Aoe2 DE Campaign Achievements: Offense is the Best Defense [Saladin 6. The Lion and the Demon]

In this episode we tackle the "The Lion and the Demon" scenario and attempt to speedrun to the defeat of all of our enemies without building a wonder.
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[@SalcN]

The beggining of this video basically did it for me. After defeating grey and yellow I kinda went rogue, but managed to get it eventually. Probably not the easiest of ways I chose, but starting out with -2 opponents made this go from "Wtf this isn't possible" to "Omg this is hard, but I got it" Thank you man, Much love

[@spectre9065]

Key to getting this achievement is to know that the enemies start out weak, but snowball if left untouched. If you take out 2 enemies early, it becomes infinitely easier to clean up the rest. Especially since Genoese is no threat.

[@ThomasDiesch]

yeah after templars and jerusalem are gone its easy cause geonese dont do anything and The Franks get melted by mameluks, with grey and yellow down its an easy clean up did the mission in 30 minutes by myself after i knew you can kill jerusalem just with some boats from the get go

[@guetteurlunaire3623]

This is so unpacifist.

[@poyloos4834]

Not halal :(

[@fedemedina3129]

Me looking at the achievement: is this even possible? T-west: hold my mamluke This is the third time i use this meme but damn

[@janisberzins1734]

Your guide is the best available for this mission. I dont have such microing skills so I made forward castle (near shore, helped for both - Franks & Genoese and served as hospital as well) instead of selling stone and upgrading mamelukes.

[@user-vo1sb3bo1s]

19:00 Sadly that's true even after a thousand years

[@KamleshMallick]

T-West did this without chopping any wood for 15 mins. Miracle worker!

[@SarisTX]

I got swarmed by teutonic knights, it took me 3 hours but I managed to get the achievement. It became easy when the Ai ran out of gold and were heading for the only mines that I held.

[@villager7398]

"that new voice actor, just awful" Thank you! im not the only one that thinks that

[@brendanhart517]

They have done a lot of poor new voice actors but I am rather fond of the narrator of this campaign

[@mariannamazzotta267]

The wiliiam wallece one is even worse

[@pmx777]

Been stuck on this mission all weekend. Great video you're a beast!

[@ashthedominator]

1:03 - the first "Acre" in the text is spelt "Arce" 🤣

[@greenglassdoorjigglypuffcl4470]

Would have never seen it I always skip the prologue and epilogue

[@aljufribrothers9355]

very rarely do I publicly comment on any videos in YT. but bro. you helped me so much. liked an subscribed.

[@joseangelvillaverdealcalde2317]

Hello, I just want to say thank you for this video; It helped me to get the achievement. I hope you continue with the good work.

[@theowlogram888]

Trebs shrouded in an heavenly glow is the best thing I've seen today 11

[@evvec1490]

I guess Sun Tzu was right..

[@catrielmarignaclionti4518]

@Gerd Wieslerthats literally the best strategy for both lmao

[@notmiscares3918]

I pass this mision this way, first at the second the match starts I build a castle close to the blue franks, destroy them, next the light blue team, then go after yellow and red castles, then go after gray team until they surrender, then finish off yellow and red. You first want to do this with Mamelukes and Treabuchets, but later it is better to transition to Hussars and less Mamelukes to dont run out of gold

[@stefanandrejcik571]

T-West you are boss for beating them so quickly i managed to do it on second try but took me a lot longer :D but i dont have achievement because i did back when it was bugged also lepanto is bugged aswell curently none of the ships landed and haven't gotten achievement

[@Julzmoch]

About lepanto: you have to complete the wonder and not defeat the enemies. Otherwise you wont get the achievement.Good luck!

[@stefanandrejcik571]

@@Julzmoch 7 that's why thsnk you

[@truebeliever786]

That was bloody insane.

[@adeelqureshy573]

Good to know I’m almost done all AOE 2 D.E campaigns. After this I got those two stupid painful ART OF War ones prior to moving onto AOE 3 D.E

[@evanrudibaugh8772]

That was surgical perfection. The templars are the worst - they just spam paladins, Teutonic knights and rams if you let them live, which is really difficult combination to counter when you're getting attacked from multiple ends.

[@thessalonikiosmusv]

I thought I had to win before the AI make wonders under unknown timer. So I tried so hard to battle them all and managed to get Jerusalem and The Hospitalers surrender pretty quick but those Longbowmen are so annoying. I was about to quit but then I re-read the achievement details, realized that it's before I make wonder. Then it should be easier which basically I have not time limit and I can prepare army better ahahahaha. I finally get it.

