RM
The strongest is Phoenician, Weakest might be Choson, Favourite is Greeks.
DM
The strongest is Hittite, Weakest might be Yam, Favourite
Sumerian.
I think Sumerian is really good at DM extra hit from cats make them really good at DM, with scythes, remember in RM
if you use war elephants you can get legions if he doesn't get many legions and at Hill Country Sumerian rocks their farm production you can make many scythes and save more wood than Phoenician.
I will also mention Phoenician is better than Minoan in late game, cheap elephants and elephants archers are able to beat Minoan easily unless Mino uses centurion, heles, or heavy cat their archers are strong but with light stone throwers from phoenician and elephant arhers destroys mino at rm iron age at dm it will differ mino will get the advantage.
On water Phoenician and Minoan are pretty much the same, but I prefer Phoenician their chariots can get compies unless mino booms, mino's compies wins.
Yam suck at DM, rushing with HHA is not always effective if the other player is really good at defending unless you play with someone slower than you or you surprise him rushing him and the map needs to be medium, large I think you can defend from a rush really fast.
[This message has been edited by plismo (edited 06-16-2011 @ 09:36 PM).]