Age of Empires II: HD Edition - The Hunnic Hordes - Pt. 1

Before we get into any of the gameplay itself, I'd like to give a picture showing the game's settings, my two friends and I, and the civilizations we each chose to play.

As soon as the game started I hopped right into action chopping down the local forests for lumber, setting up a few farms to start providing food for my people, and constructing a few small homes to help support my soon-to-be growing populace. I also sent out my single scout to patrol and map my local surroundings for possible-further expansion and any possible enemy presence.

I quickly rushed my civilization into the feudal age, expanding my farms, and almost immediately walling off my territories just in case any raiders were nearby and wanted to attack. Luckily, I was left alone and development continued smoothly leading up to a surplus in my populace, construction of a local gold mine, and the completion of my great powerful wall.

With my village thriving, I decided expansion was my next best move. I furthered myself into the castle age, claiming the wilderness to the west, and constructing multiple barracks to train soldiers, a market for trade with far-away allies, a church to help spread the faith, and a university right beside it to begin my research into the sciences.

The gold mines I had setup earlier in the game were starting to come into use, as my civilizations treasuries were full with extra coin. Using this coin, I researched cartography, unlocking myself vision of my allies and an overall better grasp on the map and situation at hand.

Both my allies like myself were quickly expanding and establishing themselves onto the map. I asked if they had made any contact with the AI Huns, in which they replied stating that no contact was made. I was beginning to worry thinking that something had to be up, but later cast aside my worries thinking that the Huns were too busy fighting each other to attack us.

Eventually, after some mining in some local stone quarries I setup, I had gathered enough resources to construct a mighty fortress, my first castle. Here, I could begin training my special forces, I could finally startup the Spanish Inquisition.

I quickly began training up the first generation of Inquisitors. There weren't that many, as I didn't have much manpower to spare, but they were well armed with powerful muskets and mounted atop the finest steeds. This combination would make them a fast and strong mobile force to be reckoned with.

After gathering the first generation Inquisitors together, I swiftly dispatched them out to my kingdom's border bordering my allies, the Teutonic Knights, to help protect our very valuable trade route, my biggest source of income at the time.

Meanwhile back at my capital, a new batch of troops was being trained, a platoon of halberdiers. They were lightly-armed men-at-arms wielding the best polearms I could supply, the mighty halberd. Around the same time, news had come stating that one of the Hunnic warlords had been defeated.

Almost immediately after, the first wave of Hunnic soldiers was spotted raiding my Gothic allies to the south. I offered to send troops to help him deal with the situation, but he politely denied stating that there was no need, and that his town's guard force could handle it.

A few minutes later, he would come to regret the decision as an unseen horde of Hunnic cavalry swept across his town killing and destroying everyone and thing in their site.

I could not standby and watch as one of my only two allies was being destroyed. In a joint operations with the Teutonic Knights, I dispatched my Inquisitors to ride down south accompanied by a chapter of well-trained holy Teutonic Knights. On the outskirts of my allies' burning village, we were met with Hunnic resistance.

It was manageable at first. The Teutonic Knights acted as the frontline holding back the Hunnic charge whilst my inquisitors positioned themselves in the backline, volleying bullets over the Teutons and into the Huns. It was working perfectly at first, but then everything fell apart as a swarm of Hunnic cavalry flanked from the side.

Our troops were slaughtered. Not a single inquisitor or knight survived the onslaught. The spotlight was now on us, as the Hunnic horde pulled itself from my ally's destroyed Gothic village and began its advance towards the Teutonic Knight's border. He had villagers and workers positioned all over outside the safety of his walls, and if they weren't given time to retreat, they'd all be slaughtered by the Hunnic horde. I acted quickly, sending out my platoon of halberdiers to a single choke point where they valiantly fought till the very last man, buying my allies' villagers time to fall back behind their wall's safety.

Back at the safety of my capital, I had gathered together a small army of blade-wielding champions that would be sent out to the Teutonic capital to help mount the defense against the oncoming Hunnic siege.

Whilst the Huns were distracting fighting us, the Goths slowly began rebuilding and reestablishing themselves. They weren't out of the game just yet.

-=- To be continued. -=-

I'd like to as always thank everyone for reading and hope you all enjoyed the read. Whenever I have the time, I'll write up the second part of this two-part Age of Empires match series. If you have anything to say feel free to reply below, and I hope you all have a wonderful day!

https://steemit.com/gaming/@ggteixeira/age-of-empires-ii-hd-edition-the-hunnic-hordes-pt-2 - Part 2 is out!