Store Page
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

Store Page
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition > Guides > Alex's Guides
Not enough ratings
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (PC) - Achievement - Truly Countless Bodies
By Alex
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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q8r2cbawwU
   
Award
Favorite
Favorited
Unfavorite
Created by
Alex
Offline
Category: Achievements, Walkthroughs
Languages: English
Posted
13 Jun, 2020 @ 7:21am
410 Unique Visitors
2 Current Favorites
Guide Index
Overview
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (PC) - Achievement - Truly Countless Bodies 
Comments
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (PC) - Achievement - Truly Countless Bodies
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.

5 Comments
< >
Crendagord 14 Aug @ 1:35am 
Destroying the first 2 enemies needs to be done within 15~16 minutes beacuse this is the timing where green will launch its first attack, so quiclky head back to your castle. If you're fast enough, you can send one of your units to attack the nearest green's building. Green will send its army. Crush it with you castle and you knights. Be careful of its helberdiers, as they can quickly wipe out your cavalry

Once done, head to its base with what remains of your army and the trebuchets. Now comes the easy part. Green will have most of its army destroyed and if you're lucky, red will send some infantry to help you

Do not rush in their base, as they will have 2 castles. Destroy them one by one with your trebuchets. Be careful, since green will send rams and trebuchets to stop you. Destroy the 2 castles, send your cavalry chase the roaming villagers, and you're almost done
Crendagord 14 Aug @ 1:35am 
In the mean time, the tarkans were arrived to their base. Don't try to kill the villagers, there are way too many. The core idea is to disrupt their constructions by attacking the villagers. Keep 2 or 3 Tarkans roaming around the south TC for that purpose. The other attack the barracks and siege workshop (while keeping out of TC's range)

Once the romans' troops are killed, send your knights to their base to destroy TCs and kill villagers. You should have enough for it to be a cakewalk

Next is teal's base. Start by the northern TC. Once most of its army is dead, target priority is: Villagers > TC > Castle. Don't waste time on buildings

You should have reached Imperial Age by now. So start building trebuchets (5 or 6 should be good) and upgrade your knights
Crendagord 14 Aug @ 1:34am 
For people wondering, yes it is posible to get this achievement on hard. I got it on 25 minutes. I basically follwed this guide

I used the scout to lure the roman's troops not on red's base, but on mine (not the most directly though)
I used my villagers this way:
1: Stable x2 -> TC (near gold)
2: Stable -> Smith -> TC (near wood)
3: Castle (slightly on south)

First TC was used to resarch Imperial Age then villagers, second, many villagers (i ended with a total around 25~30)

I started to produce knights as soon as possible. By the time blue arrives, my castle was finished, so I used it along with knights to wipe their troops. Start trainingTarkans too, they will be your best bet to wipe blue's and teal's bases
krana 29 Aug, 2024 @ 8:07am 
Thank you!
The BMachine 21 Dec, 2020 @ 11:45am 
Has anybody managed this on Hard difficulty? I managed to kill the Visigoths with my starting army, then boom and create 60 tarkans which were able to sweep the Alans in a few minutes with only a single casualty at around 22 minutes. But by that point, the Western Roman empire has three castles, a load of towers and production buildings and is just constantly spamming cataphracts and champions that completely destroy my tarkans, and there is no way I can win in the remaining 8 or so minutes.

I've also tried to kill the Western Roman Empire first with my starting army, but they have 2 TC's and too many soldiers to stand a chance.

I know you can get the achievement on lower difficulties but so far I've managed to obtain each one on hard and I'd like to try and keep it up.