Here I want to give more helpful details about the Multiplayer maps, arranged chronologically, in case people want to play them online. I am giving information like the date, AOE or ROR version, and which players are allied. I underlined the ones that are good for playing with Rookies due to power imbalances (ie. Co-ops, Racing matches, and Handicaps).
If you are playing on Voobly or Gameranger, you need to set the civilizations in your Multiplayer Game menu to match those in the Scenarios below (eg. Romans, Greeks, Palmyrans). Otherwise, your Game Screen randomly picks civilizations for your game.

There seems to be a problem on Gameranger where if 1 Player has lag, then they can play with all 8 slots full of humans, but with only 2 AIs at most.
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X #6 The Levant 1200 BC (from "8 real world maps" pack), ROR. 2 v. 2 map. The teams are:
Player 1 (Israel, Babylonian) & Player 3 (Syria, Persia) vs.
Player 2 (Edom, Egypt) & Player 4 (Philistea, Carthage)
I don't know if it matters, but in the Editor, Player 1 is listed as Either Human or Computer, whereas #2-4 are "Computer."
"8 real world maps" Pack maps must be played on ROR 1.0A.
(Version 2 of the pack lacks the corrupt Meditteranean file
^{http://aoe.heavengames.com/dl-php/showfile.php?fileid=2808=} )

X Land of Canaan by Mysterious Guy
ROR, 8 Player Free-for-All with no fixed locations: 1. Egypt. 2. Greeks, 3. Persia, 4. Assyria, 5. Minoans, 6. Hittites, 7. Phoenicia, 8. Sumerians

- Land of Canaan Map with Indigenous Powers (I beat my AOE1 version. Next, I'll play my DE Version)
X Land of Canaan Map with Indigenous Powers (1050-700 BC)

ROR Teams:
TEAM 1: P1: Israel (Assyria/Phoenicia), Player 2: Phoenicia, Player 7: Egypt
TEAM 2: Player 3: Philistines (Minoans), Player 4: Canaanites (Phoenicians), Player 5: Assyria

DE Teams:
TEAM 1: Player 1: Israel (Phoenician Civ), Player 2: Phoenicia, Player 4: Egypt
TEAM 2: Player 3: Philistines (Minoan Civ), Player 5: Assyria, Player 7: Canaanites (Phoenician Civ)
(Player 6 is inactive {just a war chest that Israel captures} and must be the computer)
(^{http://aoe.heavengames.com/dl-php/showfile.php?fileid=2746})
https://www.ageofempires.com/mods/details/21399/
Version 2 adds the Teams' Civs to the Instruction screen.
On AOE:ROR, I beat it as P1 with "Upstairs" as P2 on my team against all other AI players on Moderate and then on Hardest. It worked fine with him.
With me as P1 and with Archer as P2 and rookp as P7 as my allies on Team 1, we beat Feroe as P3 and TCM Bear Lv.12 as P4 and the AI as P5 on EASIEST as Team 2, with the Population set to 200 (P6 was the Assyrians as NEUTRAL, but it doesn't matter).
AOE: DE
Questionable Wins
1. I played with 5 Vietnamese players of the [J] Clan. The other team resigned almost 20 minutes into the match. At the end of the match, it looked like the Yellow Player had built nothing, although he could have gotten eliminated by another Player. I and P2 (who was on my team) were the only two players to reach Tool. I guess the others were Noobs.
2. I played as P1 with hauntedgt as P2 and P5 (Assyrian AI) as Team 1. On Team 2, [Baby] KieuOanh was P4, ObstaclePenny was P3, and P7 was the AI. We set the Teams differently than the default because we wanted a match with 2 humans on each side. P4 built up quickly and attacked my base with Comp archers, and at about 37 minutes in, me and P2 were practically crushed. I had a few bases around the map though. P2 resigned, and I told P4 and P3, and then they surprisingly resigned without waiting for me to resign first. Then I defeated the P7 AI, so the game gave me the Victory.
Losses
1. I played with Javik on my team who says he is a Noob level player. We had a 3 v 3 and our team lost after P5 built a Wonder with a wall of towers and some catapults protecting it that I couldn't get through with my elephants. [J]Pow was P4 and quit partway through the match, commenting "Noob", apparently to complain about me and Javik.
2. I played as as P1, Amphaross as P2, and Jy06200 as P4 and we lost to o0CrystalRoseo0 as P7, king in the south as P5, and PlanetSjy2951103 as P3. P3 resigned in the late-Early stage of the game, not long after getting to Bronze. Crystal was great and focused on Chariots early on, and massacred my villagers, and then P5 massed me with longswordsmen not long afterwards.
Crashes
1. 8/4/21 I hosted and had 6 people in the room, but then the game stalled indefinitely at the loading screen after I pressed Start. It said waiting for players to connect. All the players had been typing to me and reading my messages, so I don't know what the problem is.
2. 8/4/21, the same thing happened again, even though I restarted my computer, and even though I'd already played four 3 v 3 games on this map that I hosted.


