Aoe2: Is It Possible to Win the Barbarossa Campaign Without Killing Enemy Units?
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Can the will of one man forge an empire... without killing a single enemy unit?
00:00 - Introduction
00:48 - Holy Roman Emperor
04:12 - Henry the Lion
08:03 - Pope and Antipope
08:59 - The Lombard League
10:29 - Barbarossa's March
13:11 - The Emperor Sleeping
15:00 - Conclusion
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Enemy soldier: Commander we have killed most of their army with 0 casualties. But they took our relics, converted our cathedral, built a wonder, and placed a body in Jerusalem.
Commander: We lost.
I mean... When the opponent is able to flex that much on you, you might as well admit defeat.
The commander realised what would happen if pacifism would end...
After this great defeat, lord Saladin realize and understand the power of pacifist and decide to follow the path of Barbarossa and also pubnished crusader for not following the will of their former good-old pacifist emperor
@@AVCHonline and for attacking their allies' trade routes
"Emperor has reached Jerusalem, if not in a way he expected"
Never been more true than this time
_Attack-ground's Henry's base with magonels, leveling it_
Henry The Lion: "He might be onto me..."
@@mangonel so long as trebbie is not around.
I wonder if that was included in his retelling of the story.
"Treat him like an ally in a 4v4 Black Forest game. By sending in mangonels to attack ground all his buildings down."
savage.
Henry! I turned myself into a pickle! I'm Pickle Bararossa!
Milan: What the f*** is all this?!
Barbarossa: The greatest game every played
Milan: No it's not! It's awful!
(Monks sneak into Milan)
Monks: I beg your pardon
(Monks turn Cathedral Red)
Milan: Hot damn
Funniest s*** I've ever seen
Wow, pacifism completes the missions much faster than going around killing and slaughtering.
But killing and slaughtering is sooo much fun.
That sentence may sound weird read out of context...
@@stefan020290 yeah i like that sense of domination
Yeah, if you did those scenarios the "pacifism way" while actually allowing yourself to kill, most of the campaigns are a complete joke to even bad players.
@@youtube-kit9450 not all of them. The "quick kill" strategy for joan of arc 3 for example requires you to be in three places at once. That's not something a "low elo legend" would be able to consistently pull off.
This guy is very goal focused. If you were that focused on the goal when killing, you could be faster. But killing will get you their also in the long run, so no need to rush.
Barbarossa literally made Teutons my favourite civ. With the biggest plot twist of the century. Finding Henry's the narrator is the biggest plot twist.
12:48 basically the entire army is intact and on full HP "You look like hell"
Maybe they are tired.
Tbh. The Lombard League was my most hated mission but now that you've pointed out the fact that Venice has it's Wonder constructable area extended outside the walls I am both speechlees and enraged.
Faaaarrrkkk!!!
Exactly 111111
I remember the first time as a Kid I did the Scenario, I didn't realize you needed to build the wonder actually inside one of their cities, I kind of just murdered all of them and then built it.
I remember in Saladin last mission you can simply construct the wonder on a remote island and win. Not sure if it still works in DE.
@@90Rush There's a few rocks on the island now, preventing the Wonder from fitting there ;)
Nooo!!! They patched this now. I tried it and built the wonder, even checking back with this video to make sure I got the wonder in the right spot.
This cheat for the scenario no longer works.
'He reached Jerusalem, but not in the manner he expected' 11
The legend is back with another high production video - cheers!
Edit: At 2:57, Lorraine knows that the path to success lies on the shoulders of the best unit of the game: The Spearman.
So satisfying to see you do these as they definitely are not intended to be done.
