Don't worry i think age of kings doesn't really tell in the hints if you can go to a certain age or not but the expansions do tell it if i remember right.
In the Mongol campaign, there's Ornlu the wolf, the 400HP, 20 attack beast that eats your light cav for breakfast, then in the Hun campaign there's the Iron Boar, the 900 food beast that eats villagers trying to eat it.
Man I'm such noob in this game I decided to play this again and it took me 3 f***ing hours to beat this level, amazing to see you beat it in half an hour.
Very impressive. You are fun to watch. I've managed to get one step ahead, makes it even more fun. First I do my hour long exercise in timidity, then I watch you balls thru in 30 min, LOL. I'm loving this series. Joan was my favourite scenario, but I never went back to do it again till now.
I'll definitely play along Saladin, I never liked Joan campaing though, so now I'm playing the African campaigns. Unfortunately, the common theme of many of the new campaign missions is scripted annoying unit spam. I hope you will jump on the expansion campaigns eventually, because I'd like to see you beat the bullshit of Ethiopian first mission on Hard. The AI spams massive armies that appear faster than I managed to kill them, even after restarting and taking out 2 out of 4 unit spawns before capturing your village (which triggers the spam; you can take out the spawns with gaia units that you find on the map). I'd like to see how you do it with your skills and not just laming the mission with the backdoor they provided like I did. think I didn't manage to get my pop over 35 in my attempts to hold the base. But that's a thing to consider in a couple of months, I think that everyone enjoys watching the classic AoK campaigns the most.
Genghis Khan was my favorite as a kid, Saladin was my brother's. Like they were "mine" and "his" campaigns. Can't wait to see you play the vs. Persia + Subotai. La Hire was the shit too, haha
You have to look at the sketch of the map during the last part of the intro. It tells you where your enemies are and important landmarks like the crossings in this map. Okay, now I can continue watching :D Edit1: GO IMP YOURSELF MAAAAAAAAAAAAN Edit2: GOOD JOOOB! students of william wallace don't need imperial age
Just beat this for the first time on normal. I built up a castle as fast as possible at the western river crossing, produced 5 petards and sent them alone into Chalon's TC. Quick defeat on them. Then I moved some of my villagers up to Chalon and built a second TC and castle there. Produced 5 more petards and a dock, then sent them via transport ship to the wall of Troyes. You can unload behind the wall and like Chalon, the petards will go straight for the TC without delay. Troyes down. The hardest part was Rheims since it is more fortified and you get more troops intercepting, but with a few groups of petards and it went down fairly easy too. I had also gone up to Imperial, built up a sizable army of Paladins and trebs but that effort was a waste in this particular scenario.
Some things about the AI in campaigns. They always build with a single villager. If that villager gets hit (not even killed) they'll delete what they're building and either try to build elsewhere or go back to what they're doing. If the vil does die, the AI often assigns another villager to try and build that same building somewhere else. When you complete an objective and the AI resigns, all the military buildings and units get automatically deleted, it's not completely instant, usually a few seconds.
Yeah, I'm convinced that unless you exploit the AI by luring them out with hero units, it's damn near impossible. When I finally did it, it's because I used Jean de Lorrain (The Hero Bombard Cannon unit) to scout ahead, and so long as they weren't Longbowmen (which the cannon can kill with not too much trouble) I could avoid them.
Made it first time I tried it. Barely made it, but still made it. There is worse. For Viper, this could be a challenge or piece of cake, there is no way to tell. Little piece of advice for the Viper: you don't need to level the cities in the next map either ;)
My impression is that in most campaigns, most enemies won't attack you (at least for some time) unless attacked/scouted. So I think it would be better for you to wait a bit more before advancing on the map (e.g. get more army before scouting yellow's base).
You can hit the orange TC with galleys without having to go past yellow first, that's what the tip about the water is about. Coming up to the Paris mission now, that's one I'm looking forward to!
This'll sound ridiculous, but I'd be very interested to see if you could do the next one in one hit. Not to disparage your abilities, but The Siege of Paris is the most aggravating mission in all of the original campaigns by a long mile. Not even Barbarossa's March (Really quite an easy mission, honestly) or The Lion and the Demon (Which so long as you rush Jerusalem from the getgo and get straight onto Richard's camp isn't so bad) can compare. It's not just that you don't get Post-Imp upgrades, it's that you get no monks. The only way I managed to beat it was by using my hero units incredibly carefully to slowly draw them out one by one, kill them, let them heal, rinse and repeat. I have no clue how you're meant to do it otherwise (Or how you're meant to be able to survive the Burgundian charge in the end).
