The catch: each civ needs only 400 food upon arriving in tool, so they can put a few on gold, only 8 on food, and the rest on wood. As soon as they tool, the palmy builds a market, and gives his food to the minoan. The minoan hits Bronze, and will arrive there at 13 min at the latest (a slingshot like strat, with a comparabel time) The minoan can then build 5 or seven docks, and with the wood from the palmy and there own 15 (then 21) woodies they can afford this. Have 3 or 4 docks building scoutships nonstop, and 2 or 3 building fishing boats. By the time you hit bronze, you should have enough food for imp and war galley upgrade. You continue pumping boats, and the food should start flowing in. You have wiped out your oppoents fishing bye now, have you not? There is no way any opponent could get enough boats out to control the sea in time. There should be plenty of gold by now, and a ton of food. Once you have about 30 war galelys, the palmy should build thier own docks and get food againd, and build thier own econ while feeding the mace and minoan. As your opponents fishing is dead, you should be able to start pumping the minaon compies non stop out of 5 ranges, and send them at your food hungry opponent. With the untouched and palmy fed Mace who did a large boom coming up one side of the map, and the minaon compies (with 30 FB's and 10 goldies making more reinforcements) coming up the other, at opponents having lost thier fishing, you should have rolled them over by 25 minutes.
Summary: Your opponents watched in dismay as, at 11 minutes, scoutships tore up thier fishing, and then by 14 mionutes turned into war galleys. They will have to send thier woodis out for food to rebuild- and if they try to regain the sea, they will be unsuccesful- 30 war galleys out there. At 15 mintues, when an average player bronzes, the minoan compies start rolling them up, taking out at least one player, maybe two, before they get an adequate defense. While the two survivors are fighting hordes of compies at 18 minutes, and using all thier army, the first mace army should start to appear, and walk in the other side. They resign in dismay.
I would appreciate comments, as I have never tried this. Would several of you "experts" who inhabit this forum please come and tear my logic to little pieces while laughing at my improbable, doomed to failure, strat? Basically, I would like to see the problems (of which there undoubtly is many) that would be present with this strat.