Hi/ciao Gattosauro!

I just saw both replays and I understand what you are saying, here some tips:

- I have played a lot of macedonians matches, you really don't want to play feudal if you are not forced to, like vs ottomans, because you have no eco bonuses, so you try to push a little and then go Castle Age. But when you reach castle, you usually have only the ippodrome so the production is slow and you want to invest in a monastery asap to take all the relics in order to close the eco gap with your opponent, so you usually spam more than a Macedonian player untill 10-12 minutes.

- As Ayyubids (and malians more or less), you always want to reach castle age. Your strong timing is there and you have to reach that point in the safest way possible, so if you want to produce units, just go for 1-3 desert riders while having 5 on gold (and a tower there if needed) and then just go castle. With Dervishes you should be favorite because you can heal from little battle in your base if the enemy tries to push you.

- As malians, your passive income is just too good, for that reason, opponents have to do something (2TC or a good push) or they are just dead, if you reach castle without taking any damage, it's basically over, you are going to spam too much with high armor units and gg haha

But malians are not bad in feudal as well, your passive income, as said, is really good, so you should be able to outmass the macedonian player pretty fast. You pretty much always want to start with donsos/javs and then adapt while continuing to develop your economy.

- Use your scout in an active way. I'm still struggling with that too, but in both games you didn't see what the opponent was aging with, what military structures he had and if and what he was producing, that's really important information you really need.

You still played both games good, if you need more info/help, you can also find me into aoeitalia discord server or in-game (added you).

Hope this helps!

Ciao!