compies upgrade are so cheap considering your fishing boats just pour in food for ya and smart player just wall in and buy some time until they have compies. It's impossible to tranny too cuz minoan will have warships guard their coastline.
If i beat a minoan...that's because they don't boom or they don't wall.
Typical situaion when i use phony against minoan and win:
i use some cam and CA to kill some villagers first. and once they get reasonable amount of compies(it's not hard to mass them at all!)i quckily go iron to get SC. But i don't think it's possible against a good player.
Typical situation when i use minoa and win against whatever:
i boom to 50 villie/boats and get bronze by 16. I fight on sea once in tool and i usually can get a tie if not winning. I use the spare resource to get the compies upgrade(sometimes i do camel strike first if i have the res.) and once i get compies...there is no way people can penetrate my defense both on land and sea.(compies is excellent at defending against wargalleys)
Then i pump some STs and go attack...i usually get upper hand since minoan comp+ST is such a ******to beat..then go iron if i have spare resource.
i hardly use Roman but i assume they are worse than phony against minoa.
any comments/suggestions pls?