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To win in this game of Rome, you’ll need to defend your city with towers, traps, walls, gates and garrisoned units and fight epic battles by hiring and training an army. You can also hone your skills in the arts of war by taking on a challenging solo campaign.

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With these Xbox classics, you can earn achievements, compete with your friends, submit your scores to leaderboards and track your personal gameplay statistics. And this is even more awesomesauce: you can play, pause and resume these games across Windows Phones and Windows 8 PCs and tablets. So wherever you go, you can continue your brain twisting.

In “Total Conquest,” you begin as a Roman governor, but with the right strategy, you may end up with the ultimate victory: total control of the Roman Empire.