AOE2:DE - The Last Khans Campaign: Ivaylo 3. Tsar of the Bulgars 

Just for Viper, the devs added in heros that can die twice.

Hero death count: 8 Mounted Ivaylo x2 Dismounted Ivaylo x2 Kasim Beg x2 Kasim Beg's pupper x2

The last time I was this early Viper was still getting silver medals on beginner tutorials.

Biper keeps his oath guys, he's not killing heroes. He's killing their dogs instead.

Don't worry, Viper! Just for you, I made sure Ivaylo didn't have to survive in this scenario! Watch out for scenario 4, however! Ivaylo must survive there!

13:54 First viper moment in Last Khans, mark it boys.

I love how good this campaigns are made. In the real story Ivaylo is blockaded for months in the Drastar fortress causing rumors in Tarnovo that he might be dead so that's why the nobility there surrendered to Byzantine and so got Ivan Asen III as emperor. Ivaylo went into Tarnovo shotly after, but could't take it back despite a good win he made over the Byzantine forces, those making Ivan Asen III to run. It is said both Ivaylo and Ivan Asen III went to Nogai Khan at the same time to ask for support, at first Nogai was seem to be suppoting Ivaylo but Byzantine diplomacy(Nogai married a daughter of Emperor Michael VIII) made him kill Ivaylo at a feast the legend says.

Viper: "How am I supposed to beat this army? This is a lot of pressure early!" Also Viper: *not producing any military units despite abundant resources*

Tried to beat this mission on moderate numerous times. Finally gave up and went online to get a feel for how to win and this is the first video I find. needless to say I was lmao the first 10 min because thats pretty much what I went through, confused, more confused, unprepared and denial lol. Thanks for the video man.

Viper: Attack the opponents!!!! Cumans: Idk man, the wolves looks scary

Holy sheet that was an intense scenario. I don't think I could ever win this one in the hardest I should stop watching these campaigns and play them by myself, they have impressed me now. Also, that Khan is a very interesting guy, he and La Hire should have a drink session.

15:14 defining moment of the Konnik as a unit. 57:25 best Kipchaks ever.

Damn did this one myself, it's a darn DeathMatch. I immediately sold wood and bought stone to build a castle in the bottom corner of the base and that helped a lot. Keeping the market alive is pretty important.

a dismounted ivaylo... a mounted joan of arc... a merciless viper to kill them all!

Viper: "C'mon, c'mon, be the last Khan." Last Khan dies, green switches allegiance Cinema Sins guy: "Roll credits." Also, great detailing in the crumbling cloth from Mongol wonder.

Pros: - Good Player - Good Micro Cons: - Constantly flow of enemies - Doesn't know how many Khans there are

"If I can turn the Cumans to my side..." (Looks at flaming patch of dirt that used to be his base being raided by post-imp units) (Long pause) (Sad/nervous/given-up chuckle) "What can I make what can I make what can I make?"

Hey Viper, you can earn that first objective by going left and putting everyone in the transport. Also you can ROTATE GATES NOW, just hold down ctrl and use the mouse wheel

Tip: The Age Icon (Next to idle villager icon) Glows when you're able to age up. Click

Tsarina is the russian version of the Tsar's lady. The bulgarian is Tsaritsa.

No matter how many crushing blows you dealt, Nogai Khan's confidence never wavered. Dude truly was the Black Night from Monty Python of the Age Of Empires series.

1:05:35 "no heroes lost, as always" -Viper, after losing three heroes, one of which had two lives. It's nice to see even Viper having a hard time with this one. I had to put it on slow speed and abuse pausing for micro and even then it took me several tries.

Something i didnt realise until the end is that i was able to train a small amount of kipchaks for free at some point in the castle maybe because i took over an hour to complete the mission on hard

best way to win this campaign, is to immediately build two castles right by the gate to the south and fill them up with units, and upgrade to bodkin arrow, bracer and thumbring straight away. Then build some of the smaller castles and a few towers all in close proximity and fill them up too, they will protect your building fine, but DO NOT allow your 3 villagers to die! you'll need constant repairs. You will need lots of lightcavalry/hussars all upgraded with speed and armour to stop the trebuchets and rams they bring. Once defences are done the first enemy to attack is the green army castle to stop the trebuchets, dont necessarily need to defeat them or ally them straight away, just destroy castle. Once that's done you need to destroy red army's siege workshop to stop the attacks with rams. After that you no longer need to keep defending and repairing buildings and can attack more. It's better to ally with red and green army, makes it easy to take out the yellows then.

