4. An Old Enemy (+Achievement!) | Trajan Campaign | AoE2: DE Return of Rome
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Difficulty steps up with this one!
In this scenario, Trajan and Hadrian must split their forces to attack Armenia and Parthia. You have to use the support of the Nabateans for resources while you meander through the Caucuses, but can eventually get an economy for an all-out assault on the Parthian citadel in the south.
ALSO, the achievement is to just not lose 5 units to conversions, which we did incidentally.
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The Greek the voice over referred to could be Xenophon and his Expedition of the Ten Thousand. It's a mission of the Greek campaign in AoE 1 proper.
Even the map looks kinda of similar, with all the U turns you have to do in both scenarios.
This was exactly what I needed in the s-lit second right after the line was said and I thought to myself “maybe the comments has the answer”. Thanks for the info! 😂
Definitely. A large chunk of the Anabasis went through Armenia.
I hear those Persians have curved swords.
Curved swords.
CURVED. SWORDS.
Trajan's campaign would make for great co-op play. In that first one you have the support of the emperor and then in the rest Hadrian loyally supports you
My problem here was that I mainly used legionaries which get wrecked by the heavy cav. Second try worked better.
11:00 Aw, did they get rid of the funny Priest voice? That’s such an iconic sound.
Oh nevermind, it’s just super quiet.
12:33 Helepolis don’t seem too different on paper, but the upgrade DOUBLES their rate of fire, making them fire almost as fast as standard archers (in the original game, they actually matched standard archer fire rate, DE/RoR has it slightly slower)
31:41 I really like the added shallow pathways alongside the bridge, I’m not sure what it is about it.
This mission was so difficult on hard. I managed to defeat Armenia until I got my villagers, but by then I realized that Parthia was defeating Hadrian and I simply moved to defeat the remaining forces before I had managed to take out Nabataea's Town Center. Then I struggled against Parthia's forces and defenses and was defeated as they systemically overwhelmed me with horsemen and Ballestas. They literally decimated my village with the villagers before I could do anything. Took a while but I focused on Parthia first in the second attempt with almost depleted resources.
I believe the plural term for Ballista is actually "Ballistae".
Both are actually correct ;D
I dont know what happened in my game but Parthia wouldn't stop spamming cataphracts like they had infinite gold or something
This was my experience, too. That, and the pathing was horrible. Units would get stuck on thin air and would try to move closer to get at objects that were already in range. Very bizarre.
My face when Ornlu doesn't goof up here like in AOE 2 campaigns
-Impossible😮
I won this in the roman way, legionaries and balistas with a small cavalry aquadron to hunt down catapults
I'm such a large fan of map design, like the simplistic style is so pleasant to look at! Truly and art
a Monster was seen on a river of Nabataea.
a fish without scales whose skin resembles that of a man,
drooping hairless ugly man's face and big nose,
small eyes is black from Sad Expression.
@12:30 The Helepolis' key advantage over the Ballista is its greater firing rate. Use these and not the ballistae in order to dominate the battlefield.
idk how to go against the cataphracts. After a few restart, I just spam monks and convert their cataphract. Let them taste their own medicine.
Helepolis with a meatshield os the way wa to go. Legions work. Centuerios are better
What I fail to understand, is how Hadrian is not even attacked in this map around the 25 minute marker for you, whilst for me he is completely wiped out. This game needs to be fixed.
I beat this mission on moderate and it was such a slog with just Legionnaires and Ballistae. I think I could have maybe gotten some good use out of Chariots to screen for catapults but I didn't really think about it until the next mission and haven't actually had a chance to test it out yet. I believe the Camel Rider is the only explicitly anti-cavalry unit so trying to figure out a good way to counter cavalry when your own cavalry is... not great has been pretty tough.
It seems the only efficent counter against heavy cav are academy units
to take out at least the outer defenses and some production buildings of the Persians you can build a dock and use juggernauts!
Man I cannot wait until you play the first Pyrrhus mission
Where are the orange enemy units? They sent an archer and a swords man and that's it? Why is my game playing so very different
Armenia in AoE2 when? ^^
Might alienate the Turkish Fanbase 11
You can harvest food from carnivores in this game. So if your villagers kill a lion, take the food.
