
Initially discovered by military news site Task & Purpose, the Navy’s initial move into the gaming world started late Sunday night with about an hour-long stream of the 1997 classic RTS game captioned “Hahahahaha.”Īs it turns out, the USS KIDD is a pretty big fan of the game, and the videos kept coming.

In what looks like a major shift in naval warfare strategy, the Facebook page of the naval warship USS KIDD has been streaming the original Age of Empires over the last few days. It’s been almost 25 years since Age of Empires was released and it looks like the United States Navy has finally discovered one of the gems of the real-time strategy genre.
