Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

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Truly Countless Bodies

Truly Countless Bodies

Defeat all opponents before 30 minutes have elapsed in the fifth Attila the Hun mission "The Catalaunian Fields".

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How to unlock the Truly Countless Bodies achievement in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Definitive Guide

IGNORE THE VISGOTHS (GREEN) AT THE START. The game will trigger your ally to attack an enemy after a certain time (15-20 minutes I think) and if you still have Holy Roman Empire (blue) around then they will go to them and get absolutely slaughtered. They will send over knights, two hand swordsmans and trebuchets at the same time as you are preparing to attack green. Even if they get castles up you will still easily be able to be able to destroy them. Blue are the real problem in this scenario because if you give them an inch they will take 100000000 miles and then this becomes impossible.

The following need to be done at the same time:

1) Move sheep in-between where the gold and stone is on your right with your scout cavalry to stop them being taken by other team's passing units.

2) Send most of your Tarkans to Alans (turquoise) base straight to their town centre with two to Holy Roman Empire (blue) base to harass any villagers trying to build castles. Send them straight over to blue when done.

3) Set up your villagers to build 5 or 6 stables. As each new one is complete immediately put lots of knights in the production queue set the way point to just outside blue's base. until they are all complete. When you have 3 stables send one villagers to start on the town centre for resources (focus on creating villagers for food and gold with a few on wood for farms). When the stables are complete build a blacksmiths for cavalry upgrades.

4) keep an eye on the Tarkans and make sure they are destroying town centre and mopping up villagers.

5) Keep building those knights up at blue, sending a few at a time to kill villagers trying to build castles. Once you have a reasonable number (20ish) there send the whole lot in and move the waypoint right in their base.

If blue get a castle up at any point, restart.

Now all is left is green. Send your knights back to base and start building a castle whilst producing knights with the way point just outside your base. Research the unique tech so you can produce tarkans at stables and also set some for production in the castle, waypoint same as knights.

As you are doing this check on red's movement. Once you see them moving units AND the trebuchets you are ready for the final attack:

1) Separate your knights and tarkans (double click on one to select all of the same unit type).

2) Once the red trebuchets are near you send the tarkans towards a town centre and your knights to kill their military units and more importantly to protect red's trebuchets. Green usually has battering ram's waiting: make sure these don't get to the trebuchets.

3) Move castle and stables waypoints right into their base.

4) When all the battering rams are destroyed and their military thinned out, set the knights on castles and town centres. They have an attack bonus against Huskrals.

Whilst all this is going on red's trebuchets will be targeting castles, military buildings and town centres, with their other units helping to distract.
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The video offered above works far better than this solution.

Immediately send all your cavalry to blue. When you get there, attack with one unit - as soon as blue sends unit after you, send that horse to red base. Blue will follow.

At the same time, build 5x stables and a blacksmith and send knights to blue. As soon as the stables are done, build a TC, get villagers on food and gold, though you'll need wood soon after.

Harass blue with every cavalry unit you have. Don't focus on destroying anything straight away - you must absolutely prevent a castle from being built. As your units increase you can start focussing on one TC and then the other. Then you can mop of everything else.

Once you go to turquoise, destroy its military units then its TC. Target every villager you can. Leave any castle(s) they have until last (if you can). Once all the villagers are gone, they'll resign as soon as you attack the last castle.

Then send your units to the outskirts of green. Get some villagers over and build a siege workshop for rams. If you can get a castle up on the outskirts that also helps.

Build rams while defending your position. Then send in your rams to target the castle while defending with (what will likely be) 100 cavalry. You may be able to target the TCs at the same time as the castles, but protecting your rams is the priority.

In that order, it's very possible to go significantly under 30 minutes. Red may help, but I found them pretty much useless.
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By S P 4 C E Y on 06 Feb 2021 21:54
Great guide. Very hectic achievement to get!

Red never attacked green for me but luckily I built my castle across the bridge from green's base so when I attacked around the 25min mark I could pull most of his army into the fire of my castle then easily knocked over his TC's and castles with mass knights & tarkans.
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By Lockie on 02 Jan 2020 14:19
I tried the video but kept dying to castles

I basically did everything at the beginning - except I sent 1 stable to Alans and 1 to Visigoths to keep them from building stuff.. and all other stables to wherever I was actively. Never dealt w/ a single castle

took me 13 minutes
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By Poat540 on 19 Jan 2021 01:29
Good guide. It took me 24 minutes after few tries. I sent instant 2 workers to build castle in blue base. Scout attacked them and took blue's army to the red. I killed Alans. Then blue with castle. Last worker built 3 stables and 3 tower center. In 10th minute 2 were done.

