As a kid, I played a lot of Age of Empires, but for some reason despite marvelling its graphics, I never played Age of Empires 2 enough to understand its mechanics.
Here I am, with the remaster, humiliated by its new tutorial.
The original tutorial for Celts and Joan of Arc campaign, which I remember, are bearable. The amout of campaigns in Definitive Edition is ridiculous: more than 25?! I plan to do only the original campaigns, called here Age of Kings, and even in that I’m not sure.
What I like about the French campaign is that you’re given an objective to destroy 3 castles, but there are 4 castles, actually. So you can not only pick the order, but also which of them to ignore. What I don’t like is that the castle objective is a bit repetetive, as you aren’t allowed to build trebuchets, your only way is to mass rams.
I also didn’t understand that scorpions weren’t a siege weapon. They’re more of a support weapon.
Speaking of siege weapons, once you get trebuchets, it’s over for AI. The only response to them is to build your own trebuchets, or to deploy bombard ships, which AI micromanages with suprising efficiency.
Completed France’s campaign, which, I must say, was chaotic, as you’re usually pitted against 2-3 enemies, and due to the number of alerts you get, you can sometimes miss that a band of rainders is killing your peasants.
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