Aoe2: Is It Possible to Win the Barbarossa Campaign Without Killing Enemy Units?

[@yhlee1205]

Enemy soldier: Commander we have killed most of their army with 0 casualties. But they took our relics, converted our cathedral, built a wonder, and placed a body in Jerusalem. Commander: We lost.

[@lhumanoideerrantdesinterne8598]

I mean... When the opponent is able to flex that much on you, you might as well admit defeat.

[@clone3_7]

The commander realised what would happen if pacifism would end...

[@AVCHonline]

After this great defeat, lord Saladin realize and understand the power of pacifist and decide to follow the path of Barbarossa and also pubnished crusader for not following the will of their former good-old pacifist emperor

[@IschmarVI]

@@AVCHonline and for attacking their allies' trade routes

[@Ipavaiva]

"Emperor has reached Jerusalem, if not in a way he expected" Never been more true than this time

[@planescaped]

_Attack-ground's Henry's base with magonels, leveling it_ Henry The Lion: "He might be onto me..."

[@sharilshahed6106]

@@mangonel so long as trebbie is not around.

[@Whatsuppbuddies]

I wonder if that was included in his retelling of the story.

[@EzioIlMentore]

Wow, pacifism completes the missions much faster than going around killing and slaughtering.

[@stefan020290]

But killing and slaughtering is sooo much fun. That sentence may sound weird read out of context...

[@deathvraider6475]

@@stefan020290 yeah i like that sense of domination

[@youtube-kit9450]

Yeah, if you did those scenarios the "pacifism way" while actually allowing yourself to kill, most of the campaigns are a complete joke to even bad players.

[@IschmarVI]

@@youtube-kit9450 not all of them. The "quick kill" strategy for joan of arc 3 for example requires you to be in three places at once. That's not something a "low elo legend" would be able to consistently pull off.

[@chtyldubreux5950]

This guy is very goal focused. If you were that focused on the goal when killing, you could be faster. But killing will get you their also in the long run, so no need to rush.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

"Treat him like an ally in a 4v4 Black Forest game. By sending in mangonels to attack ground all his buildings down." savage.

[@Studoku]

Henry! I turned myself into a pickle! I'm Pickle Bararossa!

[@RainintheBrain]

Milan: What the f*** is all this?! Barbarossa: The greatest game every played Milan: No it's not! It's awful! (Monks sneak into Milan) Monks: I beg your pardon (Monks turn Cathedral Red) Milan: Hot damn

[@aethelwyrnblack4918]

Funniest s*** I've ever seen

[@Avinash_Lincoln]

Barbarossa literally made Teutons my favourite civ. With the biggest plot twist of the century. Finding Henry's the narrator is the biggest plot twist.

[@Player-st4hn]

12:48 basically the entire army is intact and on full HP "You look like hell"

[@llSuperSnivyll]

Maybe they are tired.

[@DCdabest]

Tbh. The Lombard League was my most hated mission but now that you've pointed out the fact that Venice has it's Wonder constructable area extended outside the walls I am both speechlees and enraged. Faaaarrrkkk!!!

[@petermari8299]

Exactly 111111

[@Rimedane]

I remember the first time as a Kid I did the Scenario, I didn't realize you needed to build the wonder actually inside one of their cities, I kind of just murdered all of them and then built it.

[@90Rush]

I remember in Saladin last mission you can simply construct the wonder on a remote island and win. Not sure if it still works in DE.

[@T-West]

@@90Rush There's a few rocks on the island now, preventing the Wonder from fitting there ;)

[@TheShadowofDragons]

Nooo!!! They patched this now. I tried it and built the wonder, even checking back with this video to make sure I got the wonder in the right spot. This cheat for the scenario no longer works.

[@yrrgallerte354]

So satisfying to see you do these as they definitely are not intended to be done.

[@Mut4ntG4m3r]

I also love playing my missions in ways they are not supposed to be played, but I prefer easier tasks like NOT going where the game tells you, destryoing castles with heroes before they get to the army and the war etc :D

[@AgeofNoob]

The legend is back with another high production video - cheers! Edit: At 2:57, Lorraine knows that the path to success lies on the shoulders of the best unit of the game: The Spearman.

