Chronological Order of All Scenarios (With extra info)

This is a list of all scenarios from AOE2 DE in chronological order. This is mostly just meant for interest, both to see where campaigns overlap with each other and to learn more about the history behind them, though you could use it to play through the game in the "proper" order.

The dates I give will not necessarily all be accurate, so if you know better let me know. This is for a number of reasons. Primarily the games stories are anachronistic and amalgamate various events and characters that were sometimes separated by months or even years. Some of the campaigns suffer from a lack of recorded information and others are based on legends and national epics moresoe than historical document. A handful of scenarios are fabricated and never really happened.

The guide will not be finished for a while as I intend to provide some historical context for each of the scenarios and point out some of their inaccuracies. As I replay through them I will update the guide.

I have deliberately left out most of the Wallace and all the Art of war scenarios as they are not based on any historical events. The Victors and Vanquished scenarios are somewhat annoying as they cover large periods of history rather than single events. I will place them in the timeline at their 'start' dates. If you actually want to play the scenarios in 'order' then you would want to either save these scenarios and return to them later so as not to jump ahead in the timeline or outright skip the ends of some missions if they are covered elsewhere.

I doubt I will cover the AOE1 scenarios, they are from a seperate game and usually so far apart in time that there is little need for them to be listed in order. Likewise for the chronicles of Greece which the game already gives accurate chronology for. The three kingdoms campaigns do overlap with one another but I don't care about that period and haven't bought that dlc.

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The Battle of Frigidus 396 AD
It is said that the Eastern Romans won two victories with this battle. One against the West, who were defeated, and another against their Gothic allies who suffered a majority of the casualties.

General Stilicho is in game represented by the Huns, which is a reasonable choice as he was of Vandal origin. Arbograst was a Frank which is why his army is represented by the Franks.

Razing Hellas 396AD
Stilicho ought to have been in this scenario as well, this time as an enemy. By now Stilicho had become one of the most powerful men in Western Rome and was fighting an (ultimately unsuccessful) campaign in Greece against the East. Sources are conflicted on wither Alaric led his Goths to Greece with the initial purpose of sacking it, or if they were called there at the behest of the Eastern Romans to fight Stilicho and simply took advantage of the situation.

There was initially little fighting between the two as they both plundered Greece simultaneously but eventually the Goths were forced northward after being defeated by Stilicho, who himself had to withdraw after the Goths continued to oppose him.

As such Stilicho was not, as the game claims, a potential ally of the Goths. Nor was he killed for befriending barbarians (though that probably would have been used against him) more simply he was killed for political reasons. One of his rivals secured enough influence that he could declare Stilicho an enemy of the state. And this did not happen until after Alarics first invasion of Italy.

Gaiseric 406AD
Though the scenario encourages you to keep Gunderic alive he actually died in 428 nearly 3 decades before the sack of Rome. Gaeseric did rule over some Suebi and Alans though around the time of Gunderic's death the Vandals did war with the Suebi. Whilst you can be quicker historically the Vandals sacked Rome in 455, 3 years after the Huns got there. History certainly would have been different if they got there first. Since the climax of this scenario occurs after the Hun campaign you may wish to wait until after that to play this scenario.

The Belly of the Beast 408AD
Under Alaric the Goths invaded Italy twice, and this scenario appears to amalgamate both during the first invasion. Stilicho was once again the Goths main opponent, though he failed in defeating them and Alaric gained the land he desired. The second invasion was brought about by a coup against Stilicho resulting in a change in leadership who now viewed the Goths as enemies again.

Sarus, who offers the final battle of the scenario by ambushing the Goths on the way to meet the emperor at Ravenna, is presented as betraying his overlord Alaric. He was actually a Roman ally under the command of Stilicho, who was now aligned with Alaric by necessity. So whilst Sarus; attacks on Alaric were a betrayal of trust perhaps, they were not a betrayal of oath.

In the interrum between the invasion depicted in the scenario and the sack of Rome Alaric even temporarily set up a puppet emperor, though he did not prove competent. And any hope of negotiating with Honorius (the Roman emperor) fell through thanks to Sarus attacking Alaric prompting the attack on Rome. Which means the scenario skips a lot of political manoeuvring and war which could have comprised the entire campaign if the focus was not on a longer period.

