It's very fast paced, whereas in age of empires theres a lot of 'down time' for you to carefully and slowly plan out your economy.
But the focus is figuring out how to boom your economy as fast as possible and set up a supply chain as fast as possible that will give you as much gold as fast as possible (so you can continuously build troops). I thought it was going to be kind of like age of empires based on the screenshot. It's a little different from regular RTS games where you kind of try to manage a balance between economy and military. (not like new rts games where you just keep playing until you win and its basically impossible to lose). Like old school challenging where you'll have to play missions over and over until you figure out how the base building/economy works. I got it the other day on sale for 16 bux.