Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition

Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition

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Having a Blast

Having a Blast

Destroy 5 enemies with a single Demolition Ship detonation.

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How to unlock the Having a Blast achievement in Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition - Definitive Guide

This can be done in almost the exact same way as my guide in "All creek, No Paddle" and takes about 5 minutes. Ideally, you can get both achievements in one with this guide!

Age of Empires IV: Anniversary EditionAll Creek, No PaddleThe All Creek, No Paddle achievement in Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition worth 46 pointsSink an enemy Transport Ship that is garrisoned to max capacity.


Firstly set up a custom Solo battle Vs AI with roughly similar traits:

Teams: 1v1
Enemy Team: Hard or Above
Generated Map: Warring Islands
Starting Age: Age III
Map State: Revealed
Starting Resources: High


Once you're in-game, get a dock built and a few basic resource incomes, now start pumping out Demolition Ships from the dock. It will take about two detonated ships to blow up their galleys and above. However, we're on the lookout for their transport ships.

The achievement is not to destroy five ships in one as I'd originally taken it as, but any five enemies total at once! This can easily be done by sinking a full (or partially) transport ship. With the revealed map you can see their movements. Take a group of 5-6 demolition ships and place them nearby.

Be on the lookout for a transport ship with troops (you can see its capacity overlaid). If you manage to get a transport ship that is full showing 16/16 you will also net the 'All Creek, No Paddle' achievement at the same time.

Sink that ship and the achievement is yours!
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08 Nov 2021 22:21

31 Comments
I got this one by accident playing a 1v1 match with Wonder victory set. With the AI on hard, they'll make a mad dash for your wonder once it's built. My ships actually blew up their ground troops while they were still on the beach after they left their transports.
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By Tozi Tiberius on 28 Nov 2021 15:07
Doesn't seem to work. Sank two boatloads of enemies of 16, no achievement. The achievement for sinking full transport popped though as expected.
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By deutschZuid on 15 Feb 2022 09:05
One critical thing to add to this achievement is that you have to playing as the English, French, or HRE. These civs contain the Demolition Ship unit the achievement is explicitly talking about. The other civs have variations of the incendiary ships (Ex: Explosive Junk and Explosive Dhow). Took a bit to pop up after that but it did work!
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By Joewilkill on 09 Apr 2022 05:16
For me it did not pop after killing a filled transport ship. Therefore I guess they might have changed it in a patch.
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By eV Deadline on 12 Jul 2022 09:33
Thanks to Joewilkill's comment, I finally got this by using the English.
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By deutschZuid on 29 Aug 2022 00:17
It's clearly glitched. No one has unlocked it since the 20th of November. Attempted it with a friend and we tried killing finishing boats, transports, villagers and combat units as the English. No luck.
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By LordMakanaki on 20 Dec 2023 18:29
I also have no luck, i have destroyed many full transport ships and still nothing. Guess ill be playing something else until they fix it.
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By SonicGaming on 20 Dec 2023 20:07
If anyone has any idea when the next update is coming could you comment it here as this is only one I need left and I like to check back on this page every other day
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By Colzzh on 03 Jan 2024 13:27
I can’t seem to unlock this either, has anyone had any luck?
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By I Ensby I on 30 Jan 2024 18:06
I can’t seem to unlock this either, has anyone had any luck?
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By I Ensby I on 30 Jan 2024 18:08
Today there was an update but it was not fix. Please send like me a ticket and report.

https://support.ageofempires.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Thank you.
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By ox BlackJack xo on 30 Jan 2024 18:58
^ submitted.
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By Muttley n0w on 30 Jan 2024 19:04
Submitted a bug report
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By Ian333333 on 01 Feb 2024 10:38
Damn. Submitted new ticket, got all hyped about the update just saw today and nothing, maybe next one.
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By Colzzh on 01 Feb 2024 16:06
Submitted a ticket.
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By I Ensby I on 07 Feb 2024 13:36
Someone recently got this on 4th feb, is this just a cheater account?
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By Colzzh on 15 Feb 2024 08:40
I think so, I've tried multiple times since seeing that and still no luck
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By MikeProcurator on 16 Feb 2024 19:24
It's also no wonder so many games on xbox have unobtainables when almost all of Microsoft first party games have them
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By MikeProcurator on 16 Feb 2024 19:25
I think this is just an account that was synced to TA or created in TA on Feb 4th with this achievement earned much earlier. You can see he's got lot of achievements on this day which is almost impossible to do within 24h.
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By Antigan1 on 18 Feb 2024 03:23
Put in another claim and for the generic “well look into it response” also tried on PC and Xbox after the last update just to be sure
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By MikeProcurator on 26 Feb 2024 12:04
I created a topic on the official forums if you wanna add a comment to maybe put the emphasis on the issue.