The Giant Falls 410AD
The achievement "Rome Was Destroyed in One Day" is of course a reference to the saying "Rome wasn't built in a day", though its not too far off the actual sack, which lasted 3 days.


A Kingdom of Our Own 412AD
Sarus was killed after losing a hard fought battle to Ataulf. Though the game neglects to tell what happened to Ataulf, who was assassinated by a follower of Sarus seeking revenge. Sarus' brother then replaced Ataulf as king only to be assassinated himself after a week.

The Scourge of God 434AD
The flow of this scenario is fairly accurate to history. It requires you to defeat 2 of; Romans, Scythians or Persians. That the Romans are the weakest and you can ally the Scythians means you are encouraged to fight first Romans then Persians. Which is what the Huns did around this time. They attempted raids into Eastern Rome but were ultimately rebuffed and so focused instead on the East for a few years before returning to the Roman Empire. This was despite the Romans paying them tribute. If one thing can be learned from the Romans its that paying people not to attack you is generally a terrible idea.

Vortigern 440AD*
*Whilst the game claims this scenario begins in 440AD and it being named "Vortigern" implies it comprises that kings reign the Saxons arrived in Britain a few decades earlier and Vortigern died well before 500AD when the scenario ends. The year of his death is not known for certain but it will have been in 454 or 455.

In this scenario only the Irish Gaels use transports to threaten your coast. The picts also would have used ships to make incursions further south than they could manage by land. Plus the sea would have proved a convenient means of avoiding Hadrian's Wall which we see in the game. We don't see the Antonine Wall which was built across what comprises the Central Belt of modern day Scotland, whilst this wall was abandoned hundreds of years prior it still would have existed in ruins.

Oddly the Franks are chosen as the secondary threat from the continent. Far more prominent were the Angles and Jutes. The Jutes would dominant the region of Kent for some time and the Angles prominence in the Island is why the English are referred to as "Anglo-Saxon". Indeed the word English very visibly derives from Angle. Their omission from this scenario is rather strange.

The Great Ride 443AD
Around this time the Huns began their campaign into Eastern Rome seeking to extract as much wealth as the could from the Empire. That most settlements offer little resistance in this scenario is appropriate to the speed with which they swept the landscape.

The Walls of Constantinople 443AD
That the scenario only requires you to acquire wealth through raiding and not take the city itself is appropriate as it did not take long for the Huns to reach the capital and when they did they failed in taking it. Despite their bringing siege equipment (allegedly for the first time that the Romans had seen) the double walls of the city, present in the scenario, proved too great an obstacle. Despite this failure the threat of the Huns was great enough that the Romans were forced once again to pay them to ♥♥♥♥ off.

A Barbarian Betrothal 450AD
The Emperors sister Honoria did indeed propose to Atilla in a stupid attempt to avoid her betrothal. Though Atilla had already planned to invade Gaul to help the Romans against the Goths. Honoria's proposal changed Atillas reasoning for invasion into seeking the submission of the Emperor and half the Empire as his dowry.

The Catalaunian Fields 451AD
The game plays this out as a draw when in reality it was a strategic defeat for the Huns. This defeat whilst costly for the Romans forced Atilla to abandon his ambitions in Gaul. And the Roman general Aetius did not retire. Rather he continued a successful military career until he was assassinated by the emperor who feared he was growing too powerful.

The Fall of Rome 452AD
Aetius was not retired and in reality harassing Atilla's army as they rampaged through Italy. Though he could achieve little more as his force was too small to face the Huns as such it is not unfair for him to be absent from the scenario.

This is an interesting point in history as it is just as mysterious as the game tells us. We do not know what Leo and Atilla discussed nor why exactly he turned around. The common theories are that his army lacked the supplies to pursue a campaign any longer, or that disease wracked his army. Others suggest he was superstitious of a curse as Alaric (of the previous campaign) died shortly after taking Rome. And that he had a nosebleed is as much as we know about Atillas death.