X #1 The Middle East - Persia - 8 player (from "8 real world maps" pack), ROR, 2 v. 6 map:
1. Persia & 4 Parthen/Parthia (Macedonian) v.
2. Egypt 3. Assyria 5. India (Persia) 6. Scythen (Shang) 7. Grieken/Greece 8. Hettieten (Hittite)
I played a 2 v 6 game against TCM_Bear as P1 with a rookie named _PLAK on my team and he resigned about 5-10 minutes in and then 19 minutes in, the game locked up. Maybe there were too many AIs.
I as P2 played against Upstairs as P1 on Gameranger, and about 10 minutes in, the game ended for me, saying that there was a sync error, and the host told me that the game crashed. I did notice a tiny error: When I made fishing ships, they looked like rafts, and when I upgraded my fishing ships in the dock, those units' look did not change to sailing ships. Only the new ships looked like sailing ships.
We tried again on Voobly and the map crashed about 5-10 minutes in, telling me that there was a sync error. The host said that he didn't touch the speed. We were playing with 50 units per Player.
AOEE
Losses
1. I played as P2 in a game against a Spanish speaker (____Deva) with the AIs on Moderate and he resigned 11 minutes into the match. He had beaten me on the map "#2 Eastern Meditteranean - 8 player." Probably he realized that I had a big advantage by starting on Bronze. One big problem on this map is that even after P1 surrenders, you still have to kill all the Brown P4 units (P1's only ally is P4) because it's a Conquest map. I put towers almost all over the place and couldn't find the Brown player's stray villagers. I resigned, thinking that it was glitched, and then the map revealed to me the last Brown villager, who was standing in the Arabian desert. It's pretty annoying.
2. As P2 I lost to Tykkipeli who was P1. He advanced up to Bronze and Iron pretty quickly and raided my base alot. When he conquered my base, I set up bases in the west, east, and north corners, and made an army from the east that crushed his central base. But he had a second base in the north that he sent an army from (with elephants and priests), and I ran out of gamer stamina and resigned at about 1 hr 45 minutes.
As P2, I won against oppos456 as P1. He wrote that he was an average player. He had a quick start, got more population than me and rushed me, but then I stopped his attack with my chariots, probably because I started in Bronze. Then I sent my chariots and built towers around the map to look for Brown's stragglers.
Crashes:
1. On AOE: DE, 38 minutes into the game, I got dropped. I was playing with the AIs on HARD against Tiz in Brazil on the UK WEST Server. We both got dropped by the server at the same time.
2. I got dropped 8 minutes into the game on AOEE against a player named something like AsWaki

X #1 The Middle East Region 800 BC ("8 real world maps" pack), ROR, 4 Player Free for All map:
1. Persia v. 2. Egypt v. 3. Assyria v. 4. Bactria/Media (Babylonian)

X #2 Eastern Meditteranean - 8 player (PLAY ON AOEE) (from "8 real world maps" pack), ROR, Free for All map with fixed locations:
1. Phoenicia (Carthaginian) v. 2. Egypt v. 3. Hittites v. 4. Babylon v. 5. Assyria v. 6. Crete (Minoan)
(ironically, it does not have "8 players".)
P1 starts on the Stone Age and everyone else starts in Tool except for Crete, who starts in Bronze. So P1 has a big disadvantage and this explains why I lost the first 7 times I played the map to the end on Multiplayer without realizing that this was the cause.
P2 (Egypt) is a little overpowered because it starts with a dock and a lot of farms. There is an invisible land bridge connecting Crete with the mainland and another one across the middle of the Red Sea by Egypt.
P1 is Carthage, so his fortes are Triremes, fireships, elephant archers, elephants, and Academy units. Stone throwers are important for taking down enemy towers, but you can't upgrade to catapults. You may need horses or priests too if the enemy has priests.
The "original" version of the map (http://aoe.heavengames.com/dl-php/showfile.php?fileid=2547) seems more stable than the version I made where I added the Players' Civs to the Instruction screen (http://aoe.heavengames.com/dl-php/showfile.php?fileid=2808).
Despite it being titled an 8 Player map and despite it actually having 6 players (Player 3 is Hittite and Player 4 is Babylon in the Editor's settings, BTW) The original version says differently:

