Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
301 Achievements
208-210h
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Roar like a Lion
Win the fifth Sundjata mission "The Lion's Den" on Hard difficulty.
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How to unlock the Roar like a Lion achievement in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Definitive Guide
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Initial
1. Send some initial builders straight to the stone and gold.
2. Build villagers to get wood/food on the island and land base.
3. Build a university to research Chemistry.
4. Research Cannon Galleons, you are aiming to build 30x war galleys and 8 Cannon Galleons and set rally point to the bottom most southern corner.
5. Immediately send your initial land troops and a villager to the red set of two conveniently placed walls. Build a castle and initial walls, once you have enough stone build a second castle and a maze of gates as per the image below. Fill the gap with Gbeto warriors to go and clean up any trebuchets and bombard cannons that seek to ruin your castles.
https://imgur.com/a/8tbCp0P
Naval Assault
1. Always keep an eye on your castle blockade as the enemy can overwhelm you at any time, sending 20-50 Champions and Cavaliers. (I rebuilt the gates atleast 20 times)
2. Once you have gathered your 30 war galleys and 8 cannon galleons, wait for the red team naval onslaught. After they have lost their 30+ galleys to your watch towers, send your naval army in and focus on destroying their docks. (Pro tip for the pesky fortified towers, use your war galleys as a meat shield whilst your cannon galleons destroy the towers. (Kill the orange onagers and arbalest that are shoreside)
3. Once all their docks are cleared, destroy all the buildings you can reach with your cannon galleons.
Destroying the Wonder
1. Fill two transport ships with 40 cavaliers to use as bait.
2. Fill the third transport ship with 5 trebuchets, (RESEARCH SIEGE ENGINEERS)
3. Leave your landing party waiting just off the beach head you have created outside their shore base.
4. Once red sends an enormous army of infantry/cavalry into your castle fort on land, this is the time to STRIKE.
5. Unleash your cavaliers and get them to attack anything red (so they have the agro) whilst setting up your trebuchets to shoot the wonder, you will definitely need to save here to work out the exact way you will need to spread out your cavaliers to keep the red ant swarm off your trebuchets.
6. Use your remaining navy to destroy all the towers on the islands and claim the gold/stone for yourself.
End Game
1. Now that the wonder is down you can sit back and watch as the AI runs out of resources and begins to just send pikemen to your walls.
2. Start creating a horde of at least 60-80 Elite Gbeto Warriors and 5 more trebuchets.
3. Land them at the beach head as below and put the warriors on stand ground to defend your trebuchets vs anything as red/orange do not create/have any ranged units at this point.
https://imgur.com/a/2gDARjR
4. Progressively destroy their base and kill Sumanguru as you go along.
1. Send some initial builders straight to the stone and gold.
2. Build villagers to get wood/food on the island and land base.
3. Build a university to research Chemistry.
4. Research Cannon Galleons, you are aiming to build 30x war galleys and 8 Cannon Galleons and set rally point to the bottom most southern corner.
5. Immediately send your initial land troops and a villager to the red set of two conveniently placed walls. Build a castle and initial walls, once you have enough stone build a second castle and a maze of gates as per the image below. Fill the gap with Gbeto warriors to go and clean up any trebuchets and bombard cannons that seek to ruin your castles.
https://imgur.com/a/8tbCp0P
Naval Assault
1. Always keep an eye on your castle blockade as the enemy can overwhelm you at any time, sending 20-50 Champions and Cavaliers. (I rebuilt the gates atleast 20 times)
2. Once you have gathered your 30 war galleys and 8 cannon galleons, wait for the red team naval onslaught. After they have lost their 30+ galleys to your watch towers, send your naval army in and focus on destroying their docks. (Pro tip for the pesky fortified towers, use your war galleys as a meat shield whilst your cannon galleons destroy the towers. (Kill the orange onagers and arbalest that are shoreside)
3. Once all their docks are cleared, destroy all the buildings you can reach with your cannon galleons.
Destroying the Wonder
1. Fill two transport ships with 40 cavaliers to use as bait.
2. Fill the third transport ship with 5 trebuchets, (RESEARCH SIEGE ENGINEERS)
3. Leave your landing party waiting just off the beach head you have created outside their shore base.
4. Once red sends an enormous army of infantry/cavalry into your castle fort on land, this is the time to STRIKE.
5. Unleash your cavaliers and get them to attack anything red (so they have the agro) whilst setting up your trebuchets to shoot the wonder, you will definitely need to save here to work out the exact way you will need to spread out your cavaliers to keep the red ant swarm off your trebuchets.
6. Use your remaining navy to destroy all the towers on the islands and claim the gold/stone for yourself.
End Game
1. Now that the wonder is down you can sit back and watch as the AI runs out of resources and begins to just send pikemen to your walls.