Bukhara 557AD
The actual battle of Bukhara (or battle of Gol-Zarriun) took place in 560, though Khosrau's campaign against the white huns did begin in 557 which explains the date the game gives. The war was started in unison with the Gokturks so as to fight the Huns on two fronts whereas in the game Khosrau and his "army" (of about 10 units) arrive to wage war on the white huns before the Gokturks even offer you an alliance. The Gokturks must be defeated after the white huns which is a bit out of place as in real life they did not wage war on persia until decades later after Khosrau had died, though they were defeated. They did attempt to raid Persia during Khosrau's lifetime but even that was well after the battle of Bukhara and a treaty was quickly signed. But since when has AOE let something like a few decades get in the way of an AI betraying you.

Dos Pilas 648AD

The game gives you the choice between surrendering to Calakmul or remaining loyal to Tikal. Historically the King of Dos Pilas, Bʼalaj Chan Kʼawiil, opted to become a vassal of Calakmul after being defeated by them in 648AD. He remained so until his death, even being exiled for some five years when Tikal were able to recapture Dos Pilas. Though eventually he was restored to power by his new master. It would not be until after Bʼalaj's death that Dos Pilas would eventually capture the lord of Tikal and begin its ascent to power. Although whilst Dos Pilas had taken a hundred or more years to reach this point its hegemony would last only 56 years as the kingdom collapsed and the city was abandoned in 761AD.

The Battle of Guadalete 711AD
This scenario plays out in reverse. In the game you travel to the Gaudalete river to to defeat Roderic before conquering the regions settlements. However the Berbers had already looted and conquered the entirety of the landscape the game shows us before Roderic arrived from the north of the peninsula.

The forces you are given are not accurate either with the entirety of your African army being mounted. The actual battle of Guadalete saw the Berbers fight with a ordinary army predominately comprised of light infantry whilst the Goths had significant numbers of cavalry. So too is the tempo wrong. The actual battle saw the Berbers on the defence, they constructed a fortified position of earthworks to hold off the Gothic cavalry using their own horsemen to rout the Goths after the Gothic cavalry became overcommitted to the centre and tied down in the earthworks.

Consolidation and Subjugation 712AD






Divide and Conquer 713AD






Crossing the Pyrenees 732AD






Razzia 732AD






Tours 732AD
A rather easy scenario as all you need to do is steal the Berber supply train, not defeat their armies. It was not so easy for the Franks though the Berber armies did outpace their supply train forcing them to live entirely off the land. This caused their campaign to slow down, giving Charles Martel more time to prepare . Despite the outpacing of supplies the Frankish victory was won entirely through combat.

Charlemagne 768AD

Dissatisfaction 810AD
This is one of the campaigns where there is a mix of legend and history. Whilst we do have information about Devapala it is unclear and even the dates from which he reigned are disputed. So it is possible that the start date the game gives is incorrect.


Desire 821AD






Renunciation 822AD






Liberation? 830AD






Enlightenment 835AD







Ragnar 850AD







Ironside859AD






York 865AD
The great heathen army initially camped in Thanet, in Kent. Not any of the campsites that the game offers.




Finehair 870AD





Arrival at Bari 871AD


Karlsefni 874AD
Oddly, the game dates this scenario at 1000AD which is too early even for the eponymous Karlsefni's journey to VInland. Though the scenario description does acknowledge it begins in the 9th century. The First character you reveive is Ingólfr Arnarson who settled Iceland in 874AD and died decades before Karlsefni or even Erik the red were born.

Honfoglalás 895AD







Robert 921AD







Path of Exile 960AD
This campaign is tricky do date, fortunately no other scenarios occur parallel to it so it is still easy to place in the chronology. This is because the story of Yodit, at least the one the game tells is mostly legend. Her story is not unlike that of King Arthur where a lack of information has caused it to become grander that it probably was, certainly different.

There are many versions of the story and the one we see, of her being exiled and returning triumphant, is one of the more common ones. With the other common tellings being that she was the ruler of another realm who waged war on Aksum, perhaps to avenge her father slain by Aksum, perhaps for religous reasons.

The Golden curtain from the intro that she is framed for stealing does feature in versions of the story. One version tells that she orders shoes made of its fabric and when she is found guilty one of her breasts is cut off and she is banished.

The Right Partner 961AD
In the versions of the story that involve her being exiled she does marry a Syrian prince. I can't imagine there are any versions of the tale (and there are many, being African history most of the tellings are oral rather than primary written sources, which would be a main factor in how varied the tellings are) that she runs around doing sidequests to impress him.



