These achievements are done by playing normally.


Conqueror
Capture a city
- Your very first achievement, find an enemy city attack it and capture with infantry unit.


Archaeologist
Collect 5,000 resources from ruins
- Very easy to get, every time you start a game use your scout to auto-explore he will eventually find some ruins and add resources.

Armageddon
Finish a game in Armageddon
- You need to be in the Modern Age and have a missile silo with nuclear bomb research. From there you will have to launch 10 to 40 nuclear bomb depending on how many players are in the game. You will see an armageddon counter on the top right side, if it reach 0 may God have mercy on you, your enemies, and allies.

Generous
Send resources to an ally
- If you have an ally, at the lower right corner you will see names of your enemies, allies and your own name. Left click on one of them it will open the Negotiate screen, give any resource in the tribute column than press send gift.

Genius
Research 4 finals in game
- This achievement can only be done if your playing a game that can be research to Information Age in your library (level 7). Once you research all 5 of them you will be given the last 4 research : Missile Defence, World Goverment, Global Prosperity and Artificial Intelligence. Research that and you get Genius.

Here are few things you need to know about Conquer the World Campaign :

1. You don't need to conquer every territory and other nations capitals to get the achievements, however you still need to be the top nation (#1) in the World Status.
2. The achievements pop up once you either capture all the capitals in the world map or you reach 0 turn left.
3. It can be done in any difficulty (I did all of my campaign on moderate).


Footsteps
Complete the Alexander the Great Campaign
-This is quite easy going as you got plenty of turn to plan your attacks on your rivals capitals. You will be force to fight the Persians as they got 12 Territories (46% of the world).



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Napoleon
Complete the Napoleon Campaign
-The first 6 turn is scripted, you won't have full control till turn 7. You will be given to invade :

1a. Burgundy, Brittany, and Belgium.
1b. Piedmont, Lombardy and Venetia.

2a. Tunisia (with Libya as a bonus), Egypt and Syria.
2b. Aragon, Seville and Castille.

Personally I would go with the Burgundy and the Tunisia path. You will eventually be able to make peace with the British and the Austrians with no fees. The next turn you can make peace with the Spanish and the Ottoman Turks with a not so great deal.

Finally you can win this scenario without invading any nations and only able to vassaling these small nations : Swiss, Papal States, Portuguese, Saxons, Polish, Dutch, and Swedish.

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New World
Complete the New World Campaign
- There are many different nations to play therefore I will give you a small overview.

Playing as the Independence or the Europeans is overall easy in the first 9 turns however for the Natives is the opposite as they don't have gunpowder unit till Enlightment Age.

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Supreme
Complete the World Map Campaign
- There are too many variants to explains how to get this one, I will simplify it :

Some nations will beat other nations you may not need all the turn for total world domination and you could try to negotiate with other nations to become your ally or trade territories in order to get close to there capitals.

Thawed
Complete the Cold War Campaign
-There are two factions to play : the Americans or the Soviets. If your going for the Soviets, the guide below KGB Spymaster will help you.

If your going for the Americans without using your army and only using diplomacy follow the table below. When buying a state with diplomacy, make sure you select client state first than propose. Each state has a different tribute requirement and it is random. Every time you reset, select client state and hit propose a new tribute cost will show.


KGB Spymaster
Complete Espionage as the Soviets
-The guide below is really good if your aiming both Thawed and KGB Spymaster.
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=296496364

CIA Spymaster
Complete Espionage as the USA
- There are 6 Missions in total, you will need 6 turns and 120 tribute. Failure in your mission is not acceptable you will end up repeating the mission and pay another 20 tribute. Pausing the game helps a lot to multi-tasking your units.


Do exactly what your mission say, you should not have much problem.


You will need an army to capture the capital. Use your spies to sent informer to :
Apartments, 1 to 4 Partisan
Fountain, 2 Flamethrower
House, 1 General or 1 Spy
Lenin Statue, 2 Special Forces
Office Building, 1 to 4 Humvee


It is moderately difficult but you should be fine. Use your Special Forces to snipe individualy any enemies infantry. If it is safe, use your Special Forces to sabotage the targeted mission it will take several time to sabotage for one building. Helicopter are great scouts but not very good for offence therefore use them as a distraction against infantry unit and the cruisers.


