Spain conquered the aztecs according to history / But they sure didn't on this deathmatch
A Age Of Empires post.
Your dad has played the same game since 1999. He builds walls. Only walls. When the enemy finally arrives two hours later, they find a fortress of stone and a man who forgot to build an army. A friend's spare room, four computers humming, a LAN party. Someone's monk starts chanting and your best knight walks calmly over to the other side. You were fourteen. You still bring it up at weddings. The history exam asks about the Byzantines. You know their unique unit, their wonder and that they're good at defending. You know nothing else, but you write it with tremendous confidence. Forty five minutes building the army. You send the trebuchets in first. They hit your own knights, twice, with great accuracy. The enemy hasn't had to do anything all evening. **Why it caught on:** the crowned king from the cover of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999), Ensemble Studios' strategy game published by Microsoft, is the face of a game that taught a generation more history than school did, plus a lot of physics that never existed.