The game strategy center of Age of Empires.
Different experts have variations of how they do it.
I will explain how I get a fast bronze on a default game with inland map, having the 2 separate islands with a bridge connecting them First thing to remember is to continue making villagers non stop until your have 20-24 depending on if you find good food or not, more food go with more villagers. Now when you are off doing something else and exploring it can be difficult to quickly be clicking back to your TC, so learning hot keys is a must. 10 th guy builds house, then goes to wood as does all the next of your villagers until you have 120 wood. You should always try to buld your pit by 2 different things, preferably wood and food for the first pit. If your assy wood and stone is good too, or wood and gold for Yam.