Age of Empires II (2013)

Age of Empires II (2013)

Rise of the Swiss Confederation
75 Comments
zaku_zelo 16 Jul, 2023 @ 12:25pm 
The first scenario was pretty good, but then the second's just using the default random map AI, chat commands and everything? Dropped it right then and there, that's ridiculous.
Maennchen 15 Jun, 2023 @ 3:33pm 
Hat mir heute den Abend versaut, ist einfach zu schwer auf schwer. Man kanns schaffen, speichern/laden, speichern/laden, aber mit spielen hat das nichts mehr zu tun. Das ist Arbeit.
Monroe 13 Jun, 2023 @ 3:37pm 
Very fun campaign. It convinced me that the Swiss should be a faction in DE in some kind of Germanic or central European expansion and this campaign, with some minor tweaks, should be the campaign for it.
Coranhon 1 Mar, 2022 @ 11:39am 
I got no monk on 1st scenario
Chen'la 11 Oct, 2021 @ 12:27pm 
Yeah, I did a purge of videos recently, basically anything from 2013-2017 is now permanently gone.
I want to have all the videos in the high quality standards, I record with since the 2018, as most of the older videos were either 720p or 1080p30 only.
Once my real life things are settled, I am renovating a house I have bought recently, I plan to re-record everything I had with the higher quality settings - and if the scenarios are working in the Definitive Edition, then even better.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Allyserian 11 Oct, 2021 @ 7:29am 
Chen'la, looked for your YT video could not find it.
Allyserian 10 Oct, 2021 @ 7:10am 
Great job. 1st playthru on Std. Like DoomedPaul772 I was surprised when Leopold died without my help. Now to start my 2nd try on Mod.
DoomedPaul772 2 Nov, 2020 @ 10:08pm 
I have really enjoyed all of them, I just won the battle of sempach and one complaint I have is that Leopold randomly went on a suicide mission with a small force to one of my bases after I fended off a few attacks. It bugs me that I won from Leopold throwing away his life in a small raid when I anticipated sieging his base.
Druzhina 23 Aug, 2020 @ 11:51pm 
Hey, can you transplant this amazing campaign to the definitive edition? The teutons has been enhanced. Thank you!
[TDNB] Max 14 May, 2020 @ 6:45pm 
For decades dont have any swiss campaing, thats a lot of fun and glorious history about that people, thanks a lot for do that for me
Howie Doohan 17 Apr, 2020 @ 10:28pm 
Super well made and very fun to play. Great work and highly recommend!
daanmetzz 13 Apr, 2020 @ 12:06pm 
All of the maps look beautiful and the gameplay is challenging and so much fun. Definitely the best workshop campaign I have played so far!
bookmolen 2 Mar, 2020 @ 1:17am 
Congratiulations and a very big thank you. Everything in your campaign is very wel done.
A great history lesson, beautiful maps, no bugs i'm aware of. Very satisfying to play. Lost a lot of my life while plaing this!
Popay 1 Mar, 2020 @ 12:50am 
Love it!
jbress79 17 Oct, 2019 @ 8:07am 
One of the best. GREAT WORK.
Consider3th 23 Sep, 2019 @ 8:36am 
I really enjoyed the challenging aspect of scenario six. Breaking through and burning down Kanstanz base at out the end was a very rewarding feeling. The maps were very pleasing to the eyes as well especially first scenario. Good job!
Times113 4 Jul, 2019 @ 12:27am 
your campaign is one of the best. It tells a lot of stories which i can never learn by books.
Chen'la 24 Jun, 2019 @ 5:36am 
In some missions ally give them to you periodically if you complete the corresponding bonus objective.
But at that point it does not matter much, because you have already an army of your own.
In the last mission they are probably the most useful, you can train them since the start, if you do not forget about it (just like me) that is.
Zwei833 the Buggy Modder 24 Jun, 2019 @ 2:48am 
BTW, any1 knows how to train Federal Knights in this campaign?
Zwei833 the Buggy Modder 24 Jun, 2019 @ 2:44am 
Love this historical campaign!
Sobek125 19 Jun, 2019 @ 11:14am 
Excellent campaigns! Had a lot of fun playing through them, enjoying the thrill of discovering more and more things and actions as the game progressed, such as the secondary quests and the help our allies would give us on certain occasions!
Chen'la 10 Jun, 2019 @ 9:15am 
Ally in HD is taught to destroy walls if not need them yep.
Unless scripted you can not prevent it, but scripting may affect the AI functionality
Medve 10 Jun, 2019 @ 8:18am 
i can not start the third scenario, i get CTD on loading it.