These civilisations played a main role about 500 B.C. :
Player 1 - Phoenicia
Player 2 - Egypt
Player 3 - Greek
Player 4 - Persia

1. Playing as P1, I lost to Johnny, playing as P2. The AI opponents were on EASIEST. He built alot of elephant archers and ranged fire towers as Egypt.
2. As P1, I lost to Espadon playing as P4 (Babylon). He relied on chariots.
3-4. As P1, I lost to *Nam*Mo^.*Dung* as P2, who relied on chariot archers and he won at 34 minutes in. Then I lost to Feroe, who relied on chariots.
5. As P1, I lost to "Upstairs," who told me that he was not a "Good" Player. His "villager high" Stat said 51. I asked him how he got over the 50 Pop Limit and he said that he built 10 stables or archeries and then when he was at 49 Pop, he made 10 elephants at once, so that it pushed his total unit count to 59. I really don't understand how he got his villager high to 51 by doing that though.
6. As P1, I lost to Lobo about 1 hour into the match. I focused on getting to Iron to use my Carthaginian ships and elephant archers. I did get some of his base near the Nile, but he used priests to switch my small army against me, and he also rebuilt his navy quickly, even though I sunk it three times.
7. AS P1 I lost to a Spanish/Hispanic player with the AIs on easy. He overpowered me 30-47 minutes into the match, getting to the Bronze age first and then making a stronger navy and chariots.
Crashes
AOE:ROR
1. I was playing with Mario using the Vietnamese 1.0 version and it crashed 12 minutes into the game.
2. I was playing with Sergio on Voobly and it locked up 17 minutes into the game.
3. Playing as P1 with RallE_ as Crete, 8 minutes in he had 35 villagers that he said was from fishing ships, and the map crashed on Voobly.
4. 35 minutes into playing with Poindexter, it locked up on Gameranger, He said that it locked 2 minutes after he pressed Alt Tab.
5. As P1, I thought I was doing a good job playing against PoindexterG and his friend Jabs on a FFA, but at 1 hour 9 minutes into the game, it crashed. Maybe it's because they had a poor connection, being in Colombia, or because there were two of them. It was helpful sending my villagers south down the coast for fishing spots and deer and berries spots, and then focusing on navy. Poindexter was okay, although I was getting the better of him.
6. As P1, playing with Upstairs as Crete, the map crashed at 7 minutes in and then almost 10 minutes in on our second try. I tried a different map and there was no freezing, so it must be the map's fault.
7. As P1, I played against SRK who had a good computer and our game locked up almost 5 minutes into the match.
On AOE:ROR, the basic way to win as Player 1 seems to be to play someone much less skilled than you with a great connection and win in like an hour. Hopefully, AOE: DE is a better platform for this map.
AOE: DE
1. As P1, I beat sonictimm, who calls himself a rusty rook, as P2, with the AIs on the "EASY" DE mode. I practically beat him in about 45 minutes and then he resigned and I mopped up the enemy AIs.
Server crashes.
1. On AOE: DE, I played against SRK, who is in India. At 5 minutes into the match on the West India server, it said that I was dropped from the match. The same thing happened 23 minutes into the match on the Western UK server.
2. About 40 min- 1 hr into a match it said that my connection to the Multiplayer lobby was lost. I was actually doing great against a Noob who said he usually beats the AI on Standard or Moderate, and he wrote RIP even, referring to himself. My internet connection was still intact, so it must be a server problem.
My own crashes
1. 57 minutes into the match, my own computer had an internet disconnection. I'm using WIFI and maybe a cable connection would be safer.





