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How to obtain all the difficulty achievements without actually beating tough AIs

By Marachad

This is a very easy way to get the achievements for beating difficult AIs without actually doing so.
I recommend to use this, if you are not that good at the game but seek to achieve 100% on it.

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Category: Achievements

Languages: English

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24 Nov, 2019 @ 7:21am

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Guide Index

Overview

Setting up

The game

Victory

Comments

Setting up

Set up a game, pick your civilization and set the game size to 2 players. Select the AI difficulty and add in one AI. Then put both yourself and the AI in one Team and start the game. To make sure nothing bad happens, select the option that prevents anyone from breaking up their alliance.

The game

Just play the game as you would normally do, but do not waste resources on military units, since you wont need them. Instead try to localize the relics and reach castle age as soon as possible.
Then you should get your hands on a couple of monks and collect the relics. You dont need every single one, but try to get the majority of them. The timer will start once all relics are captured and you just have to wait for it to end.

Victory

Once the 200 years are over, you win and the desired achievement should unlock.
Congratulations for using a glorious exploit, wonder if they'll fix it.

31 Comments

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Wandraak 29 Mar @ 4:47am

Or just go water nomad, pick Koreans. The AI is terrible on that map and you can kill even the hardest one with turtle-ship army

Lud 27 Nov, 2022 @ 3:08am

or just do Post Imp Spanish Nomad and drop a bombard tower next to your opponent as he is building his tc

TheLastTeuton 26 Nov, 2022 @ 4:24pm

Play socotra against even the toughest AI. Stealthe Elephant(Boar), lame the zebras and putpressure on the berries. Get to feudal and build your unit of choice. Sart raidingand getting villager kills. No AI has even the slightest chance against such a severe lack of food/laming combined with early pressure

Gnatsmasher95 5 Feb, 2022 @ 8:40pm

Alternatively, go Persians and pick Nomad 1v1. Find out where the enemy TC is and then TC drop once you have 10 or so vils. Persian TC's have double HP, so you can easily cheese the AI in the Dark Age.

Alehandros6 2 Feb, 2022 @ 11:53am

How to obtain more easily:
Setting stage:
1) set map: migration,
2) starting age: post imperial
3) reveal map: all visible
4) treaty lenght: 60 minutes

Build monastery -> monks -> docks -> transport ship -> get to the mainland -> pick all 5 relics -> go back to you island -> put relics on your monastery -> wait for relic victory

The enemy will be busy with it's resources on it's island and then will transport on the mainland

Max 20 minutes to win. Have fun

Avgvstvs 31 Jan, 2022 @ 3:18pm

I'm not going to do that cuz I want the achievements without cheating but congrats for finding that exploit

WasNao23 9 Jul, 2021 @ 4:31am

spanish post imperial nomad

Chu 8 Jul, 2021 @ 12:39pm

Play nomad, hunt their starting villagers with your own, they dont fight back bc they're busy building their TC, ez win 11

SadisticDm 7 Jul, 2021 @ 2:37pm

Play earth map on regicide. Ai abandons their king, 5 min tops for all.

BIN CHICKEN 7 Jul, 2021 @ 4:40am

what i did was put one difficulty AI on the enemy team and fill the rest of the slots with ally AI, literally sit back and relax and let your allies do the work.

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