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Chasing the Crown achievement in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

Chasing the Crown

Kill King Takayutpi before 5 minutes have elapsed in the first Bayinnaung mission "The Burmese Tigers".

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• Jenova_20

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  Other solution no longer works - The game no longer gives you a recruitable catapult or 4 archers which are required to take down the castle quick enough.
  
  When the match starts grab all your units, including the villagers and move them East to the red encampment. Run to the other end of the encampment, keeping your distance from King Takayutpi, and proceed to kill the elephants and other units there. Then have your villagers start building a wall in the camp and charge your army at Takayutpi to kill him before he even gets out of the camp. The walls will slow him a bit but aren't strictly necessary if you have enough units in his way.
  If he slips past you you won't be able to take the castle out or kill him in time, and will need to restart.
  
  However, if done right you can do this in just 3 minutes, and much simpler and faster than the old method of attacking the castle.
  
  My first attempt at this strategy succeeded in 3 minutes 11 seconds.

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• xalexjbx

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  Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (PC) - Achievement - Chasing the Crown
  
  Kill King Takayutpi before 5 minutes have elapsed in the first Bayinnaung mission "The Burmese Tigers".
  
  This is a relatively difficult timed achievement. Five minutes is not a lot of time to track the King across the map, kill a few units along the way, destroy his Castle and then kill him.
  This method is basically just to do all of the above as fast as humanly possible. There are a couple of things to note which should make this a little easier. Firstly, one of your starting heroes is basically a Monk and as you chase the King across the map, you will come across a few enemy elephants. It's important to convert as many of these as possible as you will need the damage to take out a Castle shortly as quick as possible and elephants will be able to soak up a lot of the damage too.
  Secondly after you get to the initial camp where the King is and he flees, if you continue right, you will get control of a few more troops including a Monk. With this second monk, make sure to convert elephants on your way to the Kings castle as well.
  The third thing to note is that the King will exit the Castle once it reaches a certain level of damage and he will make a run for it. One tip for making this easier is - As you are destroying the castle, send one fast moving unit further to the top right of the map and you will get some ranged horse-riding troops that will make it easier to snipe the King when he does leave the Castle.
  Do all of the above as fast as you can and if at first you don't succeed, just keep trying to do it quicker and quicker and shave some time off. Your starting heroes are all expendable, so don't worry about losing them either.