OK a few comments directed mostly at Thorfinn.
30K+ extra unused resources by the 60 min mark. I know you're a well educated man that knows that 30K mean 30,000 not 3,000. I would be trying to fight so hard if the game were going on that I'd be unlikely to have 3K extra resources.
Seriously, with 30K resources you could have just about every super unit in the game and be near the pop limit with them !! Later on you have 50-75 K ??
Wow !! I know your game is like mine..very economic.. but the purpose of a huge economy is to produce a more pwerful army the the enemies and wipe them out. I abhor standard victory (much preferring a military war). However, I know you guys play lots of standard.
Their is no shame in winning with a wonder. Slap up one or several and defend the hell out of them. Use all that extra wood to make a several TC wide wall around them. Use stone walls.. use towers and win by your wonder.
Now since I play mostly conquest and my style (most of the time) is to be after someone during my bronze transition. I don't get too many late iron games. Sometimes they do occur and I have to tell you that a 2 or 3 hour war is exhausting.
I have seen the enemy just give up thru exhaustion. One game two weeks ago when my back was out, it was hurting me so badly that I could sit no more and finally tributed and resigned what looked like a losing battle as I simply could no longer play and sit w/out lots of pain.. ie my play was suffering ,too.
Sim has the right idea about walling/towering you forward bases. Walls may impede your allies too. But many place they will keep scythes off you. Hcats have to at least take towers down before they can comfortably move past them and get at you.
50-75K res later ?? OMG... nothing should stop you now.. (assuming conquest)delete almost all vils/FB and non essential war ships and get just over the pop limit w/your best combo of super units. You have built maybe 50-100 war buildings before doing this. Now Q up two superunits in ALL buildings and delete your last couple of vils to bring you just below the pop limit !.. BANG.. production starts and now you have 50-100 superunits above the pop limit and still many resources and 50-100 units in Q to do it again.
When this 200+ unit attach finishes nothing will be alive on the map but you and your allies.
I have never gotten close to that point because I will just keep fighting as I can. If I stop it is only to build up a larger force since a small one will get wasted.
Keep playing better players and practicing and you'll get better at multitasking. Put the forward war building you want to produce from on hot keys if that helps.
Multitasking is why a guy like blank owns me.. he can simply keep growing economically while attacking more efficiently than I can...neilkaz...