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This is a short guide to stealing enemy shipments:

1. Build 2 armies (one considerably strong, one considerably small but strong enough to destroy any towers)
2. Get a few workers (they are vital, keep them alive or this will not work)
3. Get your army and go near the enemy base and wait
4. Destroy some buildings until they attack you (and maybe even some units)
5. Let your army retreat and make sure they follow you (you may kill them as soon as you get considerably far from their base)
6. Get your villagers in there with the smaller army, destroy any towers or any soldiers left behind
7. Let the villagers stay and collect any resource shipments

This is of course useless in 1v1 becuase you could kill them and finish the game, but it's a good thing to do while you destroy the base.

Hope this helped (wasn't very small was it?)