AoE2: DE Campaigns | Montezuma | 4. La Noche Triste

[@pepemontuenga3368]

Ornlu, La Noche Triste is indeed a historical event. The aztecs managed to oust the Spanish and Tlaxcalans just like the outro says. Then they pursued the Spanish, who managed to defeat the aztecs at the battle of Otumba (which was won because they killed the aztec captain and the army fled - the fifth scenario is somewhat based on it). Finally, a year later, the Spanish returned and sieged Tenochtitlan and then it was when the empire fell.

[@OrnLu_AoE]

Hooray learning! Even the most dedicated history nerds can't know everything, and between my stream chat and YT comments, there are always people to help fill in the gaps :)

[@Darkboy2525]

Man, I love all these amazing comments on these video's, thanks for sharing your wisedom with us, I love it. Now I hope to remember it !

[@ThePepisto]

it was a massive ambush in one of the long bridges that lead out of Tenochtitlan, the history of la Conquista is epic, in fact Steven Spielberg was about to make a film about it, with Javier Bardem starring as Cortes, but the producers canceled it because of the pandemic in 2020.

[@thefridge71]

My parents were both school teachers. In Australia, we have our holidays at the end of the year. We always went to my grandparents house, a quiet little seaside town, with no action for a young kid. Except for AOE and AOE2. My sister and I spent hours playing these games, learning history, jumping off the couch yelling "El Cid." Thanks for these videos, and for the history. It has gotten me back into the game after 25 years.

[@IAmBael]

I just completed this one the way you did, and I was so proud of myself for realising that you can just take out the Wonder at the start without sailing across as intended, I had to check if this was how the KZbinrs did it as well, and here you are!

[@jaydock1]

ah it was my intuition to play it this way with the huge army they give you, but i followed the "guidance" and yeah it makes it way harder, it gives them time to boom

[@michaelcemhalicioglu3209]

I dunno how I didnt die but I just walked to the wonder without even going round and destroyed it with the starting jaguar warrior. No recruiting at all. I knew something was wrong lol.

[@Valdore1000]

I converted 2 cannon galleons and enjoyed their helpless units trying to reach me. They occasionally send a ship or two but nothing your monks can't do.

[@rad_sci_guy]

I did it with one cannon galleon converted. Destroyed the docks first and then the 2 shore castles before going after the wonder. They finished building it but 10 seconds later I got to see it crumble.

[@pedroprass106]

i did all the vill converting shenanigans, got a base, built 2 trebuchets, used the transport ships to place them near the spanish castle, destroyed 1 spanish castle so that my trbuchets could be safely in range of the wonder, and just sniped it but yeah, that way is a lot easier lmao

[@inconemay1441]

I love it how players can cheese it like the old days, even on Hard.

[@Guryguazu]

I knew it. I saw the gate, I saw the wonder right there, but I chickened out and did what the objectives told me to do. Even had to load a previous save because I took like 2 seconds too long to destroy the wonder and failed.

[@patrickm.4469]

I was having a hard time with this one, thank you for this!

[@Karate.Expl0si0n]

Dude, I spent two days doing exactly what you said not to do!! Hahahaha! Can't wait try the method out

[@arserobinson7118]

I just beat this mission in only 18 minutes because i went straight to the wonder and destroyed it, lol. Only difference to your vid was I knocked the gate down to get to it. To think years ago i spent ages on this mission sailing to the designated point and building up an army there. LOL

[@michael47359]

Another easy way is to get to your base. The spanish will send over a cannon gallon. Convert it with the monks then kill the castles and wonder with the converted cannon galleon.

[@abangss]

This is the easiest part of montezuma, you don't need bring so much army inside the enemy area but you only need canon galleon (get from convert with monk) for destroy 2 castle, then you can easily attack wonder until fall.

