Talk:The Dai Viet Uprising/@comment-65.28.183.104-20190815004954

This was perhaps the hardest scenario I've played among all of the AoE II campaigns, all of which I play on the hardest difficulty. After failing several times due to the Ming destroying my allies, I figured I had to take the fight to them, despite the instructions contrary to that in the hints. After building multi-layered walls in front of my allies to strengthen their bases, I started to build up an army of Battle Elephants, Battering Rams and Knights. With that, I took out first the West Ming base near Nguyen, eliminating the pressure on them. It took 2-3 assaults to completely wipe it out. All the while, I had a couple villagers and a few knights at Trinh to destroy rams and repair their buildings.

I then proceeded to Ming Patrolls near the central Ming Base. Once done, I destroyed that base with 2-3 assaults. Finally, I moved my forces to the north Ming base and proceeded to destory it. It was a long, costly fight leaving me gold-strapped several times, but it reduced the pressure on my allies to the point where I could focus on taking out the Ming Patrolls.