“The Most Impressive Tower Defense Campaign in Age of Empires II”
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I recently revisited Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition and realized that the Pachacuti campaign (American campaign) 2: The Field of Blood is one of the best tower defense levels in the game.
You must protect two allies and a Wonder as several enemies come at you.
I enjoyed building walls, towers, and castles to fend off the attackers while they were being picked off.
Are there any other campaigns like this where you just defend?
The Fransisco De Almeida campaign also contains two missions with the option to build a wonder.
Saladin The Lion and The Demon as pointed out by someone else, and The Field of Blood are more fun.
Edward Longshanks The Man of God, if you own the DLC, and two* of the Hautevilles campaign missions (4 and 5).
Yodit 3.
Bari 4 is another defense mission.
I enjoyed a lot one of the Judit’s missions in which you have 45’ to prepare for an incoming huge invasion
The penultimate El Cid mission is another defending mission.
The final Saladin one as well
Hautevilles 4 is THE tower defense mission where you grind away literally thousands of enemies with your donjons.
Longshanks 2 (after the first 15 minutes of grabbing the blacksmiths).
That said both of these are fairly easy to win compared to pachacuti 2, but have a lot of room for self imposed play (beating Hautevilles 4 without losing anything, for example).
From dawn of the dukes is Jadwiga 4.
The mission doesn’t WANT you to tower defense and makes towers cost 300 stone, but that didn’t stop me from making 35 bombard towers and devouring the entire Teutonic army with them!
Any mission that lets you win with a wonder can be played like that but tbh most of them are too easy and can be won even more easily by just attacking the enemies.
Some missions like Saladin 6th or Hautevilles 4th aren’t really tower defense, as that’s the worse way to win.
Edward Longshanks 2 is not hard or towers reliant.
The Almeida one is also short term.
Pachacuti 2nd forces you into defense mode, so it’s valid.
Vlad 4 is another I can think of.
Bari 3/5 are similar to ELongshanks that you spend most of the mission doing objectives outside the wall.
The most tiring but awesome TD mission I have played is Alaric final (at least for the coop one, I haven’t played solo) if you don’t kill Saurus first.
The endless Goths spam makes it really hard to push on Orange.
Edit: Oh don’t forget the infamous Leloi 2.
It’s true TD, but only for half the mission.
I haven’t read all the responses but please search for tower defence in mods and/or search tower defence in multiplayer lobby.
You should be able to find something that’s pure tower defence
Jan Žižka’s map 4 is the best defensive campaign map I’ve played imo.
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