I just played AOE. With the settings Nomade, islets and low resources. The AI did nothing.
Can the AI in AOEDE handle it better?
So actually they already reworked the full AI from AOE2 (CD) to AOE2 HD (on Steam)
That should be the same thing with AOE and AOE DE.
They already made the announcement to fix a lot of bugs.
Under these bugs it should be obvious that they fix the AI of every nation too.
Hope that helps u…