The reason i want this is because well i suck at the full game scenraios. i trained in random map and i did not know that only maps were allowed. thanks!
There's a Wonder Race category for AoE2, but no convenient game mode like that for AoE1 unfortunately. The settings would have to be very specific (same map size, number of AI, on top of low resources and stone age). If I were to come up with one, it'd be 4-player, medium map size, hardest difficulty, conquest. But even then, some of the scenarios play out somewhat similarly to RM, like I Shall Return in the Babylon campaign.
I would approve 1v7 bots RM & DM speedruns for all maps, especially Hill Country. Except for very cheesy settings, however, I think it is borderline impossible vs Hardest bots, since they cheat big time. However, I enjoy clapping 7 AIs on Hard difficulty in RM and DM as fast as possible (been doing that quite a lot) and would love to see that as a speedrun category as well. Curious to see if in land maps the strategy of choice would be to fast bronze Assyrian chariot archers or something else.
Example of cheese settings to win ez 1v7 vs hardest bots: small islands with too little map size.