[@Age3111]

'He reached Jerusalem, but not in the manner he expected' 11

[@theowlogram888]

Pacifist Montezuma is going to be so, so weird lmao

[@jkbscopes1233]

in the mission where you have to destroy the spanish wonder if you convert some clashcala villagers you can build a siege workshop and a ram and skip most of the mission by breaking the gate down as you reach the city

[@dillimore]

@@jkbscopes1233 Can't you just run straight to the wonder and destroy it? Maybe jebait some enemies or castle/tower fire along the way. I think that's how I beat it.

[@cfv7461]

you don't need to capture your sacrifices, you can convince them peacefully of the neccesity of their blood to keep the sun going

[@lud4079]

Pacifist Bari might be harder in my opinion

[@ARojas-dg2ce]

@@jkbscopes1233 I think it's Tlaxcala

[@Speak4Yourself2]

You are a genius!

[@Hamlerk]

I concur.

[@barrufio]

Defenitely

[@JoeSrok]

Whoa those are some epic petard sneaks. I remember trying to petard the walls down and run into Jerusalem to get the win trigger for the last scenario like you,. But I couldn't get the right approach and micro well enough, but you just blasted in there like some mission impossible operation. Believe me, it's not as easy as he makes it look folks.

[@hallamhal]

With the exception of the William Wallace, Atilla the Hun and Saladin campaigns, no-one in AOC survives to see their 6th mission

[@Tizian001]

When playing the first Barbarossa campaign at the age of 10 I walled up my entire island and trained only monks. Each shallow had up to 10 monks waiting for enemy troops to arrive and to convert them. I did this for hours. I ended up having a population of 646. Then I sorted my forces after the enemy I got them from and sended them back to start an invasion of the entire map and fighting on every front. Relics were not my interest. I destroyed every enemy building with my giant army. + I payed the Mongols to join me. In the end arround 200 of my grand army survived. Too sad I don't have the save file anymore.

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

WOLOLOLOLO

[@historymax5479]

Respect.

[@NiDe500]

You got the Furor Teutonicus achievement by only making monks. What.

[@User_5ouLe]

9:37 That lombard league, yeah that area. ＭＩＮＤＢＬＯＷＩＮＧ

[@petermari8299]

you can`t be serious with the Lombard League one :D the most annoying mission I ever had and that...that.....ok, I will get the gold medal from it, right now :D

[@hikatoyshi]

My way was to petard quickly the northern city, then build castle and wall inside it, and a wonder inside the walls inside the city while my new base was being destroyed.

[@adwans1491]

it doesnt work!! D:

[@T-West]

That one was updated.

[@georgiusagricola4720]

Joan d'Arc: Person ne peut arreter T-West?! Barbarossa: Niemand! William Wallace: Cùm mo lionn...

[@Saiscania]

So many hilarious comments all along this video, I loved it ! Can't wait to see the next ones ! And btw, it took you less time to complete these 6 scenarios than it took me to complete the very first Barbarossa mission !

[@Green_Fog17]

I remembered when i did the 3 barbarossa campaign for the steam achievment. i quick take a monk to the north of milan to capture the one relic and asap the other and waited for like 3400 gold just to make enough monks to convert, because with less i always got defeated.. took me like 1 and a half hour, and u walk in straight with 4 monks successfully. made my day :'D

[@generalbinks123]

6:48, is that a blue unit dead on the floor with 4 of your knights around it ?

[@T-West]

And that's why I replayed this mission many times :)

[@T-West]

@@mangonel The Blue player started resigning after the Siege Workshop was destroyed, and it looks like they deleted that Ram right before the cannonball hit.

[@Blazieth]

@@T-West *narrows eyes suspiciously*

[@Ser_Lefty]

The knights are obviously there to attempt CPR after the blue was tragically struck down by a heart attack

[@Jacks_Suffocating_Nihilism]

If the gauntlet does not fit, you must acquit.

[@jesuse.marinv.5440]

Since I have memory, ''The Emperor Sleeping'' has been a pain in my ass every time I've played, but this dude reached Jerusalem before timing out. Not fair...

[@JustChatta]

Was feeling a bit anxious about life but this video made me laugh hard , thanks man

[@ErichMuellerAoE]

aoe in general needs much more of this type of content. much appreciated.

