and attacking them.

Polymath - Have your natural philosophers and scientists research all the technologies available to your nation.

Raw Recruit - War sir, is a terrifying experience! Take part in a multiplayer battle.

Strategic Genius - Complete the main campaign game on the hard difficulty setting.

The "Chevaux de Frise" - Defend, sir, defend! Win ten multi-player siege battles when commanding the defenders of a fortress.

The Efforts of Others - Successfully steal five technologies researched by other nations.

Tyrant and Ogre - Bring terror to the hearts of men: kill half a million enemies!

Veteran Strategist - Complete the main campaign game on the medium difficulty setting.

Whiff of Grapeshot - Gain some experience of combat: complete one ranked battle.

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