Use the leftover stone to repair walls and towers. Tower every 7+ spaces, leave a little extra stone in the bank, and then stop mining stone. You can use Towers, but don’t use too many. Walls are incredibly important to your defense. Get some stone too, if you normally don’t. Put an extra couple of vills on gold early, because that’s the main resource you’ll be using.
I’m not going to go into getting to Bronze, because you can find that on almost any site on the web, especially right here at the Academy. While they aren’t very diversified in Iron, they don’t need to be, because they’ll be converting units left and right. Also, Egyptians have an excellent Bronze with souped up chariots and CA’s, all tower and wall upgrades, they only have stone throwers, but they have all the government center upgrades. They have the greatest range of all units and all the priest upgrades.
Then I realized, “Hey, I can make other people mad with these things!” Obviously, Egyptian priests are the best. I never used priests, as they always converted me and I got so mad. Egyptian Strategy Guide By Tanner Kinkead Introduction