I was playing 2v1 Expert on the Texas map. I was holding out well in my turtled base with walls and a fort and some towers. Eventually I got totally overrun and lost my entire base. Luckily for me, I escaped about 3 villagers to the far East side of the map and tried to rebuild. I had to send a villager back to revive my explorer so I could make a TC in my new base. I built 3 TCs and started to pump out the villies again. I walled in my new base and was on my way to a good comeback. And that is the problem. The ai never attacked my new base because they never scout the map that late in the game. Eventually, some enemy villagers cam and tried to chop down the trees near my new base and my explorer shot at them and scared them away. Right after that happened. A million cannons showed up and demolished my new base. Luckily, I escaped with my explorer and some vills and made a third base in the area of my initial colony. And yet again, no enemy units showed up to attack me there until one of my musketeers fired a stray shot at a passing villager and then the entire enemy army was at my doorstep moments later and demolished me. I was sitting in my 3rd base for at least 30 minutes trying to build up.
Thats the problem then.
One more thing I want to share. I thought you only get 1 minute men, or 2 with that card for an army of minute men at your TC. per game, but its actually per TC If you build 3 Town Centers, you can deploy the minute men from each one! and if your TC gets destroyed, and you make a new one, you can use the minute men even more!