Here are the weapons you need and the forces to amass for your entry into the Age of Empires:

System requirements

The minimum hardware configuration for Age of Empires is:

• Pentium 90 or higher processor
• 16 MB RAM
• Microsoft Windows 95 operating system or Windows NT Workstation 4.0 with Service Pack 3
• Local SVGA bus video display (with 1 MB VRAM)
• 80 MB of available hard disk space
• 50 MB free disk space for swap file
• Quad speed CD-ROM drive - for cinematics
• Double speed CD-ROM drive - for gameplay
• Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
• Sound board plus speakers or headphones to hear audio
• 28.8 Kbps modem for head-to-head play

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.
-- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915), English writer. Lady Audley's Secret (1862). From The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations: Copyright (c) 1993, 1995 by Columbia University Press.