I just played against another Isis player who actually tried to turtle ????? yes I'm serious. He walled off 4 of the TCs and took them. He was still in classical when I advanced to mythic. I spammed catapults and took one of the TCs and got all of the line and migdol and armory upgrades. I was like, I've got you now muuuuuuuwahahahaha
But what he did was build siege workses all over the map, spam siege towers, and send one siege tower at each of my buildings while the main war was going on near his base!
It's a great strategy around the 1600 range, because if you're not paying attention your whole base and military production could disappear in a minute! And even if you *are* paying attention you still have to divide up your forces or take your villies off their work to take down the siege towers.
I did end up winning the game thank god. I'd have been very upset if I'd let him win.
Atties do something similar that always gets me and makes me so mad - they'll send 4 destroyers to 3 or 4 different buildings while the main fight is going on near their base. If you're not paying attention you're dead. Period.
I'll post the rec if anyone's interested - it was a pretty funny fight.