2v2 Close Quarters Match-Up Strategy

[Prospero97]

Ok, I am the kind of player who thinks long term.
-I scout the area.
-I look for optimum city locations
-I get ready to crank Science and commerce.

-Uh oh! 7 axeman.

Here's my question:
-What's the best strategy for establishing an early defense that
won't also compromise your ability to play the end game well.
Primarily, how should you handle that first city:
-I was thinking let it grow to 4 before throwing a worker down.


Anyone good at the early military thing?

Thanks,
Pros

 

[Skirmisher]

It depends,

For Napoleon my buildorder is worker, granary, barracks, two archers, settler. Two archers settler and so on. Until forge is researched. Then loads and loads of swordmen or axemen until the economy breaks down.