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>>2679368
>Start playing AoE2
>Haven't really got a hang of the combat advantages/disadvantages yet, so just spam units
>Get to the Jerusalem siege in the Saladin campaign
>I'm bad, really bad, but I manage to hold the walls of my base enabling me to hold out for hours in real time.
>Take so long that between us, the AI and I strip-mine the entire area and there were no more resources left on the map.
>Have a reasonable stockpile, realize that I might be in trouble if I can't think of anything soon
>Remember the (two?) relics which are in AI buildings
>Get the relics through focused attacks, giving me a supply of gold to buy resources and build troops while leaving the AI with nothing
>mfw I won by starving the AI to death