A Fallen Crown 969AD
King Dagnajan did die on military campaign but I find this hard to date. Based on my own (limited) research this would not have been anything to with Yodit in this version of events and she is only able to convince her husband to move on Aksum after Dagnajan's death weakens the realm.

Personally I find the version of events where Yodit was not a banished Aksumite but rather a subject or neighbouring ruler to be more likely. In that version it would have been possible that the campaign was against her realm and so she may have been involved in his death after all, albeit in a totally different version of events.

Broken Stelae 970AD
Yodit had conquered/usurped Aksum by 470AD. Contemporary Arab historian Ibn Hawqal who travelled this region in the decade prior wrote some years hence of a female ruler who ruled this land and other sources tell of notables of the region requesting aid against a woman ruler. So we know that the bones of this tale are true but anything more than that is guesswork. So as much as I find the version of events the game gives us unlikely, it may as well be true for how little concrete knowledge we have.

Welcome Home 970AD
In this scenario you cannot destroy civilian buildings in the capital. This is contrary to a detail the end slide does acknowledge, albeit fleetingly; that Yodit is remembered as a "destroyer".

She is most infamous for the cruelty she wrought upon Christains and according to some sources (Christain ones so take with a grain of salt) was a terrible despot who toppled every church and heavily persecuted the Christain population.

Seljuk 985 AD
As this scenario covers nearly a 100 years you may wish to save the game and return to the scenario later whenever your ruler changes. Tughril began his reign in 1037, Alp in 1063 and Malik in 1072

Vinlandsaga 1000AD
Norse Sagas tell that Erik's family were exiled to Iceland in 960AD when he was just 10 years old and Erik himself was exiled again in 982 leading to his discovery of Greenland. he did not however discover America, that was done by his son Lief "the Lucky" around the 1000AD date the game gives for this scenario. As Greenland in this scenario already has Norse inhabitants it better represents Lief's journey than his fathers, I can only assume the wrong person was chosen for this scenario, perhaps because Erik is a little more famous than his son.

Usurpation 1006AD
The game tells the story of Suryavarman ascending to the throne and fighting rebels when his story was really the other way around. A succession crisis led to a civil war between 3 claimants, of whom Suryavarman was the victor in 1006AD. Though he no doubt would have dealt with internal conflicts after has taking the throne it is my understanding the game has moved the war he fought to win his crown to 1006.

Quelling the Rebellion 1006AD


The Rebellion of Melus 1009AD


A Dangerous Journey 1012AD


Challenging a Thalassocracy 1014D


Nirvanapada 1015AD
The previous scenarios involving the Chola and Tambralingas were resolved by this time. Thereafter the Khmer empire fought a great many defensive wars until Suryavarman's death in 1050 (the date the game gives as the campaigns end) this scenario appears to be an amalgamation of every subsequent war after the defeat of the Tambralingas.


Loose Ends 1018AD


The Best Laid Plans 1020AD


Guiscard Arrives 1047AD


Brother Against Brother 1057AD


Roger in Sicily 1061AD
Roger and Robert together thought of conquering Sicily while conquering Calabria. They did in 1061 enter the Island and take Messina though the total conquest of the island would take some three decades. As such the events of this scenario actually finish well after the events of the next in the campaign.

Hastings 1066AD
This scenario sees Harald Hadrada ally himself with William after his defeat at stamford bridge, which is nonsense. Harald was a rival claimant to the English throne and not a friend of William as this scenario might suggest. Harald died in the battle and so was in no position to offer his men to William, even he had wanted to.

The scenario also sees "Saxon raiders" fight in Normandy which is another fabrication, though this time understandable as it serves to make the scenario more challenging. The Saxons were faced with multiple invasions at the same time and in no position to leave their island.

Finally the final battle being a siege is rather strange, famously the English king was killed in a field battle, not cowering in his castle. This did not result in Englands capitulation to the Normans who had to continue their conquest, so perhaps the siege is in reference to that.

The Onrushing Tide 1071AD
The game depicts a heroic defence of the city with the defenders sallying out to try and rout the Normans. Really it was a very standard siege with the defenders wracked with famine after 3 years of siege. There was however naval action as the Byzantines attempted to send relief to the city, so this part of the scenario is more accurate. However the Byzantines completely failed in their efforts and eventually abanoned the city to its fate.

