Fair, but no one ever goes for a wonder victory unless they're playing with noobs or kids lol. It's too difficult to pull off against someone who knows how to play the military strategy.

And again, I don't think AoE is necessarily fascist, but the playstyle it asks in competitive mode kinda pushes you towards that type of thought. Not unlike games like Call of Duty or anything except in RTS games you're controlling a society instead of an individual which makes it a bit different.