Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

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No Wonder You Won

No Wonder You Won

Won the game before Mahipala completes his Wonder in "Sacred Waters".

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How to unlock the No Wonder You Won achievement in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Definitive Guide

Rajendra Campaign, Mission 4.

The key to this is speed and saving your trade cogs!
Big tip from THE DEADLY DOG, spread a chain of the special ships along so your trade cog can travel safely to each dock.

The mission ends as soon as you destroy the 3 castles, I didn't bother attacking the wonder because the villagers quit building it to go garrison in the castles which I destroyed.
Enemy boats spawn when your trade cogs spawn, so even if you think you cleared the passage, you didn't. Send some boats back to the trade cog spawn point to escort them to each new dock that you get.
Build at least 5 more of the unique boat units! They are very valuable in this mission for tanking and killing boats.
(Remember, when the city's switch control, you can't build any more units in that city! You can however build every unit in the final area you get)

Each city switches control as soon as you leave it, as well as Kalenga switching to enemy once--when Kalenga switch to enemy, charge the gates again immediately to kill the units defending and you'll get ally status again.

Once you gain the final general's army, take the scouts and send them NW of the green city to find 3 trebuchets--you can use these to take out one castle on their own.

After leaving the blue city and recapturing it, take a small squad of troops(20 should be enough) and go north to raid the markets of the villages for bonus food.

Use the market in blue while you can--enemy units will target it to prevent you trading.

And again, SPEED to the general. Rush the city gates at each city, try to get a unit on Stand Ground in each gate so your troops can rush through and kill the rest of the defenders.

Once you reach the general, after some dialog, a 5 minute timer will start. You can wait or not, doesn't really matter, just check what the wonder build status is. I waited for them to attack while I was researching upgrades and spamming units up to pop cap.

If you've done it all well, the wonder shouldn't be much more than half, you should be near max pop, your trade cogs have been escorted and arrived, and you have the trebuchets ready to go.

Wait for yellow or don't wait, just put your troops in position and charge for a messy battle!

Don't forget to heal during the battle!

Kill the 3 castles with Armored Elephants(Trebs can get one before they self-destruct)

And win.
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30 Apr 2022 03:24

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Biggest tip is just moving quickly. Grab each city quickly simply to get through them and get to your general. I also found that leaving a spread out chain of a single special ship will be enough to keep your trade cogs safe.

After quite a few failed attempts moving quickly to the general and then building up a suitable force of archers and siege elephants made for a much easier win.
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By THE DEADLY DOG on 01 May 2022 03:47
Yep, sounds familiar! The single special ship chain is a great tip, I'll add that!
Did you have to recapture Kalenga in order to win?
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By Shadow 00 Fox on 03 May 2022 01:09
test: is your notifications working now? ;)
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By Raw Sauce Ross on 04 May 2022 21:34
Nope! It's annoying! I have to manual check these solutions....... facepalm
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By Shadow 00 Fox on 05 May 2022 04:06
We are talking about Hard difficulty on the tips you gave, right? I'm about to try this now and I'm scared.
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By tupaquinho on 04 Jun 2022 00:44
Tupaquinho, I don't know if you've done the achievement yet, but yes, that's for Hard difficulty. I just did this on Standard using the steps above and following this video guide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKkuXjwFrqA) and did it with little difficulty on the first attempt.
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By jrod39 on 13 Jun 2022 23:59
If you keep your hero unit (Rajendra Chola) in purple's base (first base you spawn at) you keep control of the unit production building, including the dock. The trade cogs spawn on top of the dock and you will only have to move it a tiny bit for it to come in. You can also keep spamming units from the buildings to Kalinga to defend it.
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By Peije on 06 Nov 2022 10:17
Just leaving your hero in the first town is a good shout. Research elite siege elephants and elite elephant archers from the start. Your initial army can take out the first two cities no problem, just be sure to go left and through the forest to get the three trebs to take out the 2nd city's castle.

You can completely ignore the naval aspect this way and get instant resources from all the trade cogs. Once you have the final camp, spend whatever you have on a few more elephant archers and you're pretty much good to invade immediately. Enemy wonder was at about 66% when I won.
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By EmagDrolBot on 25 Jan 2023 17:26
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