This is purely a defensive mission there is no need to plan a counterattack. It’s a tough fight, but rest assured you’ll come out on the other side. This guide will explain how to best make your way past the Siege of Paris in Age of Empires IV. In the second mission of the campaign, they are pushed all the way back to Paris and must mount a hasty defense behind its mighty stone walls. Although confronted with inferior English numbers, the mighty French army is decimated by the enemy’s fearsome English Longbow. In the second campaign of Age of Empires IV, you take control of the French army during the Hundred Years War.