Absolutely the hardest. I don't know how the hell you're meant to do it without drawing each unit out slowly with your heroes, killing them, letting the heroes heal, and repeat. Not even The Lion and the Demon compares, and that's a pretty tricky mission if you don't know to not immediately start building the wonder.
In French pronounciation: "la Vipère" vithout typically "aï" on "i". "Je m'appelle" was perfect, thank you for interest in French language. Troyes=troa (it was almost that).
As I saw another guy mention the hint about water is because a couple war galleys could actually kill the orange tc while you focus elsewhere. Easy way to get rid of one.
Just FYI when u defeat computers in these vanilla campaign missions, they take forever to delete all their units and military buildings, one by one like about one every second, thats why it takes them so long to resign
Tip of the day Vipe, whenever playing on single player scenario, check whether you have access to Imp. Every time when the scenario starts. It'll be useful at crucial times :D :P Thanks for the video btw :)
dire wolves dodge like 90% of arrows. That's why your xbows had trouble with that first one. You can tell it is a dire wolf quickly because they have a square instead of a circle when you click on them.
The only advantage by water is to knock off green's troops and to wipe out orange. War Galley's can reach their TC but beyond that, they don't help with yellow.
It didn't tell you to take over the water! quite the oposite. it told you that it is nice to control the river but do not spent your resources on ships
I'm very eager to see how you fare in the Siege of Paris, my guess is that you are going to fail at least once! By the way I love this series, keep it up man!
haha its awesome learning so quickly, truly appreciative of the videos. Although I've been playing ahead, and I must say I can't wait for you to play Jihad, its beaten me 5 times straight now, i'm tilted.
Be careful of extensive scouting and early aggression, at least in the later missions. I've accidently triggered the entire enemy army to attack early on more than I'd like to admit lol
anyone knows if you still can get over the max pop with monks like in the original AoE (without Voobly)? (the trick was to convert units while a unit is produced and thereby get both units (and one more pop then normally, also works with higher number of converts but you need more monks then.)
Still tryna understand why you didn't just make petard kamekaze squads and finish map in 6 minutes. Maybe this is some advanced stuff that i don't understand
01:20 se você procurar essas cidades no Google maps da França, vai ver que a posição geográfica que colocaram no game não tem absolutamente nada a ver com a vida real 😂😂😂😂
Water was useful because you could have hit Troyes (orange) TC with cannon galleons. Of course not researching the imperial age might be a bit of a problem with this strategy :P
When I first did this mission I remember not even realising the village at the left side 'til near the end of the game, I raided the orange place and used monks to steal vills to begin my base in orange base, then fought yellow then green. I #clearly did it wrong, sorry I'm new.
Cayh This was actually my favourite scenario. After beating green and orange i used to camp the shallows with monks at max pop and convert a lot of those longbows and then attack at 150 pop with aroung 75 longbows. the ai used to send one longbow at a time then.
i would think, given that joan was divinely inspired...would it not stand to reason that she not only could kill the enemy, she could convert them. at 11:40 or so, she attacking vils. i thought if she could convert them she would have extra vils. i mean shit, the real joan convincrd a large group of rough ass, murderous soldiers to do gods (?) work.....ahh who gives a pigs squat. pass the mead and find me a wench what to fondle me cod piece.
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Alright, I totally didn't realize that I could go to Imperial Age, sorry guys, I am still #clearly new, so show mercy :$
Don't worry i think age of kings doesn't really tell in the hints if you can go to a certain age or not but the expansions do tell it if i remember right.
I've played this campaign 4 or 5 times through and never knew that either haha
Yes,you will need those pladin later campaigns.
Come on, it was another of your challenges. #Clearly
TheViperAOC - Age of Empires 2 I was fighting like 2 hrs this battle!
Pro TheViper, beats this campaign mission on Hard difficulty while not aging to Imperial. Respect!
Wait, could I have gone to Imp?
6:18 Viper: "Oh, it's one of those super strong wolves."
*maniacal laugh*
Just wait for first scenario of the Mongol campaign, that is a strong wolf
I thought it was a boar might be wrong through :/
o2Tenka That's why I laughed. Also, don't spoil it.
In the Mongol campaign, there's Ornlu the wolf, the 400HP, 20 attack beast that eats your light cav for breakfast, then in the Hun campaign there's the Iron Boar, the 900 food beast that eats villagers trying to eat it.
I am interested to see what TheViper chooses at the beginning of the Hunnic campaign.
Wrong title!!
*NO IMP CHALLENGE*
It's good to know Joan of Arc was a mighty warrior that had slain british hardworking female miners with Charlemagne's sword.
