Aoe2 Campaigns: How to Get Bleda the Hun on Your Side 

Another fun fact: Bleda can garrison inside of a Battering Ram.

Can't believe Attila took Bleda to see the sunset together after they conquered all of their enemies.

Curse that bastard Bleda. I would rather have those two loyal tarkens as soldiers than be betrayed by my own flesh and blood on any occasion.

Nothig can beat the brotherly love of these guys. Attila forsaw Bledas death to the boar, and realized the only way out of this future was to end the hunt before they got to it. Though he called him a coward and a traitor, Bleda soon realized his mistake and would rather start a new life with his brother at his side than lead the huns as a powerful but very lonely man. You go Bleda, history will remember you as a total "bro".

Romans: “Our arrangement is with Bleda; you are not him!” Literally Bleda Choose a name named “Available” System: “the name Available is unavailable” *Impossible*

Kind of reminds me of that bug in the vindlandsaga scenario which can cause deer to attack an outpost

The DE crew should run with this and make full dialogue for this alternate timeline.

As a kid I discovered another trick where you start the boar fight and then immediately return to the village. Bleda dies fighting the boar. Multiple storylines are then triggered so that the entire village joins you, including the archers who come out of the woods to accuse you of murdering Bleda, with zero bloodshed. Except Bleda. In other words, "How to Get Everyone BUT Bleda the Hun on Your Side."

All this time I did not knew you could completely run away from the boar challenge and make a new base

Atila... you i... i like that stable. *Bleda Joins you*

2:07 Bleda: YO, ATTILA, COME AND FIGHT LIKE A MAN. Attila: NO *10 seconds later* Bleda: *sniff* I'm so sorry bro *sniff* Attila: It's ok bro. Hey bro, wanna ride with me? Bleda: SURE THING!

Honestly never knew about this for 20 years on the eve of the 20th anniversary of Age of Empires 2 Definite Edition.

Bleda: *dies* Game: finally! He’s dead! *ends mission*

This really blew my mind. The thumbnail alone is like whaaaaaat? It's like saying Romulus didn't kill Remus

04:11 nobody : Scythian castle after 10 horse : *hurruap hurruap hurruap hurruap*

wonder if this works in Definitive Edition EDIT: *_IT STILL WORKS_* However he's a Steppe Lancer now I think... EDIT NUMBA *_2:_* *_you can now win with Bleda still alive_*

If you destroy Bleda's camp and two other enemies after convert Bleda to your side, you can finish this mission with Bleda alive

20 years old... and this game stiill have some secrets left it's the quintessential Gift that keeps on Giving

Wait a minute. The Roman's never had a castle when I played the atilla campaign.

The throne was simply too small for 2 people to sit on it. But it's an interesting... bug.

As if this mission for some reason hadn't already had so many choices to make...This might get Patched though....

The easiest way to resolve that is to go to the challenge with Bleda, approach the Boar and then run away after Bleda starts attacking it. He is too weak to kill the Iron Boar, you get the extra vills and resources across the river, return to the village and get Bleda's base as well as his units + a ton of resources.

Things I just discovered in the game

Loved the game for years and never knew this. Thanks for the video! If there are other things that you'd like to show us, I think that there's an audience for them.

So that's why they put that gaia stable on the left... wow

Interesting.. for me best way to do the start is hit the Boar twice, run away to the place where all the tarkans are, wait for Bleda to die to boar, archers come, they also get converted to your side, you gain the whole base,and can also gain the vills and resources from across the river. Leaves u with like 3k food and like 1k+ gold :D But ofc your way is much more out of the box :D

I remember doing this as a kid! When I recently played through the campaigns again I could not remember at all how to do it, and the internet made it seem like it was impossible. Made me think the whole thing was a dream or mod. Thanks so much, love your videos! :)

If you move the camera up quickly right at the start, you can see the archers themselves going into the forest, not just their footprints. That's a pretty clever find, and quite amusing too.

After hundreds of hours fiddling with the map editor and making my own custom maps and triggers back when I started playing AoC(including one where I had Genghis Khan and Tamerlane come to Atilla's rescue with armies of horse Archers and Elite Mangudai), I stumbled into this bug after many trials and errors. I also tried using a monk to convert Bleda once.

wow i knew multiple ways to start the game and get almost all of bleda's units to convert to yellow. never realized we could make bleda himself follow attila across the river and join as well. great find!

Haha yeah ppl discover many loophole in the trigger

Hmmm i know there lot.. way to do alternative way scenario.. but this.. Good job Sir

This is actually mind blowing!!!!!

I played this one the most as a kid. And as far as I remember there have been multiple possibilities of tricking this one.

amazing. thanks for the video

i am sure you know but green(scythians) will eventually go attack red, if you just sit and do nothing. red cant even attack green since it is allied to green.

This reminds me of that Montezuma trigger that could give you a bunch if super Jaguar Warriors if you put them all in the one spot

What a wonderful storyline!!!!!!

This stuff blew my mind amazing ♥

I remember the speedrun of this mission takes advantage of some of these mechanics. It's also very interesting, so I cand recommend to see that as well. #ripBleda

Love this channel - Spirit of the Hack!

One thing I noticed between this and DE is that DE auto Reveal Map on victory/loss where OG the map stays as is and IIRC before kicking you out to the story board. I never played HD but I guess it doesn't kick you out like the OG did

I also did this as a kid, but I didn't know about the Trigger trick and had to convert Bleda!