X #2 Eastern Meditteranean 500 BC (from "8 real world maps" pack), ROR, 2 v. 2 map:
1. Phoenicia (Carthaginian) & 2. Egypt v.
3. Greek & 4. Persia
(On Single Player, I beat the AIs on Moderate)

Middle East (North) Map (PLAY ON AOEE) (from 7 Maps Pack), ROR, 8 Player Free for All with no fixed locations:
1. Macedonia v. 2. Macedonian v. 3. Babylonian v. 4. Assyrian v. 5. Macedonian v. 6. Hittite v. 7 Phoenician v. 8. Sumerian
(On Single Player, I beat the AIs on Moderate)
^{http://aoe.heavengames.com/dl-php/showfile.php?fileid=2727}
The Map froze-crashed 15 minutes into the game when I played it on AOE:ROR with another player named Feroe on Game Ranger. This has been a common experience playing with Custom Real World Maps that have 8 Players on them on Multiplayer. While the game was freezed, he quit, and then after he quit, the map unlocked.
Playing on AOE1E, I as P2 (Macedonian) beat Sonictimm as P1 and the AIs on STANDARD. He considers himself a rusty rookie and did pretty well, sending waves of academy units and elephants with catapults and cavalry into my base, which I met with similar forces + ballistas and towers. I thought a few times that I might lose or wear out. All the while I was spreading villagers around the map and probably had 25-35 villagers, even though for the 50 population limit I would have expected to have 22. I just needed to pump out villagers to keep up with the demands of replenishing my forces and researching Techs. I tasked them focusing on hunting, berries, and fish with fishing ships instead of farming. Finally I researched Centurions and the Purple AI took out his main base around 1 hr 12 minutes into the match. He jokingly told me to "join the party" as I attacked his base at the same time the AIs did.

Middle East (North) Map with Roman-Parthian Wars (PLAY ON AOEE) (54 BC – 217 AD or Late 1st cent. BC - 7th c. AD), ROR, 3 v. 3. v. 2
1. Parthians (Persian) & 6. Mesopotamia (Babylonian) & 8. Media (Persian) vs.
2. Roman Syria (Roman) & 5. Roman Asia Minor (Roman) & 7. Roman Egypt (Roman) vs.
3. Passive Armenia (Greek AI) & 4. Osroene (Palmyran AI)
^{http://aoe.heavengames.com/dl-php/showfile.php?fileid=2747}
(On Single Player, I beat the AIs on Moderate)
On MULTIPLAYER on Gameranger, playing as P1 with Upstairs as P6, we got 19 minutes into the match and the game locked up. That's the same thing that happened when I was playing on the #1 The Middle East - Persia - 8 player map. The problem must be that Gameranger has a hard time with 8 Players on some maps like this one. It crashed again, 21 minutes into the scenario, when I played with another Player named Archer on Gameranger with 50 units per Player.
AOE DE matches
Crashes
1-2. I hosted with 5 other players and it crashed on 8/6/21 where it stalled for a few minutes at the loading screen and then announced that there was a sync error. The other players got the same error. Then one of the players, RenanEddie, from my match rehosted as Player 6 and with me as Player 1, and with 3 other humans, and it still crashed.




X Actium (Cleopatra Scenario from Pax Romana Multiplayer Campaign, c. 30 BC)
^{http://aoe.heavengames.com/dl-php/showfile.php?fileid=2655}, ROR Co-op:
1. Octavian (Roman Human) & 5. (Roman Human Ally) vs.
AI Players #2 Roman, 3 Egypt, 4 Egypt
The Pax Romana Campaign has this note about Gameranger:


X "The Stadium of Tiberius" (14 AD to 37 AD), AOE, This is a simple 1 v. 1 racing match. The Designer set the civilizations as 1. Egypt and 2. Persia because the Story is you visiting Tiberius' Stadium in Persia. But historically, Tiberius was a Roman emperor. There is no practical difference because it is a race between two chariots.
^{(http://aoe.heavengames.com/dl-php/showfile.php?fileid=238)}

X Siege V Masada (67 AD - 73 CE). ROR. This is a 3 v. 1 match, where 3 Judean players fight the strong Roman army.
1. Romans (should be the strongest player) v.
2. Masada (Babylonians. There is a Masada AI file in case they are Computer) & 3. Pharisees (Babylonians) & & 4. Sadduccees (Babylonians) & 5. Essenes (Sumerians. #2-5 should be Weaker Players or AIs).

