Persian
Strategy
Take 5 of those villagers, and make 6 seige workshops.
On 4 of them, make 10 scorpions each, on the other two
workshops make 5 rams a peice.
(While you are waiting on your additional army, make
sure to set up your econemy. Econemy is extremly important
with persians. See Eco1)
Take the 5 villagers, and scout the area ahead with
outposts.
When you have a sufficent ammount of elephants, scorps,
and rams, seek out the enemy and attack. If those
die off, you will have reinforcments coming right
along the way.
(When going to attack, make sure to have elephants,
scorps, and rams going for the enemy. You would be
suprised what acouple scorps and rams can do along
with elephants)
When you find the enemy, take those 5 villagers and
build seige workshops and archery ranges close to
the enemy.
If all is going according to plan, you are draining
the enemy of resources with your high end elephants.
Make sure your scorps are close to the elephants to
give them cover from any halberdiers. If the enemy
sends in alot of paladins, dont worry... he is wasting
alot of gold, because ele's rape pals. Also make sure
your rams are either on houses, or his barracks. Dont
waste time with walls or half finished castles...
Try to slow him down as much as possible.
See Eco2
By this time, your reinforcments of eles, rams, and
scorps should be here, and are hopfully going to overwhelm
him. You remember the workshops and archery ranges
you built? As soon as possible, start pumping out
rams and either cav archers, or skirmishers.