Until last week i didn't even know that you could do anything else than hunt the boar and escape the ambus and now this? Ever after years this game keeps surprising me

this was pretty cool

That was an eye opener ..

Loving it! :D

You can also run and convert him with a monk later

what happens it that not killling bleda prevents the other ai from acting properly. they will not attack you prevents other triggers. it wasnt that u were not advancing. untill u delete bleda the ai will go back to normal. u could also convert bleda with a monk.

Lol this is a cool bug and also shows some new voice lines I have not heard before. I always wondered about the random stable and huts over the bridge when you do the mission normally. They always seemed out of place. Now it makes more sense. I've actually had all the ambush archers convert to my side once before when I was wee lad playing this mission many years ago. I don't remember how I did it and I can't replicate it but I think it's similar to how you got Bleda to convert and I just got lucky since the archers were too close. I've tried finding alternate wins in other missions. In the first El Cid mission, you can leave the tournament grounds on horseback and King Sancho will say you are no longer the Cid and enemy you. I had hoped to get the gaia monks in the west and convert villagers to build your own base, but the monks disappear if you leave before the tournament is over.

lol I remember tinkering with Bleda's A.I. as a kid. Apparently, Bleda only unallies you, when yellow and purple units come in contact. It happens when you just wait in the camp, or you take too long to leave the camp. A better strategy, would be to just ignore the tarkans, cross the bridge, and use the vils to build a palisade, blocking Bleda's path across the bridge. In the Gold Edition Disk Set, I changed purple to Neutral, and converted Bleda with a monk. There's also an exploit, where you can aggro the Iron Boar, Bleda will aggro the boar onto himself, and once he is at half health, you can then abandon Bleda and run across the river. Bleda will not survive his battle, purple will not become your enemy, but also not flip over to your colour. If you kill Bleda, watch Bleda get killed, or help Bleda kill the boar, the Archer event will trigger, and then the battle for control of Huns, will ensue. But if you follow the previous strategy correctly, you will see an allied purple have a group of archers among his army of tarkans. Those are the archers that spawn after Bleda dies, but since Attila wasn't there, they are forever fated to wander this cursed world searching for the killer.

Could you get the archers if you kill the boar and then book it to the stable like before?

Wow I knew Bleda could be converted with a Monk, but didn’t know this cool trick!

Next level campaign strats using the power of overzealous triggers power

I dont fight the persians to win this, i just betray the mongols after reciveing thr mangudais xD

So is it possible to get the whole base with bleda alive and simply use monks to get bleda as he isn't a hero, but with no redemption for the huns, I can't use monks on buildings and would like to get their base. It is ok if some tarkans die since I can make them once I build a castle.

And eventually Bleda had to have a stroke under his brother's eyes while the victory was theirs.

So bleda kill the whole empire and kill himself at the end or what?

I did not knew that, and immediately tried that in the DE, but unfortunately Bleda is on "Hold the ground" mode, so that you cant bait him to the stalls. But hey at least i know now i could do that in the OG game.

Nice discovery

its crazy casue my name is bleda and people pronounce it "blade-da' in Usa and the wau t-west says it in Turkey

theres also a simple way to get him if I reamber right he can be converted

Me: watches vid Also me: I already know a way

Can you get units of other players to convert as well?

You can also get a special unit called Hun Commander.

This was really cool, you wouldnt happen to know of anything else like this would you?

I remember finding this by accident as an 8 year old kid, and never figuring out how I did it!

Never in my life did I know about this jeez

Does this still work on Definitive Edition? I haven't actually played it yet. I subbed though. I respect the content grind.

I remember being able to do a bug as a kid that made the archers sent by Bleda after you betray him during the hunt also be part of your team. Don't remember how though.

I never noticed before that Bleda had no range...

Now that I think of it... if Bleda was your last property, what screen would his death trigger faster, the victory or the defeat one? I'd say the defeat one, but they are actually both pretty fast, so there's room for speculation

Wow I didn't know this awsome fact I tried and it works Coool Will this work in definitive edition as well I dont have it to test it my self so I asked

2 TCs early on?

I had done it I used to get the villagers from the south then use cheats and get monks to bleda to convert him but it only worked in AOE2 Kings not in conquerors XD way to go brother!

Amazing

Wtf this is my fav campaign mission and never knew this but still best thing is to let the boar kill him

Very nice men! Now, can you repit this in the new DE campaign?

I think this unintentional xD

So havent Been playing AOE im decades but im really curious... So if you destroy that buildings on Bleda team they resign and you win too ? Have anyone really tested That?

Genius!

Nice

-Really cool

Build TC, delete Belda, return to town, 2 TC’s in dark age also you get extra resources

I can’t find 3 horses! Where are they all located please?

Will another player's unit get converted if it passes through that region?

Didn't know this

epic

Atilla-

Canc - auch Zan zan zan

Wow

You know now there is a hd edition

Is it possible in DE ?

Wait, shouldn't the map reveal itself when you win ?

I know how to get archers and bleda get lives

The Illuminati want to know your location

Why do people click so much for no reason in AOE

Wait, that's illegal!

Does this work in DE aswell? ^^

If you destroy bleda army (Make a big army siege think etc) destroy ecitas You win whit Bleda :D