AOE2: Age of Kings Game Guide
Civilizations
Defeating the Bosses
Campaign Walk-throughs


Age of Kings has five campaigns, although the first one, the William Wallace campaign, is really a tutorial, with instructions for how to play the game. Because of that, we won't be providing a walk-through for that campaign; it practically is a walk-through itself.

The four campaigns are, in order of difficulty: the Joan of Arc campaign, the Saladin campaign, the Genghis Khan campaign, and the Frederick Barbarossa campaign. Only in the Joan of Arc campaign will you actually control the namesake of the respective campaign. In every other campaign, you are under orders by your leader and have mundane forces under your command to fulfill those tasks.

The campaigns have scenarios that usually require you to quickly build up your forces to accomplish a goal, while also defending yourself from repeated attacks. After playing the campaigns, you can build a base in a hurry, defend yourself against massive invasion while still churning out resources and troops, and build and defend a wonder. Each campaign is progressively more challenging, and the odds are stacked ever higher against you as the game progresses. Here then, are our walk-throughs for the four true campaigns of Age of Kings.

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