That thing with boiling alive was also in Genghis Khan, he boiled the chieftains that doesn't follow him.

I feel "Snippy in da house" would've rocked this mission..

Out of curiosity - which 'original' heroes from the scenario editor were 'renamed' to represent the likes of Kasim Beg (7:44) and Nogay Khan in the campain? I already found that Georgi Terter is renamed 'Kushluk' and Hranislav (at least its 'cavalry archer' form from 1st scenario) is renamed 'Urus Khan'...

I am depressed and anxious and your videos and aoe is the only things keeping me alive. I don’t think you realize how much you mean to some of us😔❤️

the village micro boogie lmao 40:24

3 videos in 1 day, looks like viper is booming on youtube with aoe2 de :P

33:19 "If I kill that Khan, I shall emerge victorious.' *pan to base on fire* "Maybe not victorious, but..."

Love your commentary and sober nature. Keep it up!

This was very sad part of Bulgarian history. I remember I was so sad I had to learn it and carry on do a test on it. Thanks for the person who allowed to turn it into a positive multiverce.

Sneaking to the transport past the Cuman castle probably has a greater chance to have all your units survive as long as you micro well.

I am glad I found this Chanel

After i had to restart this to beat it on hard, I came here to see how the Viper managed. With a restart, like me. Happy to see I was not the only one struggeling. Key is the market you have in the beginning, you can buy stone and build a krepost right away to protect market. Then it is quite easy.

this sounds like a video from the future, w8 release!

Man, I really hope it is nothing serious with the endoscopy, get well soon Viper!

Just finished playing. Probably the most difficult campaign mission apart from the Magyar one on Historical Battles

I'm just gonna say Daut that's all

Today's quote is from cpt Kirk: KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!!!

I was interested when the intro mentioned (Veliko) Tarnovo. Still today a beautiful medieval city. The grounding in factual places and historical events makes AOE2 special, even if the gameplay of the campaigns is a bit buggy

Kasin Beg speaking from the grave POG

So, any chance we get some clarification as to if Viper actually played the chapter the right way (?). I mean, what would he achieve if he had gone with the transport ship and is it wrong just rushing to Drastar, are you actually supposed to be under so many attacks?

Its almost 2020 and those poor tatar cav archers are still trapped.

Woah, Tarnovo!?? My ancesters are from Tarnovo lol

Gonna be honest, I would've been super disappointed if Viper went throughout the campaign without getting his Hero killed.

9:55 first hero death of many

Viper if only you knew how many times i yelled “SNEAK TO THE TRANSPORT SHIP” ..

Nogai Khan so strong he can talk from the grave.

I cant wait to make a mod for the konniks in the editor

"I can build a Kipchak" Well that's one broken Kipchak if I ever saw one. 10:25

Did it become easy the second time? Cz the waves of enemy horde were very less. Was it because he RESTARTED?

Tatars and Cumans have 3 khans each (6 khans in total). In your first attempt, you killed 4 khans, which was 2 khans of each. If you had managed to take that khan in 34:44, the Cumans would have turned to your side, because that was indeed their last khan.

At first I thought the khans were respawning I felt as though I killed 3 tatars khan and still they wouldn't defect not to mention the golden horde stuck their big nose on my siege of tatars. So here I was retreating, healing, and massing a new army to attack. And as I arrive with my army a khan walked out of the gates to meet my army and then they were freed... *sigh*

@14:00 - 14:25 Clearly that were your intentions ;D

So “Reach Drastar without losing a man” is meaningless? Or will get reward?

10 MINUTES TO THE SARRACENO ATTACK ... O.O I SAY, 2 DAYS ARE MISSING FOR THE EXIT OF THE AGE OF EMPIRES 2 D.E.

Damn it, I just wanted to go to bed, but I suppose it will have to wait.

