Yo Rivals?
What happened to the old TEX forums?
Tree hugging was removed by the time I headed for Europe so must have expired likely by 2003. But yeah the bottom right tree hugging game was complex at the time, using tornado farms to stack in and wolves fire orbing images to AoE sheep. Of course if sheep didn't attack any trees (I believe they were 3hit on same maps) there was an automatic win condition if you camped deep-forest.