Art of War "Booming" Imperial Age icon does not appear properly

:arrow_forward: GAME INFORMATION

  • GAME BUILD #: 101.101.56005.0 7694700
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

:arrow_forward: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

When playing the Art of War mission “Booming” the Imperial Age icon does not appear in the town center until I have already made the 100 villagers, which makes the gold medal quite unattainable. It is however consistent, whether I try to make a castle, rather than 2 wood buildings or if I have any economic technology researched.
(I have just gotten 100% achievement. So it sucks that I can’t complete the last “campaign mission” on hard.)

:arrow_forward: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS). I have however only tried <5 times.

:arrow_forward: REPRODUCTION STEPS

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Go to Single Player
  2. Go to Campaigns
  3. Go to Asia
  4. Go to The Art of War
  5. Go to Booming
  6. Skip cutscenes
  7. Make two castle age wood buildings or a castle.
  8. Click the town center
    (now there should not be any imperial age icon until you have 100 villager(not even a greyed-out icon))

:arrow_forward: EXPECTED RESULT

You should be able to research or at least click/see the imperial age icon prior to having 100 villagers.
At the very latest, after meeting the building requirements.

:arrow_forward: IMAGE

:arrow_forward: GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

-AUTOSAVE-.aoe2spgame (447.1 KB)
rec.aoe2record (445.3 KB)

Hey, this is in the game by design, thanks for understanding and have a nice day!

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