I was a level 1600 last night. today, i'm 1450. I've read all of the strategy bios but none of it seems to be showing up. The plan I keep using is to have Hades for a civ. I use my first three villagers to immediatly gather food while i use my begining 250 food to create five more villagers, whic i then task evenly on building, and the three resources. I use my kataskopos to scout out the area all around me. After I have reached the Classical age I begin creating hippikons and a few toxotes and try to raid. for some reason though i constantly run into the enemies main fortifications. I spare one or two hippikons to distract my opponents troops while the rest flee to safety. Once back at my own territory i begin building military like crazy. Hippikons and toxotes at medium levels are what ussually find life at this point. My enemy usually attacks at this point so i feverishly defend my city as it is whittled away to nothing. eventually the situation grows completely desperate and all I can do is look upon mu poor defenders pitiously and wait. I know there are flaws with this startegy so could someone point them out to me?