I was happy about 3 new things in this game that wern't in my original
1. the fact that i didn't just stop herding/hunting at once and go to farm.
Instead i did it slowly
2. the fact that i made sure i had more wood to keep the farms happy AND make whatever troops i WANTED. I like to change it game by game
3. my scouting was a lot better which gave me more time to hunt because i knew where the animals were and it gave me 15 goats which lasted from classical to heroic age!
I did no 2 soooo well that i had to make ta's for the first bit but towards the end i massed ulfsarks which are food/gold and so are hersirs and raiding cav so i COULD have had a lot of variety.