In the scenario editor, we can directly put a monk carrying a relic inside a transport ship. This probably falls into the category “useless knowledge”, but then again, so does this whole article. What happens if the relic has not been loaded, but has been inside the transport ship the whole time? The relic does not reappear at the closest shore. When the transport is sunk, the relic reappears at the spot where the monk entered the transport ship. But how and where? After intensive testing, we are today able to present all the answers to the questions you never dared ask yourself. Through divine intervention however, the relic carried by the monk is not destroyed, but magically reappears on land. When a transport ship is destroyed, all units aboard are destroyed as well. What happens if I pick up a relic with a monk, put that monk in a transport ship, then delete the transport ship? The most frequently asked question regarding relics probably is: If you happen to collect all the relics on the map, you win after holding onto them for 200 in-game years. Once in your monastery, they generate 0.5 Gold per in-game second, 0.67 even if you’re playing as the Aztecs. Scattered all over the map, they can be collected by players using monks, therefore usually only in Castle and Imperial Age.
Relics can be a key element in Age of Empires II gameplay.
