Duan Xuan:
Hittite is Minoan's natural predator. You *can* win vs hittite in iron, but it's very very tough if he goes heavy cats + towers.
Your best bet is to play it like greek, cents + siege. Cents with armor upgrades will stop scythes and eles, helos will kill HAs. I don't remeber if cents can dodge cat stones - if not, your best siege counter is cavs.
Persian on Conti (unfinished, experimental)
1. Keep making villies until you have 16 or so.
2. Build a house, you will use it.
3. Kill 1 ele or 2 gazelles.
4. Build a storage pit there, next to wood if you can.
5. Put 2 villies on meat, and the rest on wood.
6. If your first pit isn't next to wood, make one that is.
7. Have a villie build houses, and two docks. Don't worry about fish, use your boats to find them later.
8. Boom fishing boats.
9. Start tool around 6 mins w/16 villies and some boats.
10. Tool, train 2 villies.
11. Mass-build market and stable.
12. Start bronze around 9 mins.
13. Get woodworking and gold mining.
14. Put 4? villies on gold. (maybe less w/tech)
15. Build 2? more stables.
16. Make a scout.
17. Research cav armor.
18. Build an archery range.
Cav rush!
19. Bronze, train some more villies.
20. Make 3? cavs and send them with your scout.
21. Research impie + compie, and archer armor.
22. Build a govt center.
23. Build a town center next to food and/or wood.
24. Train villies there too, put them on food and/or wood.
25. Repeat from step 20.
26. When your cavs are old/dead, use compies+camels.
27. Start iron around 16 mins.
It's not perfect, but maybe blitz or someone can help adjust it somewhat. Early boom is the key to speed and econ, after that you can treat it like a faster yammy with camels and a strong iron. (what's not to like?)