FYI, during the next few days, there's an event taking place in Spain casted on YouTube and Twitch (Redbull Wololo Tournament) where the best of the best players of Age of Empire II are playing against each other in a LAN tournament. Watched a bit of it, thought "they're not so good", played like ten games, got wrecked by one simple basic AI. Now I can tell you they are incredibly prepared and talented.