Too tired for a long answer right now.. but basically if you can keep your FB actively fishing you should have a decent food flow to do the following in many games.
Try to build a GC reasonably quick and then place TC on any unused berry patches and then Q up foragers in a couple new TC's. You have lots of food and lots of vils quickly and can even often expand more while cruising to iron and fighting at the same time.
Off course it is much harder to do this if under constant attack, but that isn't always the case.
If your berries are gone, you can use a decent SF spot(often inland where you won't dock) or deer or even phants.
...neilkaz...
PS yes later , IF SAFE, you can even build TC's in grasslands and Q up new farmers.