Then again, I am more interested in exploration and building than fighting to the dead. I loved playing Age of Empires on the easy setting and then go overboard with the civilization building.

"Ah, I see you can handle attacks, but can you handle little groups of 3 attackers going after every resource simultaneously and running away when you look at them; all the time?"

That crap is no fun to play against. Not unless your own units can be programmed with some basic AI to counter it.