Ok so i was playing a game against a guy that was 40 ponts ahead of me (which by the way has happened twice in a row to me, but i won both times ). I got to a horrible start. I didnt queue up 5 vils right away instead i waited like 6 seconds. It was savannah so i was forced to put my first few vills on chickens since the only hunting near me was a few rhinos that wouldve killed my vills. I ended up advancing at 5:23 when with the same build i can advance before 5 minutes. My thor build is still rather good so my eco wasnt too hard pressed. I built up an army. I told half of my 20 or so guys at about 7:30 to go attack my possy opponent. Well actually i just told them to go somehwere in the black. While they were going there my hunting vills that were far away from my tc were raided by 6 or so hipps. I thought i had lost but i had a HUGE stroke of luck. When i went into the black with my units they found a gold/wood operation with about 15 villies. I immediately cast forest fire and then let my army ravage them (i actually dont know how well my guys did in killing villies but they without a doubt killed quite a few and stopped all his wood and gold income) While that was occuring i went to my vills that were being chased towards my base by hipps. Suddenly the hipps run away right before they were gonna find another one of my major gathering operations. They did this to go back and combat my guys that were doing a load of damage. I got my guys away in time. By this point i had a rather large army and after 30 sec i attacked. He had quite a few military buildings but didnt have any resources since his gold and wood had been halted. My army easily beat his since he was possy so i made ulfs. Then i went to take down his military buildings and he resigned.
I won simply because i found that huge amount of villies. Without that he wouldve been able to ravage my eco and gotten reinforcements in our battle as well as having more of an army to start with.
This was complete luck that this happened though. I would like your opinions on how much luck plays a role in the game.
This isnt the only instance of luck ive seen maps where my opponent gets like 200 deer near his base and i get 3 deer. Already i have the disadvantage.