[@emilyding2496]

Also T-West, they seem to fixed the " wonder on a peninsula " thing in the 4th mission.

[@IschmarVI]

would make that one a bit harder but should still be fine pacifist as all you need to do is to complete the wonder. You can basically build an army, distract padua, wall your villagers in inside their city and build the wonder.

[@generalhyde007]

Eyy!! You did my suggestion!!! You have gained a loyal follower.

[@AmmarFarisA]

12:45 You manage to save more than what I could do in normal try, nice

[@ryankasch5650]

Man. Watching these makes me realize just how good people are at this game. I have gotten all gold in both these scenarios but took probably 5 times the time.

[@wereNeverToBeSeenAgain]

You know what could be maybe less fun to watch but actually really fun to play?: Winning the campaigns by killing all enemy units in the map instead of achieving the objectives. This is possible for example in Saladin's mission 4 "The Siege of Jerusalem", and Montezuma's mission 2 "The Triple Alliance" where you can take advantage of having Tlacopan and Texcoco as you allies to wall their their vills, wall their TCs and then drop castles next to them and by the time they betray you it will take just few minutes to get them from thriving to totally obliterated. I'd do a video but my job makes me way too busy.

[@Carpatouille]

It's much more entertaining and less of a hassle to watch this kind of video than to play those campaigns, seriously I have not played all the newer campaigns yet but most scenarios for most campaigns are really annoying to deal with, there are fun and good scenarios but they're so rare imo

[@shifty220]

Great series! Looking forward to the next one!!

[@robinhoodlumberjack1748]

what a nice tricks you know and you learned us. Thanks. i can imagine next T-West's pacifist challenges: 1. how to reach 10k elo without killing any sheep and boars 2. winning next major official aoe cup without defeating anyone ( making them tired or disconnected or sth else!) 3. how to achieve 1st place in Ornlu's BIG NOMAD CUP without even participating in that. :)

[@K1AoE]

this is great man :D i enjoied everything in the video, narrative, edit, humor :D keep up the content

[@LordMalice6d9]

I used a very similar strategy for The Pope and Anti-Pope Barbarossa mission and it makes it probably the easiest mission in the entire game outside of the Celt tutorial missions.

[@sokarduga7285]

6:49 is that a dead Polish I see on the ground? I'm guessing the advice at the end of that level of being sure to put army to no attack was because you had some unfortunate events ahahah

[@KiraRiseAgainst]

I think they patched The Lombard League because i tried like 30 mins ago and wherever i construct the wonder in that zone the game doesn't trigger the victory... doesn't trigger anything

[@sidneylc281]

It has been patched some months ago, now all enemies are more agresive on hard mode, but you can use the 5 starting onagers to destroy Padua at the north and build a castle fast and research the +3 castle attack range to counter purple bombard cannons that have 12 range, they will send trebuchets from time to time, so you need to have archers in your castle to clear their units faster because yellow is the most annoying one with monks and scorpions, and you need to have cavaliers to attack trebuchets fast. In your base you need to build in the south from Padua, and build a castle near the edge so cannon galleons can't reach them or that you can attack them with cavaliers when they get near the coast to attack your castle. After that you can destroy Padua's gates and replace them with your own with another castle so purple bombard cannons doesn't attack your villagers and then start building the wonder. It takes 1hour or so to finish it now the fastest possible

[@Alice.59]

for the Lombard league , they fixed the stuff , now the zone where you have to construct the wonder is really inside the city ...

[@yers7638]

"Betray your ally before they betray you" - T - West 6th july 2020

[@arthurxavier3515]

I'm really enjoying theses videos! Quite different from what we usually see for aoe. Kinda remind me of the pokémon challanges common here on youtube ("can you beat pokémon fire red with a single margikarp?" And stuff like that)

[@PLScypion]

0:23 me after just finishing Barbarossa campaign and killing Henry the Bastard 2 times already: Cheers, I'll drink to that bro.

[@senpuukyaku1123]

omg please do more videos like this! is so good! keep up the good work!

