middle age  standard high wing start

when you enter the game split 12 cits between 2 iron mines, use your remaining 8 cits to build 2 barracks, make 6 cits
from your capitol and set their rally point to wood and then pick your civ: should includ- expansionism, sword upgrades
hit points,speed, cost reduction, attack and build time decrease, you should also have either farming or hunting and 
foraging with building cost reduction

after picking your civ make clubs from your barracks and set their way point at the enemy base, build a town center at
each iron mine and send the 8 cit you had making the barracks to start mining animals ( they mine faster than forage )

after your initial attack set your way point back in your own base to help protect yourself against enemy pocket, keep 
making cits and as soon as you have to wood, make a farm for faster food production, you will have an overstock of iron 
for now but you need to keep making cits to get your food eco moving faster than your iron eco (this can be effected
if you get attacked a lot early, you may need to make more army instead of cits) you will need to begin mining lots of
wood, get on a stone (and gold once you begin to learn the sett more so you can make seige weapons to aid you against
armies) so you can make houses for moral in larger area of the map and make temple of zeus ( heals your units gradually )

as soon as you get the wood to do so, begin making more barracks up to 5, after you have 5 barracks make another farm, and 
get on 1-2 more iron mines, after that begin making more barracks, there is no limit to make, the more you have the better
off you will be against attack and you will also be able to produce army a lot faster