2. Start creating a horde of at least 60-80 Elite Gbeto Warriors and 5 more trebuchets.
3. Land them at the beach head as below and put the warriors on stand ground to defend your trebuchets vs anything as red/orange do not create/have any ranged units at this point.
https://imgur.com/a/2gDARjR
4. Progressively destroy their base and kill Sumanguru as you go along.
12 Comments
Haha no worries, I'm playing through all the campaigns on hard myself. Just figured it might be easier than spending resources on a navy and fiddling with transport ships is all. I think the micro would be tougher than the way I did it. 
By Lockie on 22 Mar 2020 14:59
I built 5 castles. One opposite your island dock on the rock outcrop as it is the perfect size, replacing the tower. The other 4 were in a straight line barrier some way back from the bridge, near the north gold mine. In front of those I built a zig-zag queue out of wood, so the enemy would have walk back and forth past the castles 3 times to get to them. If you build a gate they will attack your walls as they cannot find a path. I put 10 people with guns in each of the castles.
My strategy to take out the Wonder was pretty much the same as yours.
My strategy to take out the Wonder was pretty much the same as yours.
By HolyHalfDead on 11 Jan 2020 02:31
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (PC) - Achievement - Roar Like a Lion
Win the fifth Sundjata mission "The Lion's Den" on Hard difficulty.
Some missions can be pretty challenging for your average gamer on hard mode, but this ones not actually that bad. It's important to make a choke-point early on outside the enemy base - build walls and a castle(s) when you get to a narrow passageway where you can see the enemy has a tunnel of walls on either side (You get here by following the land North-West from your main base and then South-West). This stops them from expanding early on and taking the gold / stone that's on the land between you and them. On a side note, there are also gold and stone stockpiles on a few islands around the map.
I found it best to attack via land and sea. Set up your land choke-point, then build a University and research Chemistry so you can get Cannon Galleons to bombard any enemy structures you can and clear out the enemy buildings on the islands containing gold and stone. Build a few Fast Fire Ships to go with them to protect them from enemy Galleons.
Once you've dominated the sea, go back to pushing your land attack. I found it best to combine Trebuchets with Elite Gbeto Warriors for protection. It can be a bit tedious getting in to the enemy camp as it's protected by two layers of walls with Trebuchets and Onagers inside the wall as well as towers, but you should have enough villagers on resources at this point to pump units out and overwhelm them.
It's likely that the enemy will also start constructing a Wonder at some point - Make sure you are doing everything as fast as you can to stop the enemy achieving a Wonder Victory and you should be fine.
Win the fifth Sundjata mission "The Lion's Den" on Hard difficulty.
Some missions can be pretty challenging for your average gamer on hard mode, but this ones not actually that bad. It's important to make a choke-point early on outside the enemy base - build walls and a castle(s) when you get to a narrow passageway where you can see the enemy has a tunnel of walls on either side (You get here by following the land North-West from your main base and then South-West). This stops them from expanding early on and taking the gold / stone that's on the land between you and them. On a side note, there are also gold and stone stockpiles on a few islands around the map.
I found it best to attack via land and sea. Set up your land choke-point, then build a University and research Chemistry so you can get Cannon Galleons to bombard any enemy structures you can and clear out the enemy buildings on the islands containing gold and stone. Build a few Fast Fire Ships to go with them to protect them from enemy Galleons.
Once you've dominated the sea, go back to pushing your land attack. I found it best to combine Trebuchets with Elite Gbeto Warriors for protection. It can be a bit tedious getting in to the enemy camp as it's protected by two layers of walls with Trebuchets and Onagers inside the wall as well as towers, but you should have enough villagers on resources at this point to pump units out and overwhelm them.
It's likely that the enemy will also start constructing a Wonder at some point - Make sure you are doing everything as fast as you can to stop the enemy achieving a Wonder Victory and you should be fine.
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Thanks for your solution, I'm trying to follow it but not sure what's going wrong here. Every time I start the mission the first wave of enemy ships are not attacking my towers, they are heading north and attacking the wall I build around the bottleneck. They end up out of range of the castle (which finishes just as they arrive), and I have to send my galleons up to attack, which ends badly. Should I be waiting before they attack to build the bottleneck?
By SivadYar on 11 Sep 2020 14:05
I never had that problem to be honest. Is that on easy difficulty?
By Alexjb17 on 18 Sep 2020 18:29
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Hey guys I have made a video guide for this achievement, if that helps.