I was going crazy for the achievement, I thought it was about losing less than 5 units in the whole game!
Love these videos! Keep em coming!
Man I was playing this wrong. This was a slug fest on hard. I was making lots of centurions with Scythe Chariots to counter their horse archers and catapults. I thought making ballista was a mistake because of their cataphracts always diving to kill them. Turns out I wasnt making enough and I shouldve built towers to help push. I really felt this was a civ disadvantage from the AI microing each horse archer.
This mission can be very easy, upgraded ballista only, destroy all orange military buildings without defeating them, defeat blue and then defeat orange
I just spammed academy units
huh? is blue weaker before you destroy orange?
@@jurgnobs1308 i once tried to push blue directly (hardest Difficulty) and i couldn't keep up the fight.
I pushed into the walls but the swarm of blue units just wouldn't stop.
Heliopolis or what shots faster + some range
Армения в то время была сильным государством, не считая того, что пытались Персы и Римляне поделить. С двух фронтов шли войны и даже на территории Армении была арена для римлян и персов.
Забавно что тут упомянули Армению в качестве персов которых разгромили. Кажется, турецкая и азербайджанская лобби ОЧЕНЬ влияет на эту игру и пропагандирует свою версию историй. Ошибка Армянских богачей в том, что не подпокупают данных разработчиков чтобы говорили ПРАВДУ об Армянах и об фальсификации азербайджанцами истории.
i have already finished with 1h 12 minutes :)
Defeating the parthians was tough for me in this campaign episode. Went for legionaries, composit archers and catapults, mixing in some knights for the opponent catapults which were wrecking my infantry. Hadrian was virtually useless.
After five failed waves with next to no progress other than destructing some towers and gates, I quit the idea on making catapults since they are awfully slow in movement and destruction. Instead I sent in the knights to destroy the stables and workshops while a giant inf blob held the centre. Worked like a charm. Took me 1hr 45 min ingame time.
My strategy is instant helipolis upgrade. Train only helipolis, won the scenario + achievement on hard at first attempt w/o even discovering the free base behind orange. LOL. Don't destroy the last orange TC before you have massed at least 40ish helipolis or you will get overrun by blue HC and HCAs.
I went very heavy on swordsmen and catapults on this one (hard difficulty), then switched to centurion and catapult, stll got overwhelmed by cathapract and catapuls. After 2.5 hours + I decided to watch your attempt.
this campaign is great, I needed a fuck ton of helepolis and centurions.
Same but with Catapults
Ornlu: "Trade is only 41 gold, not that impressive."
Also Ornlu: Does not build the obviously better market in the east corner lol
I sometimes confuse the Roman with Greek because I am not used to seeing red roof building in DE
19:43 Forgot? no sir you were simply role-playing 1:37
This mission is such a headache. I feel like I'm playing something completely different, than Ornlu.
This scenario was incredibly easy. All you have to do is make ONLY helipoli and you insta win and can even do it without losing any units.
This part of the campaign made me becuase I blindly rushed and lost my starting army it was so hard trying to get past the Armenians that I only succeeded by spamming both Legionaries and Catapults.
Honestly, these campaigns encourage you to either rush or overprepare.
Also, I managed to get that achievement just by playing.
Parthia just won resign for me! I killed all TC's and the gov center and the game keeps going... all gold already depleted 😲 What triggers them to give up?
As far as I know Ai only resigns when they have no military units and recruitment buildings anymore.
At least it always works for me on moderate. I dont know if they are more "resistant" at hard.
The voice acting is soooo great in RoR the pseudo Latin accent
Hard difficulty?
Use the stone thrower to attack ground to make a path through the woods.
nice video!!
enjoyed all 41 mins of it....
These campaigns are pretty easy all things considered.
I'll be very interested in seeing how different both Alaric and Attila are with the Romans now a civ.
Have you tried them out yet and if so, how are they going?
Yea I feel after you've played the custom campaigns, all the official ones seem easy.
From just a cursory glance, I think only the Catalaunian Fields will have really changed in the Attila campaign. The first three scenarios deal with the Eastern Roman Empire that's still Byzantine (as it probably should remain) and the Roman civilization itself only plays a small role in the forth and sixth scenarios.