Ah, now that you mention it, there are two things, that bugged me back in those days with AOE2:

1. in the addon, Cataphracts get to make trample damage, but I never really noticed a difference, did I miss something?

2. in previews I read before the game was out, almost all graphics were different, in fact, they looked a lot more detailed and nicer, less like a comic, does anyone know why they decided to put different graphics in the final game?

I still liked the game, but after seeing some amazing detail in previews of magazines, I was a little bit disappointed and apparently that still bugs me today.