(Every thing said here is imho)
With all that I have seen on the forums and while play ing the game, I think that turtling is the best choise for egyptians. With their Brewer improvments, you can fend off any attacks while you reasearch the slave advisor so you can build walls. To defend the wall, you can send the charriots out of the gate to hit any seige engines, and with a long range bow hero (cleo) You can stop almost any attack. Then, in the late game, you can prevent any attacks and just raid with the charriots, untill you can build a big army.
To me, this seems like an answer to the roman rush. However, I am not good enough to try it. THe key thing here is the slave reasearch, so you can mass wals. Later, the "wood for gold" advisor is very good in the late game.
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