I was coming to see how to deal with first attack ... i was kind of surprised x)

Which hotkey is for the pause game?

Relaxing after work has never been more stressful. Are they serious making missions impossibly hard???

The campaign has two story lines. If you kill the actual Tsar in the first mission you Ivaylo will become Tsar and so one, if you ally it will turn out differently and the transport ship comes into play. ;)

I used to convert these special units, it made me very very happy. The new AOE , you can't convert hero units

Can something special happen with the other objective of not losing units ? I guess there aren't many enemies on the way to the transport, and once you reach it it's safe.

We got a hero down, the viper always pays his debts to the viewers

This must be an earlier version of that mission, when I played it green spammed trebuchets and red had upgraded rams right away o.o

this looks very good. even the best player struggles in this @@

So we meet again, Oath breaker.

Can someone tell me why the lady in the intro is reading the S as a Z? I am of slavic origin, I'm pretty darn sure that she's reading it wrong...

i like how viper speaks about responsability after he threw away his heroes 1111111111

AOE2DE and his New Unit Konik = Dismounted Konik TheViper and his New Unit Ivaylo and Dismounted Ivaylo

That mission was a nightmare

For the transport you can run to it making it so you lose no units giving you 2k extra gold but the timing is really tight like two hits till failure, and if the champion dies before you arrive you are defeated.

This was for scieeence

Viper: Another easy campaign today Dev: I won't say that if I were you :)))))

Endoscopy? Sounds like something Vlad the Impaler would gladly do

Please, play the Kotyan's campaign!!

I wish we got a justus cam instead of no camera

im also quite an experienced player but this mission is just too hard. i lingered until the 30th minutue with skirmishers but i havent thought about building a crepost. nice thought using the market!

on the question- Can you blame me? answer is YES!!!

how do you turn this on

what worked for me was instant buying a castle dropping it on the front and had vills build just out of range then no mele just heavy cav archer and use a hero to hit the wall agro ing all the units run the hero back to the castle, run in with the 30 cav archers then snipe the 3 khans and go back and heal regroup and bait and kill, then it is really not that bad. basically abuse the way the AI works

That's not fair. You already completed some campaigns and I still need to wait till tomorrow to play it :(

You are so good at this game man wtf!

Get well man.

This is insane.

I beat it by sending just the scout to the camp (bonus 2000 gold), spamming cav archers into the castle, building a krepost as soon as possible and filling it with skirmishers, and sending my initial army to its death trying to clear out khans from red’s base. All that bought me enough time to train and upgrade a decent sized army to kill off the rest of the khans.

Campaign was so hard and i thought i was doing bad

i just went straight to yellpw and killed khan and tent in hopes yellow would juoin me then i would take over the rest...congratulations scenario complete!! :P guess i just needed the tent in the end was a surprise for me haha

Why you did not build a market and trade all this wood though?

What the hell is going on with the campaign difficulties. The Sforza campaign with a shown difficulty of 3/3 is ezpz "built arbalests and rightclick" faceroll even on hard AI, while the 3rd missions of the Ivalyo and Draculea campaigns, rated at 2/3 difficulty, are barely beatable nightmares. (only for Draculea's 4th mission to be the easiest ever). I also hate how the Bulgarian campaign incentivises me to go cav archers every game even though it should be a melee cav/infantry civ. There are enough other campaigns where cav archers are strong.

Did i hear the first 15 seconds correctly? Endoscopy? Hope you are alright, Mr. Viper. Take care and take rest. I hope it was just part of a checkup and not something serious.

Biper playing AOE2:DE campaign 1, mission 1: "I will not lose my heroes playing DE" Also Biper, campaign 1, mission 2: loses same hero twice

RIP Ivaylo.

One hour.?? Are we in for a treat guys?

Kinda nice to see even the Goat is confused by this. I've tried to play this for a good number of times, let me see how it's done!

i thought it was suspicious that you didnt lose when ivaylo is killed, thought he was gonna be killed in the ending sequence, but he didnt. its pretty weird

@33:07 could make this into a movie

NEXT PART, PLEASE!!!