AoE2 accomplishments you used to think were really really impressive (but aren't)

Asking everyone to take a humbling moment and list some "accomplishments" from their own AoE2 playing history that they really thought were impressive at the time, but by comparison to where they are now, seem really, really minor/embarrassing things to take pride in.

I'll list two for myself, based upon my long history of playing single player or comp stomp games (with human allies) vs. the AI:

1. There was a time (5 years ago) when I actually convinced myself that my advancing to the Imperial Age and reaching 200 (max) population by ~50 minutes of game time was the upper limit for how fast it could be done. If the AI did it faster, it must be cheating.
2. I also used to think that when my wife and I teamed up and routinely defeated 6 teamed HARDEST AI's (original AI, not HD AI) we were really awesome at the game. Clearly the MODERATE HD AI is easily better than the HARDEST Original AI, showing how humbling our accomplishment really was.

LOL. Anyway, feel free to share.