Empires ist eine futuristische Mod, die im Jahre 2242 spielt und einige Realtime-Strategie-Elemente aufweist. Inzwischen arbeitet das Team auf Basis der Half Life² Engine, ein Release auf Basis der BF1942 Engine ist jedoch verfügbar.

Originalbeschreibung
Empires version 0.2, the long awaited update, is now available for Battlefield 1942 1.6. This FPS/RTS hybrid mod features a commander for each team who builds the team's base and issues orders from an overhead view while everyone else plays from the traditional first person perspective. Teams must fight to control resource nodes to buy bigger and better vehicles and aircraft. It features many bug fixes and enhancements over 0.1 including a new commander interface with fog of war, new player models, increased stability, new dropship with vehicle capture and deploy ability, two new maps, and more. Read the included changelog.txt for a full list of changes