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> Been dying to get back to a high quality RTS.

Check out Paradox Interactive's games, they have one for most interesting time periods and are pretty entertaining.

They released a tragically short gameplay trailer [1] that revealed two fractions: England and Mongols. The r/aoe4 has quite active community and the following thread [2] summarizes all known information about the game.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFlVNtGJVDU

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/hf1da1/1st_attempt_at...

How long were your games taking? From what I saw, pro games took less than half an hour because they knew how to press their advantage but amateurs would play it safe and build up a lead before their final attack. I have seen this pattern in other games too.

Depends on the map but since you mentioned half an hour I'll assume you're talking about arabia 1v1. Didn't really notice a difference between pro/amateur game lengths except in the instance where someone really new just took forever to get going. Game average was around 30-40 min., but lots of variation.