She is a Saint in France.
using joan to fight pikeman NotLikeThis
Man I'm such noob in this game I decided to play this again and it took me 3 f***ing hours to beat this level, amazing to see you beat it in half an hour.
Very impressive. You are fun to watch. I've managed to get one step ahead, makes it even more fun. First I do my hour long exercise in timidity, then I watch you balls thru in 30 min, LOL. I'm loving this series. Joan was my favourite scenario, but I never went back to do it again till now.
Haha, cool, it's awesome that people play this along with me, kind of, to compare!
I'll definitely play along Saladin, I never liked Joan campaing though, so now I'm playing the African campaigns. Unfortunately, the common theme of many of the new campaign missions is scripted annoying unit spam.
I hope you will jump on the expansion campaigns eventually, because I'd like to see you beat the bullshit of Ethiopian first mission on Hard. The AI spams massive armies that appear faster than I managed to kill them, even after restarting and taking out 2 out of 4 unit spawns before capturing your village (which triggers the spam; you can take out the spawns with gaia units that you find on the map).
I'd like to see how you do it with your skills and not just laming the mission with the backdoor they provided like I did. think I didn't manage to get my pop over 35 in my attempts to hold the base.
But that's a thing to consider in a couple of months, I think that everyone enjoys watching the classic AoK campaigns the most.
Genghis Khan was my favorite as a kid, Saladin was my brother's. Like they were "mine" and "his" campaigns. Can't wait to see you play the vs. Persia + Subotai.
La Hire was the shit too, haha
I love deadly corps of horse archers!
it took me 2 hours....dnt even knw why...
Pro players don't go imp.
y go imp when you can spend those ressources on more castle age units 11
Who needs the imperial age? Not theViper, thats for sure
You have to look at the sketch of the map during the last part of the intro. It tells you where your enemies are and important landmarks like the crossings in this map. Okay, now I can continue watching :D
Edit1: GO IMP YOURSELF MAAAAAAAAAAAAN
Edit2: GOOD JOOOB! students of william wallace don't need imperial age
"It's one of those super strong wolves." - You ain't see nothing yet!
Just beat this for the first time on normal. I built up a castle as fast as possible at the western river crossing, produced 5 petards and sent them alone into Chalon's TC. Quick defeat on them. Then I moved some of my villagers up to Chalon and built a second TC and castle there. Produced 5 more petards and a dock, then sent them via transport ship to the wall of Troyes. You can unload behind the wall and like Chalon, the petards will go straight for the TC without delay. Troyes down. The hardest part was Rheims since it is more fortified and you get more troops intercepting, but with a few groups of petards and it went down fairly easy too. I had also gone up to Imperial, built up a sizable army of Paladins and trebs but that effort was a waste in this particular scenario.
Some things about the AI in campaigns. They always build with a single villager. If that villager gets hit (not even killed) they'll delete what they're building and either try to build elsewhere or go back to what they're doing. If the vil does die, the AI often assigns another villager to try and build that same building somewhere else.
When you complete an objective and the AI resigns, all the military buildings and units get automatically deleted, it's not completely instant, usually a few seconds.
Just like me as noob
so i should just stand there and kill villagers one by one
The next episode will be really interesting, Im expecting at least 2 tries :)
Yeah, I'm convinced that unless you exploit the AI by luring them out with hero units, it's damn near impossible. When I finally did it, it's because I used Jean de Lorrain (The Hero Bombard Cannon unit) to scout ahead, and so long as they weren't Longbowmen (which the cannon can kill with not too much trouble) I could avoid them.
it is very hard indeed i was suprised by how hard it was to pull off, you really need to optimize the use of every unit, it good fun to try though.
Made it first time I tried it. Barely made it, but still made it.
There is worse. For Viper, this could be a challenge or piece of cake, there is no way to tell.
Little piece of advice for the Viper: you don't need to level the cities in the next map either ;)
Izelle Ts on hard?
Oh, yeah. No. Forgot about that ^^"
7:13: Next time better pay more attention to the intro. At 1:11 you get to see the fully scouted map!
My impression is that in most campaigns, most enemies won't attack you (at least for some time) unless attacked/scouted. So I think it would be better for you to wait a bit more before advancing on the map (e.g. get more army before scouting yellow's base).
Congrats on another cool episode! I think it really adds to the show to let Joan fight with the army! Keep it up!
Nice to see, that your campaign videos are getting longer :D
You can hit the orange TC with galleys without having to go past yellow first, that's what the tip about the water is about.
