Extra gold mines are always in the middle of the map.2-4 gold mines (not including starting gold) per player for 1v1s, 2-3 in tgs.There are always starting boar close-ish to your TC, 30% chance of 3, 60% chance of 4 and 10% chance of 1.18 fish on each side of the water, spawning symmetrically in roughly evenly spread trios.Pay attention to relics, with 4 relics there is a high chance there will be good ones.Look for good places to wall between cliffs and forests, you can wall up on Alfheim easily to stop raids.
He also has tips on how to play in all of them. Lunatic -a rank 1 AoM EE player- documented what's important about the various maps in AoM, he looked into the scripts of each map and loaded them into the editor to investigate all relevant information.