I also love playing my missions in ways they are not supposed to be played, but I prefer easier tasks like NOT going where the game tells you, destryoing castles with heroes before they get to the army and the war etc :D
Pacifist Montezuma is going to be so, so weird lmao
in the mission where you have to destroy the spanish wonder if you convert some clashcala villagers you can build a siege workshop and a ram and skip most of the mission by breaking the gate down as you reach the city
@@jkbscopes1233 Can't you just run straight to the wonder and destroy it? Maybe jebait some enemies or castle/tower fire along the way. I think that's how I beat it.
you don't need to capture your sacrifices, you can convince them peacefully of the neccesity of their blood to keep the sun going
Pacifist Bari might be harder in my opinion
@@jkbscopes1233 I think it's Tlaxcala
When playing the first Barbarossa campaign at the age of 10 I walled up my entire island and trained only monks.
Each shallow had up to 10 monks waiting for enemy troops to arrive and to convert them.
I did this for hours.
I ended up having a population of 646.
Then I sorted my forces after the enemy I got them from and sended them back to start an invasion of the entire map and fighting on every front.
Relics were not my interest.
I destroyed every enemy building with my giant army.
+ I payed the Mongols to join me.
In the end arround 200 of my grand army survived.
Too sad I don't have the save file anymore.
WOLOLOLOLO
Respect.
You got the Furor Teutonicus achievement by only making monks. What.
you can`t be serious with the Lombard League one :D the most annoying mission I ever had and that...that.....ok, I will get the gold medal from it, right now :D
My way was to petard quickly the northern city, then build castle and wall inside it, and a wonder inside the walls inside the city while my new base was being destroyed.
You are a genius!
I concur.
Defenitely
Whoa those are some epic petard sneaks. I remember trying to petard the walls down and run into Jerusalem to get the win trigger for the last scenario like you,. But I couldn't get the right approach and micro well enough, but you just blasted in there like some mission impossible operation. Believe me, it's not as easy as he makes it look folks.
Joan d'Arc: Person ne peut arreter T-West?!
Barbarossa: Niemand!
William Wallace: Cùm mo lionn...
9:37 That lombard league, yeah that area.
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Since I have memory, ''The Emperor Sleeping'' has been a pain in my ass every time I've played, but this dude reached Jerusalem before timing out.
Not fair...
Also T-West, they seem to fixed the " wonder on a peninsula " thing in the 4th mission.
would make that one a bit harder but should still be fine pacifist as all you need to do is to complete the wonder. You can basically build an army, distract padua, wall your villagers in inside their city and build the wonder.
Great series! Looking forward to the next one!!
Just found your channel, and been binge watching, these videos really are bangers, each one of them!
for the Lombard league , they fixed the stuff , now the zone where you have to construct the wonder is really inside the city ...
this is great man :D i enjoied everything in the video, narrative, edit, humor :D keep up the content
Man. Watching these makes me realize just how good people are at this game. I have gotten all gold in both these scenarios but took probably 5 times the time.
So many hilarious comments all along this video, I loved it ! Can't wait to see the next ones ! And btw, it took you less time to complete these 6 scenarios than it took me to complete the very first Barbarossa mission !
I love this videos, can't wait for the next one!
omg please do more videos like this! is so good! keep up the good work!
Eyy!! You did my suggestion!!! You have gained a loyal follower.
I love these! Good job
I will support you love your channel
I'm really enjoying theses videos! Quite different from what we usually see for aoe. Kinda remind me of the pokémon challanges common here on youtube ("can you beat pokémon fire red with a single margikarp?" And stuff like that)
I think they patched The Lombard League because i tried like 30 mins ago and wherever i construct the wonder in that zone the game doesn't trigger the victory... doesn't trigger anything
It has been patched some months ago, now all enemies are more agresive on hard mode, but you can use the 5 starting onagers to destroy Padua at the north and build a castle fast and research the +3 castle attack range to counter purple bombard cannons that have 12 range, they will send trebuchets from time to time, so you need to have archers in your castle to clear their units faster because yellow is the most annoying one with monks and scorpions, and you need to have cavaliers to attack trebuchets fast. In your base you need to build in the south from Padua, and build a castle near the edge so cannon galleons can't reach them or that you can attack them with cavaliers when they get near the coast to attack your castle. After that you can destroy Padua's gates and replace them with your own with another castle so purple bombard cannons doesn't attack your villagers and then start building the wonder. It takes 1hour or so to finish it now the fastest possible
This is amazing, please do more of them
aoe in general needs much more of this type of content. much appreciated.
