Ok, I'll tell one that I did today.
I was the russians,playing online, 30 mins of peace, me and a random, vs 2 other teams of 2. Adfter 15 mins, I was in Med age w/ 3 cities and around 200 Gold, 150 Metal, 1k Wood, and 500 Food. I started to build an army. Suddnely, my teammate left, leaving me with 1k of each resource (After researching)
At 30 mins, I was Enlightment age, with 2 of the 4 oppenents at industrial. I decided to build the colleseum for EPIC attrition. After I reached Industrial, all but 1 of my opponemts were Enlightment, the rest were modern. I was pretty low on resources but I still wanted to build an army, to have ANY chance against the enemy. I build forts, and trained my troops in the pattern i've heard about for the rushing (Is this good?) 2light, 1 heavy, 2 foot archers, repeditively. Of cource chucking in the odd Cavalry unit or 2. With 5 Light Cavalry behind a tree.
By the time I was in modern (All but 1 in Info) I decided to make more Bazooka men. I had an army of about 75, all was going well, I had some fighters patrolling the skies, All my resources but metal were at 1K (There was only 6 mountains, one for each player) and I was researching lots, only 4 more researches to go untill I was done researching, then suddnely they ATTACKED!! 2 armies of 100 and 10 Helicopters shredded me to bits. I had 1 Nuclear weapon left, so IO decided to bomb their army and I didn;t know which city was their Capital. I killed around 50. I got totally OWNED.
I need to advance QUICKER. I always make like 20 foot troops at the start, before Medieval age, is that bad?
I focus on Troops, not economy and tech.
Can someone tell me what's the best thing to do leading up to around 30 mins? in ANY circumstance?
I'm going to japan in 2 days, sop I may not be able to reply after that for 2 weeks.
[This message has been edited by cSyNc (edited 01-15-2010 @ 00:01 AM).]