Coming up to the Paris mission now, that's one I'm looking forward to!
Can't wait for some of the conquerors campaigns =)
One of the best series!
TheNr1CoD4pro Yeah, i have never played any campaigns after the aoc ones. After his vids on them i might try them.
I love how the map is wrong with Burgundy replacing modern Switzerland
This'll sound ridiculous, but I'd be very interested to see if you could do the next one in one hit. Not to disparage your abilities, but The Siege of Paris is the most aggravating mission in all of the original campaigns by a long mile. Not even Barbarossa's March (Really quite an easy mission, honestly) or The Lion and the Demon (Which so long as you rush Jerusalem from the getgo and get straight onto Richard's camp isn't so bad) can compare.
It's not just that you don't get Post-Imp upgrades, it's that you get no monks. The only way I managed to beat it was by using my hero units incredibly carefully to slowly draw them out one by one, kill them, let them heal, rinse and repeat. I have no clue how you're meant to do it otherwise (Or how you're meant to be able to survive the Burgundian charge in the end).
Why is the flag for the siege of Paris in South East France?
"My throat is a bit sore and dry" I totally heard my sword is a little dry there. La Vipere!
Just made myself a sandwich and Viper uploads this... Life is great!
JUst wait until you go to school tomorrow in the morning then talk to me about that life is great.
How can you not like Roxas? Srry man, no school for me anymore... Still gotta go to work though.
One of the most difficult campaign missions will be next. Good luck with that. You're gonna need it.
mashrukh khan my words! I think in fact that next level is the most difficult level off all campaigns of Age, hands down.
Nah, the Genghis Khan campaigns are way harder.
Absolutely the hardest. I don't know how the hell you're meant to do it without drawing each unit out slowly with your heroes, killing them, letting the heroes heal, and repeat. Not even The Lion and the Demon compares, and that's a pretty tricky mission if you don't know to not immediately start building the wonder.
With all respect its not even top 5 imo.
orhun kars Damn, you think? What would you rank the top 5 as, or the hardest?
You know, you can't make sure that Jeanne doesn't die forever...
The Viper: "Oh wait, they're trebbing me?!
Better lay down a mining camp"
That moment when n1 player takes 1 minute to notice that he has trebs destroying his castle, even though he is looking at the castle taking hits 11
Just as i made some tea, viper uploads a video. What a wonderful day :)
TheViper may be new to campaign but the bastard still rolls through in half an hour :3
When i watch viper playing age of empires , i feel like im watching Bob Ross painting.
Ikr, he seems so casual but it comes out being awesome
10:12 Is that a new animation for the villager dying, or I'm just stupid?
My God I didn't notice that either!
It's just the male shepherd dying graphic :D
It's really rarley seen though.
In French pronounciation: "la Vipère" vithout typically "aï" on "i". "Je m'appelle" was perfect, thank you for interest in French language.
Troyes=troa (it was almost that).
And he didn't even bother to go Imp. Now I really feel like a beginner.
As I saw another guy mention the hint about water is because a couple war galleys could actually kill the orange tc while you focus elsewhere. Easy way to get rid of one.
Best line in the game
"CHARGE!!!!"
When they said to take the water, I think it means to build three or four demolition ships to annihilate longbowmen that try to cross the river. :D
Great video again viper! I`m already excited for the next one as it is actually really hard to complete!
Just FYI when u defeat computers in these vanilla campaign missions, they take forever to delete all their units and military buildings, one by one like about one every second, thats why it takes them so long to resign
29:40 Now I need to argue the Abbey upgrade as a feasible option. Once argued feasible I will place the upgrade on another upload.
my boy, thank you for uploading
Next one will be interesting, Viper's great micro is a big plus for that kind of scenario but he is pretty reckless as well so I'm not sure.
Tip of the day Vipe, whenever playing on single player scenario, check whether you have access to Imp. Every time when the scenario starts. It'll be useful at crucial times :D :P
Thanks for the video btw :)
dire wolves dodge like 90% of arrows. That's why your xbows had trouble with that first one. You can tell it is a dire wolf quickly because they have a square instead of a circle when you click on them.
futbolluva House Stark in aoe2..
really enjoying this series. cant wait till you do the age of rajas scenarios
You could have gone imp in this mission, I guess you didn't need to though.
23:52 did you hear that?
The only advantage by water is to knock off green's troops and to wipe out orange. War Galley's can reach their TC but beyond that, they don't help with yellow.
3:50 the moonwalking knight is strong in this video
Wouah Viper, you spoke french very well :) keep doing your great job !