So far the hardest achievement. I did all in theory harder earlier.
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By Legend#5793 on 19 Jan 2021 07:55
Completed it in only 18 minutes and played on casual speed which helped a ton!!
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By CatsPaw74 on 11 Jan 2022 04:14
Thanks, helped a lot. Got it with 23 mins.
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By AC Rock3tman on 01 Nov 2022 00:07
Is this even possible on xbox?
All these guides are for pc?
Tried so many times and can’t get anywhere near the time🫣
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By KATAKL1ZM on 26 Mar 2023 00:01
19.43 on xbox, casual speed, 4 stables. Blue didn't finish a single castle, which is the most important part.
Thanks for this guide. Helped a lot.
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By Kelle1994 on 06 Apr 2023 15:35
Controllers are slow and not made for rts games.
Reccomend keyboard and mouse if you on xbox
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By on 20 Apr 2023 11:58
ClassierPompano's guide is great, and I also used information from https://gameplay.tips/guides/5996-age-of-empires-ii-definiti... and the Clever Fool's video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhCtSbHvtIw. The two tips I would highlight are:
1. Use your scout to lure the Western Roman (blue) defenders away and then hit the northeast town center with your tarkans and then as your knights arrive, send them around the other town center to snipe villagers.
2. Slow the game down with the - key on the numpad.

After watching the video and reading the guide, and using the two tips above, I was able to complete the scenario in 15:29. And I am truly terrible at micro--if I can get this achievement, it's well within reach of everyone else!
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By jrod39 on 23 Jan 2020 01:43
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (PC) - Achievement - Truly Countless Bodies

Defeat all opponents before 30 minutes have elapsed in the fifth Attila the Hun mission "The Catalaunian Fields".

Start by constructing a few Town Centres with your initial Villagers. I build 3 in this video, but maybe a fourth wouldn't be out of the question. This just gets your economy in check earlier and you start with enough resources to do this as well. Following your Town Centres, build a Castle so you can advance to the next age. Avoid building / researching anything unnecessary. Your weapon of choice this mission will be the Elite Tarkan. They decimate buildings with ease, making them ideal for quickly ridding yourself of your enemies. Build a few Stables and simply pump them out after researching the technology at your castle to make it so you can build them at the Stable. Only research technologies applicable to the Tarkan. Build a few Trebuchets to accompany your army and use them to make quicker work of Castles that stand in your way. Begin systematically eliminating your enemies and just remember to replenish your forces.

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13 Jun 2020 14:18

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So following your video is the closest I have came to pulling it off. Problem is, no matter what I do I'm just over 30 minutes, every time! I've used a stopwatch now, and have done it around 18 minutes 3 times in a row, yet when the campaign ends, it always shows me over the 30 minute mark....any suggestions?
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By GreatPotBandito on 12 Mar 2021 14:27
I think this was my 3rd attempt. Age of Empires time is quicker than actual time, which I know sounds ridiculous. I don't think I had much time spare at all on the score screen. It was really just about repetition and trying to do little things better and more efficiently. I remember getting the Town Centres up ASAP was important to get resources in order. I don't really do it in this video, but when you have a group of Tarkan's, its best to get them to surround a building then attack, rather than just attack the building. Maybe looking back a bit more siege would have allowed me to destroy bases a bit quicker. The best thing to do is just keep trying and maybe experiment a little if you can do anything that will speed up your time.
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By Alexjb17 on 14 Mar 2021 18:47
Thank you! For me the best solution for this achievement. I even forgot the Elite Tarkan upgrade and still got it on my first try.
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By Slagathorman8 on 26 Apr 2021 17:08
Used this start to get this first try. Albeit at 29 minutes😅 having 3 stables constantly pumping out elite tarkans was broken lol. And I made about 10 trebuchets which made quick work of any and all castles. I will say what the other strat said in starting with blue, as they do expand faster and stronger than the other two.
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By Vampirchika on 16 Feb 2023 23:57
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It helps to think of this scenario as a deathmatch game and act fast rather than building up your base and economy.

I am trying to follow this strat:
but Romans either get a castle or cavaliers by the time my knight ball reaches their base. However sniping the Alan's (teal) TC and few military buildings is the same. Be sure to save wood for a blacksmith and a market to upgrade and trade for resources for your knight ball. For the Visigoths (green) send some of your knight ball over with your remaining tarkans to kill them off, try to be fast with the Alans so you can reach green before they get a castle up and spam huskarls. Be careful as green mainly train pikes and longswords. Like in the video you can lure their army away or harass vils building castles with your scout and a few knights as you are building up your force.

You want to kill or cripple the Visigoths and Romans before they get a castle up or upgrade their units. Visigoths start in castle age while the Romans start in imperial. If blue upgrades to cavaliers unless you strongly outnumber them it's probably gg.

