Basically heres the deal. You get to classic like normal. Then you put most if not all of your vills on gold during the transition. You use prosperity and combined with the pharoah and pickaxe you have an instant huge amount of gold. Once prosperity is done you make a load of farms. At the same time you build barracks like normal and initially make slingers (since you wont have the food to make anything else). But after a while you have a decent amount of farming going. I like to also get sacred cats, flood of the nile, and husbandry soon after i start farming (i get plow as i start getting the farms up).
Sure this makes me vulnerable to an early assault, but if theres not much food then the rush cant be too powerful and with the huge amount of gold i can just merc spam until i get an army up. The rush wont be too great anyways since they cant use gp's in my base.
This is especially good since isis doesnt get access to shaduf like set and ra do.
[This message has been edited by lessthanjakeman9 (edited 05-16-2004 @ 09:46 PM).]