Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition

To complete the English Mastery you have to complete 15 challenges whilst using the English faction. These must be completed in order and you cannot advance to the next until the previous is complete. They will generally be based around the use of a local unit or ability and are generally self-explanatory, however, I will provide a few generic tips for the challenges first and the specific tips at the end of the solution;


- The game does not provide a tracker in the match as to how your progress is going so it's a bit of a guess as to when it will be completed. Check between games if needed.

- You can easily cheese a lot of the challenges by jumping straight into the correct Age from the custom games menu and doing the relevant task with the starting supplies.

- Setting the game up with the AI on the same team allows you to peacefully develop towards certain challenges and have no enemies.

- Once you think you've completed the challenge, simply forfeit the match, there's no need to win or wait to be defeated (not including the test of strength!).


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The Masteries menu can be found from the main single-player menu, then selecting the relevant Mastery. The challenges are as follows:


Challenge 1: Nice Try, Spy
Kill an enemy Scout in the Dark Age.

Challenge 2: Assize of Arms
Produce 30 Longbowmen from the Council Hall in the Feudal Age.

Challenge 3: Test of Strength I
Win a 1v1 Custom or Skirmish match against the Easy A.I.

Challenge 4: Rally the People
Build the King's Palace and produce 10 Villagers from it in the Castle Age.

Challenge 5: Swift Harvest
Reach the Castle Age with 16 Farms influenced by Mills.

Challenge 6: Gather Round
Heal 10 Longbowmen with the Setup CAmp ability.

Challenge 7: Test of Strength II
Win a 1v1 Custom or Skirmish match against the Intermediate A.I.

Challenge 8: Keep Them Busy
Produce 20 units from Keeps.

Challenge 9: Raise the Alarm
Defeat 50 enemy units while affected by the Network of Castles.

Challenge 10: Hail of Arrows
Defeat 20 enemies with Longbowmen affected by the ARrow Volley upgrade.

Challenge 11: Test of Strength III
Win a 1v1 Custom or Skirmish match against the Hard A.I.

Challenge 12: Reap What You Sow
Accrue 5000 Gold from Enclosures.

Challenge 13: For the Wyn
Produce 5 Wynguard Armies from the Wynguard Palace.

Challenge 14: From the Skies
Destroy 20 enemy units with Trebuchets affected by the Shattering Projectiles technology.

Challenge 15: Test of Strength IV
Win a 1v1 Custom or Skirmish match against the Hardest A.I.


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Swift Harvest - Start at Age II, produce two mills completely surrounded by farms, then proceed to the next age.

Gather Round - Make a peaceful match against AI, then send your Longbowmen to be attacked by wolves, etc, retreat, and heal.

Raise the alarm - Surround yourself in walls and towers, then add archers in groups around those. Hunker down your base and be attacked for wave upon wave, prioritizing your archers to kill enemies. They'll glow when they're under the buff.

Hail of Arrows - Upgrade is available as research, mass build archers, and keep using the volley ability as often as possible. A similar method to raise the alarm can be used.

Reap what you sow - Set yourself a peaceful AI match, build lots of mills, and surround them by farms. Purchase the ability which allows your farms to produce gold from fields. Then wait for the gold to roll in.