The AoE II ultimate “bug spray”

Overview

For those who find those weird bugs on Age of Empires II comes an ultimate walktrough / guide to try to complete all the campaigns.Note: This is a work in progress!

Introduction

I have a long history of playing Age of Empires so i decided to buy it on Steam and play all the levels to get the achievements. I found out that the HD version of this game have lots of bugs in the campaigns but i decided to still play them and try to solve their problems without using cheats.
I hope this can be useful to the Steam Community, you can check my progress in my achievements page and my opinions of this game and many others on my reviews.

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The Forgotten Campaign

Dracula

• The moon rises

BUG Description: You can’t get the required 500 kills.

Instructions:

You have two castles to defend, one in the left and another in the right.

First:

• Choose Hard difficulty
• Start the game and pause it (to give you more time for what you’re about to do)
• Left castle: Destroy the two gates
• Right castle: Destroy the main gate

Destroying them will make your enemy want to attack more your castles and will prevent them for making trebuchets

Right castle:

• Hide your Onager in a corner with a “no attack stance” (you might need it later)
• Create 10 knights (Stable) and put them inside the Stable.
• Put the villager and Jakub inside your castle
• You have some units (Hand Cannoneer, Crossbowmen…) put them in the towers next to the road (you don’t need them all, just try to choose the towers with the best range)

Left castle:

• Create 1 monk
• Create 10 Boyar (Castle) and put them inside the Castle.
• Put the villager and Istvan inside your castle
• You have some units (Hand Cannoneer, Crossbowmen…) put them in the three towers to gain their attack bonuses.
• Destroy the tower under your base (you don’t need it)

After creating your units put them outside to lure your enemies. Put them in “defensive stance” so they will defend themselves when they need it but they will always come back to their position. In the left, the monk will heal their HP; In the right, put your units inside your castle and just wait for them to heal. Use this units (they are fast) to attack approching siege units or units “out of range”. You can send them to the map to lure more enemies and avoid them to being stuck in trees or other inaccessible places of the map. This units also lure enemies to attack them. At some point the enemies will stop attacking you and the IA will stop creating new units (out of resources). At the right castle, create some pikeman and some light cavalry (they are cheap but choose what fits you better) and make them go to a place where your onager is attacking “attack ground”. Instead of making a “suicide” this will make your kill counts increase. If it’s not enough, you can turn your “gray” allies to “neutral” and kill some of their units but never kill the units on the lower part of the map, they will become yours later and will make impossible to win if they are destroyed.

Note: Make sure your monk is always outside! After you get the “500 kills” you lost the control of your units and you will get another army. You can use this monk (ally) to heal your future units in a later part of the game.

Alaric

• All roads lead to a besieged city

BUG Description: The objective “2. Bring Alaric to the Goth Camp in the south” enters in a infinite loop. When you are there, the game keeps changing the camera between that location and a market. It creates the objective “3. Take over and hold the market to the north. This will cut off the final trade route to Rome” and the camera keeps changing. Even if you bring alaric to the Goth camp the objective is never completed.

Instructions:

• Simply leave the Goth Camp and move ahead the market. Make sure Alaric leaves too. The problem will stop.
• At the market, defend yourself and kill the attackers. The objective of bringing Alaric to the Goth Camp is never completed but if you kill a certain amount of enemy units it will trigger the objective “4. Repel the attack of the Roman legions. Do not let them destroy the market” and you will be victorious.

Note: Before going to the market make sure you have a suitable army. Use the monk of the early stage of the game to heal your units (but be careful of the enemy towers) and send a scout (if you have any) or other unit to different places of the map to search for lost refugees that will join your forces.

What it looks when you win this level:

Sforza

• The Hand of a Daughter

BUG Description: You can’t get out of the tent.

Instructions:

First of all, this is not really a “bug”. At a certain part of this mission you will need to put your two units (spies) inside a tent (which is really another part of the map hidden away) and after that you need to get out. I fount it difficult (as many people) because the game says that you need to select your spy to get out of the tent. What you need to do is select your spy and walk in the direction of the bushes outside:

Note: You enter the tent by clicking on it. If before clicking it you select your units and make them walk to somewhere else you have control of these units outside the tent and inside the tent. Confused? Just try it. This is the tent i am talking about: