Five years later, I'm addicted... again.
I find it almost perfect, I can play it for hours! I used only to play random maps for hours. But with the new Age of Empires III, I wanted to play it again while I was waiting for the new AoE and started playing its campains, I'm now completly additected to this!
Its not only battle, but developing your civilization will lead you to supremacy. You can find lost islands with plenty of gold but protected by Alligator kings that will kill your workers in no time. But you can send military previously to kill it. You can convert enimies and their buildings to you cause. You can create a city in an insland or in part of a continent protected from all your enimies attacks with walls, guards and towers helping your workers to develop your civilization.
This game is just amazing, not borring at all! Congratulations to the developers.