https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/glitched-achievements/2496...
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By Spay001 on 27 Feb 2024 22:50
I got an answer on that topic a day after I posted:

"Thank you both for these reports.
The “Having a Blast” was previously reported, and it looks like a fix is coming soon for it."
That's good news
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By Spay001 on 28 Feb 2024 18:04
@spay001, good stuff! Thank-you for including all the worlds knowledge. These two achievements are stopping me from 100%. I also had issues with a bunch of other achievements (for example, malian mastery not popping for quite a while after completion). I hope the next patch fixes all the achievement issues this game has. 128 achievements is a lot to go through when there are so many that bug out.
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By Muttley n0w on 07 Mar 2024 11:02
“Achievements, Challenges & Masteries
Revamped Masteries to improve difficulty balance.
Changed “Test of Strength” challenges from requiring the defeat of AI to winning games with the associated civilization.
Fixed a bug where building extra landmarks to activate dynasties as the Chinese was being counted as aging up for the Achievement “Through the Ages”.
Some Achievements that were previously untranslated into Turkish, Finnish, Polish and Russian are now translated.
Fixed a bug where the “Transcontinental Empire” Achievement was not properly displaying progress.
An issue with some Achievements not unlocking on Steam has been fixed.”

Upcoming update involving achievements listed above when the spring update rolls out on console
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By Colzzh on 13 Mar 2024 23:48
Still not working. Also reported via bug report.
Devs in earlier reports said (18 days ago) that bug would be fixed in next update
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By Nescafeuser on 17 Mar 2024 09:21
Works Now after the Update Today!!!!
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By The Toominater on 19 Mar 2024 20:40
fixed finnaly!! it s work
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By ox BlackJack xo on 21 Mar 2024 00:45
appears to be working as of the cross play update this past week. It took about 5 minutes to pop after satisfying the conditions, but I'll take it.
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By Cheva1ier on 21 Mar 2024 11:56
I sent a Demolition Ship to blow up some infantry waiting by the enemy dock. Infantry blew up and achievement popped!
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By Roo5ter Cogburn on 18 Jul 2022 23:54
This achievement is glitch big time now after last patch nothing from above works I've done everything and more and won't pop whatsoever, it's so annoying.
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By MasFreestyle on 18 Dec 2023 01:58
I've contacted support regards this specifically and this is the reply from them (Hi there,

Thank you for your message and for your report. I will inform my Team regarding your findings. Please keep checking game updates for fixes.

Thanks again for contacting us.

Sincerely,

Age of Empires Support)


Hopefully it gets sorted next update I'm on 99% this is the only achievement left for me I've done them all including the latest DLC.
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By MasFreestyle on 21 Dec 2023 10:26
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Updated March 19th Achievement Finally Works again Used the strategies above and destroyed some filled Transports with demolition ships and attacked Villagers fishing in the Map Archipelago Achievement popped a couple minutes after!!!!!
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19 Mar 2024 20:39

This can easily be done by killing 5 villagers who are fishing.

If you need additional information:

Teams: 1v1
Enemy Team: Hard or Very Hard
Generated Map: Warring Islands
Starting Age: Age III or above
Map State: Revealed
Starting Resources: Maximum
Nation: English/french/German Empire (thanks to Joewilkill for pointing out, that only those nations have the required unit))

Send 5 villagers to build some docks and 1 to build houses.

Start building Demolition Ships and start to control the seas, so the AI doens land troops on your islands shores. (You can get the All Creek, No Paddle Achievment in this session as well)

Look for a fishing spot with 5 or more villagers and blow them up.
Achievment pop can be delayed few minutes, for me it took about 3 minutes.
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11 Jul 2022 20:00