AoE2: DE Campaigns | Saladin | 2. Lord of Arabia

Help! Crusaders are attacking our trade routes!
In this scenario, Saladin must defend the traders and pilgrims on and around the Red Sea from the treacherous Frankish knight Reynald de Chatillon. You start in Feudal Age with a very small base, and one of your enemies can get to Imperial, so you really do need to get the most out of all your units!
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[@aveb5014]

dude i failed so many times in this mission. its frustrating lmao

[@bodemayson1479]

i know Im randomly asking but does any of you know a method to get back into an instagram account..? I stupidly lost my account password. I would love any tricks you can give me

[@hamzatroy3595]

@Bode Mayson instablaster :)

[@clayman648]

I am struggling lol!!!

[@ryoumakoushiro7447]

Back when I'm still a scrub, I resort to 45 cobra to all bases

[@gmcg923]

Yep, that's why I'm here. Light blue keeps attacking Aqaba full force within 15 mins. I don't even have a chance to get my economy going. I have started by sending a villager to Yellow immediately and building an archery range and stable. From there, I start cranking out cavalry units, but can't repel Reynald's attacks.

[@arpanmukherjee961]

This level was shitlessly difficult but fun

[@user-su9if4xq2y]

even for 2nd mission xD

[@clayman648]

This was a tough campaign but here are some very helpful tips: 1. Always have villagers gathering and never standing around especially at the start of the game 2. Have small groups gathering from multiple sources instead of like 20 at one place like 2 mills with a ring of farms + some for your town center 3. Have like 30-40 total out gathering resources. say 3 on gold at the start and upgrade mine speed 4. ONE Villager for making buildings/houses, prioritise building speed for lumbers 5. Build 2-3 of the same offensive troop spawns for faster army production and send out a charge in missions like this EVERY second counts, if you get attacked before you go out attacking, restart the mission

[@denen404]

doesn't really matter when the ai difficulty is supposedly set to hard but the dude has less enemy units that are acting less aggressively and not doing as much damage as the campaign on standard.... so unless they've doubled the amount of enemies in the past 3 years.... this campaign is modded....

[@Lukas94337]

24:13 Blue landed Villagers? That would have been the first Time in History that the AI landed Villagers.

[@NeerajSharmah2c2o4]

I see they kept the "feature" of blue transporting villagers to your shores just to chill around doing nothing from aok.

[@DFWTF]

That was rough , the Reynald raiders only attacked me not the other cities , i had to make a castle to defend my city to make troops .

[@felixcroc]

28:46 - That paladin phased through the walls!

[@mulder801]

Da power of promised land 😂

[@dragonstormx]

The missions in this game restricting how far you can advance is part of why even though the Saladin campaign is supposed to be the middle campaign, it's actually considered the hardest of the Age of Kings campaigns.

[@dragonstormx]

@User Notification You are entitled to that opinion. I am just saying what the consensus among fans is.

[@Schereten12]

really think kingdom of heavens was made after aoe2 release but not sure either. amazed that you mention that, barbarossa and saladin campaign really made me think of the movie - to good haha

[@hordenmeisterAO]

Kingdom of Heavens is from 2005, so maybe the screenwriters played aoe :D

[@olis5233]

The 3 hour Director's Cut of Kingdom of Heaven is amazing

[@valentinmaican5744]

0:38 Thank you, I was really pissed at that stupid mistake of theirs. Third Crusade kinda starts in the fifth mission.

[@valentinmaican5744]

@@khacnhatminhminhle5075 Like I said, only kinda. The Lion and the Demon is based on the Siege of Acre, at which point the Third Crusade had already started. But I also see your point of view, as that is the first major battle of that crusade. Let's just say it's between mission 5 and 6.

[@wimpie133]

@@valentinmaican5744 Nice to know maybe, but chronologically scenario 5 (Jihad) takes place before scenario 4 (Siege of Jerusalem) :-)

[@sudo4598]

I wonder if this scenario got updated since this video. When I played, the pirates landed several times with paladins and siege. Eventually they took out Aqaba and I needed to restart. Really caught me off guard. During this playthough though, the pirates didn't seem to land at all. And they resigned when I destroyed their TC.