You know what could be maybe less fun to watch but actually really fun to play?: Winning the campaigns by killing all enemy units in the map instead of achieving the objectives. This is possible for example in Saladin's mission 4 "The Siege of Jerusalem", and Montezuma's mission 2 "The Triple Alliance" where you can take advantage of having Tlacopan and Texcoco as you allies to wall their their vills, wall their TCs and then drop castles next to them and by the time they betray you it will take just few minutes to get them from thriving to totally obliterated. I'd do a video but my job makes me way too busy.
Well dude this Series is just amazing. THANKS!
great concept. Keep it up
Was feeling a bit anxious about life but this video made me laugh hard , thanks man
Absolutely top notch content here!
thanks for the guidance for the pope and antipope mission
I remembered when i did the 3 barbarossa campaign for the steam achievment. i quick take a monk to the north of milan to capture the one relic and asap the other and waited for like 3400 gold just to make enough monks to convert, because with less i always got defeated..
took me like 1 and a half hour, and u walk in straight with 4 monks successfully. made my day :'D
6:48, is that a blue unit dead on the floor with 4 of your knights around it ?
And that's why I replayed this mission many times :)
@@mangonel The Blue player started resigning after the Siege Workshop was destroyed, and it looks like they deleted that Ram right before the cannonball hit.
@@T-West *narrows eyes suspiciously*
The knights are obviously there to attempt CPR after the blue was tragically struck down by a heart attack
If the gauntlet does not fit, you must acquit.
Great work ! .. tou deserve more subs
When i was 12 it took me like 3 months of tries and tries to clear barbarrosa's March and you just like that cleared without killing anyone 😱😱😱
beautifully done! I love the Mongol Drill!
You know the drill!
I used a very similar strategy for The Pope and Anti-Pope Barbarossa mission and it makes it probably the easiest mission in the entire game outside of the Celt tutorial missions.
> Been playing through all the campaigns on Hard
> Hour+ long battle of attrition in Antipope as I slowly pick apart the river guards defenses w/ cannon galleons.
> Let's see how T-west does it.
4 minutes.
Great series :)
What a legend. You need more subscribers.
I‘m glad I found your channel, AoE needs more love. 💗
You're a very sick man. I enjoy it.
This is awesome!
6:49 is that a dead Polish I see on the ground? I'm guessing the advice at the end of that level of being sure to put army to no attack was because you had some unfortunate events ahahah
It's much more entertaining and less of a hassle to watch this kind of video than to play those campaigns, seriously I have not played all the newer campaigns yet but most scenarios for most campaigns are really annoying to deal with, there are fun and good scenarios but they're so rare imo
12:45 You manage to save more than what I could do in normal try, nice
what a nice tricks you know and you learned us. Thanks.
i can imagine next T-West's pacifist challenges:
1. how to reach 10k elo without killing any sheep and boars
2. winning next major official aoe cup without defeating anyone ( making them tired or disconnected or sth else!)
3. how to achieve 1st place in Ornlu's BIG NOMAD CUP without even participating in that. :)
Thank you! For helping me get the Truly Holy Emperor achievement
You should do this with AoE1,AoE3 and AoM (if possible). Really nice series!
I *honestly* thought that just the 1st mission would be impossible.
And the fourth... ^^
I love how hilariously easy it is to break AoK's missions. Even as a kid I loved finding weird ways to trick the game.
narrator : barbarossa was a true and mighty person
random drunkard: nah he was a pacifist.
narrator : what the? *stabs drunkard*
narrator : history is written by the victors!
"Betray your ally before they betray you" - T - West 6th july 2020
This series is a great idea.
Nice Video!
