User blog:Elijahhee/My beginning on Age of Empires series

I started my journey on the Age of Empires series since I get the trial version of Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, which has only the Reign of Blood scenario of the Montezuma campaign. I have heard of this game prior to that, and I obtained the trial version which was included in the Internet Explorer CD (I think it was IE4), so I decided to try the game.

Too bad, there is no tutorial in this game, and I have been lost in the game. I always lose the game for being completely slaughtered by the enemies - till my last villager! This was because I always didn't get enough resources to build a formidable army or even a formidable defence. Therefore I gave up.

Later in 2003, I decided to give another try, as I have thought of building defences consisting of watch towers behind walls and gates. However, in the beginning my walls tend to have loopholes for the enemies to sneak in.

More and more lessons came in, and once I lost because of having one of the monasteries being destroyed by the enemies. Eventually, I won, but keep playing for several rounds because this was the only level I had, sometimes by putting all the relics into the monasteries, sometimes by conquering all the enemies...