[@allradMuelleimer]

Holy God! I'm shocked that Mission 3 can be accomplished within four minutes! I remember me sitting there for hours to win that xD

[@davidpaul8647]

Wow, the similarities are uncanny indeed! :O

[@TheFrankHorringan]

Well dude this Series is just amazing. THANKS!

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

What a legend. You need more subscribers.

[@roachtheable]

Absolutely top notch content here!

[@safe-keeper1042]

I love how hilariously easy it is to break AoK's missions. Even as a kid I loved finding weird ways to trick the game.

[@justxavier9999]

beautifully done! I love the Mongol Drill!

[@T-West]

You know the drill!

[@hernanpabloruttimann7272]

I love this videos, can't wait for the next one!

[@MolfredoSascha]

When i was 12 it took me like 3 months of tries and tries to clear barbarrosa's March and you just like that cleared without killing anyone 😱😱😱

[@muhammadkhan6039]

I will support you love your channel

[@3lancerofficialmaybe871]

10:50-10:54 T-West is spittin' that heat!!

[@emilyding2496]

Are those siege rams in the intro a reference to the mongol unique tech drill when you said you know the drills?

[@T-West]

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[@milanpavlovic6972]

You should do this with AoE1,AoE3 and AoM (if possible). Really nice series!

[@hasanrahman5128]

me spends an entire eternity to finish one single campaign T-west : i am speed

[@kwiiin_]

I‘m glad I found your channel, AoE needs more love. 💗

[@RainintheBrain]

Thank you! For helping me get the Truly Holy Emperor achievement

[@AdobadoFantastico]

What Civ were the Polish in the original campaign? Here it says Slavs, but they weren't in the game back then. Probably Teutons? Cool videos btw, really fun storytelling. It's like the AOE version of fan fiction, haha.

[@T-West]

They were the Goths. And they didn't have so many Barracks to train Longswordsmen, but instead trained Huskarls from their Castles.

[@ADNudes]

This is amazing, please do more of them

[@basithuss247]

The spirit of self-sacrifice and removal of destructive forces demonstrated here are a beacon for the world leadership.

[@maxmustsleep]

I love these! Good job

[@Anon-yz1xr]

> Been playing through all the campaigns on Hard > Hour+ long battle of attrition in Antipope as I slowly pick apart the river guards defenses w/ cannon galleons. > Let's see how T-west does it. 4 minutes.

[@calebrands4912]

I stopped this video and immediately attempted to build a wonder in "Venice", but my villagers were killed when the wonder was over 90% complete. Turns out cheese can't get you everything.

[@MikeEmpires]

This series is a great idea.

[@jonathanniemegeers1966]

The 70 unit army part is hilarious. There was no fleet big enough to transport it ':-)

[@daydreamerforex3720]

Great work ! .. tou deserve more subs

[@hiei49]

Nice Video! I guess pacifist Gengis Khan is impossible since Kushluk, otherwise it would be a hell of a difficult campaign to do Pacifist, since most of the missions are conquest. Maybe it is doable since Kushluk could be finished of by wolves, as long as you dont kill them lol As for Saladin, you have 2 missions that can be completed by defending a wonder, but iirc there is a conquest mission (the 2nd one)

[@seleukosnikator7347]

I did not know for the 4th mission. I just tried it and it works. It's a joke

[@obsidian5475]

Haha, when I played the last barbarossa campaign, I had made a path to the temple and was stupid enough to send the emporer in a barrel by himself to it. Then a random mameluke came out of NOWHERE and murdered him right outside of the temple. So, I lost. I haven't tried that campaign since.

[@alexanfung]

thanks for the guidance for the pope and antipope mission

[@BPedo8IGHT]

You're a very sick man. I enjoy it.

[@terrab1ter4]

12:40 At this point T-West's just trying to aggro Ornlu 11

[@isaisotarriva8162]

In the level "The Pope and the antipope" there is no longer a trade cart opening the door for you. However there is a secret entrance that let's you reach the cathedral without having to fight. Love your pacifist gameplay. Are you also doing the new DLCs? I would love to see them.

[@T-West]

I'd like to do a couple of pacifist runs on the DLC campaigns, have some scripts ready but need time to record and edit.

[@oxcaxx]

Just found your channel, and been binge watching, these videos really are bangers, each one of them!

