I think that in a 1v1 medit map Minoan can defeat Hittite fairly easily assuming that the players are equal in ability and the map is fair. Usually on medit maps both people boom to 35-50 villagers. Since Minos ships cost less I can usually hit tool at 12-12:30 with a decent map and bronze by 15 minutes. Hittite players usually do one of the two things.
1. Go with a smaller 33-38 villager boom or
2. Get to tool a minute or more slower with an equal pop.
Stone.
I do a normal 3-dock boom and get about a 45 pop and hi the tool button at 10 min.
What I like to do is take 2 villagers around 7 minutes into the opponent’s back yard. NOT my dock builders. After my dock builders have built 3 docks I make them explorers and have them find a good spot to wall. I also find opponents docks with one of my FB’s.
Tool.
Once I hit tool I use my hotkeyed docks to make a SS in each make a stable with forwards and a market with woodies and research wood working, get the wall upgrade and wall with my former dock builders. I then get horse armor, tool working, and build a second stable cue up a scout in each and have those forward build houses. By now my SS 6 by now go for the enemies docks usually he has hit tool and will have 3 waiting for you. kill his SS and get as many FB before his second fleet comes out. I also put 5 peons on gold and get the gold mining up grade after woodworking is done. I now attack with my 2 scouts. My objectives are.
1.Kill enemy woodies
2. Find gold mines
3.Prevent walling (remember you tooled at least a minute earlier)
Your enemy will probably.
1. Try to bone your scouts
This is great kill lots of there villies =)
2.run away
Just follow and kill with your superior speed/LOS
3. Starts cranking clubbers and put down 1-2 more barracks.
This is great kill as many woodies as possible he won’t be able to kill you scouts till he gets the upgrades (225 food for upgrades +3 clubbers=375 food) when they are upgraded simply run and find goldmines/second woody camps. Sometimes they’ll go overboard thinking that it’s going to be an all out tool rush. Just laugh and have fun killing 20 axers with 3 cav. This will also make them a little short on wood helping your SS attack.
Bronze
When you hit bronze I get the wood upgrade war galley upgrade pump out 2 cav followed by a few camels have forward build 3 acheries and research impies. GUARD the gold, hit wood then gold asap, letting them get gold gives them the chance to get ST, the only thing that stands a chance against compies. Keep cranking out camels compies + scouts relocate 2nd bases and take them out. All this pressure and them pumping CA rebuilding TC and another town really leaves there FB’s wide open while mino’s gold and food units don’t cut into the sea game. It should be easy to take out the remainder of his fleet of galleys/FB. By now you will be saying your GG’s.
Hopefully this will help some of ya; also I’d love some feedback to make it better. Now obviously I’m not the best boomer and get beat with this strategy. It’s fairly difficult to execute this strategy because there’s so much to do so hope your play 1.0 or 1.5.
Shiny