


Start making your way out the camp towards the south and you’ll receive 4 Men-at-Arms and another 4 Crossbowmen to fill out your group for now. You’ll start out with just Joan and quickly receive the two hero Knights mentioned earlier. Gathering the forces and heading south out of the starting area. The death trap that awaits if you take the path to the left. Both her and the two hero knights you receive, are much stronger than your normal units and can regenerate their health over time, making them incredibly useful if cared for properly. A few of these units will be Heroes, particularly Joan of Arc, who must survive the mission to win, her death resulting in a failure. You start off with a small handful of units with which you’ll be expected to manage and keep alive, rather than any actual base building or economy. This guide was created for the Hard difficulty, using the Age of Empires II: HD edition of the game.Īn Unlikely Messiah starts the real core of the campaign of the game, being the first mission that allows different difficulty and speeds, while requiring you beat each mission in order, to progress. This walkthrough guide covers the mission “An Unlikely Messiah” which is the first out of six that make up the Joan of Arc campaign in the video game Age of Empires II: Age of Kings. Map of the faction locations in “An Unlikely Messiah”
