Art of War Challenges

[Gryphonheart]

I have trouble getting gold medal on the first one, despite doing exactly what the narrator tells me to do. I have AoE2 HD experience so I have been trying to optimize timings but still can't manage to get it...

Any tips?

[Gryphonheart]

Bumperino.

[PTL_Keckerz]

1-6 on sheep 7-9 on wood then lure boars and put vills on berries. Skip loom you don't have time if you want the gold medal.

[Gryphonheart]

Originally posted by Keckerz:

1-6 on sheep 7-9 on wood then lure boars and put vills on berries. Skip loom you don't have time if you want the gold medal.

KK, thanks for the tip. I'll try it out :)

[Juerg Pinki]

and force-drop food sometimes especially in the beginning. because your TC should NEVER be idle.
also, as soon as the houses for 25 pop plus the lumber camp and the mill are built, there is no reason to keep anyone on wood anymore, so send them over to berries too at that point.

But i am struggling with the booming one. I boom from 4 tcs but it still is not fast enough to reach 100. I guess i somehow have to get a 5th one up? or how did you guys do that?

[Gryphonheart]

Originally posted by Juerg / Veni:

and force-drop food sometimes especially in the beginning. because your TC should NEVER be idle.
also, as soon as the houses for 25 pop plus the lumber camp and the mill are built, there is no reason to keep anyone on wood anymore, so send them over to berries too at that point.

But i am struggling with the booming one. I boom from 4 tcs but it still is not fast enough to reach 100. I guess i somehow have to get a 5th one up? or how did you guys do that?

I've been attempting that one since yesterday, after finally getting gold on the first challenge, (although it felt a bit like cheating, more like learning).

Seems like the key is in managing extra resources carefully with market and having 1 more, extra TC, apparently.

[-Dare Devil/x/]

Originally posted by King Epiphany:

Originally posted by Juerg / Veni:

and force-drop food sometimes especially in the beginning. because your TC should NEVER be idle.
also, as soon as the houses for 25 pop plus the lumber camp and the mill are built, there is no reason to keep anyone on wood anymore, so send them over to berries too at that point.

But i am struggling with the booming one. I boom from 4 tcs but it still is not fast enough to reach 100. I guess i somehow have to get a 5th one up? or how did you guys do that?

Try to buy 100 wood at the start and build the second TC immediately next to the stone, throw out three or four villagers at the stone and continue to build TCs until you have 7. Put villagers from the first TC on farms, have the second be on a mix of wood and farms and the third on wood. Then just take as many villagers as you can from wood to farms as you build more TCs. Then near the end sell all your wood and stone and just buy the remaining food or gold you need.

It's difficult, I can barely scrape by all the times I try to get gold on it. I've gotten it maybe 4 times out of 15 attempts.

-This isnt really the recommended way to achieve it! Key tips, build orders and dont get housed!

[JuniorPaz]

Originally posted by -Dare Devil/x/:

Originally posted by King Epiphany:

Try to buy 100 wood at the start and build the second TC immediately next to the stone, throw out three or four villagers at the stone and continue to build TCs until you have 7. Put villagers from the first TC on farms, have the second be on a mix of wood and farms and the third on wood. Then just take as many villagers as you can from wood to farms as you build more TCs. Then near the end sell all your wood and stone and just buy the remaining food or gold you need.

It's difficult, I can barely scrape by all the times I try to get gold on it. I've gotten it maybe 4 times out of 15 attempts.

-This isnt really the recommended way to achieve it! Key tips, build orders and dont get housed!

Could you mention the build order you have used?

[theworld]

Originally posted by -Dare Devil/x/:

-This isnt really the recommended way to achieve it! Key tips, build orders and dont get housed!

The so-called "recommended" way is terrible advice, especially the research "Hand Cart at 50 villagers" advice. It will NOT pay off during the span of this challenge, Spirit of the Law has plenty of videos on farming and research affecting it.

Hand Cart for wood/gold/stone does even less (around 1-2%) unless you long distance mining, which will not happen in this challenge.

Also, 5 TCs that is suggested in the "Hints" are insufficient to get gold medal, you need at least 6.

[Tempires]

Originally posted by TheWorld:

The so-called "recommended" way is terrible advice, especially the research "Hand Cart at 50 villagers" advice. It will NOT pay off during the span of this challenge, Spirit of the Law has plenty of videos on farming and research affecting it.
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Hand Cart isn't big deal on scenario as most important part is getting 100 vills, resources aren't problem. Normally you would want to get hand cart.

anyway don't get your gameplay tips from Spirit of the Law, his videos aren't meant to be practical but interesting and informative

[theworld]

Originally posted by Tempires:

Hand Cart isn't big deal on scenario as most important part is getting 100 vills, resources aren't problem. Normally you would want to get hand cart.

Bruh, did you even play this? You obviously didn't. Vil production is the problem and any research is blocking it.

[Dobermann]

The first one is bullsh*t, if you lure the boar when it tells you, it could only earn you a bronze medal....after watching some youtube videos, I managed to get silver, but I missed gold by 10 sec, so annoying.

[-Dare Devil/x/]

Originally posted by Dobermann:

The first one is bullsh*t, if you lure the boar when it tells you, it could only earn you a bronze medal....after watching some youtube videos, I managed to get silver, but I missed gold by 10 sec, so annoying.

-No, it isn't. For the first one specifically it's pretty on point.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Originally posted by -Dare Devil/x/:

Originally posted by Dobermann:

The first one is bullsh*t, if you lure the boar when it tells you, it could only earn you a bronze medal....after watching some youtube videos, I managed to get silver, but I missed gold by 10 sec, so annoying.

-No, it isn't. For the first one specifically it's pretty on point.

Yeah this......