X Year_of_the_Four_Emperors2 (Official Vespasian scenario with the Four Emperors from Pax Romana Campaign, 69 AD), ROR Co-op: #1 Roman. & #5 Roman. (Human Players) v.
# 2 Greek, # 3 Palmyran, #4 Macedonian.

X The Year Of the 4 Emperors (by Barbarian)(69 AD), It has a .PER file. It is for only 2-4 Players.The Roman general players 1-4 are allied with #7 Rome (Passive AI Player). Players #5, 6, and 8 are Barbarian tribes.
1. Vespasian (Roman) vs.
2. Galba (red Romans) vs.
3. Otho (yellow Romans) vs.
4. Vitellius (brown Romans) vs.
5. Minoans & 6. Yamato & 8. Egypt
7. Romans are allied with #s 1-4.
It has a .Per file that players must put in their Age of Empires\AI Folder.
http://aoe.heavengames.com/dl-php/showfile.php?fileid=1137

X The Advance of Antonius / Primus (October 69 AD) 1. v. 1 or 2 v. 1 Match, ROR. Players 2 and 4 are impotent AIs with no usable buildings or units.
1. Vespasian's General Antonius Primus (Romans) & 2. Etruscans (Greeks) & 3. Egyptian Buildings (Egypt. Probably not meant to be played and has 0 starting resources, but Player 1 can tribute it so that it can start a base) vs.
4. Nero's Colossus (Greek) vs.
5. Vitellus (Romans)


X #8 India 150 AD (from "8 real world maps" pack), ROR, 2 v. 2:
Player 1 Gupta (begins loaded with 99999 resources) & 3 Satavahaha. v.
Player 2. Kushans & 4. Satraps
Historically, 1.,2, and 3 should be Persians and 4. Greeks. But the Designer picked differently: 1. as Romans, 2. as Babylonians, 3. Persians, 4. Carthaginians.

X Ctesiphon (from Pax Romana Campaign, 262 AD), ROR Co-op: Players #1 (Roman Human) and 6. (Human) vs.
2. Persian, 3. Palmyran, 4. Persian, 5. Persian, 6. Roman.
Only #1 is allied with chest's your ark's goal city, Ctesiphon (Orange Player 5), meaning that only Player 1 can deliver the chest into the city without having to fight the city. The Designer set Player 6's VC to None and the Global Victory setting to Conquest, which probably means that you have to destroy all enemies, maybe even P1's ally Ctesiphon, which contradicts the story line.

X Queen Zenobia (from Pax Romana Campaign, 266-273), ROR Co-op: 1. Roman, 2. Palmyran, 3. Palmyran, 4. Palmyran, 5. Roman

X Coming of the Huns (from Pax Romana Campaign, 373 - 453 AD), ROR Co-op: Players 1 (Roman) and 6 (Roman) are the Human Players vs.
2. Hittite, 3. Hittite, 4. Palmyran, 5. Persian, 6. Roman.

X Armageddon (by Stonefleck), AOE, 4 Player Free-For-All, 1. Egyptian v. 2. Babylonian v. 3. Greek v. 4. Assyrian 5. Minoan
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[This message has been edited by rakovsky (edited 08-08-2021 @ 07:46 PM).]

I got #1 The Middle East - Persia - 8 player (a ROR, 2 v. 6 map, from "8 real world maps" pack) to work on the AOE: DE version on Multiplayer. I beat the original AOE:ROR version of the scenario as Player 1 on Single Player.

But on MULTIPLAYER in ROR, I couldn't get it to play past 19 minutes. It repeatedly crashed on Game Ranger and Voobly, even when I played with even 1 other Human and only 50 units on only Normal speed. The people I tried it with were good players in the US and France with good connections. The AOE: DE platform and servers are strong enough to make it work on Multiplayer.

Middle East (North) Map with Roman-Parthian Wars that I made for ROR by using the "X Middle East (North)" Map by S_Bishop also crashed 19 minutes into the match with Upstairs as P6 on my Team and the rest being AIs. I am guessing that it's the same problem as with #1 The Middle East - Persia, ie. the map has some problem that is accentuated when you play with 8 Players (including AIs). It works OK on AOE: DE, however, and I uploaded it to their database here:
https://www.ageofempires.com/mods/details/21399/

[This message has been edited by rakovsky (edited 06-12-2021 @ 02:06 PM).]