Between each level, you’re given some historical context to the battle you’re about to undertake, in the form of BBC-style documentary clips. There are four of these campaigns in total, all set across different points in human history. If you’re wondering why I’m being so chatty about sieges, it’s because they crop up a lot over the course of Age Of Empires 4‘s single-player campaigns. Credit: Relic Entertainment, World’s Edge.Īs someone who has spent tens of hours fighting over hundreds of settlements in Total Warand The Lord Of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth 2 (which, by the way, was fantastic), I’m thrilled to say that Age Of Empires 4 has the best siege battles out of any strategy game I’ve played. If your army has a weak spot and the AI sniffs it out, a drawn-out defeat is often on the cards.Īge Of Empires 4. Instead of committing all their forces and risking defeat, they will instead make every assault just dangerous enough to find a crack in your castle, until it’s confident that it can outmatch you. Enemy forces will take careful, surgical punts at your land. Having one of your assaults repelled means it’s back to the drawing board – often a nearby settlement that you’re using as a staging point to recruit units and keep your supplies healthy. On the other side of these urban brawls, you’ll spend time crashing soldiers and war machines into walls in great waves, until eventually the battlements start to crumble and the tide floods in. No matter what side of the bulky wall you lie behind, rest assured that there’s usually a colossal task standing between you and victory.įor the defenders, that involves rushing the bulk of your forces from end to end of your fortification, desperately setting archers to fire from the walls while infantry sally out to burn siege equipment whenever you get the chance.
Across various campaigns and conquests, you’ll spend plenty of time pondering the existential nature of stone walls – specifically, how to preserve (or end) their existence. There’s the literal ones – offshoots of royalty who fancy a shot at your crown – and there are sieges. There are two types of bastard in Age Of Empires 4.
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