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With this strategy you'll stay with one city to build some unique Horse Archers (Mil 2/Classical req'd). While you're raiding your opponent you'll expand aggressively. Start with Science then Commerce, and get your resources maxed, Egypt can just about reach the +100 commerce cap with one city, easily on maps with lots of timber. Focus on your food production first, it is the limiting factor. Build a market and merchants while building up your food stocks.
After you reach the +100 cap you'll research military 1 and 2, and then classical age. Immediately build a stable and use the bonus Egyptian wealth to create 2-3 of their unique Horse Archers. Send them out to raid. Then make a university and Mine.
You will have saved food during this time, research civics 1. Use the citizen that built your stable on the border to found your second city. Expand your economy aggressively. You can continue to make horse archers, though your opponent will surely have defenses for them by now. I would suggest planning for a full scale assault in gunpowder or later.
With aggressive raiding, you can also implement an all out border push strategy. Your opponent will be busy rebuilding his current cities, and will usually fall behind in territory expansion. He will most likely expect more horse archer raiding (building towers/light cav), take this opportunity to back him into a corner with cities/temples and forts.
This is a fun strat that takes a good amount of micro, but I like the idea of using an Egyptian "super-city" to good effect.
After you reach the +100 cap you'll research military 1 and 2, and then classical age. Immediately build a stable and use the bonus Egyptian wealth to create 2-3 of their unique Horse Archers. Send them out to raid. Then make a university and Mine.
You will have saved food during this time, research civics 1. Use the citizen that built your stable on the border to found your second city. Expand your economy aggressively. You can continue to make horse archers, though your opponent will surely have defenses for them by now. I would suggest planning for a full scale assault in gunpowder or later.
With aggressive raiding, you can also implement an all out border push strategy. Your opponent will be busy rebuilding his current cities, and will usually fall behind in territory expansion. He will most likely expect more horse archer raiding (building towers/light cav), take this opportunity to back him into a corner with cities/temples and forts.
This is a fun strat that takes a good amount of micro, but I like the idea of using an Egyptian "super-city" to good effect.
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