I beat the easier settings easily, I wait until I've got capualts and markets for big armies, and wipe the floor with the AI (France is always first, unluckily). But on noble, even if I rush for construsction and currentcy, I'm then wiped out while trying to build a decent enough economy for a decent army. But if I don't rush for at least currency, I end up broke. I've tried going for armies without cataplualts, but they just don't seem to have big enough teeth against entrenched enermies. Where it's all going wrong?
On another note, you haven't seen me before because I set up my password with capslock on, and forgot about it.

Read the Roman Warmachine post. Gave me alot of insight.

Where is it?

Rome War Machine (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=144520)

Noble is a bit of a step up. It requires a bit more thinking. Cottage spamming helps alot as well as using of specialists. Using caste system to create specialists in conquered cities is a great help.