Also on the second scenario the ally AI destroys it owns walls, is that normal? =p? The Yellow only destroys the ones near the goldmine, but the red ally destroys all there walls.
Druzhina 8 Jun, 2019 @ 1:57am 
My strategy for the sixth: first, collect resources as much as possible before the bases been destroyed, and expand the west base to the east by stone wall.

Second, I build 3 castles and 6 monks to defend my base against cyan knights. Meanwhile, go to imperial age and fully upgrade paladin. I build 2 trebuchets and a lot of paladins to attack cyan, my paladins crush cyan knights without doubt. This force can destroy cyan except its navy.

Then, there will be a massive purple army come to me, mainly champions and some huskarls, bombard cannons, trebuchets. I need more paladins to crush them, and fight back immediately, paladins and trebuchets again, but I think bombard cannons are better.

Finally, when cyan and purple are defeated, one has to build navy to fight against yellow. The rest of this mission is much easier.
Druzhina 8 Jun, 2019 @ 1:56am 
I'm sorry, I wrote a typo. I mean the sixth mission is a well designed map, not the fifth one. I failed three times and finally passed it yesterday.

The fifth mission is too easy if you survive the first attack and focus on navy.

I don't know why you ban Teutonic Knight in every mission. I never create them even if they are available.
Chrps  [author] 7 Jun, 2019 @ 11:30pm 
Thank you, Keigo for your feedback! You see, I am not a pro at making scenarios. Sometimes I fail to think about all the possibilities players can choose from. In other words - you found a loophole 11 gg wp!
Druzhina 7 Jun, 2019 @ 7:37pm 
Very nice campaign series, especially the fifth mission. There is something wired in mission 4. The instructions said once you finish the tower test (destroy the towers and rebuild them) the enemy leader will come to you. I just go to imperial age and create a trebuchet for the towers, then the enemy leader come to attack me before I rebuild the towers. When I kill the leader the mission complete. I only spent 36 min (game time) to finish it.
Chrps  [author] 28 Apr, 2019 @ 4:05am 
Thank you for your valuable feedback, @Chen'la. I will definitely check out your youtube chanel than and watch you struggle 11
Chen'la 27 Apr, 2019 @ 12:46pm 
Finished the campaign today, the last mission was really something on hard, took me 80 minutes to finish the map.
If I wont count the first micro mission, the 5th mission is probably the easiest one, because all you need is to control water and the land attacks are almost non-existent.
The Bombard Cannons can not be saved, at least not on hard difficulty, even I send there units as 'cannon fodder' to get them out and with Ships blocking the Shallows, the AI is too smart to focus them down.
Anyway enjoyed the series, will be 'finished' in the upcoming weeks, thanks for the campaign.
Chen'la 20 Apr, 2019 @ 12:19pm 
@罪恶归心

Well the mission difficulty is also reflected by the each player's personal skill level.
If you are newcommer to average player, you will probably struggle on harder difficulties.
Of course you will be able to beat it, but it will take a long time - like here 6 hours.

I never spent more than the two hours on any map on the hard difficulty in AoE II.
Highest Hall and Rise of the Khmer took me two hours, but these are very long maps with alot of
objectives.