The siege was led by Robert Guiscard (from the Hautvilles campaign), oddly it is not referenced in that campaign.

Manzikert 1071AD







The Enemy of My Enemy 1072AD


The Exile of the Cid 1080AD


Komnenos 1081AD
In this scenario Robert Guiscard appears unannounced with barely and soldiers in Greece (sometimes, other times the AI bugs and his ship sits at sea) you will then easily kill him which again will not be mentioned. I find this strange as not only was he a credible threat to the empire but he is also featured in an earlier campaign (the Hautevilles). His son Bohemond does not appear at all. These two invaded greece shortly after Alexios came to power and were quite succesful, the scenario plays out with your lands already occupied and you retaking them where it should be that you start off as losing them to the Normans. Robert was never killed in battle he died of fever, the same fever which Bohemond became sick with causing him to withdraw. Which was the ultimate reason the Normans were ejected from Thessaly.

Bohemond and the Emperor 1081AD


Black Guards 1087AD


King of Valencia 1090AD


Bohemond in the East 1097AD


Reconquista 1099AD

Stephen 1135AD






Wonder of the World 1136AD


Outlawed 1143AD
Thoros had another brother not mentioned in the intro who was also murdered by the Byzantines along with his father. The personality of his brothers which are present in this scenario seems appropriate. Mleh conspired to assassinate Thoros and converted to Islam to join the Seljuks when this failed, although this happened after the events of this campaign. Whilst Stephan would multiple times act on his own without or against orders, even breaking a later truce with the Byzantines.

The Emperors Revenge 1151AD






Holy Roman Emperor 1152AD


Henry the Lion 1153AD


Caught in the Crossfire 1155AD
It is possible that Simon's daughter married Thoros after his return to Cilicia in which case Simon would have been an outright ally of Thoros rather than just an 'admirer of his father'. Although it is uncertain wither Thoros did in fact marry Simon's daughter of another woman.


Bloody Crestwaves 1156AD
If Thoros and Reynald actually had the naval strength to scuttle imperial navies at port then they likely would have challenged the imperial fleet sent to attack armenia in revenge. Though the total ruin of the island that you enact in this mission is accurate, it took Cyprus generations to recover from the devastation.



Pope and Antipope 1159AD


An Arabian Knight 1163AD


Of Turncoats and Traitors 1168AD
This campaign should have been six scenarios. This scenario begins with Thoros evading capture which occurred in 1158 when the Byzantines occupied Cilicia in a very fast and successful campaign. A peace was agreed with help of the Crusader states whereby Cilicia would become a vassal of the Byzantine empire. Stephan did disobey orders as the scenario says but this was after this peace and so he was assassinated. This resumed hostilities and the Byzantines invaded for a third time which the scenario does not cover at all. This time they were unsuccessful and Cilicia won its independance. Mleh did indeed switch sides to the Seljuks but this was after the wars with the Byzantines. I placed the scenario here in the timeline since whilst the first 15 minutes take place in 1158 the rest of the scenario is a decade later.

The Lombard League 1174AD


Born of Fire 1180AD


Lord of Arabia 1183AD
Reynald de Chatillon began attacking the Saracens 2 years earlier but he did not sail to Aqaba bay (depicted in the scenario) until 1183. This is the same Reynald encountered in the Armenian camapign by now he is older than 60.




Kurikara 1183AD


The Digvijaya 1184AD


Temujin 1185AD






Hand of A Princess 1185AD


Crucible 1187AD


The Horns of Hattin 1187AD


The Siege of Jerusalem 1187AD


Jihad! 1187AD
The scenarios objective only requires you to take 2 of the 3 cities on the map. Which is appropriate as Saladin's army failed to take Tyre (the best defended city in the scenario) but did take the other two.



Barbarossa's March 1189AD


The Lion and the Demon 1189AD
The Siege of Acre began in 1189 but continued for 2 years. As such this scenario comprises a period both before and after the following scenario.




Cyprus 1191AD
Having only recently recovered from the sack of the Island by Thoros and Reynald in 1156 Cyprus is now independent from the empire and in a stroke of sheer misfortune finds itself captured by the English. This is not why Cyprus became part of the British empire, the island just could not catch a break and would be sold many times until eventually being conquered by the turks who would sell it back to Britain in the late 19th century.

