Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

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Saxon Revenge

Saxon Revenge

Defeat West Francia in "Otto (936)".

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

Playing on Standard difficulty

To get West Francia (purple) to attack you, all your 3 duches (allies) must be rebelling towards you. Their loyalty decrease with time and once it reaches zero, they rebel and start attacking you.
They become ally again after you defeat a certain number of their troops.

Get your economy booming, build several castles around your base for defense, start building an army of trebs and knights. For me, 5 castles were enough as a defense to stop attacks from the rebels (they don't send many units on standard).
Try not to kill too many of the rebelling units until all of them are rebelling towards you: you need the 3 rebelling at the same time for West Francia to become enemy, and if you kill too many of them, they'll become ally again.

It's time for you to attack West Francia. Now you can be ally with the rebels again ; West Francia will remain enemy until you defeat them anyway.
Note that you don't actually have to destroy the entire West Francia faction ; they will surrender after you've done enough damage to their city and units. It shouldn't be an issue with a heavy army of knights and trebs to take down castles and forums.

PS: As noted by Lord Kingslay3r in the comment, Bavaria takes a looong time rebelling on Standard, because they have a really slow economy. In my game they were stuck at 1 point for so long I thought my game glitched, but they eventually rebelled. So no worries !
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20 Mar 2024 22:22

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This must be wrong, once the west France becomes enemy impossible to get the others factions allys...they become berserker.
They spawn Infinite troops...
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By Thanathos 777 on 22 Mar 2024 19:14
@Thanathos 777 nothing 40-50 teutons paladins cant handle.
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By AbP Slayer on 23 Mar 2024 03:27
So you only use elite teutons and Paladin to charge, right ?
This dlc is harder than the reste of the game...sometimes i think i m playing on hard mode.
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By Thanathos 777 on 23 Mar 2024 06:27
Yup Thanathos 777. I did probably 75% paladin the rest teutons. A 5-treb wrecking crew in the back, fully teched out.
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By THE DEADLY DOG on 23 Mar 2024 13:41
An ARMY, in other words LOADS (120+) Elite Teutonic Knights can basically power through anything. Use them. And they train really quick. Plus for INFINITE gold build 20 trade cogs at a dock and send them to the far West of the map to a neutral dock to trade around 1300 Gold a pop. Makes the mission easy.
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By AdiGrande777 on 23 Mar 2024 23:59
Damn, Bavaria takes SO LONG to build itself up and then lose loyalty. Over an hour in game time and they’re just about at 50..
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By Lord Kingslay3r on 02 Apr 2024 15:34
Yeah Bavaria was really long on Standard. I guess it goes faster on hard mode.
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By Spay001 on 02 Apr 2024 16:03
They're not ... I had to build castles around their base and send plenty of resources, to help them advancing to Castle.
First time they resigned after being demolished by Hungary :| Ofc as loyal
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By AureliaNova on 04 Apr 2024 19:45
You must prevent Bavaria from being wiped out by hungary early while being loyal. In this case, you can't get Francia hostile anymore. It is easy to prevent this however. Just send some troops of the other allies there with beacon signals.
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By cid2sk8 on 05 May 2024 21:30
It is true Thanathos 777. The other factions will come back to you with enough buildings destroyed and units killed. I just went for the castles and let my paladins do the killing of troops. Each will come back. When they do, use them against whoever you have left to fight.
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By THE DEADLY DOG on 23 Mar 2024 02:43
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