Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

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Kaboom

You killed 1,000 enemy units using Demolition Ships.

0.16%

How to unlock the Kaboom achievement in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Definitive Guide

Mr Durian Cobra

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13 Dec 2019 15:22

Once you reach 1k kill the achievement will instantly popped.
Unlike the AOE1, please don't use scenairo editor to try this (maybe all of goals) in AOE2:DE
Friends try this settings in skirmish mode:
civ: Chinese (Player, high demoship HP) VS Aztecs (Very hard AI)
map: mini size island map
infinite resourses
10min treaty
150 or more population
post imperial age

In 8min you can build up mass of castles to aviod landing forces, and you can build around 10 shipyards and mass of houses for preparation. Then, save a file.
When battle begins, boom anything on water or near the water, all counts.
you can win the achievements in 15 minutes I believe.

13 Dec 2019 15:22

11 Comments

worked great for me, the AI was piling up troops on the shore for loading ontop transports, demo ships taking about 20 at a time. Awesome.

Took about 15mins.

I used team islands and in the 15min treaty time amassed demo ships on their border on aggressive stance, then just targeted shoreline troops individually. Lot of fun.

Note that unlike wololo (convert 1000 units) you can't do this one in a custom scenario / campaign, I know because I tried at length.

By yossariano on 21 Dec 2019 18:55

Great solution! Took me about 15 mins as well. Was expecting this to take a looooong time as i don't really use demo ships casually. Up vote from me!

By OnexWingxAngelx on 02 Feb 2020 16:22

Great solution, I used all the above tactics but changed mode to Team Death Match, On Moderate Difficulty - Any Lower and they AI doesn't produce enough units. I was the Huns so I didnt have to go through the tedious process of house building. I literally followed the tactics above, built around 10 docks 2 castles to provie cover for the docks, then spam build demo ships. Unlocked in ten mins

By cooper101183 on 04 Mar 2020 02:18

I had a lot of fun unlocking this achievement with the above mentioned steps. I actually had to laugh because of all the explosions happening at the enemies fleet as well as his shorelines. Where a lot of troops would walk and KABOOM.

Also this was the last achievement I still needed to get all the achievements for this game.

By jantrance on 02 Sep 2020 17:36

The only thing the enemy did was building a wonder asap whitout training any ships or whatever. Difficulty doesn't matter

By hi3gie12 on 21 Oct 2020 15:37

Great solution. Took 18 in-game minutes playing on fast. CPU on highest difficulty and on islands - just send the demo ships at the ships and castles/buildings that are inevitably built on the shoreline. Literally takes minutes and most of the work is done for you by your own AI.

By S P 4 C E Y on 25 Mar 2021 14:51

Thanks, nice solution, land units are easier to kill massivelly.

By pticode on 15 Jul 2021 20:07

a doubt, demoship its unlocked only if i have dlc?

By MadnessLloyD on 04 Nov 2021 01:04

@MadnessLloyD

click the red arrow on your dock

By on 01 Dec 2021 22:36

Thanks :)

By Tier2016 on 23 May 2023 15:12

Not sure what wrong I have kill 4000 units and nothing

By Darth Maul FTS on 25 Dec 2023 07:03

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Caramel, Cardinal

XboxAchievements

Start a standard game with the following settings:

1 Enemy - Hard difficulty or higher
Civilization - Any with heavy demolition ship, I chose Huns to avoid having to build houses
Treaty Length 15 minutes
Islands map with Tiny size
Post Imperial Age start
Turbo Mode on
Infinite Resources

Once it starts send your villagers out to build lots of docks and castles along the edge of your island to defend it. As soon as the docks are built start spamming out demolition ships. By the time the treaty ends you should have a large collection of them (make a save here so if you want to come back later you don't need to rebuild), then just send them in and repeatedly build more to replace, making sure they are set to either aggressive stance or so you have them on attack move/patrol so they kill the first enemies they come across. It should only take another 10 to 15 minutes to kill 1000 enemies.