1) There is this evil elite Hoplite in Sparta that I can NOT kill no matter how many archers + catapults I throw at it. I even wasted an entire ARMY on the thing!! What do you recommend?

2) How do I get my cities to keep producing whatever I told them to? It seems like every single time Rome produces an archer, it goes back to making spearmen.

1. Be patient. Nukes, and sweet revenge, will come. (Umm, anyway, what are you doing trying to kill a hoplite with archers?? Even if the game didn't cheat, that's 2 attack vs. 3 defense w/o modifiers)

2. Use the build queue. Hold down shift and click from the menu to add; use delete to, well, delete.