FFA is definitely the meaning of Age of Empires. Beasty started clapping SAS and all of the sudden they went peace mode and that changed the outcome of the game... SAS should've pushed from the bottom left and I think that could maybe have defeated the wonder.. Great match, I don't know why they got so toxic in the end at the chat.
Tbh, in these FFA games, going Meinwerk is way better because you will want Knights or spam Spear/Horsemen for lategame, the +2 armor will always pay for itself. Aachen is kinda less useful because you will never run out of food lategame anyway. And people don't tend to fight till Imp.
sas and beasty without gold in the beginning and with the most gold in the end shows just they was focused on gold. things rar to you, you want it more than others