Alternatively, send your scout to the roman base, attack a TC and lure their army towards your ally. Rally about half your stables outside blue and the other towards the green base. After killing the Alans, send your tarkans in the direction of the Romans and your 1st knight ball and snipe their 2nd TC in the north, castle foundations and builders before the Romans can get a castle up. It's important to keep LOS with a knight in their base to find these.

While this is happening keep half your stables piling knights towards the Visigoths, raiding their eco and preventing them from castling up their base.
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21 Nov 2019 01:05

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Holy Roman crap.

I sniped Teal and Green handily in under 7 minutes, goes quick if you steer clear from their Castles and clear their TCs and Villagers. But then I had to fight the Romans inch by inch in a frontline meat grinder between two sets of Castles for the rest of the match. Finally got them to quit at 28:55. Phew!

I won, it was fun, but I definitely wouldn't recommend that for an optimal strat! smile

Truly countless bodies
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By Healtti on 21 Nov 2019 20:06
I really did not have the skills to do this in real time, so I paused the game (using F3) a lot and executed my orders when paused (I played it almost like a turn-based strategy game!). I also hit F11 to bring the clock up so I could track the 30 minutes time limit.

I basically ignored green, sent my starter horsemen up to the top and ran around sniping villagers when possible, but mainly stopping the castles from being built. I criss-crossed from one side of each base to the other and whenever I saw a building being constructed paused, clicked on the villager to attack and then unpaused until it was attacked. As soon as the villager was hit the building collapsed and I paused and saved the game at that point.

I spammed stable units to a way-point just above the river and between the two bases and used them to replenish the ones that got killed that were sniping - maybe a dozen replacements were needed in total.

I also had a TC, blacksmith, market, lumber-camp, mine and mill in my home based and so so tried to create enough villagers to make sure I was at least topping up my resources for the end game.

By the time I had 60 knights assembled I had managed to avoid any castles going up and so ran in and killed the TC and villagers for the Romans and then moved onto the Alans. I also then reset my way-point to the bridge by the goths and sold my stone, wood to make enough food/gold to top up my horses.

By the time I had killed the top two bases I was at 20 minutes and had 60 knights to wade into greens. They had a couple of castles and a couple of TCs but 60 was more than enough to be able to kill them in the time left.

I had all the upgrades from my base buildings, but had not advanced age. Overall it took around 90 minutes of slow methodical moving around to manage it in 27 minutes of game-clock time.

Hopefully this is of some use to anyone else who is struggling at doing it in real-time.
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By Falihax on 09 Jan 2020 00:12
Thanks for the guide. I will only add that the AI will surrender if you neck all their vils, I was able to snipe blues Vils rather than defeat them in open combat.
Great guide 1+
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By Apache117X on 22 Dec 2019 02:27
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (PC) - Achievement - Truly Countless Bodies

Defeat all opponents before 30 minutes have elapsed in the fifth Attila the Hun mission "The Catalaunian Fields".

Start by constructing a few Town Centres with your initial Villagers. I build 3 in this video, but maybe a fourth wouldn't be out of the question. This just gets your economy in check earlier and you start with enough resources to do this as well. Following your Town Centres, build a Castle so you can advance to the next age. Avoid building / researching anything unnecessary. Your weapon of choice this mission will be the Elite Tarkan. They decimate buildings with ease, making them ideal for quickly ridding yourself of your enemies. Build a few Stables and simply pump them out after researching the technology at your castle to make it so you can build them at the Stable. Only research technologies applicable to the Tarkan. Build a few Trebuchets to accompany your army and use them to make quicker work of Castles that stand in your way. Begin systematically eliminating your enemies and just remember to replenish your forces.

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13 Jun 2020 00:00

This is one of the hardest achievement in the game. As soon as the mission starts you will want to build several stables and spam out as much cavalry as you can, going to attack the blues in the north first and circling round anti clockwise. You'll need good micro management of your economy and building troops as well as attack all at once. A mixture of Tarkens to quickly take down buildings and knights to take out men is recommended. 
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Guide pour Xbox

Développer vous tranquillement

Construisez 2 forums, 4 écuries, une forge, un château, un marché et un université.

Affectez vos paysans manuellement, un tiers pour le bois, un tiers pour la nourriture, un tiers pour l or(sur 40 50 paysans au total)

Prenez l amélioration au forum pour les paysans, et celle de l écurie pour la cavalerie

Améliorez vos tarkan en tarkan élite, acheter toutes les améliorations a la forge pour la cavalerie.

Et bien sûr, recruter beaucoup de tarkan et au château quelques trebuchets.

Vous pouvez commencé à attaquer au bout de 15 minutes.

Attaquez les wisigoths en premier en vert en touchant la forge, ils enverront leurs soldats que vous decimerez.

