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Iron Age
START - 0 min to 5 min
During the start, your first priority is to stop you opponent from establishing himself on your land.
- phantom wall the path to your
land
- build a wall so he can't walk onto your land ( the wall also
keeps out an early chariot archer rush)
- then build towers all along your coast so when he lands
transports you can kill the troops that he landed)
While you're establishing
defense, you should be cranking out villigers (build two extra
town centers to crank out villigers faster) and have them gather
resources and build buildings (market, gov. center, military
buildings, etc).
You should have at least 2 docks (away from each other, that way
if one gets destroyed you still have food coming in) and 6-12
fishing ships.
Do this and start cranking out military units as you get the techs you need.
Things to have:
3 town centers
20-30 villigers
6-12 fishing boats
a towered up coastline
a military force for defense (3-10 units)
MIDGAME
Depending on what you like to do. You can either use a transport or just attack through a path on land. (if you use a transport. make sure you have a safe landing spot)
When you attack, make sure you have an answer for everything. If your opponent has elephants, have priests. If he has cavalry, have ballistas (if your civ doesn't have ballistas, use priests, elephants or other land units).
Try to take a couple cavalry
units when you attack so if you run into a large catapult group
unsupported by ballistas, you
can send your cavalry in and destroy the group without losing
your own catapults.
When you have catapults, try to position them on the high ground. they do more damage and take less damage from other catapults, plus ground unit don't move up the high ground as fast so they will be nice slow targets to fire at.
When you gain territory from
your attack, build on his land (towers and military buildings)
coz its a ton tougher to defend attacks from a base that isn't
obstructed by a narrow crossing.
ENDGAME
If you played right, you should be enjoying some mass destruction and buildings going up in flames.
Written by APO_CF_Xpert