BAH! i thought YOU were loki. No matter.
-Never make more than 45 villies. Usually people make 13-20 villies in the first age, about 15 more in the second age, and maybe a few extra later on; i usually have 35-40. If you go over 45, you will not have enough military. This is because AOM villagers are much, much more efficient.
-You can only build 10 houses. That means 115 pop till third age, where extra TCs give you 15 pop per TC. You can go up to 300 pop, but you need a lot of settlements for that.
-Well, Nidhogg can be easily killed by 20 Throwing Axemen, toxotes, or slingers, firing on it for a minute. It attacks slowly because it does a big animation every time it attacks, and also like all flying units it flies around a bit before it actually attacks. Only use nidhogg when you really need an extra push or when you at least have 20 units; NIDHOGG IS A SUPPORT UNIT FOR AN ARMY, NOT THE BRUNT OF THAT ARMY.
-Hunting is the fastest form of food gathering in AOM. Always hunt, then gather berries, kill chickens or cows, then farm. Only farm when you absolutely-didly-doodly-didly-have to. Egyptian farms are more expensive, too.-Egyptians are very geared towards gold, and until later on they need hardly any gold. Free granary, lumber camp, mining camp, house, and a small gold cost for most other buildings. You need lots and LOTS of gold because almost eveyrhting costs gold for egyptians.
-Your priests cost 100 gold each (expensive), and are extremely weak against everything but mythological units.
-Your pharaoh can empower things; if you're short on food, empower a granary. If you need a technology researched quickly, empower the building that is researching it. If you need a tower up FAST, empower the construction site.
-Forward building is hard because unfinished buildings have 0% armor (pierce or hack? i'm not sure) and are very vulnerable.
I am currently writing a Newbie guide... it should be finished around Nov.18th, and Gorak said he'll put it up on AOMH for download, so you might want to check that out later on if you want tips.