Play phoenician. Partner should be hittite. Make attempts to dominate seas, hittite should be able to snipe many villagers off of the others islands, and you should have the wood to build ships. Build many villagers, but not too many because advancing to iron age is pretty important. Use what gold you have left to do what Ender said, which was build priests...also useful in case he manages to sneak a tranny full of elephants or something onto your island..woolooloo
I wouldnt build on someone's island either. Just go for economical superiority, such as use all ships in bronze to attack one guy, and use those hittite war galleys to take out everything along the shore. Then just tranny over a few CA, and he is probably dead. Tranny over vills, chop all his wood, etc etc
But above all sea dominance. Lay down a front line of ships and "assimilate" the other guys resources, take large amounts of villagers and dry out his town. Now that you have more wood than anyone else, and probably more gold too, you should win this game. The phoenician hittite combo is much better than a phoe/minoan combo IMHO