What can we say about the original Forest Nothing. At first it was a CS map but the random map has certainly taken its place in AoC.  There are quite a few players who I suspect have played this original but even more who haven't.   Believe it or not but with much practice and a fair amount of hair pulling a good fast feudal time can still be achieved around the 27 min. It is a map that where it can be extremely hard to locate some of the trees. The reason for this is it uses the forest tree that blends in amongst itself. There are quite a few different types of forest tree and this adds the the difficulty factor. Some are dead wood trees and you cannot see the tops to locate your pointer on to cut.

 I can remember some games I have played in the early days, where players could not even get there villagers to move in the first minuet let alone cut a specific tree. The starting bases are quite well positioned but in some games do go too close to the edge, a problem that means in some games you may have to restart because one or more players is right on the edge or even half way of the edge. Its very hard at first but like all things you will get better at it. I don't suppose that you will get much chance as it is very rarely played these days except by a lone few.