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"Conqueror of All" achievement without additional software

By suniki

Efficiently kill 1,000,000 enemies in about 6.7 hours.

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

Death_Multiplier

Killer setup

Fort of Doom

Completion Time vs. Comfort

Comments

Introduction

If you don't mind editing game data files, use this guide:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=826445449
However, I feel like it goes a bit far to edit game (.pack) files and is likely considered foul play by the achievement hunting community, so I looked for a less invasive way to farm kills.

My method only requires editing a .txt file.

Death_Multiplier

As is par for the course, we need to increase the unit size first.

The default location of the file you need is here

C:\Users\YourPCName\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Empire\scripts\preferences.empire_script.txt

On the 9th row is campaign_unit_multiplier, which you should change to 8, or even better 16, if your PC can handle it. 16 will give you 960 cavalrymen per unit.

Killer setup

Give yourself an army of Howitzers and give your enemy one giant pile of cavalry. NOTE: according to Lebrush, it is better to use Light Dragoons.

Don't forget to Save Battle Setup before you start, so you can select this battle as many times as needed in Main Menu -> Single Player -> Play Battle -> Saved Battles.

Now you should choose Indian Artillery Fort.

This fort is more effective as a death zone compared to the other Siege maps for 2 reasons,
1. the fort is small but not too small such that all of the 19,200 horses spawn clutched together and inside.
2. the fort is small and low lying making it easy for your howitzer shells to reach the center.

Fort of Doom

Once the map has loaded, press Ctrl+A to select all howitzers, Shift+7 to unlimber, and Shift+9 to select Percussive Shot. Or just use your mouse.

Note: don't use quicklime shot.

Now go to the center of the map. Then start the battle and IMMEDIATELY right click near the center to order your howitzers to target that area.
If you're on campaign_unit_multiplier = 16, it will look like this:

<-- And for campaign_unit_multiplier = 8, it's like this.

Now sit back and watch the sea of horses moving back and forth as they try to regroup after each fiery barrage and move over the center again.

Usually, you'll need about 5-6 volleys to completely rout them.

Completion Time vs. Comfort

With a unit multiplier of 8, one full run (main menu to main menu) takes about 130 seconds, producing some 5500 kills. This is about 42 kills per second(!!!). Thus it takes around 6.7 hours to net a full 1,000,000 kills.

In my run I used a multiplier of 16, which slowed down my game considerably. But in this way I could get 11000 kills in about 340 seconds, or 32 kills per second, allowing me to do some other things in while the battle is ongoing.

Higher multipliers crashes the game after the battle loading screen.

4 Comments

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repinscourge 3 Mar @ 11:45pm

Many thanks to the author. Set the multiplier to 8 and made it from 150k to a million in one day.

Forkkrul Assail 23 Feb @ 11:26am

Just checked.
I earned this in 2016

Currently using Darth Mod so kill counts can be huge.

raphael.riepl 16 Nov, 2024 @ 1:00am

Well I have been using the multiplier in the normal campaign for years in order to make the game more interesting. No small 60 men civilian defenders anymore but actual sizable forces, causing every uprising and battle to either go volley fire of doom style or melee until death. Field cannons shred hundreds of advancing soldiers with their grape shots whilst the line infantry fires volley after volley into the enemy, then the enemy finally manages to get close and the line infantry closes up the line and charges itself whilst the cannons retreat back, simultaneously ordering cavalry to flank the enemy and cause mayhem in their rear. During prolonged conflict whole strips of land get reduced to a couple thousand residents left due to devastation.

Lebrush 11 Aug, 2024 @ 2:49am

Very useful. And the most efficient way is give the enemy Light-Dragoon.

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