>>2083345
Great game for a DS. Unfortunately suffers from terrible AI and a few bugs.

>>2085689
I've replayed this mission a bunch to figure out why people find it so hard.
>restrictive pop cap early so it's actually optimal to sac your scout (not intuitive)
>somewhat difficult to keep all your initial units alive, balancing the hero and its healing powers (once you get enough stars on them you can easily snowball from that point)
>seemingly random or obtuse triggers for the second AI to start being aggressive (oh, you built a fucking farm on that one patch of wheat?!?!? Okay time to die motherfucker *sends imperial age samurais to fight your feudal age shitters*)
>enemy monks (not necessarily hard but annoying bullshit rng)
>the trigger for spawning Antoku for the last mission star is not well established so sometimes he can just run off early and cause you to restart the mission
The mission isn't actually that difficult if you're aware of all this and have some general strategy experience under your built (eg. chokepoints are good, econ is king, hero units are usually your strongest chess piece so keep them alive and use them effectively etc.)

The hardest mission for me from memory was the Siege of Acre with the enemy's bullshit ability to stack multiple units on one tile and the optional missions to kill Saladin/mamelukes with your army full of templars (jesus christ how horrible)

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Age of Empire: The Age of Kings DS Version