If my bro didn't take Age of Empires 2 and the expansion to Winnipeg, I'd play with you.
I like making little villages all over the map in AoE2, then making roads (build a house and destroy it) throughout my kingdom to give me the feel of a more 'Medieval' area.
When i was at my buds he hosted a game and we all did that on a big map, so each of us had like 5 vilalges spaced out, and instead of going directly to war, we had proxy wars, in which we sent like maybe a band of 30 or so men, all different (like archers, horsemen, random swords people) and made them act as rebel bands, that would attack caravans as they made there way through forests
