Once a noble is selected, the player can choose to play a campaign or battle map, or load a saved game.

While all the battle maps are available when a noble is created, the campaigns require that the player complete each level in sequence.

The diplomacy screen shows a diplomatic map of all the lands, colored by the nobles who own them, that displays parcel usage, army locations, and territorial control.

The battle layer engages the player in the battlefield, allowing them to manually control their companies.

[2] A common complaint was, relative to its predecessors, the simplification of province management and the departure from the turn-based strategy map.