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

0:14 "You know the *drill* " OH STAHP.

[@MrRbwboy]

great concept. Keep it up

[@Kwanzatastix]

9:27 When first playing this I thought you had to build a Wonder in *_each_* city and it took me almost 2 hours. Not only did I not have to fight each enemy, but I could have just built the Wonder on the same land where my city already was already at. Realizing I didn't have to build them in each city was painful enough, but learning that is just salt in the wound lol

[@gcool011]

This is some high quality stuff right here

[@chrelle1112]

The Lombard League trick doesn't work anymore :(

[@juanignaciolopeztellechea9401]

3:25 Ive just realized about the reference to charge of the light brigade. Wow.

[@The2a2b]

Bruh Barbarossa turned himself into a pickle. Funniest shit ive ever seen.

[@ΚωνσταντίνοςΤζήκας-υ1η]

Barbarossa sacked many cities in the balkans and lotted a bit in Constantinople SHAME ON BARBARIANS!

[@nvmtt]

shame when the germans get back at the romans, eh?

[@milanotovic8223]

@@nvmtt lmao they enjoy their stans now

[@theinscrutablebaldness2597]

Really cool concept. I had a quick flick through and most of the AOK scenarios seem doable, but Kushluk seems a bridge too far. No wolves on the map and I don't think I've seen either faction make a mangonel for some crazy friendly fire hijinx.

[@Gmailkonto23]

Philster must really like this playthrough.

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

Sneaking into Constantinople through an open gate? Preposterous!

[@Peter-lf6zh]

Wait, the saracen navy attacking was a bug? Never knew.

[@christos49]

Looking back on this, it must of been painfull to play as the Teutons and restrain yourself not to crush your enemies with the mighty Teutonic Knights.

[@theonderonian2931]

I really enjoy this style of video and the idea of winning some of the known to be bloodiest wars without killing anybody. Were you inspired to make this series by GiantGrantGames?

[@T-West]

My main inspiration was watching pacifist speedruns of Doom, figured it would be fun to try in Aoe2. Here's a few examples: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jISopXqwlquSqc0 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWibda14f5mFrJo kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5q3fXatqsuVeKM

[@matthiashornung6616]

interesting... in the german version of AoE2 DE in Barbarossa's first mission the orange faction isn't Lorraine but "Schwaben", what would be "swabia" in english... Lorraine and Swabia also were different kingdoms. So i find it very interesting that they use different factions in different language versions... Maybe they use swabia in the german version, cause swabia is a german realm... and it would be more historical precise to use swabia...

[@dontspikemydrink9382]

weird, the wikia said the opposite. I think swabia was part under barbarossa along with Bavaria

[@poyloos4834]

I *honestly* thought that just the 1st mission would be impossible.

[@hikatoyshi]

And the fourth... ^^

[@drschwandi3687]

Great series :)

[@chtyldubreux5950]

7:29 Your Bombard Cannon killed blue's garrisoned ram!

[@T-West]

That shot didn't kill the ram, blue just deleted it while resigning. :)

[@chtyldubreux5950]

@@T-West Ah that also makes sense. Very unfortunate timing of the shot then.

[@JerryCricketGaming]

This is awesome!

[@fatihgon3931]

I really wonder how this will work at Gengish Khan campaign but 2nd mission is *Kill Kushluk*

[@willhguy]

He ❤s every comment. Its amazing.

[@T-West]

Indeed!

[@c182SkylaneRG]

Ho. Ly. Shit. It JUST occurred to me that "Barbarossa" translates to "Red Beard", when you called him "our pickled, red-bearded friend". NEVER occurred to me, before that, even though it's pretty obvious in the name...

[@kartiksaraf4676]

It appeared that you killed a ram in the end of 2nd mission 7:29. Did you redo the whole mission or do my eyes deceive me? Anyway great content, keep it up

[@T-West]

The AI started resigning and deleting its units when the Siege Workshop was destroyed, and it looks like the Ram was deleted before the cannonball impacted.

[@kartiksaraf4676]

@@T-West that must have really saved a heartburn

[@matthewengland1321]

That converging ship thing in Barbarossa’s March was a bug? I had no idea.