Become a master at micro, then become a master at macro.
Start winning games by micro skill, then attach a strong macro and you'll be the AoE Maru.
https://i.imgur.com/bgRVeoa.pngsc2 is not really like aoe4
My Japanese micro with them crossbows horse can be pretty sadistic abuse.
My raider elephants also have a great micro ability:
Ability
Raider Elephant Trample AoE4 Trample (active): The skilled Mahout causes the Elephant to rear and enter a frenzied rage for 6 seconds. While enraged the Elephant can trample through any units, dealing 4 damage every 0.5 seconds to anything within range. This ability has a 30 second cooldown after trample ends.But overall you pretty safe without any military units until the 16 min mark, when know how to micro villagers and garrison them into towncenters/towers/etc
But the sadistic abuse of the warrior scout hits the nxt level.
This unit have only one goal: death