4. Bloody Crestwaves | Thoros | AoE2: DE The Mountain Royals
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2023
- A long slog across Cyprus!
In this scenario, the new BFFs Thoros and Reynald must conquer the island of Cyprus from the Byzantines, defeating their navy along the way. There is a lot to this scenario, so be prepared for plenty of fighting on land and sea.
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west side: farmville
east side: T H U N D E R D O M E
"They have lots of Navy units."
I too find it surprising that the Byzantine Navy would have lots of Navy units.
I'm glad there's finally a campaign where we can use Dromons
YES~!!!
I say taking the right side is while challenging more rewarding
Blue will be destroyed by the Navy if they're on the right side but on the left side they will be able to deal with green and cyan all by themselves
Having tried both, I have to say that picking the west base felt way easier than the east one on this map. Early naval attacks were much more of a pain to deal with on the east one
Definitely, plus it allows easy trading with red, and he defends his docks as well, pretty useful
@@JimboMcBrostein red's is pretty meh from my experience every engagement with purple resulted in a lose despite having 4 docks they don't pump out enough ships especially fast fireships
The west base is nearest to the spy which reveals the map.
So I picked west and focused on a navy, which turned out to be a mistake. Reynald died and though I destroyed a bunch of Byzantine docks, the land armies overwhelmed me. Next I picked east, focused on land, saw Reynald benefit/contribute from the easier start. Was fun!
@@MegaMaster1021 Red's dock is for you to water trade only, you should protect them, for gold income
Can we all take a moment to enjoy just how satisfying the Dromon's Death animation is compared to all the other warships in the game?
So a little advice coming from my own playthrough regarding next missions achievement.
First i thought you only need to save the villager on the first part, however succesfully doing that and playing through the mission you do need to keep them safe throughout the whole missions which kinda sucks as i had to redo it.
so amazing how ornlu always manages to make hard scenarios look very easy ...
I feel like this campaign was concieved of in an earlier stage of development when the devs had switched the unique techs around. Would explain how the techs were treated like they belonged in the other age in these missions.
I remember the second mission literally had a hint about how the imp UT improves the healing rate of warrior monks... while restricting you to castle age
Who else expecting that reynald was gonna betray you in this mission while playing it?
I honestly wasn't, if only because he was so legitimately vengeful towards the Byzantines.
However, I WAS expecting him to betray me in the next mission. And, lo and behold...
@@alexandersturnn4530 I was actually shocked lol
I fully expect any campaign ally to betray me at any given moment
Tlacopan and Texcoco have permanently damaged my psyche
"Hans, are we the baddies?"
In my experience when i first picked west and Reynald east, Reynald was overrun by the byzantine fleet as he doe not seem to fend off the fleet very well. When i disrmbarked in the east, Reynald was a little more safe and could focus more on plundering and not having to worry about an overwhelming Byzantine fleet on his coast.
a special episode of "booming while letting Reynald dies"
I took the Western base and actually migrated over to the South West land of the map. It's isolated from Green and Teal, so it's easy to keep your eco from being ever touched and you can trade with Red to get lots of gold. Instead of having to beat the scenario with trash units, you'll have lots of gold units to play with.
I was looking forward to a new episode all weekend ^^
Your campaign videos are simply unbeatable.
I disembarked on the east and even though I had difficulties fending off cyan, green and both landing parties and navy of purple, Reynald started killing green and cyan by himself, but if he goes east he dies for sure since he cannot deal with the navy at all.
same thing happened with me
Ok, this one was difficult. I really struggle with scenarios in campaigns that involve both balancing fighting soldiers/carvery/siege engines and having to dedicate a proportion of your population towards a navy. I chose the right side and will try the left the next time as I was consistently attacked, especially with enemy transports embarking units, but eventually got there. Had my navy on the defensive while focusing on taking out Nicosia and Limmassol before I simply attacked with a full force of Navy to destroy the docks.
35:35 as a greek i was disappointed at how badly they butchered cyprus lmao
Gran victoria. Ornlu. Felicidades.
If you're struggling with this mission, one way to make it 1000% easier is by picking the western base and then going even farther west lmao. I couldn't fend off purple's ships and the land attacks by green and light blue so I packed up my shit and left. If you make your new town center and production buildings on the edge, the enemy boats can't get you.
