Hi ;)
I'd like to correct a few things from FTD;s post.
Firstly, I didnt count how long it took to setup the armies but it surely would have taken less if you hadnt meditate for a healty(long) period of time b4 picking your second faction :P
Secondly, I've alt-tabbed right after the game started ,because I had that bug which makes you scroll through units every time you press a button. As far as I know the only way to fix that is to alt-tab and come back.
Lastly, you didnt leave the game after "a few minutes", you left after about 20-25 mins, more precisely after alth had wasted many of his chars and FTD had lost almost all of his archers killing nothing as far as I recall...
And since you were able to play for the first 25 minutes i dont see why you couldnt continue. I doubt the lag got worse after ftd lost 1.3 of his army ;)
Of course we've continued the game after taow have quitted (alth didnt even tell us a word b4 leaving, i doubt he said anything to ftd either). I dont mean to be rude but I'd say that the AI played better then taow did {lawl}, here's the outcome:

GG, until you quitted that is...
Regards,
Paullus