Dacicus,
Believe me (and the others who have posted on this thread), on paper and in actuality, Egy and Hitt iron beats Phoe iron. As said b4, Phoe will prob put Egy out of commission b4 then anyway, but in a case of equal economies and equal time frames (not likely to happen), there's just no way Phoe Iron can beat Egy or Hitt iron. I think what you are seeing is that you've hurt them enough in Bz, so that your economy is superior in Iron. So your opponent is unable to produce an effective army, so it may appear that your Phoe iron army is great. Well, then, hats off to you, you played a great Phoe, in the manner it is suppossed to be played. But in the alternative situation which you are talking about;
So you bring CAs and scythes with your phants. Great. That is precisely what you need to do. Now let's see.
Hitt:
- His cats destroy your CAs without question.
- His cats also destroy your EAs.
- His superior scythes along with HAs will prevent your scythes from doing much.
- His priests w/ astrology will recruit allya AEs and cents that have lived through the HA and cat + ballistics fire. Yes, a Hittite will produce priests.
Egy:
As neilkaz mentions below, this is really a joke.
- Your inferior scythes will not be able to get through his wall of super scythes.
- His CAs are also superior.
- He will also have EAs to distract your CA fire. Any EA of your own will also soon be doing the same. Yes, priests do require attention, but so does your CAs, as they will shooting at the wrong targets.
- He has no need of gold for anything else but priests, so there will be a LOT of these guys.
This is not theory. I've done Egy vs Phoe as per above b4.
What is the range on the Phoe CA? What is the range of Egy priest? What is the range of Phoe AEs and cents? How can your army close this distance when there is a sea of super scythes in the way? And you will quickly note that as you are trying to cross this sea, all your AEs and cents have suddenly decided that it is a lot more fun being Egyptian.
-joecho