Use Red's castle as a shield until you have a substantial force. Plus by working your way down and clearing out purple's shit, you can free the yellow captain who gives you free Spies. There's also a second relic.
JUST make sure you buy all the castle upgrades before it gets destroyed, mainly the boat one to make your galleons beast. I also took 2 trebs in my transport ship to pick off the buildings. I'm guessing that's the pussy way to do it but.... it worked lmao. I rebuilt my whole fleet and had like 50 boats and dromons and wrecked their docks.
The island on this map looks absolutely nothing like Cyprus, it's bizarre
Also Level 5 is fucking *nuts* at the start but then gets really easy
Nice one! I didn't know the achievement so let the Cypriot Village live. I'll try the east side next time. Seems a harder spot so should be a good challenge
Tried both sides and found success on the eastern side. I found that Reynaud not only survived but also helped out against the Cyprus cities (and two of the Byzantine docks near his base), allowing me to concentrate on a naval campaign against the five Byzantine docks nearby, whilst knocking off some of the locals to gain resources. Also it seemed that the placement of the castle on the eastern side actually protected the northern side of the base.
Only tried the western approach so far- May replay this mission later for the other route.
It’s a strange mission, reading the description I waited a mission focused on raiding buildings on the land, but really it is a naval battle.
Alexandretta(Iskenderun) has a curious position on the map, compared to its real world position relative to Cyprus.
Build a circle of bombard towers and churches around the edges of the island and grab some popcorn. I always loved spamming bombard towers and watch them trap micro attempts only to get slaughtered anyway.
Help! Two faced brigands are attacking our peaceful villages!
That mission was such a dang heache and a slog, took me ages on hard.
anyone knows if they removed the teutonic knights in jadwiga? (out of topic ik xd)
How pick any side? Which buttons to use? P.S. Sorry for such a dumb question
Time for a frenemy conquest if Cyprus.
My game has also been experiencing mini lag spikes over the last 2-3 days
went on straight booming at the eastern bay and then lost 2 tcs cuz of the navy pressure -> had to play 1.5 hrs
feels sad man
This was a strange campaign, i picked the west. I really enjoyed the start, but after wiping out purple navy to the south and surviving the first attacks on land, this level became a boring slog. Not difficult, it just took time to defeat every enemy.
I personally find this mission kind of clunky. It's supposed to be a mission where you raid on land, but the ultimate goal is to destroy the enemy's navy? For my part and for the sake of the achievement I picked the West half and did my best to basically ignore navy until I'd destroyed everything on Cyprus, then I deleted my army, built a navy and destroyed the Byzantine docks. It was really easy at that point and almost felt like an afterthought.
Yeah, not fond of the design here. Personally I went for the opposite: settled east, and defended all game with fortifed churches, TCs and a couple of pikes+composites, it was enough to beat back any land attack. Meanwhile I rushed almost minute 1 the byzantine navy, rampaged all their docks in no time using the galleys, I didn't even noticed there was an achievement then, so I might actually replay it.
It's a shame that cyprus looks a bit weird on the map.
And they even put Alexandretta on the wrong side of the map! It's supposed to be northeast of Cyprus (in present day southeastern Turkey close to Syria).
not shaming the devs but they focus mostly on the story than the actual historical accuracy, so if you want a more detailed map, i guess we will have to wait until some nice modder makes a campaign including cyprus lol
@@LegendKingY2j I guess your right. Not shaming the devs at all actually. And I don't see how that would be historical accuracy. That's just geography.
I've only played the first two missions so far, but this is the first campaign where I've actually used infantry (eagles not counting) as my main army like they clearly want. Doing it in Alaric just felt like madness given you were fighting hardcore anti-infantry units the whole campaign.
The english voice acting of thoros feels realy underwhelming, as if he is falling asleep anytime soon, the german voices are better imo
Have to agree voiceovers were not very good in this DLC. Also on the persia campaign the woman narrator has her voice going from yelling to extremely quiet, its really annoying as you can't set a comfortable volume.
In my case, I hate the spanish voice of Reynald (a weird mix of an old and drunk man...)
And in the italian dub hes too young
@@CptSquirrel definetly agree with persian narrator, the missions were fun and challenging but the story failed to hype it up and the emotions were not well developed imo, therefore the tamar one felt good
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