Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

I am not great with words, normally I would attach a text guide along with this, but unfortunately because the video is much longer, I would rather just keep it video form, than to give a bad text explanation.

Can provide brief explanation;
Keep moving your base, don't stay in one spot for too long. Move south west, while looking for troops to pick up, but avoiding the two roman cities. Eventually when you get to the river, Two neutral spots will show more troops, you want to then setup your base here, and make sure to go into castle age; need to build stable and archery range.

Then you focus on building a monestary to research redemption and then use your troops to break into the city with the docks, convert docks and go over to the south desert land (Africa) and make light cav to chew up the yellows forces, then work your way back up north reaching Carthage while avoiding Romans (Red). Then from there, you will get your full base and you can flourish. Rome is across the sea to the north, but beware there are loads of roman boats blocking you. Make fire ships and destroy their navy, and then you can progress by loading trebs, huskarls and anything else at your disposal and move them over to rome and start sacking it.

You have plenty of leeway to do this, 3 hours in game time. I had a pretty rough run, and ended at 1 hour 20 minutes. The hardest part is getting used to the vandals civ (an off-shoot branch of the Goths).