Age of Empires II: HD Edition - Total War

The game started as usual. I had a small town center with a few villagers. I sent out my villagers to gather lumber, foraged nearby for food, and began expanding out to make my mark in the match. As my territory expanded, so did my populace, and as I got more people, I was able to expand further. Soon I was in the feudal age, constructing stone walls to protect what was mine, barracks to train troops to fight, and a market to trade with far-away allies to fill my coffers.

After gathering a sufficient amount of stone, I built castles along the outskirts of my territory to help act as the first defense against any foreign attackers. They took a while to build, but they were to be well worth it, or so I had hoped. For some reason the Saracens weren't attacking neither myself or my allies. Something was up, and I wasn't liking it. So I sent out a call to arms calling troops from all corners of my lands to amass at the capital and prepare for total war.

My army, the great army of Briton, was the biggest force anyone on the map had seen. Well trained troops consisting of strong knights, disciplined halberdiers, and long-ranged longbow men capable of raining havoc from far away. I took this great army positioning it on my allies' border, patiently waiting as they sent their troops forth to join up with mine as we prepared for a mighty battle to come.

Once we had gathered together, the horns were blown and our armies surged forth north through unchartered territories before stumbling onto one of the Saracen's towns. Without hesitation the orders to attack were given as tore through their defenses, slaughtered everyone in our path, and burned down everything in our way.

Our momentum only got out so far though, as the Saracens were able to defeat our armies and send us retreating back to the safety of our castles. But they wouldn't be safe for long, as we had just awoken a sleeping giant. The Saracens poured their troops down south invading us. They devoured through everything like a fire does a forest, and although we were well prepared, we weren't well prepared enough.

We lasted long though, fighting valiantly against their troops for as long as we could. Even though we lost, we could proudly say that we gave it our all.

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