Both reviewers of Game of Thrones: War for Westeros asked for the same thing: bird's eye view. Beyond All Reason provides exactly that. I think 0 A.D. should too, together with keeping sizes as realistic as possible (that is, do not shrink ships like AoE and others). All those things should work well hand in hand.
Well, I figure out a way around, I manually downloaded the files. But, now I am running into a openAL error
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/OpenAL.dir/al/buffer.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/OpenAL.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
ERROR: Failed to build OpenAL Soft