Ensuite detruisez les 2 forums en priorité et séparer quelques tarkans au cas où un paysan reconstruirez un autre forum.

Et vous pouvez avancer vos trebuchets juste avant le passage qui mène au forum des Alains.

Si un paysan arrive à construire un 3eme forum, recharger la partie.

Une fois les wisigoths anéanti, attaquer les Alains en détruisant les forums en priorité, pensez toujours à séparer quelques unités pour tuer les paysans.

Après les Alains anéanti attaquer les romains en visant la tour qui fera venir ses unités que vous decimerez et détruire les forums en priorité, et toujours chercher les paysans avec quelques unités au cas ou.

Et faites venir vos trebuchets pour détruire les châteaux.

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13 Apr 2023 20:04

Xbox guide - the other guides seem for PC and while giving ideas they took a bit of tweaking for console. The main good tip is killing the alans at the start with the tarkans and take scout cav for increase vision to track down running Alan villagers easier, if you move straight away ull get there before their stable is complete so will only have 5-6 Visigoth man-at-arms for defence. Another guide advised to build 3 town centres with starting villagers and get economy in order, this worked for me so spam villagers i made like 50 in total, try and set waypoints for specific resources initially, build castle right at bridge near visigoths, advance imperial and build blk smith, 4 stables was enough for me, advance imperial, fully upgrade tarkans and tech to build at stables + cav blk smith upgrades and some econ upgrades, spam tarkans from stables and some trebs from castle.

Now you should be ready to move on Visigoths, who will have alot of infantry but tarkans will slaughter all in their path, use trebs on castles + town centres and focus on villagers and killing any siege equipment, i lost about a minute because of some stupid ram sitting in a corner not moving, so id recommend taking a couple scout cav to help with extra vision.

Once thats done move waypoint for trebs/tarkans to near blue, move all units build couple more trebs and spam as many tarkans as possible, ull run out of pop but ull take a lot of casualties attacking blue. Use trebs on castles, keep a group of tarkans to guard trebs but send most after town centres and towers, anywhere their villagers can hide. Send another small group down south to kill villagers on gold mine and you should get it when all units, castles and towers are gone, i got it at 29:33 so close but im inefficient with time and had that wasted bit so can easily be done quicker.
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29 Mar 2023 20:42

So far, this one was one of the toughest achievements I played. But in the end I succeeded. And this is what I found help- and useful.

Summary:
1. Rush-Wipe out cyan and slow down green (~5 min.)
2. Wipe out green and start your economy (~5-15 min.)
3. Build a big army and wipe out blue (~12-30 min.)

At the start send all your cavalry (except one) to rush cyan. Kill the infantry first, the rest should be easy and quick. Just make sure to stop their castle building. Then go directly for their town center. Let no villager escape. At the same time send one tarkan and your villagers down south to green. Build a castle above their base. Use the tarkan to interrupt their building, especially theier castles. When the infantry attacks, escape them. When your castle is ready, lure them there to finish them. Start creating more tarkans immediately. As soon as cyan is done, bring your other tarkans down for support. After your castle is finished, build at least two town centers, a smithy and two stables. Monks are optional. I found them useful. With 10-20 tarkans and your castle, green should be wiped out soon. Again, make sure to go for the town center and let no villager escape. It is important that you make sure they don't finish a castle. In my opinion it takes too much time to wait for imperial age and trebs. While harrassing and finishing green, keep building you economy and start building parts of your army. I focused only on tarkans and knights and their upgrades. That worked fine. Do the armor and damage upgrades in the smithy. At the same time bring 3-4 villagers up to the western border of allied red. Once there, build a castle and two stables. You should be on imperial age now and have the first part of your army (20-30 cavalry). Finish your army up there. In the end I had six trebs, 40-50 elite tarkans/chevaliers and about 8-10 minutes left for the last attack. While creating the last part of your army up there, you can lure some of blues units to the castle you just built. That might reduce the resistance for the final fight and also lures away their trebs. Also tell red to attack (chat: 31). This also might help a little bit and cover your approach. Save before the last fight. I attackes from the north and concentrated on the castles and town centers. The cavalry protected the trebs. As soon as the castles are down, send your troops for the swarming villagers. To get them all in time is the crucial part in den end. I finished with less than a minute left. Good luck!
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07 Jun 2024 00:00

From the start we set up 3 city centers, a castle (we study the technology that allows us to build tarkans in stables) and 4 stables. We create trebuchets and cockroaches. With your starting roaches, you can immediately run to the southwest and prevent the green one from setting up a castle. Along the way, completing construction and sending reinforcements. Then we go clockwise and demolish the remaining ones. First of all, we demolish the castle and the city center, then the buildings for the production of units (barracks, stables, etc.)
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27 Jul 2020 01:53