[@MegadethTillDeth]

I had to burn the whole island to the fuckin ground for the pirates to resign. They were brutal af. This scenario took me 2 hours, the second hour just the pirates alone. I let them have the sea in the first half because I was focused on upping a castle and ground forces to protect the TC's, having taken out one on the last try. Shit was a grind for sure

[@hugeLANK]

It didn't. It happened to me too. On my second try I didn't build a dock and that was the changer so that the pirates didn't land. It was easier this way but I was always expecting them

[@aidanlam3180]

30:02 Whenever your castle completes a tech or unit, it resets its attack commands... So if you had it attack a building or a gate or wall and you build something, unless the building is the only thing in sight you'll just see it stop following your initial order. Not bad if you're attacking something insignificant like a gate or wall. Pretty awful when you're lacking murder holes and want to hit something else. That said, I'd complain about why castle is still targeting melee units under it when it doesn't have murder holes. I'm pretty sure HD and older versions had it so anything too close would be ignored so you can hit other things? Meh...

[@OrnLu_AoE]

I researched Murder Holes once I saw the Castle being attacked by the Paladins :) Also, your first comment applies whenever you have units garrison/ungarrison. This is especially noticeable (and annoying) during tower rushes in multiplayer

[@Saatch1018]

Did they make changes or something from the time of this video. First of all, no unit got removed at the begining apart from Reynold for me. I couldn't win agaist those troops at begining since they had aditional knights and archers. Also, I got constant and I mean constant raids from Reynald's Raiders (archers/skirms/knights) unlike in this video. As soon as I hit castle age, the skirms/archers are already killing my vills at my base.

[@pr9058]

Just for your information: today I got my ass handed to me by that constant raids. Like even on moderate I only manage to get 10-14 crossbows and then two mangonels with like 10 archers/skirmishers. Hold them of and then next one with 3-4 cavalry, rams and few archers. I know I'm not good at this game but come on.

[@Saatch1018]

@@pr9058 Yea I think they changed it from the time of this video .. After a lot of struggle I managed to do this one. If I remember correctly I didnt bother sending my initial troops to their death. I would rather keep them for defending against the raids. Also the strat that I did was just to wall my base off (there's some tree lines that you can use to help you wall) and just BOOM asap. Once You hit Castle, with good economy then you should be able to push back the raids.. Good Luck

[@obiwan7840]

I know I'm late but I'm going to reply how I dealt with it. I failed like 5 times before winning the map. First I tried walling to deny Reynold rushes, but then I'd get raided by pirates from the other side who would keep killing my vills. What worked for me was of course booming but having 3 different "main" camps where I would have some vills taking resources, so if one my camp falls I'd still have vills alive, one specially close to Aqaba where I'd focus my military buildings since Reynold would also attack it and the TC would fall pretty quickly, that way I can deal with defending Aqaba and attacking Reynold at the same time. I didn't wall, I just focused on map control. Once I defeated Reynold it was just focusing on winning the sea and landing on the pirates base. I sucks playing against post imp units tho. Cheers.- I came to see how other ppl dealt with this camping because there is usually a different approach to a map that makes me go "well that would have been less work".

[@Saatch1018]

@@obiwan7840 The raids from the sea (Reynald's pirates) come really late compared to the raids on land from the east ... One castle on the shore and a couple of ships is enough to defend against those Indeed Booming seems always to be the key for winning this. Walling definitely helps especially if done smart .. Obviously it's not the ultimate defense : if you wall but there's no booming it will definitely fail however it can keep those raiders busy and give you time to boom behind

[@woodrew5415]

@@obiwan7840 I need to try that, this is harder than I remember it being. Like you said Aqaba always seems to fall by the 20min mark without me defending it. Making a separate camp there for military buildings early on is a good idea

[@iceviking8280]

I always seal Teal in his base since it’s just 1 gate. You can build a wall real quick over his gate. This will stall him for awhile. You can send some skirmishers to poke at their units every now and then. Defend your shore. Blue will transport catapults etc which fall to towers.