The Emperor Sleeping 1191AD


The Fate of India 1192AD
In the game Prithviraj defeats the Muslims but this was not the case. He was himself utterly defeated and vassalised. He is alleged to have rebelled in the same year a shortly thereafter been executed or otherwise killed.

The Legend of Prithviraj 1192AD


A Life of Revenge 1197AD

Mstislav 1203AD






Into China 1211AD
The Mongol invasion of China began about five years earlier against the Xi. Though the Mongols did not cross the great wall to wage war against the Jin until 1211.




The Horde Rides West 1220AD


Raising the Banners 1222AD


The Battle at Kalka River 1222AD


Hunted 1235AD
The dates I have provided for this campaign are guesswork as it is based on the national epic of Mali. Which, like with Yodit's story, is likely embellished and unspecific in places. It is generally agreed this story begins around 1235 and my understanding of the epic is that the war was fairly swift. So I have grouped these scenarios next to each other.


The Sting of the Scorpion 1235AD


Djeriba Gold 1235AD


Blood on the River bank 1236AD


The Lion's Den 1236AD


Saving the Huts 1237AD


Blood for Blood 1239AD


The Promise 1240AD


Pax Mongolica 1241AD


A New Home 1243AD


Vain Ambition 1264AD


A Man of God 1271AD


A Most Unlikely Man 1277AD


An Unlikely Alliance 1278AD


Tsar of the Bulgars 1279AD


Echoes of Heroes 1280AD


Where the One-Eyed Man is King1281AD


Of Castles and Kings 1282AD
Edward did enter Wales earlier to quell a previous rebellion but fought no major battles and peace was agreed quickly. This scenario as such seems to be representing the more violent rebellion of 1282.


The Story of Our Founders 1293AD


Toom Tabard 1296AD


The Battle of Stirling 1297AD
The battle of Stirling Brig is famous with the bridge which is notably absent from this scenario, though mentioned in the closing cutscene. The narrator telling you to construct a tower a probably just for tutorials sake but may be a referenc eto Wallace and Moray scouting the English army prior to the battle

The mission sees the player defend the coastline away from the bridge from English. Whilst there was a viable ford the English could have used they were persuaded not to by Cressingham. So outside of the potential of scouting parties encountering one another no such conflict occurred.

The Battle of Falkirk 1298AD
Amusingly this scenario does include a bridge. The Terrain here is more accurate than Stirlings with a river in between the two armies. There was indeed a burn between them but it was the English who crossed it, not the Scots and the English who won the battle. Wallace did not, in fact, sail up the burn with an army of champions to defeat the English.

The scenario sees you push across the river and into the English camp which is closer to what happened at Bannockburn, a battle 16 years later that resulted in Scotland finally winning the war. Obviously the game designers wanted the campaign to end on a high note and as Wallace was dead long before the Bannockburn they perhaps decided to rewrite Falkirk as it so they could have a good ending.

Bapheus 1302AD


Hammer of the Scots 1304AD


Unconditional Loyalty 1321AD


The Oath to Unify Nusantara 1334AD


Family Affairs 1345AD


Serving the New King 1350AD


The Pasunda Bubat Tragedy 1357AD


No Man's Land


The Tatar Yoke


Lake Poyang 1363AD


A Worthy Opponent 1368AD


Amir of Transoxiana 1370AD


In the Shadow of the Throne 1382AD


The Matter of the Crown 1383AD


Gurkhan of Persia 1383AD


Star of the Poles 1387AD


Duel of the Dukes 1389AD


The Siege of Vilnius 1390AD


Harbinger of Destruction 1391AD


Vytautus' Crusade 1398AD


Sultan of Hindustan 1398AD

Scourge of the Levant 1400AD


A Titan Amongst Mortals 1402AD


The One-Eyed Wanderer 1405AD


A Kingdom Divided 1407AD


The Fruits of Her Labour 1410AD
Oddly this same battle (the battle of Grunwald) appears in the Bohemian campaign, albeit in a different scenario. I have listed this scenario as earlier as it also includes a prelude to the battle. The characters leading the Mercenary companies (Jalal and Jan Zizka) were both present at the battle on the side of the poles but you are only allowed to select a single mercenary group to join you.

Vytautas' tactic of feigned retreat was employed in the actual battle to devastating effect and it is likely he go the idea after losing to it in 1399 at Vorskla River at the hands of the Mongols, as the game suggests.

