How to control relics on Arena?

Mostly for 1v1 or even team games, with the assumption is everyone is going FC and everyone scouts the relic locations by the time we reach Castle Age.

For example, if the opponents are Lithuanians or Aztecs knowing they will go for the relics, what's the best way to prevent them from getting them / picking them up yourself? Or if you do play to control the relics as Lithuanians / Aztecs / any other civ, how do you successfully do this?

Here are some options I've tried / seen - are there better ways that have been successful?

  • Make a scout and "guard" your own monk to the relic? (I try this most of the time, though I've encountered spears along the way)
  • Make some scouts in Feudal Age and patrol the relics? (the food cost may delay Castle age)
  • Make spearmen and "guard" your monks preparing to encounter scouts along the way? (seems counterintuitive)
  • Try to make knights to "guard" your monks? (seems pretty risky if enemy monk just converts your knight)
  • Use scouts to patrol their gates to cut off their monks? (seems more difficult having to constantly check)

And lastly, when actually going to pick them up, how many monks do you make to do that? One monk to grab all seems too slow, yet creating 5 monks (1 monk for each relic) seems like overkill. Is there a happy medium?

Thanks in advance!

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