Confident Win Bugged?

[DeathsAdvocate]

Not only is it still really unclear how to complete this, I beleive the way to do it is to not have any casualties on the final battle, yet I have done this and not gotten the acheivement.

[DeathsAdvocate]

Perhaps it is just the French you can not get a confident win with? I ended up managing to get it with Egyptians and Greeks along with year 51 on very hard by not using scrolls in the final battle, and only having two units die but both of which got revived so it did not count.

[asdoemo]

To get the Confident Victory, you have to:

1. Not use Chicken Devil help.
2. Win year 50 fight without using scrolls.
3. Win year 51 fight. You MAY use scrolls for it as it's usually far more difficult than year 50 fight.

I got confident win on Very Hard for every race eventually.

It all depends on attack patterns through the early years - if you're lucky, you may defend yourself with only 1 swordsman and militia for many years while building income. attack patterns remain the same through replays for a day or so, so you can replay up until you survive every attack with minimal army required to do that with no losses.

For religions, second tree is by far the best. It grants lots of extra income, combat stats and one-time emergency scroll for year 25 massacre. 3rd tree is also good as secondary. Usual religion path is 31, 21, 22, 24, 23, 25, 34, 51, 33.

31 grants absolutely huge earky-ame income and food bonuses, 21 and 22 give even more income, 24 is essential to get before year 25 as survining it without a scroll is almost impossile on Very Hard, unless you're massively ahead. 23 and 25 further buff your troops, 34 is another emergency powerup that can save you at year 51, religions 51 and 33 are just overall nice as there's not much useful you can learn at this point anyway.

Some hints for Very Hard+confident:

Do not use paladins/exorcists unless you're a Roman. Those are plain weaker than mythical creatures.
Do not build more than one church. Do not build church route buildings just to get Faith. On Very Hard you get tons of Faith from battles and only need one church early on to get key religions faster.
Ignore swordsmen once you have knights, ignore knights once you have mythical creatures.
Always get some scroll for year 25.
Minotaurs and Hydras can carry you through years 20-40.
Once you have 2-3 ponds and mazes, heavily invest into forest buildings. remaining gold should be enough to recover lost minotaurs and hydras. Without forest creatures years 50 and 51 might be fatal.

[bulbatrs]

I think all religions are viable, also relplaying untill you figure out the minimal soldier for a start sounds like cheating.

[torgi]

Now I got it.....you have to get "high points"...Have played asdoeme's tactic on very hard with england....last battle I had 12 bows;3 druids;4 minetaurs;3hydras;2unicorns...So I got year 51....than I take the transformation scroll from chicken devil and won last fight....achievemnt popped up...long long way for me :(....but I liked it I think :)