Walling in can be tricky! I've found success starting with natural chokepoints and extending from there. Three towers usually do the trick for boom support, especially with upgraded range. Sometimes, though, after a particularly brutal siege, I just need to unwind. Sounds silly, but smashing things in a virtual world can be therapeutic; you should try something like Solar Smash to relieve that frustration! Good luck with your defenses.

So if you replace the 100 food cost with 50 food and 50 metal, instead of 55 farmers, youd need 27.5 farmers and 27.5 metal miners. You can always have 24 metal miners, but you might want more for upgrades... which would mean you can not do the tactic exactly as before, so long as you dont have any extra metal. But with just one extra metal deposit, you can easily put the 28 citizen soldiers on metal that you need to have the exact same output of fanatics.   Ask yourself why the market abuse possibility went unnoticed for 3 (?) years. Sometimes it just takes time to come up with a tactic. But in this case, there are other factors aswell; the relative strength of melee compared to ranged units, the superiority of cavalry to infantry, etc. which werent the case 3 years ago.

The AI doesn't know how to use champions so of course you would win. You would be able to beat the AI using any unit or strategy, not just Spartiates. You can only convince me that they are op by beating me in a 1v1. 

Yep, and your iber walls hadn't saved you from JC in that TG.. what a trauma it was for you ..  did it remind you the only 1v1 with him that made u quit 0ad for many years  ? 

This is actually funny . But i don't really get how reading Mein Kampf has taught me about South American living conditions  

...the charts?