You will heavily need to use spies to bribe enemies units and have informer to see what is inside the building. Special Forces will help you destroy building but if you have mass bribe enemies units you will eventually be able to form a regular army. Destroying Auto Plants and Barracks will be helpful in the long run.


This one here is very difficult there are a lot of Anti-Airgun site to destroy. I recommend you to train 2 new Special Forces before crossing the sea. Use your Attack Helicopter to destroy 2 Submarines before landing your troops.

Once landed, move westward along the coast you will find Nakhodka and Vladivostok. Sabotage the 4 Anti-Airgun site with your Special Forces at the same time send in the Bomber to destroy 2 Bunker and 1 Redoubt north of Nakhodka.

You will find 6 infantry near the bunker, snipe them all at the same time with Special Forces only if your not in range of the Bunkers and Redoubt + Attack Helicoper are useful distraction. If you got some spare resources spent it on Bombers and Helicopter.

There are 2 Anti-Airgun site near the center of the map, sabotage them. Up north you will encounter 6 infantry + 2 Anti-Airgun site, draw the infantry south with the Helicopter than snipe them. Sabotage or Jam the 5 remaining Anti-Airgun site at Khabarovsk.

Finish off your targets with Bombers.


Neutralize 3 infantry and Anti-Airgun site at Taraz with Special Forces. Built new Bombers.

Bribe 3 group of infantry northeast of Taraz, use a spy to launch missile at Taraz and raze it with infantry.

Bribe the next 3 group of infantry near the Military Base by luring them with the Helicopter. Send in the Bombers to Destroy 2 Anti-Airgun site (you may lose some bombers). Than launch missiles on the Redoubt and rescue the scientists.

In this section, all these achievement can only pop up by winning a game. This section will be in sub section with additional victory conditions.


Winning the Games

Pure and simple, win the game. This can be done on Conquer the World Campaign, Solo Game and Multiplayer Game.

If your in a hurry to get them all :
1. if your about to win the game save your game
2. win the game
3. load the saved game
4. repeat 2 and 3

Colonel
Win 10 games


Brigadier
Win 25 games


General
Win 50 games


Field Marshal
Win 100 games



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Custom Game

I highly recommend you do this on Solo Game Quick Battle but for Ambassador achievement do it on Multiplayer Game.

Here is a quick view of a customize Solo Game.


As you can see there is a lot thing you can change. Another recommendation you should set your "Difficulty" on "Easiest" and "Other Nations" to "1" that way you won't have to struggle much.


Ambassador
Finish a multiplayer game
- You do not need to play with another human player you can create your own game by going to : Multiplayer Game, Local Area Network or Direct Internet, Game Browser, create (optional change "Game Visibilty" to "Private") than create again. From there it should look a lot like the screenshot above, select "Open" and change it to "Computer" than hit "Start".


Assassin
Win Assassin
-This guide below explains it all.
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=288674780

Big Huge
Win on a Big Huge Map
- Simply change "Map Size" to "Big Huge" and win the game.


Good Ear
Win Musical Chairs
- Set your "Game Rules" to "Custom", "Victory" to "Musical Chairs" and start up the game. If you haven't read the rule of Musical Chairs it is very simple... Expand (your Empire) or Die (having the lowest score when the timer runs out).

Knockout
Knockout in Sudden Death
- Set your "Game Rules" to "Custom", "Elimination" to "Sudden Death" and start up the game. Built up an army and go capture a city and by no means let your city be capture.

Territory
Win Territory
- Set your "Game Rules" to "Custom", "Territory Goal" to "50% of the World Territory" and start up the game. You will need to built or capture cities but do not capture the enemy capital. When you control most of the territory a Territory Victory counter will show up once it reach 0, you have won with territory supremacy.

Science Nerd
Win Peaceful Tech Race
- Set your "Game Rules" to "Custom", "Victory" to "Tech Race", "End Age" to "Classical Age" and start up the game. Select your scout to auto-explore, research 12 tech in the library than advance to Classical Age.

