The purpose of the campaign is to produce DBM ganes via campaigning in a historical environment, and re-enact the Baltic Crusades. The campaign is based on historical provinces and countries Each player has a territory which consists on provinces and towns.
Some provinces are islands, which can be entered only by fleets.
The campaign begins at AD 1200, when the town of Riga was founded and German military orders began their crusading and conquest at Baltic countries. The campaign is intended to be run 30 turns, each turn representing one year. It can be alternatively terminated if and when there are no Pagans left in the game - they have alternatively been converted to Christianity forcibly, they have themselves done it on their own initiative, or they have been destroyed. Provinces can be entered only by land troops and sea only by fleets. Each province can also have towns.