Well I understand Thompson playing COD4 and RCTW and then playing aoe and study it is really hard to be good at 3 games at the same time and then study and Suppiluliuma it doesn't matter you suck, I started playing 1 year and a half I usually suck too much that I couldn't even really play campaign games I used to suck like you guys do but after training vs computer and then got beaten badly on GR until someday I had level up.
The best way to learn is to practice first vs computer and then follow my steps of learning, I taught one guy andaluz he didn't even really knew what units to use he totally was the suckiest player, now he is known as one of the low experts can beat many inters and rooks.
Now I will start the first training will be create a lan, multiplayer game vs computer 1st map inland huge map size, computer easiest, make 28 villagers start with the normal berries strat, put 6 villagers on the start and chop wood the way you play and get 120 wood and make a pit near woods
and leave 6 villagers on the pit.
Make more granaries and more pits near animals and make some docks near fishes it doesn't matter to upgrade anything tool and then bronze age. With F11 check the time post me a screenshot of timeline and achievements if you can't then just tell me the pop and bronze time in timeline but it is better to take a screenshot because people can tell lies without a picture if will probably an imaginary strat it doesn't matter if you bronze in 22 or 25, I will try to help you by the process of training.
If you can upload a video on youtube it will be better the quality doesn't matter as long as villagers are seeing; and what strats are employ.
Practice the same map once a week at least 1 hour and a half just practice your speed bronze and then resign or play if you want to beat the computer. We are just focusing on speed, the rest doesn't matter. We will have this assignment for 2 months until you actually improve your time.
A main example is this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMkO4hSHz9c
Try to learn hotkeys H town center and C create villager, CRTL 1 assign any unit and ALT 1 recall unit.[This message has been edited by plismo (edited 10-19-2011 @ 09:55 PM).]