Courage and Coin 1410AD
Here the battle is depicted as more of a siege than field battle as each army has bases as is standard for aoe. Though it was indeed a pitched battle as the prior scenario depicts.



The Wolf and the Lion 1411AD


Agincourt 1415AD
The English actually took Harfleur, they certainly weren't routed by the garrison sallying out to meet them. The garrison numbered only a few hundred so such an attack would have been suicide. Instead the town surrendered following an agreement to do so if French reinforcements did not arrive after a month, a fairly standard affair for a siege. Although the English army was wrought with disease losing thousands of men to it and compelling them to pull back home. Though not without pillaging their way across Normandy as only taking a single town would have been a disappointing result for Henry.

The Dai viet Uprising 1418AD


The Cleansing of Paris 1418AD


The Mountain Siege 1419AD


The Iron Lords 1419AD


The Golden City 1419AD


The Battle at Hanoi 1420AD


The Emperor's Fury 1421AD


Warrior of God 1423AD


Unholy Marriage 1423AD


Reaching South 1424AD


The Hook and Cod Wars 1426AD


A Three Pronged Attack 1426AD


The Final Fortress 1427AD


Mercenaries and Masters 1427AD


An Unlikely Messiah 1429AD


The Maid of Orleans 1429AD


The Cleansing of the Loire 1429AD
The game depicts La Hire as a Conan like brute. This is probably because his name can be translated to "the wrath" (or alternatively "the hedgehog"). There is no evidence to support that he was Cimmerian but he was a very competant commander who fought in many important battles of the war. He was also one of the few French generals who really believed in Joan so including in in several of the scenarios is very appropriate.

The Rising 1429AD


The Siege of Paris 1429AD
The French never made it past the walls of Paris, they certainly didn't liberate any prisoners from it. This scenario like most of the original ones sees you lose if your heroe - Joan - is slain. Which is particularly egregious here as, and the game even points this out itself, she was wounded in the battle by a crossbow bolt to the leg.

The narrative the game tries to paint against Charles VII is rather unfair as well making it seem as if Joan is leading a rag tag band of volunteers to take the city with the king offering a less than token support of some militia that are somehow able to sail through the Seine to land in the middle of the city. In reality Joan was part of a 10'000 strong army acting under the kings own orders to reclaim Paris.

The Maid Falls 1430AD


His Own Man 1436AD
I could not tell exactly when this is supposed to be, though certainly some time after 1431 as opening cutscene says Sforza has finished his fight against Venice.



A New Power Arises 1438AD


The Field of Blood 1439AD


War of Brothers 1441AD


Prodigal Son 1444AD


Blood and Betrayal 1447AD


The Dragon Spreads His Wings 1448AD


The Return of the Dragon 1449AD

Viva Sforza! 1450AD


Constantine 1453AD






Fetih 1453AD





A Perfect Martyr 1453AD


The Breath of the Dragon 1461AD


The Moon Rises 1462AD


A Falcon's Tent 1463AD


Like Father Like Son 1470AD


The Old World 1476AD


The Night Falls 1477AD


Lion of Africa 1489AD
The fortress that you stage your operations from actually surrendered when it was blockaded. Pachecho Pereira who you can rescue from Berbers at the bottom of the map was exploring Africa at this time and did go missing when his expedition fell ill and lost they ship, he was even rescued. However it was west africa that he was exploring not the north. He was stranded on the island of Principe very far from Morocco.

Ruins of Empires 1505AD


Estado da India 1506AD


A Son's Blood 1509AD


Reign of Blood 1515AD


The Triple Alliance 1517AD


Quetzalcoatl 1519AD


La Noche Triste 1519AD


The Boiling Lake 1520AD


Broken Spears 1520AD


The Burmese Tigers 1538AD


The Mandalay Cobra 1543AD


Shimazu 1545AD


The Royal Peacock 1550AD


Nobunaga 1551AD


The White Elephant 1563AD


Lepanto 1571AD


Drake 1572AD
Le Testu commanded a Galleon which joined Drakes fleet, he was not found marooned in Panama. Diego was also a real person who eventually became a free man.



The Old Tiger 1580AD


Kyoto 1582AD


Noryang Point 1598AD