New to AOE2 competitive.

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to AOE competitive. It's a game I played lots as a child but never properly. I come from SC2, where I am a masters protoss (not a flex, just a indicator of where I am with RTS games).

Question I have is, what learning resources are out there that are essential to understanding the game?

More specifically when you hit castle age. When I hit Castle age, I build extra TC's, and crank out workers. Which is probably due to SC...

But due to this I always feel like I get to the imperial age later than everyone else. I'm not sure when I should stop building villagers and advance. If i do it too late I've got trebs smashing into my castles.

Any advice would be lovely. Cheers