Attila the Hun 3 - The Walls of Constantinople (Hard) | Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition

Despite the scenario being named "The Walls of Constantinople," we actually didn't even need to do anything with Constantinople honestly...  First things first, you will immediately get attacked by Marcianopolis right at the start. Don't worry though, your initial Tarkans and monk can easily handle them. Just remember to utilize the elevation bonus and convert one of the enemy units with your monk. The most crucial part here is grabbing all the nearby sheep before Marcianopolis takes them all for themselves.  Despite the main objective being to accumulate a specific amount of gold, that doesn't necessarily mean you cannot spend any gold at all. You will definitely end up with way more gold than necessary, so it is perfectly fine to produce gold units.  Personally, I like going with a Cavalry Archer and Light Cavalry. Marcianopolis mostly produces infantry units, which are super weak against Cavalry Archers. While, Light Cavalry are amazing at traversing the map quickly and sniping enemy villagers, on top of only costing food to build.  Philippopolis, despite having a higher score than Marcianopolis, is actually really weak. They have no army and only a few defensive towers without murder holes. This means once your units get directly underneath them, the towers can't do anything against you.  Taking down both the Marcianopolis and Philippopolis Town Centers will give you 6,000 gold total. You also get 500 gold for every dock and market outside of Constantinople, 500 gold for the first Castle you construct, another 500 gold if you snipe the trade carts traveling between Philippopolis and Constantinople, and 1,000 gold from destroying the Constantinople monastery sitting outside their walls to the southeast of our base. You should have more than enough gold just by doing all of that. But there are also six gold mines located in the south worth 4,800 gold in total if you prefer to get your resources the traditional way or to keep up with your units productions.  All 10k gold collected without ever touching the actual walls of Constantinople. Pretty easy!  That being said, there are several other ways to clear this scenario. You can choose to go all-in on naval warfare and target the Constantinople docks, which are much less guarded than their land walls. Or you can do the exact opposite of what I did, completely forget about the other two, and focus 100% of your firepower on smashing Constantinople directly. Have fun experimenting!  💡 Tip of the day: Always check whether your enemy have researched the Murder Holes! A quick shortcut is to look at the enemy's current age. If they are still in the Feudal Age, they are 100% not going to have Murder Holes since the technology isn't even available yet. However, if they have reached the Castle Age, you can test it out by running a melee unit directly to the base of the tower. If it stops firing, you can safely flood your melee units or Battering Rams underneath to tear it down with absolutely zero risk of taking damage.  🇮🇩 Short, heavily edited videos are coming soon in Bahasa Indonesia on the main channel. Stay tuned. ‪@Kais-RTS‬ Timestamp 00:00 Intro 01:04 Objectives 01:08 Full Run 18:23 Outro