Honfoglalás in DE

I play the campaigns pretty regulary and right now I'm trying to play them all through in DE playing on the moderate difficulty. Just a preface: I'm not a good rts player, especially when it comes to macro. Still though I've played a lot of aoe campaign since it released, especially the aok and aoc campaigns.

But holy shit did this map give me a harder time than any other map. The number of times I had to restart just cause red and yellow swarmed my base. I eventually beat it but I spent an entire evening just finding out the right strategy. When to go nomad, what opponent to attack first, placement of tc:s and resources. The challenge was just way harder than any other map I've ever had in campaign.

I'm curious if any other of the DE maps have this kind of challenge? And also if others struggled with the map as well. This might just come down to me being a noob so I'm interested in hearing other peoples experience with it.