Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

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Story order? How do you play? How to follow 27 campaigns
Is there a recommended sp story campaign path to take?
Also considering Difficulty & Lore

What do the colors mean? Like Red, Green , Blue, Purple, Teal etc? Does this show difficulty?

I know the tutorial is William Wallace, but after?

Did you guys just go from Eu -> Asia -> America -> Africa?
Or you just went chronologically by Year / Period?

happy gaming ^_^

PS: Joan d'arcs campaign was only finished by 4.7% of the populace. Lol ... Are the story missions THAt hard or most people only play 100% mp then ? :derp:
Laatst bewerkt door Retrolicious; 18 aug 2020 om 22:27
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I played by release date. Been awhile since I've been on campaign but iirc the more swords a campaign has the harder its supposed to be? I might be wrong on that though.
Usually people play campaigns in the order in which they were released. Age of Kings > The Conquerors > The Forgotten > African Kingdoms > Rise of The Rajas > Last Khans > Historical Battles.

Other than that, there is usually no exact order in which they are played. The story of each campaign only concerns itself and has no relation to the story of any other.

Except Khotyan, who with the Genghis Khan Campaign, talks about mongol invasions at the same time and in the same place formerly covered by the Mongol Campaign.

The colors the player uses within each campaign are purely cosmetic. Or maybe you're talking about the colors used to indicate each Game Expansion.

It is the Swords next to the name of the campaigns that identify the difficulty of each one. But they are not very precise, some missions within the campaign always end up being more difficult than the media indicated by the Swords.

Origineel geplaatst door 󰀀 Redhead 󰀈:
Did you guys just go from Eu -> Asia -> America -> Africa?

This is also a very common order for them to be played.

After william walace's campaign you should do the other tutorial, the Art of War campaign. It is an MP tutorial, but it will be very useful for SP as well

It works in a different way. All missions are released from the beginning, and you earn bronze, silver or gold medals according not to the difficulty (standard, moderate and hard) but according to the efficiency and speed with you meet the objectives.
Laatst bewerkt door Thor II; 3 aug 2020 om 13:18
Origineel geplaatst door 󰀀 Redhead 󰀈:
Is there a recommended sp story campaign path to take?
Also considering Difficulty & Lore

What do the colors mean? Like Red, Green , Blue, Purple, Teal etc? Does this show difficulty?

I know the tutorial is William Wallace, but after?

Did you guys just go from Eu -> Asia -> America -> Africa?
Or you just went chronologically by Year / Period?

happy gaming ^_^

They don't have a particular story order. Only William Wallace would be first, & that's if you want to start with him because his is a campaign to learn how to play.

I basically picked them randomly: it's the stories the ones that make the fun out of it. To this day I'm still crying because The Chakravartin died in peace u_u.
Play the campaign you are most interested in.
I've spent the past 3 weeks completing all the campaigns and I did the Eu->Asia->America->Africa route although I would say some campaigns are better than others you won't really feel that until you play them all. I would say random is probably the best.
Found neat guide for the choronological playthrough:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1912787520
I don't recommend doing that. This will throw you into campaigns with very difficult missions early on. If you found William Walace latest mission insane and crazy, you're not ready yet to face Atila missions 5 and 6 or Alarico mission 5.
Chronological order is probably the best. Pick out one or two campaigns you like the premise of, and do them first, then go with the chronological order, that's what I did. I started with the william walace campaign, continued with the Joan d'Arc one, then went with the chronological order.

Generally speaking, all campaigns are the same, as in the first 1-4 missions tend to be relatively easy, with the last one or two being insanely difficult. That's mostly because the devs went for the unrelenting onslaught route on the final missions, where it is usually 2-4 enemies with cheated ressources that keep producing the same kind of unit compositions in high numbers at periodi intervals. This usually means you'll be on the backfoot from the getgo and need to fight and handle eco at the same time at a high level.

So, no, I don't think @Thor II is right on this one, all the campaigns become crazy hard, but almost none start out difficult.
I just go for the ones with stories that sound interesting to me. I started with the Goth campaign in DE since it is related to my favorite of the original campaigns. I guess not everyone is all that interested in the story and history of it but if you are then I really recommend Atila the Hun campaign as one of the first. It was always my favorite and I'm sure the DE version is even better. Come to think of it anyone who enjoys single player should play at least that one campaign.

Edit: No, scrap that. Atilla the Hun in DE plays worse than in previous Age2 versions. The laughable pathfinding ruins it 100%.

Also ignore the sword diffculty indicator icons. Just increase or lower diffculty setting as you go incase you run into a scenario too hard or too easy. It can be a bit inconsistent.
Laatst bewerkt door Lennart; 30 aug 2020 om 6:02
Thanks for all the helpful info :smile:

So how would be the order in case of easy to hardest difficulty? I still don't know what the purple, teal, green etc colors mean xD
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I still don't know what the purple, teal, green etc colors mean xD
Origineel geplaatst door Thor II:
The colors the player uses within each campaign are purely cosmetic. Or maybe you're talking about the colors used to indicate each Game Expansion.
Age of Empires Original:

-Red: It is the color of the base game Age of Kings. And Europe.
-Blue: It is the color of the first expansion, The Conquerors. And Asia.

Age of Empires II HD (2013):

-Green: It is the color of the first expasion of the HD version, The Forgotten. And America.
-Yellow: It is the color of the second expansion of the HD version, African Kingdoms. And Africa.
-Teal: It is the color of the third expansion of the HD version, Rise of The Rajas.

Age of Empires Definitive Edition:

-Purple: It is the color of the expansion that comes along with the DE, Last Khans.
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So how would be the order in case of easy to hardest difficulty?

It's hard to make a list like that. Mainly because with 27 campaigns, it would get a giant post. Opinions vary, it would be necessary to indicate why a mission with 1 Sword is considered difficult and one with 3 is considered easy, indicate that missions of each campaign make it difficult, among others.

As I said, after William Walace the best would be to do Art of War, the other tutorial. It's like a basic and general tutorial and another more advanced and specialized.

The campaign I consider easiest I think is Tamerlane. Then I find Joan of Arc quite easy, although some considered the last mission difficult (I don't know why). Genghis Khan is also easy despite some litle problems along the way.
Laatst bewerkt door Thor II; 5 aug 2020 om 11:26
Btw what is the difference of the "historical skirmishes" and the normal 27 campaigns? Are like the historical missions "endgame" ? Those of Kyoto, hastings etc?

Sry still learning the order xD

edit: I tried dos pilas & barbarossa and failed miserably lol
Laatst bewerkt door Retrolicious; 12 aug 2020 om 16:27
Lol, Multiplayer only
Origineel geplaatst door 󰀀 Redhead 󰀈:
Btw what is the difference of the "historical skirmishes" and the normal 27 campaigns? Are like the historical missions "endgame" ? Those of Kyoto, hastings etc?

Sry still learning the order xD

edit: I tried dos pilas & barbarossa and failed miserably lol

If you bought the game for single player only I recommend refunding if you still can. I also started with Barbarossa and the single player AI is so horrible that the whole campaign is unfun.
The main difference between Campaigns and Historical Battles is that campaigns have a story that goes from one mission to another, and Historical Battles has no story in common with each other, which is why you can play them all from the beginning. Some are difficult, others are easier, this varies a lot.

Dos Pila is really quite difficult. Barbarossa if you can build walls around your base and place castles and towers in the right places the 1st mission is easy.
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