The Huns have some of the best horses in the game and have very skilled horse archers, however, their infantry selection is limited. They start as a horde near the Roxolani and Alan tribes north of the Black Sea. Their army is primarily made up of large units of cavalry with high endurance. The Hunnic faction is distinct from the Nomadic factions, for they are only represented by the fearsome Huns themselves.
It takes the setting of Rome: Total War forward by four centuries to the closing years of the Western Roman Empire, and features a wide variety of new features on top of the existing features of vanilla Rome. Rome: Total War: Barbarian Invasion is the first expansion to Rome: Total War.