Roman on Mediteraninan you ask? No Problem-beat them last night. Hittite is the Civ for me.
Typically I make 20 villas when I am Hittite to give a TTL of 23. 5 Berries, 15 Woodcutters and 2-3 villas exploring (depending on lions and gators). Once fishing is going, berry gatherers are moved to woodcutters. I make 15-20 fishing boats and move most of them to docks farthest from opponent once he Tools. My explorers build barracks in opponents land.
I will dock shallows in late Stone on a Medit map with 2-3 of my villagers on the other side, or wall with houses choke points if no shallows to prevent any enemy villas from setting up camp anywhere near my base. This prevents any popular Roman Tool attack- at least on the land.
Once I tool I have over 1000 wood with my 20 woodcutters going strong. I make 6-8 scout ships and win the sea. Roman is no match for Hittite on sea early. I make an archery range and stable in opponents land. I will guard shallows with my scout ships, and sometimes attack his woodcutters with 2-3 scouts if the sea is mine and my food is good. Meanwhile i make 4-5 more villas and put on gold, and make 3-4 more fishing boats once the sea is mine. Once I start to bronze i build a market and research woodworking. My explorers build 2-3 more archery ranges in opponents land.
In Bronze my explorers build a seige workshop, I make 8-10 more villas at my camp, have woodcutters throw up a govt center, research wheel, research nobility, and research scale archer armor, and upgrade to sentry tower. 80 seconds into Bronze the wheel is complete and I build 2-3 chariot archers in each range. It is at this point that my wood stock pile is being strained. With the new villas being created I put them on gold and build another T.C. by more gold. My villas that are in enemy territory build a TC by a gold pile. The TC will make more woodcutters and gold miners once the battle is in my favor.
I start my land attack with 6 chariot archers and-- I hate to admit this wedsaz- a camel. A stone thrower is being made. At this point, the resign button is a popular occurance. If not, focus all CA's on woodcutters, and use the Camel to combat any ST's. With the stronger economy, the world is your's.
Iron as you continue to send waves of CA's,ST's (now from several Seige Workshops, and Camels. War Galleys can also get involved with their incredible range. All this time I grow my ecomony. More fishing boats, docks, TC's and villas all over the map chopping wood, mining gold and stone,and upgrade to iron. Now it is a game of cat and mouse and the Hittie Cat will win - trust me. If they are still alive I will make 30 Ballista Towers, 30 Armored Ele's, and endless waves of Scythe--but it is usually 40-50 minutes into the game.
By the 50 Minute Mark, I can have 110-120 villas and an army of 40-50 Super Cats and and mix of 40-50 Armored Eles and Scythe, taken all gold and stone piles, taken all of the fish --but the game really ended when I stopped any Tool attack, won the sea in Tool, and had a dominate Bronze army due to my superior economy and his fragile one.
[This message has been edited by BlitzkreigComin (edited 04-19-2000).]