The following is my, _36S_JET's strategy: ( Coastal, reveal or not, Hittie )

" Together you are strong; seprately you are weak " Jethro ( It means don't scatter your military )

-I start off with three vill. I quickly use the HC shortcut to build another vill. I use two vill. to build two houses and use the third to uncover the map, finding resources. After the two on the houses are done, I use them to find resources too.

-Once I find some berries, I immediately order everyone to build a granary right beside it. ( I am keep building vill. before I reach 24 vill. ) After I've built the granary, I order every vill. to forage. If I find a shore fish resource first I put one of the vill. of the fish. ( I use six to forage normally )

-I use the seventh vill. to uncover the map. If playing reveal map, I search for the enemies by going beside every berry patch, because most of the people should use berry patches as a first or second food resource. The 8-12 vill. to cut wood. The 13-24 to find food. Sometimes I find an artifact on the way when I search, I use it to search too. I search in a circular way round the map to find other resources and of course, the enemy.

-I build a new house when I have 10, 14 and 18 vill. because I hate receiving a message that says: "You need to build more houses." You'll never want it either. After I have 24 vill. and most of them on food, I upgrade to Tool age. ( If you are good at this by the time you have 24 vill. you should have about 600 food )

-After I upgraded to Tool age I don't make new vill. yet and once I have enough food, which I should have once I upgraded, I immediately build the following things in order: Barracks, Market, Archery Range (4). By now I will upgrade to Bronze, The time between Tool and Bronze is very short, like 1 min. ( Should have enough to upgrade to Bronze age after I make the fourth achery Range )

-While I'm going up to Bronze, I turn the vill. from most on food to most on wood, I put two to mining gold, two to mining stones ( Not really needed ), 6 on food and the rest on wood. i do this because the need of wood is more important than the need of food once you go to Bronze age. While going to Bronze I get the two wood bonus from the market, gold sometimes too.

-After I'm at Bronze, I get wheel at market and get the two archer armor upgrades from the storage pit. After I get the wheel, I make loads of chariots, six at each mud pile where other military get through so I won't lose my vill. while killing off my victims. Then I build a group of ten archers and race over to my enemy. I first re-adjust their econmy, then I re-adjust their buildings that to hell.

-After my first wave of chariots I send two vill. to my enemy's place and build a seige workshop and a gov. ctr. with watch towers guarding it. I build on the way of bringing my enemies to hell or heaven ( if they're good ) and keep taking out my enemies. Sometimes I meet someone with some sucky watch towers guarding their place, although I can kill them using chariots without hurting myself a bit, but I still run past them and FIRST re-adjust their econmy. Later I use Cats to finish them off..

-After I take out an enemy, I build TC's everywhere to get the resources. Notice that instead of building granarys and storage pits, because TC's can build vill. and get the resources immediately instead of getting my vill. from my old TC, and TC's can store any kind of resource.

-I keep building while I fight and making armies and soon I finish them off.

Note: When searching for enemies, search the berry patches first, because the first or second food resources the enemy or you use is either shore fish or berries. Once you have enough resources make military or upgrade stuff.. Don't save it.

The above is taught by AOW_Hattusili

I'll teach you some tricks here too:

TC trick

This trick can either get you and instant resign of your enemy, or waste your enemies' 200 wood. When you attack the enemy and he lost almost everything except a couple of fleeing vill. and his TC, you can use this trick. When the enemy lost his camp's defence, and have fleeing vill., they'll surely build a couple of storage pits and granary to gather food and wood to do some payback. At this time you can build walls around it's TC tightly so it won't have eneough place to put his vill., at these times the enemy either delete the TC to build another one or he resigns instantly. I do this some time when I'm winning. The following is a screenshot:

Dock trick

Sometimes when you wall in, which I never, you can't cover up the mud on the side of th shore, at these times you can either build walls on your enemies side or use the dock trick. First you use walls to cover up most of the map, then you build a dock on the mud at the side of the shore to block the enemy. Here are some screenshots to show you how to do it:

Well that's it for now.. Keep refreshing!!!!

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