• play on your PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and join in multiplayer combat wherever you are
• fight as English Court, French Court or Vikings
• up to 8 players online
• 40 single player and multiplayer maps
• train units for close and long range combat
• build up your castle and improve your war equipment
• capture towns and land to finance your war efforts
• enjoy beautiful graphics and original music

Patrician IV is the sequel to the historical trading simulation and strategy series. You are a merchant in northern Europe in the late Middle Ages when the Hanseatic League was flourishing. Your goal is to rise to the most successful and influential member of the Hanse, ultimately being elected Elderman, leader of the trading league. You start bargaining with common goods, build up your own production and establish a merchant fleet. Later on, you will gain more and more political influence and even found new towns.

However, a Hanse merchant's life can also have its dark sides. On your way to power you have to hold your ground against fierce rivals, whom you have to fight with economic competition, price wars or impure means such as sabotage. Will you even engage in piracy?

• Complex trade system with trade routes between 32 towns.
• All towns are displayed in impressive and detailed 3D graphics.
• Intelligent rivals, dynamic weather and seasons influence gameplay.
• Be elected mayor of your home town in order to control construction projects like the city wall or special buildings.
• Compose your own merchant fleet from historical ship models and research new types.
• Arm your fleet with convoy ships and fight in impressive naval battles against pirates and rivals.

However, a Hanse merchant's life can also have its dark sides. On your way to power you have to hold your ground against fierce rivals, whom you have to fight with economic competition, price wars or impure means such as sabotage. Will you even engage in piracy?

• Complex trade system with trade routes between 32 towns.
• All towns are displayed in impressive and detailed 3D graphics.
• Intelligent rivals, dynamic weather and seasons influence gameplay.
• Be elected mayor of your home town in order to control construction projects like the city wall or special buildings.
• Compose your own merchant fleet from historical ship models and research new types.
• Arm your fleet with convoy ships and fight in impressive naval battles against pirates and rivals.

Key features

• Different historical settings and battlegrounds for every nation will ensure that each time players will face a different variety of enemies and tactics.
• Unique hero units for every nation with powerful abilities such as increasing units’ firepower, boosting morale or providing other advantages to defeat the enemy against all odds.
• Fantastic bonus abilities such as remote controlled bombs that can flatten entire residential blocks, airstrikes able to destroy incoming tank columns, special "For the Motherland!" charge attacks and many more.
• Improved and dynamic AI ensures that no two games will play out the same way, making each battle a new experience against an AI that really fights back.
• Choose from a variety of scenario locations ranging from Western Europe, to Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Pacific.
• The ability to play this impressive game mode with up to four friends in LAN or cooperative online play.
• New multiplayer maps and game settings.
• Improved multiplayer balancing to provide a more authentic use of equipment and vehicles.
• Overhauled infantry squads and the ability to buy individual soldiers to suit players’ needs.
• More realistic weapon behavior and penetration values.
• A reworked artillery system that provides innovative assault and defense strategies.
• New types of ammunition that increase the depth of tank combat.