Wonder
Win Wonder
- Set your Nation to American so that your first wonder is instantly built. Set "Game Rules" to "Custom", "Start Age" to "Classical Age", "Wonder Victory" to "1 Wonder Point" and start up the game. Select a citizen and press b twice you will see 3 wonders available pick one and built it. The Wonder Victory counter should show up if it reach 0, you have won with great wonder.

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Tougher and Toughest

These achievements does not work on multiplayer.

These two difficulty is very aggravating for any players that is not very experience in strategy games. However if you want to play unfair here is the basic formula on Solo Game Quick Battle :

1. Set "Teams & Allies" to "Custom Team"
2. Set "Other Nations" to "3"
3. In "Team" make sure you are group with 2 other A.I. in Team 1 and 1 A.I. in Team 2.
4. Change your "Difficulty" to "Tougher" or "Toughest"
5. Start the game and play normally.

Pending on the diffculty you have choosen you should receive :

Student Of War
Beat Tougher



or

Master Of War
Beat Toughest



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Skilled

To access Skilled achievement you need to go to "Tools & Extras" than "Skill Test". This is the only achievement that you need to best the top leader.

Skilled
Get a high score on any skill
- Most of them are fun to play, personally I like Tactics. Start up Aging Madness - Age 2. From there, first research science than commerce level 1 and delete all 3 of your farm. Once you have done all that, research Classical Age.

These achievement in this section are triggered either you win a game, resign a game or lost the game. Every time you win, resign or lose a game it will increase the count to these achievements in this section.


Economical Guru
Collect 1,000,000 resources
- It sounds a lot but by the time you played 25 full games (Ancient Age to Information Age) you will eventually get it.

Marco Polo
Gain control of 250 rare resources
- This one is easy you must control rare resource with a merchant or with a fishing ship and end the game.

Sacrificer
Lose 100,000 units
- Losing your own units sound simple but not easy at all if you are playing normally. To get this quickly you got three options :
1. You play poorly, sending wave of wave of weak troops to the enemies and when you know your game is about to end, save the game load that game whenever your game end.
2. If your very creative, use the Scenario Editor found in the Tools and Extra and create a slaughterhouse.
3. Download a mod in Steam Workshop that may have what it need to "Hell March" 100 000 units.

Tactical
Kill 50,000 units
- Any civilian and military units killed count. Similar to Sacrificer, here are your options :

1. You play normally or better, killing the enemies while camping at there spawn but let live the enemies civilians populations for resources gathering and you know you killed a lot (let say it 2 000 kills) save your game than resign than load the game and resign.
2. If you like to built map, you can create your own slaughtherhouse.
3. Download a mod in Steam Workshop that can create "The Killing Fields" of 50 000 units.

Whenever you begin a game, all units and building that was pre-set up will count toward your achievements. Any unit and building train and built during the game will also count toward your achievements.

All of these achievements are ridiculously long to get, your going to to need a lot of resource and Artificial Intelligence research. My recommendation is similar to Sacrificer achievement :

1. Use Scenario Editor and create a slaughterhouse and/or metropolis.
2. Download a mod.
3. Borrow the map I made :
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406887747

http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=598149887

Grand Architect
Build 10,000 buildings
- Any building, military building and wonder will count to Grand Architect achievement.


Air
Train 10,000 air units
- Air unit appear only during Industrial Age and up. Fighter plane, Bomber and Helicopter count for Air achievement.

Artillery
Train 50,000 artillery units
- Artillery unit first appear in Classical Age and Anti-Aircraft unit during Industrial Age. Supply wagon do not count to this achievement.

Decon
Destroy 10,000 buildings
- Any enemy building you destroy count, deleting your own building does not count.


Mass Cavalry
Train 1,000,000 cavalry units
- Cavalry unit first appear in Classical Age. All unit produce in a stable or auto plant count to this achievement.

Mass Infantry
Train 1,000,000 infantry units
- Light Infantry, Heavy Infantry, and Archer worth 3 units each. Machine Gun and Flamethrower worth 1 unit. Scout do not count.

Naval
Train 25,000 naval units
- Heavy Ship, Light Ship, Bombardement Ship/Carrier, Fireship/Submarine count to this achievement, Fishing Ship do not count.