Age of Empires 2 -- The Horns of Hattin in [
Somehow completely missed that there's 400 stone I could sell on the market, and use that gold to buy food. Easy 2 minute time saver compared to the previous IL recording.
In any case, I'm not happy with this IL recording yet, because I didn't get my villagers into the relic area properly. Can save a few IGT seconds by building the temple faster. That area is a complete pain in the ass, though, since AoE2's pathfinding in narrow areas is horrible. Villagers tend to get stuck all over the place, or walk towards dead ends (e.g., in between the palisades). I could also have started the monastery research a bit earlier, but I was moving my villagers out the way instead.
Grav also has an interesting strategy worked out, which you can see here: • Video
Honestly, I'm not sure whether it's better to build that TC and have the monk teleport that distance, or use the villagers to construct the temple faster. I'm leaning towards the latter, but I may be wrong here. I've experimented a bunch with building the TC, and generally got 2 second slower times than without said TC, but perhaps there's still some improvement left in the strat.
My goal for this IL is a 5:45 or a 5:46, but that will take a while to get.
EDIT: Grav got 5:45 IGT, and it seems that around 5:40 would be a close to perfect IL time. Time to grind on