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BUILD A FARM IN THE DESERT Valley of Wadi Rum (south of Jordan)

Ugh seriously? Am I too late?! Is there still room in the ram? You can't squeeze in one more? Sorry, filled up. You know the rules: Can't fit more than ten in a battering ram. Ram of tern War Elephants check Okay, so that's a ram of ten Skirmishers: check ARE YOU SERIOUS ©2013 KATIE TIEDRICH WWW.AWKWARDZOMBIE.COM

Hmm, Picking berries so my village can invent the wheelbarrow... LAAA Oo FRR HUFF. VFf. ©2013 KATIE TIEDRICH WWW.AWKWARDZOMBIE.COM

They set our castle on fire! What kind of s--- is that? I thought it was made out of rocks.

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Age of Empires Logic is an advice animal-style image macro series used to poke fun at flawed or outdated video game logics and graphic limitiations that are found in the real-time strategy game franchise Age of Empires _.

Origin

Precursor

On January 31st, 2011, Awkward Zombie released a webcomic titled "Great Wololo Of China (Part1)"^[1] which pokes fun at the villager's poor artificial intelligence (AI) in Age of Empires II_. On February 7th that same year, the second part of "Great Wololo Of China"^[2] was released.

Hey look, everybody! CHOP C THOK 0 CHOP We cut down so many trees that we've made it through to the other side of this forest! Hello! And there are those Mongol fellows Hi! I'm helping 2011 KATIE TIEDRICH WWW.AWKWARDZOMBIE.COM

Alright, that was a setback but we're making a recovery We're rebuilding everything that was destroyed, producing more military personne... So I think we still have a chance. And we put a wall around those villagers so they cant do any more damage When I stand here the gate opens! Look, you guys! So cool! ©2011 KATIE TIEDRICH WWW.AWKWARDZOMBIE.COM

On February 10th, 2011, the earliest known image macro poking fun at Age of Empire's flawed logics was submitted to Meme Generator.^[3] Based on an advice animal-style cutout image of one of the kings featured on the cover box of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. The series has since accumulated more than 10,600 derivatives over the span of four years.

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On December 20th, 2011, FunnyJunk user ifunnyninja submitted an image titled "Age of Empires" which gained over 50.600 views and 1.896 upvotes in 3 years.^[6] On November 3rd, 2013, FunnyJunk user submitted an image titled "Age of Empires" which gained over 64.000 views.^[7]

USE PRIESTS TO CONVERT CATAPULTS TO CHRISTIANITY memegenerator.net

On an unregistered date, an anonymous 9GAG user submitted an image titled "Age of Empires II" which gained over 47.000 upvotes.^[4] On another unregistered date, an anonymous 9gag user submitted image titled "Age of Empires" which gained over 20.500 upvotes.^[5]

5 Things I Learned From Age of Empires I as a kid 1. If you stab a castle long enough with a sword, it will catch on fire 2. An old monk can see much farther than a young man on a horse 3. Every one will always have a house and there are jobs available for everyone 4. It takes more than one suicide bomber to kill you 5. Structures can be converted to become Christian

ENEMM MONK TRIES TO CONVERT ME? BETTER COMMIT SUICIDE!

Official Acknowledgement

In April 2013, Ensemble Studios released a remastered version of Age of Empires II: HD Edition on the online video game marketplace Steam, which included a collectible trading card ("King of Memes") resembling the advice animal template image in a tribute to the image macro series.^[8]

Examples

AZTECS FIGHTING VIKINGS IN TEXAS memegenerator.net

EXPLORE THE MAP WITH SHEEP memegenerator.net

HIT FARMWITH SWORD FARM CATCHES FIRE MEMEBASE.com

10 ELEPHANTS FIT IN TRANSPORT 11 ARCHERS DON'T

SEND OUT KNIGHTS WITH SWORDS D0 SIEGE CASTLE CASTLE EXPLODES. memegenerator.net

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External References

^[1] Awkward Zombie – Great Wololo Of China

^[2] Awkward Zombie – Great Wololo Of China

^[3] Meme Generator – Age Of Empires

^[4] 9gag – Age of Empires II

^[5] 9gag – Age of Empires

^[6] FunnyJunk – Age of Empires

^[7] FunnyJunk – Age of Empires

^[8] Steam Trading Cards Wiki – King of Memes

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