I attempted to improve this strategy by adding small siege factories since I wanted to keep the water gatherers for longer (they add to exp).

I have no success with the turret strategy. The large siege workshop seems to be necessary to make it work, but too slow. The small siege workshop causes most units to die before reaching the turret. Interesting nonetheless, I will have to play around with it some more.

In my mind, one of the problems with my run is that I have too big of a money surplus by the time I finish all upgrades.

The turret strategy is creative, it helps save money for strong unit upgrades right off the bat. I will try it myself but I suspect it falls short in that it doesn't destroy the first enemy turret fast enough.

I just open adobe flash player and drag swf files onto it.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mLbu5ONCP8e-loSaU4LTnu4RXrM6v02s/view?usp=sharing for adobe flash player.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SoBGVCGp5DMnPJTOwn5wp3mb_XnawEQU/view?usp=sharing for army of ages swf.

Edit:

Adobe flash player 32 is slow for Army of Ages. Instead, you might want to try the Newgrounds Launcher! It runs better for this game. https://www.newgrounds.com/flash/player

All you have to do is install Newgrounds Launcher and then drag the swf file onto it.