[@nalbarracin]

In one of my gameplays, the blue villagers not only landed on my territory: they also built a Town Center, some stables and other buildings. They escaped from me while destroying their base. That was really unexpected!

[@immorttalis]

The AI in DE is one of three things in this mission: braindead, bugged, or turbo aggro. The pirates were twiddling their thumbs in my Standard game, never actually sending invasions, barely making units because their pop cap was filled with villagers. But Intermediate? Much more aggro, naval harassment early on, etc.

[@yutuvefan4ever]

7:02 One mangonel, ha...ha...ha... Two mangonels, ha...ha...ha... Three mangonels, ha...ha...ha...

[@kortanioslastofhisname]

There technically was the spectacular failure that was the People's Crusade if you were desperate to defend the 3 crusades statement at the start... Totally agree though that that is just an unnecessary sloppy mistake.

[@user-su9if4xq2y]

wow this edition looks so dope and nice

[@user-lg2kg5vo9v]

Dev increases pop to 100 in AOE 2 DE in this mission, but in AOE DE, they keep pop 50, that’s suck

[@TheBaggiojunior]

Man i defeated i think every enemy and explore everything in the map but they do not surrender could be some bug maybe

[@GamingGuruGuy975]

I blocked both entrances early with a wall to Reynalds raiders then built 2 castles. Use market to buy stone early. The castles when upgraded stop everything comming out so you can just shit out enough knights etc into the base so they resign then it's back to the shore ready for those pesky trebuchets lol.

[@tradingsystemsgroup5312]

I’m going to try an alternate strategy of rushing to gather the stone on the right and then building a castle right by their base entrance. Then fill with archers and support with Calvary to take out rams. Probably won’t work, but fun factor of trying stuff out is worth it.

[@aquageto1824]

Where was the reynaldo dialog that was suppose to trigger at some part where he was bragging....it never happened here?

[@el-conquisto8512]

The crusader actually bandit, just come in peace saladin will welcome you

[@tradingsystemsgroup5312]

Ha, I see 2 types of players making comments here. Those happy that this one was challenging and those upset that it was challenging. I always feel more fulfilled when I fail a few times before beating a scenario. Heck, sometimes even when I’m winning, I restart so that I can try something else and beat it more efficiently. If a scenario takes me hours to beat, that just means the designer did a good job.

[@Neky_Hina]

I must say the AI of the Blue designed bad. They should've set it to resign if they lose enough Villagers and all TCs, at most Castles additionally. This mission often takes way too time to complete due to the Blue not resigning until you seek every single ship and destroy them.

[@MegadethTillDeth]

Whaaaat? It only took me 2 fuckin' hours, whaddya mean?

[@turnerherbek6912]

I spent 30 minutes building outposts, setting up galleys in the water just to find a single treb left. So frustrating

[@spectre9065]

In classic AOE2 teal does not advance to Castle Age.

[@steelw3131]

This map so fuckin Hard Green faction spawn is almost limitless You just killed 1-2 guys outside the city, a storm of troops came out from the city like a bunch of zombies in their graves. If you are not fast, the AI ​​is stronger, Aquaba and Medina don't have any army which makes fighting extremely difficult I don't know if I'm playing medium or hard mode

[@marcogarcia5051]

Are you playing this in easy mode? When I played it I encounter a ton of trebuchet and catapults.

[@parthaprotimbarua603]

He did this quickly. If you don't do it quick enough enemy will get really strong.

[@coolnorsee6869]

@@parthaprotimbarua603 oh ok makes sense, cause everytime he play a campaign it looks like he play it in easy, cause in my game i play it in standard and it looks like mine is harder than him, for example Bannyinaung Campaign 1 i play it in standard (easy) and the enemy they have so much horse, and archers like a lot of archers, and him he is not, srry my gramar bad

[@B30167]

Most RNG based mission ever and frustrating because of DE pathing with Cyans attacks. Add to that the sheep laming, blue being allowed to boom uninterrupted for most of the game and the randomness of where reds unit decide to wander off too in the beginning and 80% of the restarts fall in the first 5 minutes. After that it's actually decent.