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Thanks for the helpful guide, with commentary at the start as well :)
I'm new to AoE2 as well as playing on keyboard and mouse, I've been playing the story on standard difficulty on casual speed. I've won 0 out of 9 games in ranked play but this guide was so helpful. It was really good only needing to focus on 2 units (Hand Cannons / Trebs) - I failed using the top-rated guide as well as this one, but on my third attempt I put sticky notes on my monitor of your eco distribution as well as what upgrades were needed and I pulled through! Woo hoo! Thanks :)
I'm new to AoE2 as well as playing on keyboard and mouse, I've been playing the story on standard difficulty on casual speed. I've won 0 out of 9 games in ranked play but this guide was so helpful. It was really good only needing to focus on 2 units (Hand Cannons / Trebs) - I failed using the top-rated guide as well as this one, but on my third attempt I put sticky notes on my monitor of your eco distribution as well as what upgrades were needed and I pulled through! Woo hoo! Thanks :)
By Pulzy on 20 May 2023 11:07
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (PC) - Achievement - Roar Like a Lion
Win the fifth Sundjata mission "The Lion's Den" on Hard difficulty.
Some missions can be pretty challenging for your average gamer on hard mode, but this ones not actually that bad. It's important to make a choke-point early on outside the enemy base - build walls and a castle(s) when you get to a narrow passageway where you can see the enemy has a tunnel of walls on either side (You get here by following the land North-West from your main base and then South-West). This stops them from expanding early on and taking the gold / stone that's on the land between you and them. On a side note, there are also gold and stone stockpiles on a few islands around the map.
I found it best to attack via land and sea. Set up your land choke-point, then build a University and research Chemistry so you can get Cannon Galleons to bombard any enemy structures you can and clear out the enemy buildings on the islands containing gold and stone. Build a few Fast Fire Ships to go with them to protect them from enemy Galleons.
Once you've dominated the sea, go back to pushing your land attack. I found it best to combine Trebuchets with Elite Gbeto Warriors for protection. It can be a bit tedious getting in to the enemy camp as it's protected by two layers of walls with Trebuchets and Onagers inside the wall as well as towers, but you should have enough villagers on resources at this point to pump units out and overwhelm them.
It's likely that the enemy will also start constructing a Wonder at some point - Make sure you are doing everything as fast as you can to stop the enemy achieving a Wonder Victory and you should be fine.
Win the fifth Sundjata mission "The Lion's Den" on Hard difficulty.
Some missions can be pretty challenging for your average gamer on hard mode, but this ones not actually that bad. It's important to make a choke-point early on outside the enemy base - build walls and a castle(s) when you get to a narrow passageway where you can see the enemy has a tunnel of walls on either side (You get here by following the land North-West from your main base and then South-West). This stops them from expanding early on and taking the gold / stone that's on the land between you and them. On a side note, there are also gold and stone stockpiles on a few islands around the map.
I found it best to attack via land and sea. Set up your land choke-point, then build a University and research Chemistry so you can get Cannon Galleons to bombard any enemy structures you can and clear out the enemy buildings on the islands containing gold and stone. Build a few Fast Fire Ships to go with them to protect them from enemy Galleons.
Once you've dominated the sea, go back to pushing your land attack. I found it best to combine Trebuchets with Elite Gbeto Warriors for protection. It can be a bit tedious getting in to the enemy camp as it's protected by two layers of walls with Trebuchets and Onagers inside the wall as well as towers, but you should have enough villagers on resources at this point to pump units out and overwhelm them.
It's likely that the enemy will also start constructing a Wonder at some point - Make sure you are doing everything as fast as you can to stop the enemy achieving a Wonder Victory and you should be fine.
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As you would expect from the difficulty level, this can be quite hard and you will need to be quick. As soon as it starts you will want to boom your economy. The enemy will be aggressive and you will likely want a land army and a navy. For your land army, Gbeto warriors are cavalry can be good, though be warned the enemy will counter. It's also useful to back these up with a group of monks to keep them alive as resources will become scarce later in the game. Finally, have some trebuchets for siege, especially gold and stone. For the navy you will want some fast fire ships and cannon galleons, shortly into the game the enemy will build a wonder, at this stage you'll want to take a couple of transport ships of troops and your navy to them, but be warned of the towers in the sea they can be deadly. Use your navy to attack the enemy base from the south, taking out their towers and docks with your cannon galleons, while countering their war galleys with your fire ships. Then land your army where their destroyed docks are, take some trebuchets to hit the wonder and your army to defend.
After the wonder is destroyed, take out as much as the enemy base as you can as they wont really rebuild but take note that it will be a long hard slog of defending until they run out of resources, if you can take out all their docks, you can control the sea with the extra gold. also note there is gold and stone to the north that they will mine if you are not quick, it may be worth taking these early on and saving the gold in your base until later.
After the wonder is destroyed, take out as much as the enemy base as you can as they wont really rebuild but take note that it will be a long hard slog of defending until they run out of resources, if you can take out all their docks, you can control the sea with the extra gold. also note there is gold and stone to the north that they will mine if you are not quick, it may be worth taking these early on and saving the gold in your base until later.