The most time I spent on a map is three hours in the Starcraft 1 map and I am no kidding, some of these maps are just that hard - MPQ Files/Custom Scripts/ETC.
Chen'la 20 Apr, 2019 @ 12:18pm 
@Chrps

That is what I do, I like to share these awesome projects people make, to shed at least some light on them, because not many know about these and pro players do not really care to show them of.
But sometimes it takes me longer to finish one 'campaign series', I have alot of things to cover across multiple games - covering stuff of what I feel like at the time.
BUT when I start something I always finish it.
Chrps  [author] 20 Apr, 2019 @ 12:09am 
GG WP, 罪恶归心! And thanks again for your feedback :)
归心未铸 19 Apr, 2019 @ 5:20pm 
However,the last mission is truly very hard to finish, i spend more than 6 hours on it.I don't know why you think it is easiest to win
归心未铸 19 Apr, 2019 @ 5:13pm 
Finally i finish the campaign on the hard difficulty.
Thanks for your campaign.
Because of this campaign,i know about the history of swiss Confederation.
Achieving independence is a hard work.I can't imagine this country the Swiss have faced so many difficulties before establishment.
How strong and brave people!
Chrps  [author] 17 Apr, 2019 @ 11:05am 
Hey guys. Thank you so much for your comments - I really appreciate it!
With every scenario I learn something new and it‘s true that the allies get to strong when playing on hard/hardest.
In my oppinion the last mission is easiest to win if you „turtle“ in the southern base, maybe protected by a castle. Maybe even abandon the other two bases in the beginning.
And Chen‘la: I checket out your Youtube canal and its amazing! It‘s fun to watch someone else playing my campaigns :)
My new project is a historic campaign about my hometown Bern. But it‘s work in progress - and sadly slow progress 11
Chen'la 17 Apr, 2019 @ 7:32am 
I have recorded three missions on my YT so far, I plan to record them all, but when I get to the last mission, no idea - there is alot of stuff for me to cover recently :-).
归心未铸 17 Apr, 2019 @ 2:59am 
Good campaign!
But the last mission...Can you give some hints?
PoorlyDrawnDuck 26 Feb, 2019 @ 4:17pm 
Great campaign. But as others have said, your allies are too strong, even when playing on hard.
Sir Moisty Capybara 26 Feb, 2019 @ 3:55am 
It is great. Highly recommended. It has some problems like not working event for buying help (resources are not taken from player in m5), but besides that, great campaign, pretty maps and have great difficult balance.
Alfico 9 Feb, 2019 @ 1:10pm 
Fantastic! i really enjoy playing, since i was a lil boy trying to do my fist steps in AoE i was dreaming about it to create such campain. Good Storyline, not to easy an as i know historically accurate. well done! Merci viumau
thesquatlobster 4 Feb, 2019 @ 3:28pm 
Fantastic campaign, really really enjoyed it. Only query would be the second stage, which I really struggled with, even when I was turtling
Sir Chriskurt 27 Jan, 2019 @ 10:12pm 
Thank you for this masterpiece!
030 26 Jan, 2019 @ 3:14am 
Very nice job!

Only thing I would change is how strong your allies are, they make some of the scenarios a lot less challeging imo. For instance the scenario where your allies town centers have to remain standing else you lose.. I didn't even had to help them out because they were doing just fine. They were even pusing the enemy themselves (playing on hardest).

Are you currently working on a new campagin (or planning to)?
byrogelio3 23 Jan, 2019 @ 11:11am 
Amazing campaign, i loved the last mission :D
Malekith of Nagarythe 21 Jan, 2019 @ 3:46am 
这是我目前玩过的几十个战役地图里,最喜欢的一个。thank you!
Rickhoi 15 Jan, 2019 @ 5:35am 
It was great again! Well done my friend!
Chrps  [author] 14 Jan, 2019 @ 12:08pm 
Hello everybody. Thank you very much for the wonderful feedback!

@hammister That should not be possible. Thank you for telling me.

@soulware123 Yes, just hit the subscribe button and you have the campaign in your game :)

@Lauran_98 Thanks for explaining ;)
Lauran_98 14 Jan, 2019 @ 10:14am 
@soulware123 just subscripe to the campaign
Low Carb Snack 14 Jan, 2019 @ 6:20am 
how to download this campaign or this file?
Hammister 13 Jan, 2019 @ 10:47pm 
Great campaign! Extensive. Great build and destroy gameplay. In addition, many interesting details to discover.
Spoiler: The highlight for me was the beginning of the 5th mission, when in the last second suddenly the reinforcement arrives.

Possible minor bug: I completed mission 3 with a relic victory.