I wasn't sure to include this one is an existing topic. Something to share. I won at megaglest(computer megas), well, sort of. I used three computer mega's(Egypt, Romans, and Dark Magic(first game with this faction). I played as Indians using the Twilight Ruins map(4 different teams). I will say playing the computer mega's becomes very stressful. I did discover a way to help yourself out if you're in a similar custom game. Using 5 horsemen I would swing down to the center of the map, ride down to an enemy base with them, engage a single unit and then beat feet back up to map center, and then down to another enemy, thus bringing along one army who is chasing me, and leading them right into another enemy base where a massive battle leaves two armies devastated. I actually used this method and was able to keep 3 of the 5 horsemen alive. Egypt was the first to go. I was happy with the Dark Magic faction though my fire archer army was little challenge against them, seemingly losing 4 archers to each enemy unit I killed. The main reason of the post is not that I won, but how I won. This also happens in Glest too. There just comes a time in the game where the computer stops harvesting even though they have plenty of resources left in their base. When I finally did go down and wipe out the Romans, they had a single horseman left, the Dark Magic made three or four more units when I invaded them, but their workers(that weren't all blocked up by each other, were just standing along the entrance to their base. I really have no concept of game programming and won't pretend to but is there a way to correct this so computer workers continue to harvest, if there are resources left in the base they occupy? The amount of battles I endured, different tactics I was using during the game, it just seemed lacking at the end when I had little resistance destroying the final two enemy bases. It was nice to see the Dark Magic faction creating numerous defensive structures, but waves of axe throwers were able to quickly destroy them without any troops left to defend them. I enjoy playing the game so my objective going in isn't just to go kill everyone as soon as possible but it seems the game is geared to play that way, given the fact the computer basically gives up after a certain amount of time.
Also, and I'll include it here, the Romans faction, are there more than one? If so which is the better faction to use? I have a romans faction named Romans_beta and dowloaded it as a single faction to paste into my glest. From some of the things I've read here, it sounds as if there are two romans factions.