It's Europe through a moody instagram filter. You give your orders by assigning units to a commanding officer, and then drawing their orders onto the map, itself a detailed sketch of the world rendered in muted greens and coffee-stain browns. Countries are split into provinces, themselves split into subsectors that contain plains, forests and rivers that affect troop movement. It's important to pay attention to terrain as you plan attacks. You defeat nations by taking victory points within their territory, tied to a nation's major cities and landmarks.
