Creative Assembly have kindly tweeted the release date for the upcoming Napoleonic follow-up to Empire: Total War.

Napoleon: will hit stores on February the 23rd.

Budding generals will be able to fight through Napoleon's campaigns in Italy and Egypt as well as seeing if they can best the little general's achievements by capturing Europe.

Also available will be the Imperial Edition of the game, which features a wall chart packed with Napoleonic historical information, an unlock code for 10 exclusive unit types and the Elite Regiment bundle which adds a further elite units to the game as well.

By Ewan Aiton