I defeated Carthage because they failed to build barracks so my small stack of swordmen were always fighting regular units and could win alot easier. I dislike splitting a stack of units unless I really have a huge amount of units as its easy to get bogged down with one attack failing because it didn't have enough support units...
Ancient Age War
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If you are prepared for an early war and the AI isn't then an early war can be hugely beneficial so that for the rest of the game your position as a powerful civ has already been established before ever having to have a huge war.
I quite like early wars, escpecially if u're oponent likes to expand rapidly..his cities will eb defended by only 1 spearman, wich become canonfodder for my swordsman and i end up over running most of there cities before they start to pose a chalange..then sign peace and u got a double expansion 
Khift
Prince
Whenever possible, I have an Ancient Age war. It's how I get my wonders.
The last four games I played all had very good, decisive Ancient Age wars in them. This past game was especially good, as it was the first time I'd used catapults - a stack of 12 catapults along with two armies of swordsmen and maybe 8 odd veteran or elite swordsmen can go a long way. When the tech tree yielded the fruits of Feudalism and Engineering, I changed again - this time to Medieval Infantry and Trebuchets. Even with every city having at least three, if not six, Enkidu Warriors in them, I could take them out through patient bombardment and use of those armies.
Like I said, too, I rarely if ever build any wonders in the Ancient Age. Instead, I find the neighbor of mine who has built the most wonders, and I take them from him. I always seem to end up with the Pyramids with this tactic. Unless, of course, he builds the Statue of Zeus, in which case I leave him alone if I don't see a chance to take that city from him without much resistance.
It's much easier and simpler to build ten swordsman and take a wonder from your enemy than it is to build it yourself.
The last four games I played all had very good, decisive Ancient Age wars in them. This past game was especially good, as it was the first time I'd used catapults - a stack of 12 catapults along with two armies of swordsmen and maybe 8 odd veteran or elite swordsmen can go a long way. When the tech tree yielded the fruits of Feudalism and Engineering, I changed again - this time to Medieval Infantry and Trebuchets. Even with every city having at least three, if not six, Enkidu Warriors in them, I could take them out through patient bombardment and use of those armies.
Like I said, too, I rarely if ever build any wonders in the Ancient Age. Instead, I find the neighbor of mine who has built the most wonders, and I take them from him. I always seem to end up with the Pyramids with this tactic. Unless, of course, he builds the Statue of Zeus, in which case I leave him alone if I don't see a chance to take that city from him without much resistance.
It's much easier and simpler to build ten swordsman and take a wonder from your enemy than it is to build it yourself.
I push the tech tree hard so there's usually no point during the ancient age at which my cities don't have an improvement to be building, and I always need more workers. I don't think I've ever willingly entered a war before medieval infantry. Which means I should give it a try.
EDIT: I'm playing as Persians now, after getting iron working, ceremonial burial and pottery i turned my research off and built warriors. When i got an iron supply hooked up I upgraded them to Immortals and went to work on England. In a few turns, the English are down to two small cities, they gave me all the tech I would have gotten by researching on my own. So now I have the tech, the army, and the continent to myself. The only downside is that my cities are a bit underdeveloped without libraries and my golden age largely wasted due to despotism.
EDIT: I'm playing as Persians now, after getting iron working, ceremonial burial and pottery i turned my research off and built warriors. When i got an iron supply hooked up I upgraded them to Immortals and went to work on England. In a few turns, the English are down to two small cities, they gave me all the tech I would have gotten by researching on my own. So now I have the tech, the army, and the continent to myself. The only downside is that my cities are a bit underdeveloped without libraries and my golden age largely wasted due to despotism.
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