

You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And, sure, he is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest- For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men- Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones So let it be with Caesar. You will take fire from a tower, but as long as you have enough Monks, you will be fine.Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Once you have managed to convert 10 men, you should be able to lure Afonso de Albuquerque out of his camp by approaching from the North-West side, by the coast and attempting to convert him from outside the wall. You'll need to micro your Monks as best you can and bear in mind that as you don't have a Town Centre, you can't advance to the next age and research Theocracy, meaning that if you convert a unit with a group of Monks, they will all have to regenerate their faith. You can take casualties yourself - that's fine. However, what you are not able to do until then is kill ANY of the Red army. There is an emphasis on political speeches, but you will also find commencement speeches, lectures, media speeches, eulogies, farewells, trials, and debates.

Once you have converted 10 of Afonso's Armada (Red) men, you will be able to convert Afonso de Albuquerque which is basically the end point of the achievement. Lend Me Your Ears is an impressive compendium of 233 great speeches throughout history, from ancient Rome to modern times. Get some of your Villagers mining gold and build a few monks to assist the ones you already have. You also start with two Monks and a Missionary. You start without a Town Centre on this mission, so you can't build up your economy early on. You'll need to sneak round the side of the base and lure Afonso out while converting any Portuguese soldiers that try to kill you (or just luring anything that isn't Afonso away from the base)Īge of Empires II: Definitive Edition (PC) - Achievement - Friends, Countrymen, Lend Me Your EarsĬonvert Afonso de Albuquerque without killing a single Portuguese unit in the fifth Francisco de Almeida mission "A Son's Blood".

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After he's converted, you are given the enemy base and the achievement.Īgain, an update has made this strategy impossible. Tell all three to convert him and it won't take long at all. The best way to do this is to load both your Monks and your Missionary onto a transport ship, then send it to unload them on the coast next to Afonso. Once you have converted 10 units, you'll get the objective to convert Afonso. Send all converted units back to your base. Save between every pair of units converted and remember to let your faith regenerate to 100% before going for the next pair. George Patton inspiring Allied troops on the eve of D-Day to Pericles’s impassioned eulogy for fallen Greek soldiers during the Peloponnesian War and from Jesus of Nazareth’s greatest sermons to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s fiery speech in response to the Bush vs. You should be able to easily convert both units before any of your units die. Speeches in Lend Me Your Ears span a broad stretch of history, from Gen. Convert one with the Missionary and the other with the Monk pair. Use the Missionary to pull each pair of units, then run back to your monks. All enemy units outside the enemy walls are in pairs, but some patrol so keep that in mind. An update has removed the ability to do this.īefore you can convert Afonso, you need to convert any 10 enemy Portuguese soldiers. Each month, host Isaac Butler will dig into a different Shakespeare play to explore how Shakespeare was responding to his current events, and how they map onto our own. You start this mission with two Monks and one Missionary (a monk on a donkey) and need to convert enemy units to progress.įirst, send one villager to the river north-west of your base and build a dock and a transport ship. Lend Me Your Ears is a six-part podcast miniseries exploring how Shakespeare’s works have shaped our modern views on politics.