[@jeffhe4553]

i find enemy transport ship extremely bugged.this mission where he'd send paladins and trebs at you and also bari i think? in the italian one. i noticed the path route for enemy transport ship ai is so bad they take them to wrong places and completely get bugged out lmao. i got extremely lucky in my hard playthru and was wondering where the hell their paladin and trebs were but i saw them at the southern tip of their island just stuck there lol

[@IzzyFst6]

Just played it and blue resigned once I destroyed their TC. HOWEVER.. Red had nothing anywhere and wouldn’t resign, could not figure out why… Got to Blues isle and there was one red archer there, not sure how he got there. Must have somehow hopped in a blue transport??

[@woodrew5415]

Idk if I just take too long or what, everytime cyan only goes for yellow and destroys their tc by the 20min mark

[@barrickfischer]

No wonder the two saracens are asking assistance. They don't have any defensive structures, save for the walls.

[@ezcyberpup]

what mods are you using in total?

[@richardchen7062]

HELP CRUSADERS ARE ATTACKING OUR TRADE ROUTES

[@MegadethTillDeth]

Holy shit this one was brutal lol.

[@Ratciclefan]

Personally this campaign is the ES one I dislike the most I already It's hard enough on Standard, but on Moderate it's pretty much impossible. I can't build armies fast enough to even defend my base.

[@cheapgreaser]

This was so hard omg

[@kingrichards9295]

Long live Reynald de chatillon❤😂,

[@DidYaServe]

Oh boy. This one is spammy and kinda annoying. Whilst red offers little or nothing in terms of attacks, blue and cyan defend and keep farting out units at you. Blue's base is hard to penetrate. Managed to get villagers on his land but lost 1,200 stone attempting to drop castles. In the end, I just suckered him with rams and camels.

[@sohaybmegraoui2050]

How did you advance to Castle Age without 800 meat?

[@Kriegerdammerung]

Simple, he spent 800 food just to advance :)

[@secmaga20]

I'm getting clapped every time.

[@AerthManolo]

DE has a severe lack of trading routes getting attacked

[@anazi960]

Saladin kenter

[@ahmetvuraner8357]

Which city your starting colony in real life?

[@OrnLu_AoE]

Geographically there isn't any large city there that would make sense, but if we take a few artistic liberties, Jeddah would make the most sense (it's on the Arabian Red Sea coast, just south of Medina)

[@ahmetvuraner8357]

Thankyou very much👍👍

[@itsyourboybobbyhere]

My brothere and i annully rapped Saladin last night?!?

[@boroluitmaster5288]

What are those squares in the game....!??? Can it be removed.

[@OrnLu_AoE]

That's just a grid mod - forgot to remove it before I started the video. Next video onwards the only visual mod will be small trees as per usual :)

[@denen404]

this campaign mission is complete bullshit literally playing on standard and somehow the enemy has MORE than twice the amount of units at HALF the time this guy gets to by the time he's pushing aggressively the ai is DOING NOTHING but in standard somehow their throwing 20 skirmishers and a few knights by the 5 minute mark and the trade routes are CONSTANTLY BEING ATTACKED yet this guy is playing on a harder difficulty but the ai is less aggressive and attacks less with even less units....somethings not adding up here....

[@ahmetvuraner8357]

When i play, it was very difficult, whyyy

[@frederik7802]

Me too, when I played this scenario, the raiders were like super aggressive against Aqaba, took out their town center in the first 15 minutes multiple times ...

[@OrnLu_AoE]

I make everything look easy, even when I have mega fails ;)

[@ewellvernatter2571]

That you do ..... LOL

[@ewellvernatter2571]

Seem like it happens just as so as i make it to castle age

[@deocasabella3194]

Did you defeat Reynald the bandits in the campaign?...

[@OrnLu_AoE]

Nope! They resign once you defeat the raiders and the pirates. They're just a few random bands of units around the map

[@deocasabella3194]

@@OrnLu_AoE ahh ok I see 😉😉😉😉😉😉

[@el-conquisto8512]

So we need to only defend aqaba and media market

[@itshisfault3782]

I could nottt beat this

[@kaponeboss8914]

Of all missions in saladin this mission is most boring one

[@Himmelvakt]

Worst campaign in the game