Focusing on legendary leaders, The Conquerors will challenge veterans and novices to wage war on an epic scale with all-new civilizations, unique units and technologies, and campaigns based on infamous conquerors such as Attila the Hun, El Cid and Montezuma. The Conquerors Expansion is being developed by Ensemble Studios and features the expertise of Bruce Shelley, co-designer of Age of Empires. The Age of Kings real-time strategy game by adding more civilizations, campaigns, and features. These features promise to reduce micromanagement, allowing the player more time to focus on strategic decisions. Another new feature is the ability to garrison troops inside a ram, adding strength, speed, or both to the siege unit.
Ships can also now move in formations just like land-based groups.
The five new civilizations featured in the game include the Hun, Aztec, Mayan, Korean, and Spanish, each with differing technology trees and unique technologies such as Chinese rocketry, Persian mahouts, British yeomen, and Japanese kataparuto. There is also a new Central American building set for the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. Each new civilization also features a unique combat unit. There is the Hun tarkan, a torch-wielding infantry unit that is particularly effective against buildings. The Aztecs have the jaguar warrior, and the Mayans have the plumed archer.