Rome was Destroyed in one day

[Rin]

Any advice on how to get this achievement?
I have to destroy 12 castles in 30 minutes in the 4th Alaric compaign, it seems incredible difficult to do. Getting around 5 castles in that time currently, which is way too less.
Is there a trick to this mission?

[Alphakuh]

LOL

[Easy Target]

May be this guide can help you: https://www.trueachievements.com/viewcomment.aspx?commentid=1315580

[5M0k1N]

yea IMO it seems way too hard, especially compared to the other achievements. would be nice if they increased the time limit :p

[Avyra]

Originally posted by 5M0k1N:

yea IMO it seems way too hard, especially compared to the other achievements. would be nice if they increased the time limit :p

ye and count game time isnt real time 30 min in game is somehing like 21 - 22 min real time

[AurumGold]

Originally posted by Avyra:

Originally posted by 5M0k1N:

yea IMO it seems way too hard, especially compared to the other achievements. would be nice if they increased the time limit :p

ye and count game time isnt real time 30 min in game is somehing like 21 - 22 min real time

this really annoying.

did devs they really tested and played?

[5M0k1N]

i managed to do it, copying below my post from the reddit thread but yea, its way harder than anything ive yet to see so it makes me think it wasnt properly tested. then again i havent done many achievs yet in this game so theres that


what i did is i barely made any army at first, just got some good economy going (20 farmers 15 guys getting wood and some on gold, also make sure to sell the wood for gold in the marketplace) and i sent a guy to each of the allies bases to get em going. they dont help that much but the teal is important he gets going so that he clears the army in front of his base. the "trick" is to start the attack from teals base, you can access a LOT of castles from there due to the insane trebuchets range so you can ignore most armies and walls, luckily they wont even move when you attack their castles so you can clear lots of castles in the north part of the map really quickly. i used just 4 trebuchets and escorted them with cavaliers (use defensive stance on them so they dont run around). while you do that you should get the attack started from your main base as well to get the 4-5 castles in the southeastern side but its important you get started from teals side first since its way further away and most castles are easier to get from there. obviously play on the easiest difficulty, set the game speed to its lowest and use pause a lot to get some good multitasking going. i also used the marco / polo cheat a lot just to see the map then id reload lol

[Heinrich]

Yep it is extrmely annoying. spent about 10 hrs on this.
And my personal best was defeated 11 castles in 30mins.
Think its nearly impossible on hard mode

[Avyra]

Originally posted by Eimal:

Yep it is extrmely annoying. spent about 10 hrs on this.
And my personal best was defeated 11 castles in 30mins.
Think its nearly impossible on hard mode

i said yd about it for now i do others campagning just dont wanna ♥♥♥♥ my brain on impossible things have alrd waste a day for do it on 5° level because steam said to do on wrong map :V

[Heinrich]

Originally posted by Avyra:

Originally posted by Eimal:

Yep it is extrmely annoying. spent about 10 hrs on this.
And my personal best was defeated 11 castles in 30mins.
Think its nearly impossible on hard mode

i said yd about it for now i do others campagning just dont wanna ♥♥♥♥ my brain on impossible things have alrd waste a day for do it on 5° level because steam said to do on wrong map :V

the same
gonna try as the last achievement.
It's on the different level

[Rin]

Thanks for all the help guys, at least I'm not the only one struggling to get that one down xD
I will try again later today and be successful (hopefully).

[Rin]

Didn't managed to do it (yet), but I'm at 9/12 and close to destroyed the last 3 at the same time.
Splitting your army and coming from 2 sides is really key here. Having a monk for healing/converting was also very helpful. I will try to use Petards more to quickly open gates, should save some precious seconds.
I think at this point it's just trial and error until I did it. Thanks again!

[Heinrich]

I got the achievement on hard mode.
You actually dont have time to deal with towers nor gates/walls.
So what I did was virtually detour ing unnecessary battles so that I can minimize time loss
You need to draw aggro on blue armies and send them into other areas. So, Once you get some buildings create cavaliers and send them afar from your target area, like your allies basement or the place you don't need to pass in the future.
The main problem for me was always two the castles in the inner city.
Huge amount of purple wait for the attack. And it respond when you hit their buildings or units around. Every single units try to kill THE UNIT that first attack theirs. So You can just hit purple's units/buildings around and run away while trebuchets are attacking their castle.
Then they stupidly didnt attack other units until the targeted unit get killed or outta LOS or their troop get attacked by other units or sth.
That was how I exploited the AI.
N barely destroyed all the castle at exact 30mins.

[Avyra]

almost 2k20 use aggro exploit is the only way for get it?

[Rin]

Originally posted by Avyra:

almost 2k20 use aggro exploit is the only way for get it?

I did what the people in this thread suggested: Split your army into 2 forces, one attacks from the west and the other one from the south. Around 4 trebuchets per army. Learn the how you can move around the city without destroying too many gates (the only one I destroyed where the one at the west entrance, the south entrance and a gate that prevented the south-army to move further up after 3 castles). Petards can quickly destroy gates. Keep making chevaliers from stables you get in Rome. That's how I did it.

[Avyra]

after try for a long time its alrd a week + if some got a save and can trade i will help with some others achiev

just add