Thanks for the insight as always man! I actually rant at length about my dislike of infinite unit spam scenarios from time to time, so I appreciate you minimizing them :P (Not that I hate it in all cases, but I think they should be as infrequent as scenarios where you don't get an eco). Related question: did you guys make/remake the campaigns separately, or did you work together in some way? Just curious because you can tell some stylistic similarities/differences between campaigns - like the ones you mention :)

@@OrnLu_AoE each scenario designer (there are currently four of us) had end-to-end autonomy/responsibility for each of our assigned campaigns. This is very different from the level design and narrative workflow used almost everywhere else in the industry, but works well for our team and gives each of us total control over our creative vision. What this means in practice is, for example, as the designer of the Sforza campaign, I not only designed the campaign's five scenarios end-to-end (map design, triggers, the AI, etc.) but also wrote all dialogues and the slides narration, provided the voice actors with instructions on emotion, timbre, etc., and gave the art team instructions on which images to create for the intro/outro slides. Hell, I even wrote the little introductory text that you see on the campaign menu when you select Sforza! Total creative control is nice :) This total control by an individual designer does certainly mean that our own individual design philosophies and approaches come to the fore. You can probably see similarities in the 5 campaigns I designed, as well as my personal evolution as a designer -- in order of when I made them: Almeida, Bayinnaung, Ivaylo, Prithviraj, Sforza. Elsewhere in the game, for example, Sundjata, Gajah Mada, and Kotyan were made by the same designer and Tariq, Suryavarman, and Tamerlane were made by a third designer. There are a few other campaigns, like Bari or Le Loi, which were made by multiple designers who each had their own scenario responsibilities.

When I played it felt like infinite spam. I assume that just means I'm not attacking fast enough, and the AI is just churning out units as long as they have the resources to do? Also thanks for what you do these campaigns are awesome. So sad I'm almost fully through.

@@andyroos5090 thanks for your support! And you're right that being aggressive is often the key to beating AIs!

Either that or devs didnt know the trigger to make units disappear, so they added an invisible Mothership via triggers to make things easier xD

you can trade with a market even when the castle is destroyed? interesting

@@marnixds If an enemy resigns but doesn’t delete their buildings, you can still trade with their markets. In short any standing market can be traded with.

I was gold cucked my entire first game so I just spammed Hussars and I felt like the Russians throwing out cannon fodder

@@briannoone7047 This comment is even more relevant now

@@drschwandi3687 oooooofffff I feel like this comment is doomed to repeat its relevancy throughout history. As it already has

TC's are tougher, can train more villagers and can garrison up to 15 villagers for defense. Building multiple TCs to quickly train more villagers is a staple of booming.

More TC means he can create more villigers at a time. Important in MP, but in campaigns you can just go for camps, if you're a slower player.