It didn't tell you to take over the water! quite the oposite. it told you that it is nice to control the river but do not spent your resources on ships
I'm very eager to see how you fare in the Siege of Paris, my guess is that you are going to fail at least once! By the way I love this series, keep it up man!
haha its awesome learning so quickly, truly appreciative of the videos. Although I've been playing ahead, and I must say I can't wait for you to play Jihad, its beaten me 5 times straight now, i'm tilted.
Please tell me you will upload the challenge where you and Toplo instructed each other.
Be careful of extensive scouting and early aggression, at least in the later missions. I've accidently triggered the entire enemy army to attack early on more than I'd like to admit lol
cant wait for the last mission of this campaign
How many attempts will Siege of Paris take I wonder lol. I hate hate HATE that level.
if you lose your siege in the next one it's a nightmare
first time i realize that the map overview has complete wrong borders. for example burgundy is in switzerland...
6:54
"We are gonna do Tim proud and wall this"
LOL
3:49 lol, that is a whole new level of moonwalking.
Dude, I´m in love with your voice x)
(2 years later) "Troyes" is pronounced like if you say 3 in french (trois or [tʁwa] in phonetics version)
12:36 you should not, it's a Frank (French) campaign after all.
Viper awesome vid. But why didn't you advance to imperial age you didn't realize or you wanted to do it in castle age ?
please change speed to Fast when you play campaign ^_6
Nice, wasn't expecting an episode today. This is actually 4 episodes this week, you said you were doing 3 lol.
nice french there viper!
you know what helps against a sore throat....
Je pensais que la vidéo serait en français, then i realised it was just the intro ^^
Cool Guys Don't Look At Explosions...... Cool GUYS never go IMP
17:40 why didnt you just send in the ram and let it tank the archer shots while knights destroy the archers
upload some CBA, that would be great
now the viper is as far as I am. I will watch what you do next and just try the same with worse micro^^
Why you didn't go Imp 11
Love your intro man! from a french guy ahahah
great series :)
Finally! The first of the scenarios most of the people wanna see, Siege of Paris! Good luck!
anyone knows if you still can get over the max pop with monks like in the original AoE (without Voobly)?
(the trick was to convert units while a unit is produced and thereby get both units (and one more pop then normally, also works with higher number of converts but you need more monks then.)
You could go imp on this mission :P
Literally how I've been playing this stupid level for months and I can't get it
Still tryna understand why you didn't just make petard kamekaze squads and finish map in 6 minutes. Maybe this is some advanced stuff that i don't understand
wait, why is Switzerland called Burgundy?
01:20 se você procurar essas cidades no Google maps da França, vai ver que a posição geográfica que colocaram no game não tem absolutamente nada a ver com a vida real 😂😂😂😂
you actually pronounced cathedral correctly in this one!!! :)
The original no hd version age of kings is hell difficult
Water was useful because you could have hit Troyes (orange) TC with cannon galleons.
Of course not researching the imperial age might be a bit of a problem with this strategy :P
wayrof think even war galleys could have hitted that ^^. #castleagehype
Faber1997 none of the AIs had docks, and knowing them they would have never built one :P
7, sorry i got only now what you meant!
Yeah you're totally right ^^
play the genghis khan campaign
When I first did this mission I remember not even realising the village at the left side 'til near the end of the game, I raided the orange place and used monks to steal vills to begin my base in orange base, then fought yellow then green. I #clearly did it wrong, sorry I'm new.
Cayh This was actually my favourite scenario. After beating green and orange i used to camp the shallows with monks at max pop and convert a lot of those longbows and then attack at 150 pop with aroung 75 longbows. the ai used to send one longbow at a time then.
Haha, yeah I've kinda exploited the whole convert to get over max pop thing a few times as well. =P
Bonjour Viper, quelle belle video, j'adore ton teneur
Great video's, these. I hope you'll survive that cough so you can upload more!
Cheers, I hope so as well!
Why did you not go imperial age viper?
What's the wall mod you have?
FYI, the city of Troyes is pronounced exactly how you would pronounce the french word for three.
Laughed way to hard at 1:28 :D
The ai vill sneak - Strong
you had access to imp
i would think, given that joan was divinely inspired...would it not stand to reason that she not only could kill the enemy, she could convert them. at 11:40 or so, she attacking vils. i thought if she could convert them she would have extra vils. i mean shit, the real joan convincrd a large group of rough ass, murderous soldiers to do gods (?) work.....ahh who gives a pigs squat. pass the mead and find me a wench what to fondle me cod piece.
finally!
going imp?
Guys Viper didnt wanna go imp just to show off his skills, relax it was all part of the plan