Relics

[Toquita]

What are the relics and why the hell do they make me lose the game? Here I am, putting together a monster of an army, 150+ units, 6000 food, 3000 gold, and so on, then on the corner of the screen it says I'll lose if I don't do something about the relics in 50 years.

Can I disable this mechanism? I tried changing the winning criteria to "last man standing" or whatever but this still happens.

Thanks.

[Citalopram]

imagine losing to relics

[Toquita]

I know, right? Lol
I've played a lot of AoE in the 90's and early 2000's but I don't really know what to do when all the relics have been captured.

Do I need to go looking for them? Exploring the map? How does it work?

[WSlord]

The relics are the little white boxes spread across the map. You use monks to pick them up and put them in the monastery where they will generate gold per relic.

Relics are scattered across a map at start (usually 5 per map seed though more per larger map). You can see if a monastery has a relic if it has a flag on the top of it.

If they are all captured you simply need to destroy the monastery containing one to end the timer, and probably best gank it.

Indians have tech that increases relic gold and Aztec teams get more gold per relic

In the Standard game modes of random map and death match if a player has all the relics a countdown will begin for so many years like a wonder for the player to win. Select conquest in victory conditions will turn off relic and wonder victories.

Regicide does not have relic and wonder victory conditions.

Many campaigns have specific relic victory conditions including shorter years.

The Hun tech Atheism adds more time to a relic victory.

[Toquita]

Thanks!

[DMg Halt]

Set victory to conquest

[Heinrich]

It just a way to win the game
You should have changed the victory setting if you wanted to lose the game like that