[@Smurfonshroom]

Amid the virus outbreak and the length of this episode is there a possibility of you uploading two video a day? Thank you

[@OrnLu_AoE]

If I had a lot of campaigns left, then yes I would certainly consider it, but unfortunately this is the 2nd to last campaign. If I doubled the upload rate, I would run out of videos really fast, and since I still have to finish my last semester of university (remotely), I don't think I'd have the time to maintain that :( On the bright side, there are a couple extra videos I want to make regarding both the campaigns and current competitive multiplayer scene, so you can hopefully look forward to that. Oh yeah, and iirc literally every other campaign episode is quite a bit longer than this one, so no worries there! Most importantly, I hope everyone is staying safe and well

[@marcusmorris960]

This was excellent thank you! 👏👍

[@LordMangudai]

Are the statistics broken in DE? Units killed and units lost 0 for all players? 12:33

[@Cronoboro]

Wow. Very usefull speedrund. Nice video, u have muy like

[@Shield1601]

So after playing the "guided way" 3 times I thought "what if I use the onager i get to just destroy the wonder when I get the boats" yeah because THAT WORKS😂😂 and it made it so much quicker. I honestly assumed if I tried it I'd just get annihilated by their troops. Also for anyone struggling, don't open the jaguar pen just use your other monk to convert the other monk. Immediately select onager when it appears and take it away from the enemy jaguar warriors. Turn the onager to "no attack stance" and keep it behind your troops. I found it easier to separate onager and troops, keep all on no attack stance and just manually attack where needed. Makes it much easier and the onager doesn't wipe out your own troops

[@creedtasticperez]

4:55, how you did it? (; - ;

[@daraelchen5061]

I didn't know where to go so I just clicked the wonder and I accidentally cheesed the level lol

[@johnwallace2319]

i did this the long way, it was such a pain in the butt, haven't even finished it yet, it was just not fun, you can't get the stone or gold, so you might as well build a base on the other side, all you can get is wood and food as it is

[@ghiffaribara2949]

You gave me a heart attack 6:00

[@tunezmusic661]

LOL 😂😂😂😂

[@KamleshMallick]

The most annoying mission ever! First - the cheesy way of winning - So boring! Second - Even if u play the right way, by going to the island, getting monks - there is a frigging timer. I cant stand timed missions! So even i just did what you did - very effective. But what a waste. I felt this mission could have been more epic. They should have shown Cortez and Spanish running away, Tenochtitlan in ruins, Montezuma dying etc. A missed opportunity here.

[@Macron96321]

10:52 got it, i see you

[@thenayancat8802]

I ended up with like 5 military (hefty mango shots and I lost the onager to jags, didn't want to restart) so I had to transport. It actually ends up slightly tricky because the spanish go super heavy on heavy demos and galleons, so you need to take water and then also push in with land military + siege. I just ignored water and went siege ram + eagle spam, it worked out

[@tcsiyic3584]

I remember they had two turtle ships somewhere near the top of the map, do they still have it?

[@Smurfonshroom]

Don’t think so, it’s suppose to be on the last level of this campaign and now replaced with elite cannon galleons

[@zwleathers]

I hate onagers. No matter what we can never use them as effectively as the AI. Since the AI can manage everything at once doesn't matter how many things are going on elsewhere it will always scatter it's units at an onager shot and the harder you try the more likely your just gonna kill your own dudes, if you have no dudes then then ai just dodges every shot n rushes n kills onager. Using them for base defense is just as bad because even behind a wall, the ai dodges and you just damage the crap out of your wall. In my opinion they are one of the most useless units in the game outside of very very specific circumstances or if you have no rams or trebs and crappy infantry for damaging buildings, essentially theyre only used in situations like this where the level is made to make one useful. which sucks because they are pretty cool.....ez or not so fix would be that anytime the AI reacts to an onager shot, it should have 2 things happen, RNG, wether or not the ai reacts n scatters at all, the higher the difficulty. The higher the chance, then have an RNG on the speed of how fast it reacts, the higher the difficulty the more likely it'll be fast. Atleast in this way it would be fair to the ability we have at using the onager, if you can't tell I'd really like to use onagers and have spent a few minutes thinking about this....alas...I'll just holdout for these special scenarios where they're useful.

[@atcera8714]

Bruh this campaign broke me