I guess pacifist Gengis Khan is impossible since Kushluk, otherwise it would be a hell of a difficult campaign to do Pacifist, since most of the missions are conquest. Maybe it is doable since Kushluk could be finished of by wolves, as long as you dont kill them lol
As for Saladin, you have 2 missions that can be completed by defending a wonder, but iirc there is a conquest mission (the 2nd one)
Holy God! I'm shocked that Mission 3 can be accomplished within four minutes! I remember me sitting there for hours to win that xD
I did not know for the 4th mission. I just tried it and it works. It's a joke
GENIUS!
3:25
Ive just realized about the reference to charge of the light brigade.
Wow.
10:50-10:54 T-West is spittin' that heat!!
Wow, the similarities are uncanny indeed! :O
Haha, when I played the last barbarossa campaign, I had made a path to the temple and was stupid enough to send the emporer in a barrel by himself to it. Then a random mameluke came out of NOWHERE and murdered him right outside of the temple. So, I lost. I haven't tried that campaign since.
Really cool concept. I had a quick flick through and most of the AOK scenarios seem doable, but Kushluk seems a bridge too far. No wolves on the map and I don't think I've seen either faction make a mangonel for some crazy friendly fire hijinx.
Very nice
12:40 At this point T-West's just trying to aggro Ornlu 11
Philster must really like this playthrough.
The 70 unit army part is hilarious. There was no fleet big enough to transport it ':-)
0:23 me after just finishing Barbarossa campaign and killing Henry the Bastard 2 times already: Cheers, I'll drink to that bro.
0:14 "You know the *drill* " OH STAHP.
me spends an entire eternity to finish one single campaign
T-west : i am speed
I really enjoy this style of video and the idea of winning some of the known to be bloodiest wars without killing anybody. Were you inspired to make this series by GiantGrantGames?
My main inspiration was watching pacifist speedruns of Doom, figured it would be fun to try in Aoe2.
Here's a few examples:
ua-cam.com/video/VSEtGzaF_sk/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/o78DzBJ4Rv8/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/UiTLCwufbBA/v-deo.html
this guy is nuts!!!
Are those siege rams in the intro a reference to the mongol unique tech drill when you said you know the drills?
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My fav campaign in the game.
The spirit of self-sacrifice and removal of destructive forces demonstrated here are a beacon for the world leadership.
That wonder build in mission 4... Never knew that...
interesting... in the german version of AoE2 DE in Barbarossa's first mission the orange faction isn't Lorraine but "Schwaben", what would be "swabia" in english... Lorraine and Swabia also were different kingdoms. So i find it very interesting that they use different factions in different language versions... Maybe they use swabia in the german version, cause swabia is a german realm... and it would be more historical precise to use swabia...
weird, the wikia said the opposite. I think swabia was part under barbarossa along with Bavaria
Hmm, new (old) player here, I tried the wonder abuse from mission 4. They fixed that already lol
Barbarossa sacked many cities in the balkans and lotted a bit in Constantinople SHAME ON BARBARIANS!
shame when the germans get back at the romans, eh?
@@nvmtt1403 lmao they enjoy their stans now
In the level "The Pope and the antipope" there is no longer a trade cart opening the door for you. However there is a secret entrance that let's you reach the cathedral without having to fight.
Love your pacifist gameplay. Are you also doing the new DLCs? I would love to see them.
I'd like to do a couple of pacifist runs on the DLC campaigns, have some scripts ready but need time to record and edit.
Wait, the saracen navy attacking was a bug? Never knew.
That converging ship thing in Barbarossa’s March was a bug? I had no idea.
Sneaking into Constantinople through an open gate? Preposterous!
Both this and the Joan of Arc pacifist video are fantastic! I love your commentary, and I'm looking forward to any future challenge videos you make!
I should try this
Like for last sentences about trade cogs :)
ps. looking forward for new your videos.
One mission is going to be impossible soon or later but this is awesome
Good :)
What Civ were the Polish in the original campaign? Here it says Slavs, but they weren't in the game back then. Probably Teutons?
Cool videos btw, really fun storytelling. It's like the AOE version of fan fiction, haha.
They were the Goths. And they didn't have so many Barracks to train Longswordsmen, but instead trained Huskarls from their Castles.