[@maazypaaz]

They've definitely update the resign trigger for the civs. I just tried to kill the castle and towncenter for most of the base and they just kept moving to new spots over and over. took me forever until they crushed my own base. I got the achievement on standard, but im gonna have to go again for the Gold status.

[@nbrocx4216]

Woah. I am not sure if my eyes were deceiving me. Were you there in decino's 40k subs livestream yesterday? Damn. So, you were the SIGIL pro that he was talking about, in an earlier livestream. Good job man. xD Nicely done mission. I could do this in HD. In DE, for some reason, winning this mission by beating all enemies is tougher. I'm gonna try again though. Thanks for the video.

[@T-West]

I'm proud to have contributed my 1 bullet towards killing Imps that couldn't be reached to punch.

[@nbrocx4216]

@@T-West good job man. XD I guess it's time for you to post doom vids as well. (Not counting the sigil vids that you posted already) XD Someday.....someday it might happen.

[@stefanandrejcik571]

Yesterday i did like 30 achievements :D i have only around 40 left

[@terrymeng6321]

A pretty much perfect demonstration of how to strike at the enemies before they have a chance to fight back. I can see the key is to sell the 1000 stones to produce more units and to strike at the weakest points first, i.e. Jerusalem and Franks/Teutonic Knights. One point though: wouldn't it be worthwhile to produce a few more villagers at the start for 50 food each who could quickly earn more resources back?

[@T-West]

Since I was trying to speedrun this scenario I prioritized getting my upgrades right away. I wouldn't have been able to afford Elite Mameluke so early if I had produced Vils. If playing normally then you'd probably want Vils though. Just this speedrun route felt better without spending the initial food on them. There's probably lots of room for optimization!

[@terrymeng6321]

@@T-West OK I understand it now thanks. I would probably have produced more Vils after the situation is brought under control, i.e. with only 2 or less enemies left in the game. I am keen to look through any replays that defeated all the enemies whilst keeping both the Tower of Flies and Accursed Towers intact. Accursed Tower seems to go down really quickly in most replays.

[@TomsLife9]

back in the day, the pop limit of every single campaign was 75! super frustrating

[@micahbush5397]

Not to mention the anachronistic use of gunpowder. I hate Bombard Cannons!

[@LokirofRoriksted]

i tried to build an army of 40 FU mamelukes and trebs and tried to destroy the bretons first. Oh boy... didnt work at all

[@kimchikecap5086]

Same energy with me, it was bad strategy hahaha

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

What I did was get food and wood in order to send all my vills on the small island. This way I could build a wonder there, a few docks as well and only had to deal with Genoese.

[@el-conquisto8512]

When they have nothing left supplies i like to invade them back

[@rafsan1578]

In my game, the long bowmen go back out of my range again and again and shoots me. And rechard has onegers at first. And when I destroyed nearly every building of an enemy, they used to ran away to another enemy area and rebuild.

[@el-conquisto8512]

You r fast thinker

[@achikkun6352]

i wonder what is the resign settings for the 5 enemies since you did not destory grey castle

[@T-West]

iirc it's killing the TCs and almost all villagers and military units. The conditions are in the AI scripts.

[@SuperAlikali]

Ah yes, the very quick guide on how I will probably never play in AoE D:

[@HWABAG6]

I seeing my dad beated it first try without wonder it was kinda crayz and it it long time to neat it on hard

[@rishinz]

'Geno AC'? I think its 'Geno eez'.

It is GenoAC in Italian. The Anglophone world has mutated it to Genoeez. Either is therefore correct depending on what you fancy.

[@rishinz]

@ That's interesting. It's not very common in English to use that ending. There's only Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and maybe one or two others that come to mind.

[@DenisZolotcev]

Невероятно. Очень круто! Спс.

[@sharkzun1650]

Is there a population limit bug on this scenario because i remember that saladin’s population limit is 100 but on the new update it was 200

[@T-West]

It was 100 back when I played it. But perhaps it has been broken after that, haven't tested that recently.

[@nemosgaze]

is this bugged now? I did the same about a week ago and the achievement didn't fire; the achievement for completing Saladin's campaign did fire tho

[@alexanderstoyanov7464]

Very unfortunate but the achievement is still bugged. Otherwise I followed the path destroy Templars, Franks, Genoese, Jerusalem and finally Richard for this mission. Took a while longer than this run, but wasn't too difficult

[@nikoladjuric6946]

i didnt get achivment i killed all enemies inluding persian outpost what a waste of time over 2 hours

[@bosbanon3452]

Aqqo or Akka

[@outwithayang7153]

Watched this after getting it myself to see the difference in how a pro does it. Needless to say I think I wasted 3 hours of my life lol.

[@Gwynbliedd44]

I can tolerate everything else but the cringe voice acting 💀

[@T-West]

The original voice acting was great.