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This article is about the campaign in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. For other uses, see Historical Battles. |
The Historical Battles in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition are a series of sixteen unrelated scenarios grouped together in the top-left section of the campaign screen. It is a combination of all scenarios of the Battles of the Conquerors and the Battles of the Forgotten in previous versions of the game, with some scenarios having been reworked. Langshan Jiang is renamed to Lake Poyang.
Unlike with most other campaigns in Age of Empires II, the scenarios in this campaign have no true order, instead all being unlocked from the start for play.
Scenarios[]
| “ | Certain names ring down through history as men and women who shaped the world. Some defended their homelands from invaders, while others used their military might to violently acquire the lands of others. Battles such as Agincourt, Bapheus, and Hastings are remembered as turning points in world history, and names such as Henry V, Minamoto, and Osman are etched forever as great conquerors. Now relive their tragedies and triumphs. | ” |
| —In-game campaign description | ||
All scenarios are listed in the following table sorted by the year. The table also shows the civilization, color, and the historical event(s) they are based on.
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Scenario | D | Y | Civilization | Color | Historical event |
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 Bukhara
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557 |  Persians
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Yellow | Battle of Bukhara |
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 Dos Pilas
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648 |  Maya
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Cyan | Calakmul's attack on the town of Dos Pilas in the Second Tikal–Calakmul War |
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 Tours
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732 |  Franks
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Red | Battle of Tours |
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 York
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865 |  Vikings
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Red | Raids on Britain by the Great Heathen Army, led by the sons of Ragnar Lodbrok |
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 Honfoglalás
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895 |  Magyars
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Cyan | Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin |
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 Vinlandsaga
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1000 | Vikings
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Red | Vinland sagas |
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 Hastings
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1066 | Franks
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Blue | Battle of Hastings |
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 Manzikert
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1071 |  Turks
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Purple | Battle of Manzikert |
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 Kurikara
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1183 |  Japanese
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Blue | Battle of Kurikara |
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 Cyprus
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1191 |  Britons
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Red | Richard the Lionheart's conquest of Cyprus during the Third Crusade |
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 Bapheus
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1302 | Turks
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Red | Battle of Bapheus |
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 Lake Poyang
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1363 |  Chinese
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Blue | Battle of Lake Poyang |
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 Agincourt
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1415 | Britons
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Red | Battle of Agincourt |
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 Lepanto
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1571 |  Spanish
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Red | Battle of Lepanto |
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 Kyoto
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1582 | Japanese
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Cyan | Battle of Yamazaki |
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 Noryang Point
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1598 |  Koreans
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Red | Battle of Noryang |
Count[]
- By difficulty
Easy : 7
Medium : 5
Hard : 4
- By civilization
- By color
- Blue : 3
- Red : 8
- Yellow : 1
- Cyan : 3
- Purple : 1
Co-op scenarios[]
Since update 50292, the following scenarios are also available in the co-operative game mode:
| Scenario | Civilization | Color A | Color B |
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| Bapheus
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Turks
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Red | Purple |
| Hastings
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Franks
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Blue | Green |
| Honfoglalás
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Magyars
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Cyan | Blue |
| Kurikara
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Japanese
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Blue | Yellow |
| Tours
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Franks
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Red | Blue |
Trivia[]
- The campaign icon is a combination of the icons of both Battles of the Conquerors and Battles of the Forgotten. Moreover, the helmet (armet type) features both blue and green plumes, which denote the blue and green used in the icons of The Conquerors and the Forgotten Empires mod (also used in the HD Edition's campaign selection screen), respectively.
- All the battles are named after locations, except Honfoglalás, which is named after an event.
- Before update 107882, Historical Battles were grouped together on the Africa campaign page, although none of them took place in Africa.
- Before update 141935, all scenarios were ranked as Easy difficulty.
Gallery[]
The cutscene background
Map[]
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